TV/RADIO Flashcards
Current NBC show that explores the lives, both professional and personal, of the firefighters, rescue personnel and paramedics of the fictional Firehouse 51
Chicago Fire
American crime drama television series that aired on CBS from September 16, 1987, to December 8, 1990. ________ originally starred Ken Wahl as Vinnie Terranova, a Brooklyn native and deep cover operative for the FBI under the supervision of senior agent Frank McPike, played by Jonathan Banks. The primary cast was rounded out by Jim Byrnes, who played an information operative known as Lifeguard (real name Daniel Burroughs) who assisted Vinnie in the field.
Wiseguy
She has spent most of her career with CBS News, where she began as a producer in 1971. Since 1991, she has reported for CBS’s 60 Minutes.
Lesley Stahl
1979-85 action-comedy about cousins in rural Georgia
Dukes of Hazzard
PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and those who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.
American Masters
played Carrie on Sex and the City
Sarah Jessica Parker
Jaime Sommers
the Bionic Woman
Andy Griffith Show family
Taylor
Married to Connie Chung, hosting talk show since 1991
Maury Povich
Soap opera set in a fictionalized version of Genoa City, Wisconsin.
The Young and the Restless
Flintstones and Yogi Bear
Hanna Barbera
British actress on Dynasty
Joan Collins
American historical romantic drama television series created by Laurie McCarthy and Stephanie SenGupta for The CW. Set in the late-sixteenth century, the series revolves around the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her rise to power in the French court. The series stars Adelaide Kane as Mary, alongside an ensemble cast. The series premiered on October 17, 2013, on The CW and concluded after four seasons on June 16, 2017.
Reign
Dukes of Hazzard stars
Tom Wopat and John Schneider
American detective drama television series starring James Garner that aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974, and January 10, 1980, and has remained in syndication to the present day. Garner portrays a Los Angeles–based private investigator.
The Rockford Files
Lamb Chop
Shari Lewis
Show about a working-class white family living in Queens, New York. Its patriarch is Archie Bunker, an outspoken, narrow-minded man, seemingly prejudiced against everyone who is not like him or his idea of how people should be.
All in the Family
American mystery-horror serial drama television series created by Mark Frost and David Lynch. It premiered on ABC on April 8, 1990, and ran for two seasons until its cancellation in 1991. The series follows an investigation, headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) and local Sheriff Harry S. Truman (Michael Ontkean), into the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee).
Twin Peaks
American sports entertainment competition based on the Japanese television series Sasuke. It features thousands of competitors attempting to complete series of obstacle courses of increasing difficulty in various cities across the United States
American Ninja Warrior
Current NBC show hosted by Chris Hardwick. Involves a four-story tall (40 ft) pegboard, similar to a pachinko game or bean machine; it also is similar to the board used for the Plinko pricing game on The Price Is Right. The bottom of the board is divided into 15 slots marked with various U.S. dollar amounts
The Wall
British drama television series created, written, co-directed, and executive produced by Michaela Coel for BBC One and HBO. The series is set in London with a predominantly Black British cast.[2] Coel stars as Arabella, a young writer in the public eye who seeks to rebuild her life after being raped.
I May Destroy You
Media mogul, founder of Fox Broadcasting & USA, chairman of Expedia
Barry Diller
American dark comedy crime television series created by Alec Berg and Bill Hader that premiered on HBO on March 25, 2018. Hader stars as a hitman from Cleveland who travels to Los Angeles to kill someone but finds himself joining an acting class taught by Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler
Barry
Taxi actors
Judd Hirsch and Danny DeVito
Influential 80s police procedural
Hill Street Blues
American reality competition television series, co-hosted by Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman. The series premiered on July 31, 2018, on NBC.
The show features craftspeople skilled in different media competing to win $100,000.
Making It
Beverly Hillbillies family
Clampett
PBS musical television show taped live at The Caverns in the base of Monteagle Mountain. From 2008 to 2018, it was held in Cumberland Caverns.
Bluegrass Underground
Current host of Family Feud
Steve Harvey
Honeymooners family
Kramden
Kathie Lee current cohost
Ryan Seacrest
Long-running American television panel show in which four celebrity panelists are presented with three contestants whose unusual occupation or experience has been read aloud by the show’s moderator/host. Anthony Anderson host.
