Television Trivia Questions and Answers.

Television trivia questions and answers.

Meredith Baxter-Birney played the mother, Elyse Keaton, on the hit TV sitcom Family Ties. On what sitcom did her mother play a mother?
A: On Hazel--her mother, Whitney Blake, appeared as Dorothy Baxter.

What popular actress was once a regular in the Peanut Gallery of TV's The Howdy Doody Show?
A: Sigourney Weaver--whose father, pat Weaver, was president of NBC.

What was Laverne De Fazio's favorite drink in the TV series, Laverne & Shirley?
A: Pepsi and milk.

What was the first ABC-TV series to be rated number one for an entire season?
A: Marcus Welby, M.D., in 1970-71.

"All aboard for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga." Who uttered that phrase and on what program?
A: Mel Blanc, on both the radio and television versions of The Jack Benny Program.

Who was Johnny Carson's first guest when he took over the Tonight Show on October 1, 1962?
A: Groucho Marx.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show spawned three successful spin-off series. What were they?
A: Rhoda, Phyllis and Lou Grant.

Who sang the theme song of the TV series, The Love Boat?
A: Jack Jones.

In the late 1950's Steve McQueen played the bounty hunter, Josh Randall, in what western TV series?
A: Wanted: Dead Or Alive.

The British television program, Till Death Us Do Part, inspired what extremely popular American TV series?
A: All In The Family.

What was the name of Tonto's horse in the TV series of The Lone Ranger?
A: Scout.

Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn were the stars of a 1954 NBC-TV situation comedy called, The Marriage--an otherwise unremarkable series, were it not for what pioneering distinction?
A: It was the first network show to telecast regularly in color.

On December 31, 1970, something disappeared from television. What was it?
A: The cigarette commercial.

Whom did actress Joan Crawford replace in four episodes of the TV soap opera The Secret Storm in 1968?
A: Her adopted daughter, Christina--who later poison-penned the bestseller Mommie Dearest. Christina appeared as Joann Kane on the show. Her mother filled in for her while she was hospitalized.

What word did censors ban from I Love Lucy scripts during the 1952-53 TV season?
A: The word pregnant--even though Lucy was obviously expecting and the birth of her son was the highlight of the season.

In the TV sitcom All in the Family, what did Edith Bunker claim Archie told her as he carried her over the threshold after their marriage?
A: "Watch your head dingbat, or you'll knock your brains out."

What did TV comic Red Skelton claim is the longest word?
A: The one that follows the announcement, "And now a word from our sponsor."

What TV series appeared opposite Judy Garland's musical variety show in 1963 and knocked the popular singer off the air after only one season?
A :Bonanza. Garland's hour-long show appeared on CBS Sundays at 9P.M. from September 1963 to March 1964

What was the name of the short-lived spin-off of TV's popular Columbo show, which featured Peter Falk as the rumpled, cigar-smoking sleuth?
A: Mrs. Columbo. The show, aired in 1979, starred Kate Mulgrew as Kate Columbo Before it went off the air it went through two name changes--to Kate the Detective and Kate Loves a Mystery--and Mrs. Columbo became Ms. Callahan.