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This television and film production company, created by James L. Brooks in 1986, is best known for producing The Simpsons. It’s name is seen at the end of every episode as part of a short sequence in which its name is portrayed on a movie screen while an theatergoer makes a sush-ing sound.

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Gracie Films

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Brandon, Donna, Steve and others from this Aaron Spelling series went on to attend the fictional California University.

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Beverly Hills, 90210

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Which two words from the NATO phonetic radio alphabet are also the names of NBC-owned cable channels?

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Bravo, Golf

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What Western, which began as a CBS radio series in 1952, holds the record as the longest-running continuously aired drama series in American television history? It is tied with Law & Order at 20 seasons but surpasses the crime drama in episode count, 635 to 456.

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Gunsmoke

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The ITV children’s show Do Not Adjust Your Set led to the inception of a comedy troupe, five members of which were born in Britain. Name the sixth member, born in the United States, who originally joined as an animator.

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Terry Gilliam

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Which TV host of yesteryear wrote the memoirs Wunnerful, Wunnerful! and Ah-One, Ah-Two!: Life with My Musical Family?

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Lawrence Welk

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A dog named Seymour waits for his owner outside Panucci’s Pizza for twelve years before expiring in a poignant and memorable Emmy-nominated episode of what television series?

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Futurama

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Jodie Dallas, widely regarded as the first openly gay regular character on American primetime television, was portrayed by Billy Crystal on what comedy series?

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Soap

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What was the last name of the real-life siblings who starred in, respectively, the hit 1980s series Cagney & Lacey and the hit 1990s series Wings?

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Tyne and Tim Daly

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This is the name of Andy Kaufman’s lounge lizard alter-ego.

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Tony Clifton

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What actor who died in November 2017 was one of the few civilians ever to be named an honorary U.S. Marine, and was “promoted” to lance corporal in 2001?

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Jim Nabors

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The only dog ever to get his own Entertainment Weekly cover was Moose, better known for playing “Eddie” on what TV show?

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Moose (1990-2006) was the Jack Russell terrier who played Eddie Crane on Frasier.

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“You need us…for everything you do” was a slogan used by this channel, one of the first to customize content by location.

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The Weather Channel

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A Negro League baseball star who is actually an alien; an EMT who can regenerate body parts and subsists on cancerous tumors; eugenically developed identical girls created as supersoldiers by the U.S. military: These are among the storylines from what TV series?

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The X-Files

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437 hopefuls, including Stephen Stills, auditioned to join this TV band.

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The Monkees

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The Time Bandit, Cornelia Marie, Saga, Wizard, Northwestern, and (tragically) Big Valley are among the vessels that have been featured on what television series?

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The Deadliest Catch

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“Now this is your last chance. If one piece of candy gets past you and into the packing room unwrapped…you’re fired!” This quote, uttered by a stern factory supervisor, kicks off a classic scene in sitcom history from what television series?

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I Love Lucy

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This is a screenshot from what game show?

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Tic Tac Dough

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The host of the original Star Search in the 1980s and ’90s, a long-time co-host of the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon, Dick Clark’s co-host on TV’s Bloopers & Practical Jokes, and a spokesperson for the American Family Publishers sweepstakes—any of these was arguably the second-most-prominent show business job held by what man?

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Ed McMahon

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The words “Goodbye, kids” were the first words spoken by Clarabell the Clown—and the last words spoken by anyone—on what children’s television program?

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Howdy Doody

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What successful reality TV show actually started off as a spin-off of a very different ABC series about Beverly Hills plastic surgeons?

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Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is so named because the original Extreme Makeover focused on remodeled noses and cheekbones, not breakfast nooks and bonus rooms.

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Over the course of her 8-decade-long career, Betty White has won 5 Primetime Emmys. Three of them were for her portrayals of Rose Nylund and Sue Ann Nivens on The Golden Girls and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, respectively. The other two were guest-starring roles as herself, once in 1996 and once in 2010. Name EITHER of these shows.

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SNL, The John Laroquette Show

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It is a miracle that Angela Lansbury is still alive, given that her Murder, She Wrote character, Jessica Fletcher, spent 12 years in this fictional town, which boasts a murder rate of more than 1,400 per million, according to research by BBC’s Radio 4.

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Cabot Cove, Maine

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As if an Academy Award and 8 Primetime Emmys weren’t enough, this veteran actress competed at the age of 82 on the 7th season of Dancing with the Stars, making her the oldest contestant to-date.

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Cloris Leachman

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“trust_no1” is a fitting email address that was used in this drama about FBI agents.