To Tell The Truth
played Rhoda Morgenstern
Valerie Harper
Early TV’s conscience
Edward R. Murrow
Lt. Uhura in Star Trek
Nichelle Nichols
Medical name for comic & TV series that made Richard Chamberlain a star
Dr. Kildare
American comedy-drama television series produced by HBO that stars Lisa Kudrow as sitcom actress Valerie Cherish in modern-day Los Angeles.
The Comeback
plays Roman on Succession
Kieran Culken
Elliot Stabler on Law and Order SVU
Chris Meloni
Influential 80s police procedural
Hill Street Blues
won Emmys as neighbor Phyllis on Mary Tyler Moore
Cloris Leachman
American television game show that aired on NBC. In March 2017, NBC ordered six (later eight) hour-long episodes of the series. Ellen DeGeneres serves as host, while Stephen “tWitch” Boss appears as announcer/sidekick. The series is based on game segments from DeGeneres’ daytime talk show
Ellen’s Game of Games
Fawlty Towers actor/writers
John Cleese and Connie Booth
PBS series, educational resource, archive, and history of contemporary art. It premiered in 2001, and is now broadcast in over 50 countries worldwide. Premiering a new season every two years, ___ is the only series on United States television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists.
Art:21 - Art in the 21st Century
American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. It originally aired from September 28, 1987 to May 23, 1994 in syndication, spanning 178 episodes over seven seasons. Set in the 24th century, when Earth is part of the United Federation of Planets, it follows the adventures of a Starfleet starship, the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), in its exploration of the Milky Way galaxy.
Star Trek: The Next Generation
reality sports documentary television series produced by NFL Films and HBO.[1] The show was first broadcast in 2001, and the current 2021 season is the 16th. Each season, it follows a National Football League (NFL) team through its training camp and covers the team’s preparation for the upcoming football season.
Hard Knocks
played John Adams in John Adams
Paul Giamatti
Johnny Carson’s sidekick on Tonight
Ed McMahon
British soap actress with romance novelist sister
Joan/Jackie Collins
PBS public affairs program formerly hosted by Gwen Ifill, now hosted by Yamiche Alcindor
Washington Week
1968-2021 soap opera that was the first daytime drama to primarily feature ethnically and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social issues. focused on the Lord family.
One Life To Live
Penny who works at the Cheesecake Factory tv show
Big Bang Theory
1995-2002 Comedy Central cartoon about a psychologist
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
HBO American superhero drama limited series based on the 1986 DC Comics series of the same title, created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The TV series was created for HBO by Damon Lindelof, who also served as an executive producer and writer. Its ensemble cast includes Regina King
Watchmen
Other major characters include cousin, the well-meaning and enthusiastic deputy, Barney Fife; aunt and housekeeper, Bee Taylor (Frances Bavier); and young son, Opie.
The Andy Griffith Show
American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley.[1] It originally aired on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The show starred Mandy Patinkin as Dr. Jeffrey Geiger, a hot-shot surgeon with emotional issues stemming from the psychiatric condition of his wife (played by Kim Greist), who drowned their infant son. Adam Arkin plays Dr. Aaron Shutt, a world-renowned neurosurgeon and Geiger’s best friend.
Chicago Hope
Spin-off from All in the Family - black couple is able to move to Manhattan
The Jeffersons
Laugh-In actress
Lily Tomlin
American music-dance television program which aired in syndication from October 2, 1971, to March 27, 2006. In its 35-year history, the show primarily featured performances by R&B, soul, dance/pop, and hip hop artists, although funk, jazz, disco, and gospel artists also appeared. The series was created by _______, who also served as its first host and executive producer.
Soul Train, Don Cornelius
Longtime CBS Evening News anchor
Walter Cronkite
Stars on Dallas
Larry Hagman and Linda Gray
Long running show & first host, current host Alfonso Ribeiro
America’s Funniest Home Videos, Bob Saget
Soap Opera set in Los Angeles, California, the show centers upon the Forrester family and their haute couture business.
The program features an ensemble cast, headed by its longest-serving actors John McCook as Eric Forrester and Katherine Kelly Lang as Brooke Logan.
The Bold and the Beautiful
Happy Days family name
Cunningham
American science fiction crime drama[2] television series that aired on CBS from September 22, 2011,[3] to June 21, 2016. The series centers on a mysterious reclusive billionaire computer programmer, Harold Finch (Michael Emerson), who has developed a computer program for the federal government known as “the Machine” that is capable of collating all sources of information to predict terrorist acts and to identify people planning them.
