This was a half hour edited version of the one hour lawyer show "Ally McBeal". The series become an ensemble show, with stories involving several characters each week. As time went on, Ally McBeal was hardly ever on her own show. Someone decided to edit the early episodes into half hours which had stories specifically involving Ally, but "Ally" didn't last long.
2. Deputy
Answer: Enos
Enos had been a deputy who seldom knew what was happening on "The Dukes of Hazzard". He was given his own show, "Enos", moved to California, and became a genius, solving cases every week.
3. Police detective
Answer: Fish
Phil Fish had been a New York City detective in the sitcom "Barney Miller". When he was given his own sitcom, "Fish", Fish became a father figure to a group of foster children, mostly teenagers.
4. Pirate
Answer: Hook
What if Peter Pan (Robin Williams) grew up and had children who were kidnapped by Captain Hook and taken to Never Never Land? This was "Hook".
5. Boy
Answer: Jack
What if Jack (Robin Williams) looked like a full grown man, but he was really a little boy who grew old fast? This was "Jack".
6. Sheriff
Answer: Lobo
Lobo had been a sheriff in "B.J. and the Bear" and "The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo". In "Lobo" he moved to the big city to solve crime with his deputies. One of his deputies was played by Mills Watson, who was in "Cujo".
7. Dog
Answer: Cujo
This was the Stephen King story about a rabid St. Bernard dog who attacked a man (Mills Watson) and other people in the movie "Cujo".
8. U.S. President
Answer: Dick
This was the comical version of the Watergate scandal involving President Nixon (Dick) and teenage girls who happened to witness the break-in at the Watergate Hotel. They were dog walkers who gave hashish brownies to visiting Russians and left a message of love on Nixon's tapes, which he erased.
9. U.S. President look-alike
Answer: Dave
Kevin Kline played a man who looked like the U.S. President in "Dave". He temporarily replaced the President in this variation of "The Prisoner of Zenda".
10. Missing Link
Answer: Trog
This was Joan Crawford's last movie in which she found a missing link which was part man and part ape, nicknamed Trog in the movie "Trog". The problem with this movie was that the ape part had grey skin but the man part had the skin of a white man. (It was a man wearing only the top part of a gorilla costume.)
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