Name a character from a TV show & see if anyone knows the show W/O using Google

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1) Shelly & Candy Stoker

2) Barbara Good (answered)

3) Buffy Wilson (answered)

4) Catalina

5) Dr. Liam Neesam












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[msongs]

1. Mom nt

[leftieNanner]

2. #10

Bob Newhart.

[red dog 1]

7. Newhart is correct!

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3. 6 and 8 are "All Creatures Great and Small".

I've been to the town where the real story took place and driven past the genuine veterinary.

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4. Ding! Ding!

Well done!

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6. Thanks.

That was easy. I watch the current series, watched the old one, and have read the books more than once.

[red dog 1]

5. Really?

Did it look like Skeldale House?

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9. Not really.

There's a certain resemblance between Victorian houses in the Yorkshire Dales in terms of the color of the brick and other details. This house was behind a pair of red gates so we couldn't see the entrance. The house in the current series is directly on the street and has no gates.

[red dog 1]

12. What's the name of the town?

I know it's not "Daroby"

[greatauntoftriplets]

18. Thirsk.

[red dog 1]

39. Thanks for that

Interesting tidbit of information:

"All Creatures Great and Small" has something in common with another BBC TV show, the sit-com "Fawlty Towers"

The real vet that the character Siegfried Farnnon was based on was named Donald Sinclair.

The Basil Fawlty character in "Fawlty Towers" was based on a real person who owned the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, Devon, where the Pythons stayed while filming a movie nearby. He too was named Donald Sinclair.
John Cleese described him as "the rudest man I've ever come across in my life."
A waitress who worked at the Gleneagles Hotel described Sinclair as "bonkers." and lacking in hospitality. "It was as if he didn't want the guests to be there."
Once, when a guest politely asked him when the next bus to town would be coming, Sinclair tossed a bus schedule at him.
He tossed Eric Idle's briefcase out a window "in case it contained a bomb."

[greatauntoftriplets]

40. You're welcome.

Interesting story about the two Donald Sinclairs.

[House of Roberts]

8. #2 is Good Neighbors

Played by Felicity Kendall.

[red dog 1]

11. That's it!

I have them on DVD

One of my favorites is the one where the guy steals the leeks from their front yard garden
(Barbara sics the goat on him at the end)

[House of Roberts]

16. I'm also a big Penelope Keith fan.

The only show I liked her better in than Good Neighbors was To The Manor Born.

[MLAA]

20. Waiting for God and May December are also wonderful shows.

[House of Roberts]

22. Diana and Tom plotting against the idiot Baines was great!

I never got to see May December on my Saturday night Britcoms on Alabama Public Television though.

[MLAA]

24. What was Tom's daughter in law's name?

My first Brit comedy was Are You Being Served. And oh. Poor, poor Richard on Hyacinth! Mind the bicycle, Richard!

[House of Roberts]

42. Tom's son and daughter in law were Geoffrey and Marion.

Marion was always drunk or on pills, or both.

[red dog 1]

41. Another very funny British sit-com was "Man About the House"

which ran for six seasons in the '70s on BBC.

Three's Company was based on that show.

[MLAA]

19. Love the show.

[global1]

10. Brick.....nt

[rogerballard]

13. The Middle!

Love(d) that show! One of my most fave of all time. Love every character!

[rogerballard]

14. Tim O'Hara

[Harker]

74. "My Favorite Martian", I think. n/t

[rogerballard]

75. You are correct!

[Harker]

77. Took a while. Every so often I give these things a fresh look. n/t

[rogerballard]

78. Same here...

and then rack my brain

[Harker]

81. Sometimes, we just need to let them percolate a bit. n/t

[cloudbase]

15. Carol Post

[rogerballard]

23. Mr. Ed?

[cloudbase]

25. Correct.

[JoseBalow]

17. Stan Shmenge

[JoseBalow]

50. ... and his brother, Yosh Shmenge

[JoseBalow]

90. The Shmenge Brothers!

[JoseBalow]

96. a.k.a. "The Happy Wanderers"

Leutonia's favorite sons!

[Stargleamer]

21. Jack Kline

[no_hypocrisy]

26. Mr. Goober

[brewens]

27. Sigfried

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29. Siegfried Farnon?