Person of Interest
American drama television series set at a fictional men’s prison created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series’s 56 episodes. It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by the premium cable network HBO
Oz
American dystopian science fiction neo-Western television series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Produced and aired by HBO, it is based on the 1973 film of the same name (written and directed by Michael Crichton) and, to a lesser extent, the film’s 1976 sequel, Futureworld.
Westworld
American police procedural drama television series set in New York City, exploring the struggles of the fictional 15th Precinct detective squad in Manhattan.[1] Each episode typically intertwines several plots involving an ensemble cast. John Kelly and Andy Sipowicz are detectives in the 15th squad.
NYPD Blue
PBS American public affairs show founded in and hosted by conservative author and columnist William F. Buckley Jr. from 1966 to 1999, and relaunched in 2018 with host Margaret Hoover.
Firing Line
Parents on Happy Days
Tom Bosley and Marion Ross
played Aleksandr Petrovsky on Sex and the City
Mikhail Baryshnikov
American Western dramatic television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins and originally starring James Garner as an adroitly articulate poker player plying his trade on riverboats and in saloons while traveling incessantly through the 19th-century American frontier. The show ran for five seasons from September 22, 1957, to July 8, 1962, on ABC.
Maverick
HBO Armando Iannucci/Julia Louis-Dreyfus show
Veep
British soap opera airing since 1960 focusing on a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner-city Salford.
Coronation Street
American medical drama television series created by Joshua Brand and John Falsey, that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982, to May 25, 1988. The series stars Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd, and William Daniels as teaching doctors at an aging, rundown Boston hospital who give interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions.
St. Elsewhere
Batman on early TV
Adam West
American crime thriller television series that premiered on NBC on September 23, 2013. The show follows Raymond “Red” Reddington (James Spader), a former U.S. Navy officer turned high-profile criminal who voluntarily surrenders. He tells the FBI that he has a list of the most dangerous criminals in the world.
The Blacklist
American space Western television series created by Jon Favreau for the streaming service Disney+. It is the first live-action series in the Star Wars franchise, beginning five years after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983). It stars Pedro Pascal as the title character, a lone bounty hunter who goes on the run after being hired to retrieve “The Child”.
The Mandalorian
Big band leader who hosted variety show from 1951-1982
Lawrence Welk
American medical drama television series, based on the book Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer, that premiered on September 25, 2018 on NBC. The series was created by David Schulner and stars Ryan Eggold, Freema Agyeman, Janet Montgomery, Jocko Sims, Anupam Kher, and Tyler Labine.
New Amsterdam
American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. It is set in and around Dodge City, Kansas in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. The television series ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975, and lasted for 635 episodes.
Gunsmoke
Long running documentary program canceled after George Floyd protests
Cops
Pies in face comic
Soupy Sales
British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It starred Leo McKern as ________, an elderly London barrister who defended a broad variety of clients, often underdogs. The TV series led to the stories being presented in other media including books and radio.
Rumpole of the Bailey
American crime drama television series created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. It is a spin-off, prequel, and a sequel of Gilligan’s previous series, Breaking Bad. Set in the early to mid-2000s in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series develops Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), an earnest lawyer and former con-man, into a greedy criminal defense attorney
Better Call Saul
Soap Opera set in Illinois in the fictional city of Salem and primarily focuses on two families, the Brady and the Horton families.
Days of Our Lives
American television sitcom that initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961, to June 1, 1966. It centered on the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie. Many scenes deal with Rob and his co-writers, Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam) and Sally Rogers (Rose Marie). Other scenes focus on the home life of Rob, his wife Laura (Mary Tyler Moore), and son Ritchie (Larry Mathews).
The Dick Van Dyke Show
American police procedural drama television series that aired on the CBS television network for seven seasons from March 25, 1982, to May 16, 1988. The show is about two New York City police detectives who lead very different lives: (Sharon Gless) is a career-minded single woman, while (Tyne Daly) is a married working mother. The series is set in a fictionalized version of Manhattan’s 14th Precinct (known as “Midtown South”).