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X-Files

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“Yo yo yo! 1-4-8-3-to-the-3-to-the-6-to-the-9. Representin’ the ABQ. What up, b*tches? Leave it at the tone!” This (impossible) phone number, named here in his charming outgoing voice mail message, belongs to what television drug cook and dealer?

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Jesse Pinkman (Breaking Bad)

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So that viewers wouldn’t think it was about opera, the “R” in this show’s logo was turned into a gun.

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The Sopranos

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Glory Days, Battle of the Ages, Pay it Forward and Temptation Nation are subtitles for four of the seasons of the American version of what TV series?

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The Biggest Loser

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Howard K. Smith, George Herman, Lesley Stahl, Bob Schieffer, John Dickerson, and Margaret Brennan are among the journalists who have moderated what weekly news and public affairs program that debuted on November 7, 1954?

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Face The Nation

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Alan Shore, Bobby Donnell, Denny Crane, and Ally McBeal are all fictional attorneys who practiced in what city?

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Boston

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Trista Rehn, Ali Fedotowsky, Andi Dorfman, and Becca Kufrin are all women who have appeared on what two reality television series? Two answers are required.

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The Bachelor, The Bachelorette

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Two armchairs and a coffee table in front of a black backdrop provided the simple setting for what weekly author interview series, which was hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb and ran on the network from 1989 to 2004, becoming the longest-running author interview program of its kind in U.S. TV history?

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Booknotes

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Destroyed by sabotage; destroyed by sabotage; destroyed by sabotage; disappeared in a spacetime anomaly. These are the fates of the predecessors to which space station, which titles a TV series created by J. Michael Straczynski and credited with pioneering long-form storytelling in television?

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Babylon 5

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What newsmagazine, whose early correspondents included Rona Barrett, Robin Leach, and Leonard Maltin, recently surpassed Soul Train to become the longest-running syndicated series in American TV history?

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Entertainment Tonight is in its 39th season, and has run over 12,000 episodes.

(Card created February 11th, 2020)

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In the parent series, Harriette was an elevator operator who worked in the same building as the sitcom’s title characters. The spin-off focused on Harriette, her husband, Carl (a Chicago cop), and their children.

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Family Matters

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The TV sitcom star born Vera Chokalingam now uses a first name borrowed from a title character from what 1978-82 TV sitcom?

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Mindy Kaling. Chokalingam dropped the first and last syllables of her surname, changing it to “Kaling.” The “Mindy” part came from Mork & Mindy.

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A spin-off series subtitled “The New Class”, which ran originally episodes from 1993 to 2000, was the 4th and, at seven seasons, the longest-running incarnation of what TV franchise? Original series regular Dennis Haskins was the only actor to return in a major role in this spin-off.

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Saved By The Bell

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Although the role existed previously, a now-common term for this role was not used in the television context until 1952, applied by a CBS news executive (the actual executive is subject to debate) to a colleague during the network’s coverage of that year’s political nominating conventions. What is the term?

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Anchor

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Numerous times during its nearly 25-year run—including every year since 2013—the highest-rated syndicated television program in the United States has been a half-hour daytime series that stars (and is named after) an individual with what first name?

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(Judge) Judy

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Myron Floren (accordion), Aladdin (violin), Larry Hooper (piano), the “lovely Lennon Sisters”, and “Champagne Ladies” Alice Lon and Norma Zimmer were regulars on a long-running television series hosted by whom?

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Lawrence Welk

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Caprica, a planet in the Cyrannus star system, provided the setting for some of the episodes of what sci-fi drama series, as well as the title for the show’s spinoff prequel?

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Battlestar Galactica

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The voice of Oscar the Grouch for almost 50 years, what legendary performer also voiced Big Bird beginning in 1969?

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Carol Spinney

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Best known for his role as elder brother Eric on Boy Meets World, what actor voices Batman on Batman Beyond and Star-Lord in the animated Guardians of the Galaxy? His character on the D&D show Critical Role is the jilted cleric Kashaw (ka-SHAW).

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Will Friedle

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A star of her own namesake sitcom on NBC and the creator of Two Broke Girls, what comedian appeared in three Comedy Central roasts? Her offer to be Donald Trump’s fourth wife has aged poorly.

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Whitney Cummings

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De Gouden Kooi (The Golden Cage) was the working title of a Dutch television series that premiered in 1999 and was inspired by the Biosphere 2 research facility in Arizona and the works of George Orwell. This series is now known by what name, which is also used for its US and UK versions (and many of the 60+ other versions across the globe)?

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Big Brother

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