All Creatures Great and Small (BBC)

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31. Nope

[brewens]

37. Sigfried. CHAOS leader. Get Smart

[GarColga]

28. #9 Mrs. Manicotti

She lived in the same building as Ralph and Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners.

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30. You got it!

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32. Huell Babineaux

[petronius]

91. Better Call Saul

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93. and Breaking Bad

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33. Hank Kingsley

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34. George Sibley

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35. Les Nessman

[rogerballard]

36. WKRP Cincinnati

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38. Yep

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43. (# 1 from Top) Shelly & Candy Stoker

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44. Detective Eddie Arlette

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45. Joe Rossi

[lpbk2713]

83. Lou Grant

Always liked that show.

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95. Ding!

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46. Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

[Angleae]

48. The Simpsons

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49. Ding!

[rogerballard]

47. Captain Steve Burton

[Harker]

62. "Land of the Giants."

[rogerballard]

63. Yes

Another Irwin Allen Production

[Harker]

64. I loved "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea."

Things started off normally, but it seemed that each episode got increasingly wacky.

[rogerballard]

65. I agree...

same with Lost In Space. I did like the Netflix redo of LIS

[JoseBalow]

51. Irwin Mainway

[Jrose]

52. The 'dangerous toys' salesman on an SNL Christmas Special, played by Ackroyd?

[JoseBalow]

54. Yes!

He also sold unsafe Halloween costumes and other questionable products, and appeared as a sleazy scamming huckster in several skits over the years

[Brother Buzz]

53. Hymie the Robot

[Jrose]

55. Was that character on 'Futurama'?

[Brother Buzz]

56. No, a comedy from the sixties

Think Sunbeam Alpine/Tiger, Karmann Ghia, and a 1969 Opel GT.

[red dog 1]

57. Get Smart?

A friend of mine bought a Sunbeam Tiger back in the '60s.

[Brother Buzz]

58. Yes

The Sunbeam Tiger with that V8 was pretty cool (A poor man's Shelby Cobra), but there days, I'd be happy driving the wussie Alpine, or even a Karmann Ghia (A poor man's Porsche)

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59. To change 2 of the spark plugs in that Sunbeam Tiger, they had to go in from the interior wall of the car itself,

because it was so squeezed into that small engine compartment.

[Brother Buzz]

60. 1963 AC Shelby Cobra was built on a british AC Ace roadster chassis

Herbie Hancock's AC Cobra 260cc Ford engine (with some of the Shelby magic inside) affords a ton of room to work



1958 British AC Ace roadster


Herbie Hancock's1963 AC Cobra
?

[Wolf Frankula]

61. Buffy Wilson

on Bosom Buddies, played by Tom Hanks.
I remember that show well.

Wolf

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66. Yola Gaylen

[Brother Buzz]

67. Alexander "Scotty" Scott

[rogerballard]

68. Star Trek

[Brother Buzz]

69. Nope

Think terrestrial


On edit: Think tennis

[JoseBalow]

70. Soap?

[Brother Buzz]

71. Nope

Think a pair of tennis bums who mooch their way around the world

[VGNonly]

72. I Spy

[Brother Buzz]

73. Yep

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Here's an off topic trivia question just for you:

Do you know what song Mr Natural is playing?



On edit, here's a clue:

Werner Herzog loved the song and used it in two films, Stroszek and The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.

[lisa58]

76. Barbara Good: The Good Neighbors

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79. Ding!

(I love that show)

[rogerballard]

80. Lily van der Woodsen

[Sneederbunk]

82. P.T. Moore

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84. Uncle Martin.

[Harker]

85. "My Favorite Martian."

Tim O'Hara's uncle.

[thucythucy]

86. Yes!

When I was a kid I loved that show, though Uncle Martin's condescending attitude toward all things earthly could get annoying. Not very professional for an anthropologist!

[Harker]

88. He was a harsh one, alright.

Funny coincidence -- two nights ago, as part of a noir kick, having picked up one of those 20 movie box sets at a thrift store for a dollar, my wife and I ran "D.O.A." (1949) featuring Pamela Britton, who played Mrs. Brown on "My Favorite Martian."

There were some pretty fun shows in the 60s, and some good social commentary.

[Mad_Dem_X]

87. Oscar Martinez

[JoseBalow]

89. The Office

[Mad_Dem_X]

92. Correct! :)

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94. # 7 from OP, Peggy Sue Gavin