Cagney & Lacey
Current PBS Newshour anchor
Judy Woodruff
60 Minutes humorist
Andy Rooney
HBO series about South Dakota town with Timothy Olyphant and Ian McShane
Deadwood
American sports comedy television series that was broadcast on HBO, and created by Ben Best, Jody Hill, and Danny McBride. It stars McBride as Kenny Powers, a former professional baseball pitcher who, after a career downturn in the major leagues, is forced to return to his hometown middle school in Shelby, North Carolina, as a substitute physical education teacher
Eastbound and Down
HBO American comedy-drama television series created by Sharon Horgan, set in Hastings-on-Hudson, and starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church as a middle-aged couple.
Divorce
American dramatic television series set at an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War. The title refers to My Khe beach in the city of Đà Nẵng, Vietnam, nicknamed by American and Australian soldiers during the Vietnam War.
China Beach
American adult animated science fiction sitcom on Adult Swim. The series follows the misadventures of cynical mad scientist and his good-hearted, but fretful grandson who split their time between domestic life and interdimensional adventures.
Rick and morty
Original host of Survivor
Jeff Probst
Perry Mason old and new TV actors
Raymond Burr and Matthew Rhys
Host of American Bandstand
Dick Clark
American television sitcom created by and starring Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson. It was developed from their independent web series of the same name. 2010s
Broad City
American teen drama television series created and written by Sam Levinson for HBO. It is loosely based on the Israeli television miniseries of the same name and follows a group of high school students through their experiences of sex, drugs, friendships, love, identity, and trauma.[5] The series stars Zendaya in the lead role, alongside an ensemble cast
Euphoria
1970-2011 soap opera with Erica Kane
All My Children (Susan Lucci)
PBS television series which began in 2000. The show generally follows an investigator or team of investigators exploring what modern science can tell us about some of the great mysteries of history.
Secrets of the Dead
Clampett family
Beverly Hillbillies
NBC drama series that ollows the lives of siblings Kevin, Kate, and Randall (known as the “Big Three”), and their parents Jack and Rebecca Pearson. It takes place mainly in the present and uses flashbacks to show the family’s past.
This is Us
American crime drama streaming television series created by Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams for Netflix and produced by Media Rights Capital. The series stars Jason Bateman and Laura Linney as Marty and Wendy Byrde, a married couple who relocate their family for money laundering.
Ozark
Cherokee vaudevilian
Will Rogers
Olivia Benson on Law and Order SVU
Mariska Hargitay
All in the Family family
Bunker
Played Oberyn Martell
Pedro Pascal
American drama thriller television series created by Sam Esmail for USA Network. It stars Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker with social anxiety disorder and clinical depression. Elliot is recruited by an insurrectionary anarchist to join a group of hacktivists called “fsociety”. The group aims to destroy all debt records by encrypting the financial data of E Corp, the largest conglomerate in the world.
Mr. Robot
HBO Real Sports with _____
Bryan Gumbel
Host of 70s PBS interview show
Dick Cavett
Long-running gameshow currently hosted by Wayne Brady
Let’s Make a Deal
American medical drama television series that originally ran on the Fox network for eight seasons, from November 16, 2004 to May 21, 2012. The series’s main character is (Hugh Laurie), an unconventional, misanthropic medical genius who, despite his dependence on pain medication, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) in New Jersey.
House
American gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show depicted the lives, loves, trials, and tribulations of the wealthy and psychotic Collins family of Collinsport, Maine, where a number of supernatural occurrences take place.
This series became popular when vampire Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) appeared ten months into its run.
Dark Shadows
Dallas family
Ewings
American sketch comedy television series that originally ran on Fox from April 15, 1990[1] to May 19, 1994. Keenen Ivory Wayans created, wrote and starred in the program.
In Living Color
American crime drama television series created by Anthony Yerkovich and produced by Michael Mann for NBC.[1] The series starred Don Johnson as James “Sonny” Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs, two Police Department detectives working undercover. The series ran for five seasons on NBC from September 16, 1984 to January 25, 1990.
Miami Vice
Maude on tv
Bea Arthur
played Mr. Big on Sex and the City
Chris Noth
PBS popular science program
NOVA
American prime time television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981, to May 11, 1989. The series, created by Richard and Esther Shapiro and produced by Aaron Spelling, revolves around the Carringtons, a wealthy family residing in Denver, Colorado.
Dynasty
Played I, Claudius
Derek Jacobi
television comedy-drama series, produced by the BBC in conjunction with HBO, and based on the novels of the same name by Alexander McCall Smith. The novels focus on the story of a detective agency opened by Mma Ramotswe and her courtship with the mechanic Mr. JLB Matekoni.
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
a reality television series that premiered on the Discovery Channel on April 12, 2005. The show follows crab fishermen aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab and snow crab fishing seasons.
Deadliest Catch
Erle Stanley Gardner character
Perry Mason
played Samantha on Sex and the City
Kim Cattrall
Current host of the Daily Show
Trevor Noah
PBS wildlife and ecosystem series
Nature
Univision morning show
¡Despierta América!
American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1978, to May 3, 1991. The series revolves around an affluent and feuding Texas family, the Ewings, who own the independent oil company Ewing Oil and the cattle-ranching land of Southfork.
Dallas
John Oliver HBO program
Last Week Tonight
Soap Opera set in Port Charles, NY
General Hospital
American procedural forensics crime drama television series which ran on CBS from October 6, 2000, to September 27, 2015, spanning 15 seasons. This was the first in the franchise
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
American drama television series about New York City’s African-American and Latino LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming drag ball culture scene in the 1980s, early 1990s in the second season, and the mid-to-late 1990s in the third season.
Pose
The series follows Larry in his life as a semi-retired television writer and producer in Los Angeles and, for one season, New York City. Also starring are Cheryl Hines as his wife Cheryl, Jeff Garlin as his manager and best friend Jeff Greene, and Susie Essman as Jeff’s wife Susie.
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Awkwafina show on Comedy Central
Nora from Queens
1952-2009 soap opera that started about a reverend and changed to be about German Immigrant family, then other families.
Guiding Light
American comedian, actor, producer, and writer. He was a correspondent and writer for The Daily Show from 2008 to 2012.He starred in the TBS series People of Earth and in Barry Jenkins’s first feature Medicine for Melancholy. He also hosted and produced an eponymous HBO series.
Wyatt Cenac
Sacha Baron Cohen show on HBO as different journalists
Da Ali G Show
American animated sitcom created by Loren Bouchard for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Belcher family—parents Bob and Linda and their three children, Tina, Gene, and Louise—who run a hamburger restaurant.
Bob’s Burgers
Internationally broadcast Seventh-day Adventist Christian television program founded in 1956 by George Vandeman. Its title comes from the Gospel of Matthew
It Is Written
Public Defender Joyce Davenport
Hill Street Blues
Original Wonder Woman
Lynda Carter
Originally broadcast from April 5, 1987, to June 9, 1997, it is the longest-lasting live-action sitcom on Fox and one of the longest running live-action sitcoms in television history. The show follows the suburban Chicago lives of Al Bundy, a once-glorious high school football player turned hard-luck women’s shoe salesman; his lazy wife, Peggy; their beautiful, dumb and popular daughter, Kelly; and their smart, horny and unpopular son, Bud.
Married… with Children
HBO American comedy-drama television series created by Stephen Levinson and starring Dwayne Johnson as Spencer Strasmore, a retired NFL player who must navigate his new career of choice as the financial manager of other NFL players.
Ballers
Current NBC show that focuses on the emergency department at Gaffney Chicago Medical Center and on its doctors and nurses as they work to save patients’ lives.
Chicago Med
It’s a Wonderful Life actress
Donna Reed
played Miranda on Sex and the City
Cynthia Nixon
Bewitched family
Stephens
Young Elizabeth in The Crown
Claire Foy
Show where recurring locations within Bikini Bottom include the neighboring houses of Patrick and Squidward; two competing restaurants, the Krusty Krab and the Chum Bucket
SpongeBob SquarePants
Arrowverse spin-off that follows Barry Allen, portrayed by Grant Gustin, a crime scene investigator who gains super-human speed, which he uses to fight criminals, including others who have also gained superhuman abilities.
The Flash
Nickelodeon animated series about people who can manipulate one of the four elements
Avatar: The Last Airbender
It starred Carroll O’Connor, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers, and Rob Reiner. The show revolves around the life of a working-class father and his family. The show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously considered unsuitable for a US network television comedy, such as racism, antisemitism, infidelity, homosexuality
All in the Family
American superhero television series follows billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), who claimed to have spent five years shipwrecked on Lian Yu, a mysterious island in the North China Sea, before returning home to Starling City (later renamed “Star City”) to fight crime and corruption as a secret vigilante.
Arrow (“Green Arrow” DC Comics Character)
American drama television series that aired on HBO between March 2006 and March 2011. It stars Bill Paxton as the patriarch of a fundamentalist Mormon family in contemporary Utah that practices polygamy, with Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny, and Ginnifer Goodwin portraying his wives.
Big Love
Fox News - host of Your World With ______ since 1996
Neil Cavuto
Four hosts of Late Night on NBC
Four men have hosted Late Night: David Letterman (1982–1993), Conan O’Brien (1993–2009), Jimmy Fallon (2009–2014), and Seth Meyers (2014–present).
Middle Elizabeth in The Crown
Olivia Colman
1950s comic skinflint
Jack Benny
Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain in
Scenes from a Marriage
American crime drama television series starring Tom Selleck living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from 1980 to 1988 during its first-run broadcast on the American television network CBS.
Magnum PI
American fantasy family drama television series telling the story of teenager Joan Girardi (Amber Tamblyn), who sees and speaks with God and performs tasks she is given. 2002-05
Joan of Arcadia
Sitcom starring Candice Bergen as investigative journalist and news anchor
Murphy Brown
HBO television series produced by Russell Simmons that helped launch careers of Afam standup comedians.
Def Comedy Jam
60s/2010s police procedural in Hawaii
Hawaii Five O
American horror drama television series developed by Misha Green based on and serving as a continuation of the 2016 novel of the same name by Matt Ruff. Starring Jurnee Smollett and Jonathan Majors, it premiered on August 16, 2020, on HBO.
Lovecraft Country
American period drama television series based on the character of the same name created by Erle Stanley Gardner that premiered on June 21, 2020, on HBO.[2] The series was developed and written by Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald and stars Matthew Rhys in the title role.
Perry Mason
Honeymooners stars
Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows
American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie. It then aired less frequently on ABC from 1989 to 2003.
Columbo
PBS American half-hour all-women news-analysis program.
To The Contrary
The show starred ___ as the widowed sheriff of Mayberry, North Carolina, a fictional community of roughly 2,000–5,000 people.
The Andy Griffith Show
Project Runway editor judge
Nina Garcia
Canadian-American actor known for his lengthy Hollywood film career and his title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside. He won Emmy Awards for acting in 1959 and 1961 for the role of Perry Mason, which he played for nine seasons (1957–1966) and reprised in a series of 26 Perry Mason TV movies (1985–1993).
Raymond Burr
American police procedural drama television series created by Jeff Eastin, starring Tim DeKay as FBI Special Agent Peter Burke and Matt Bomer as Neal Caffrey, a highly intelligent and multitalented con artist working as Burke’s criminal informant. Willie Garson and Tiffani Thiessen also star. The show premiered on October 23, 2009 on USA Network, and aired six complete seasons, with the final season concluding on December 18, 2014.
White Collar
Precursor to other Af-Am sitcoms
Sanford and Son
American drama television series starring Ken Howard that ran on the CBS network from November 27, 1978, to March 16, 1981, about a white former professional basketball player who takes a job coaching basketball at an impoverished urban high school with a racially mixed basketball team.
The White Shadow
American supernatural teen drama television series developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec, based on the book series of the same name written by L. J. Smith. The series premiered on The CW on September 10, 2009, and concluded on March 10, 2017, having aired 171 episodes over eight seasons.
The Vampire Diaries
SAG counterpart for TV
AFTRA
The show is centered on the life of an Italian-American everyman named Raymond Barone, a sportswriter for Newsday living with his family on Long Island. Beleaguered, diffident and dryly sarcastic, Raymond takes few things seriously, making jokes in nearly every situation, no matter how troubling or serious. He often avoids responsibilities around the house and with his kids, leaving this to his wife, Debra.
Everybody Loves Raymond
One of the longest-running sitcoms in history,the second-longest-running series with a primarily African American cast and the first to prominently feature a married interracial couple.
The Jeffersons
played Aidan on Sex and the City
John Corbett
1980-2005 host of Nightline
Ted Koppel
American period crime drama television series created by Terence Winter and broadcast on the premium cable channel HBO. The series is set chiefly in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era of the 1920s and stars Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson.
Boardwalk Empire
Rhea Perlman played ___ on Cheers
Carla
Current NBC show about Kara Zor-El who was sent to Earth from Krypton as a thirteen year old by her parents Zor-El and Alura. Spin-off from Arrow.
Supergirl
Bonanza family
Cartwright
American lawyer and author. He is best known for the Perry Mason series of detective stories, but he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces and also a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico.
Erle Stanley Gardner
Host of Nick News on Nickelodeon from 1992-2015
Linda Ellerbee
Dick Clark music and dance TV program
American Bandstand
Soap Opera where since the late 1970s, most of the storylines have revolved around the Quartermaine family and the Spencer family.
General Hospital
comedy-drama television series about the eccentric residents of a fictional small town in Alaska that ran on CBS from July 12, 1990, to July 26, 1995. In the show, Rob Morrow played New York City native Joel Fleischman, a recently graduated physician who is sent to practice in Anchorage, Alaska, for several years to repay the state of Alaska for underwriting his medical education. However, much to his chagrin, he is assigned to the much smaller and remote town of Cicely, which is in need of a general practitioner.
Northern Exposure
played Charlotte on Sex and the City
Kristin Davis
Former NFL player who was Kathie Lee’s co-host and is now on Good Morning America
Michael Strahan
American comedy about a sports agent created by Robert Wuhl in a starring role that aired on HBO from August 10, 1996 to September 8, 2002.
Arliss
Anchor of ABC evening news
Peter Jennings
American adult animated sitcom created by Adam Reed for FX. The show follows the exploits of a dysfunctional intelligence agency, evolving from the standard setup of a workplace sitcom mocking spy film to an anthology with self-contained mythologies. The show returned to its spy parody roots post-tenth season.
Archer
American drama television series starring Ed Asner in the title role as a newspaper editor that aired on CBS from September 20, 1977, to September 13, 1982. The third spin-off of the sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Lou Grant
Known as the “King of the Cowboys”, he appeared in over 100 films and numerous radio and television episodes of _____. In many of his films and television episodes, he appeared with his wife, Dale Evans; his Golden Palomino, Trigger; and his German Shepherd, Bullet.
Roy Rogers
American streaming television period drama series created by Chris Van Dusen and produced by Shonda Rhimes. It is based on Julia Quinn’s novels set in the competitive world of Regency era London during the season, when debutantes are presented at court.
Bridgerton
documentary television series hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that premiered on March 25, 2012 on PBS. In each episode, celebrities are presented with a “book of life” that is compiled with information researched by professional genealogists .
Finding Your Roots
played Lou Grant on Mary Tyler Moore
Ed Asner
HBO series is set in the 1st century BC, during Ancient Rome’s transition from Republic to Empire. The series features a sprawling cast of characters, many based on real figures from historical records, but the lead protagonists are ultimately two soldiers named Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, who find their lives intertwined with key historical events.
Rome
NBC Nightly News anchor 1982-2004
Tom Brokaw
Laverne and Shirley actresses
Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams
Sue Ann Nivens on Mary Tyler Moore
Betty White
Will Rogers death
Alaska plane crash 1935 with Wiley Post
Longest running program in the history of American public television. First broadcast in May 1956, this “thoughtful excursion into the world of ideas” across politics, media, technology, the arts and realms of civic life currently originates from CUNY TV studios and airs on public television stations.
The Open Mind
“King of daytime talk” show that was the first to feature audience participation
Phil Donahue show
Host of Inside the Actors Studio until 2018 death
James Lipton
SAG counterpart for tv actors
AFTRA
CBS Evening News anchor
Norah O’Donnell
Gets “no respect”
Rodney Dangerfield
PBS investigative documentary program produced in Boston
Frontline
Current NBC show that focuses on the fictional 21st District, which houses patrol officers and the department’s elite Intelligence Unit, led by Detective Sergeant Hank Voight (Jason Beghe). The first three seasons and the first half of season four focuses on both the patrol and Intelligence officers, Officer Kevin Atwater (LaRoyce Hawkins) and Officer Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati).
Chicago PD
She hosted 20/20 1979-2004
Barbara Walters
BBC radio drama that has aired since 1951
The Archers
American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. he show is set in the 1860s and it centers on the wealthy Cartwright family who live in the vicinity of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe. The series initially starred Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon and later featured (at various times) Guy Williams, David Canary, Mitch Vogel and Tim Matheson. The show is known for presenting pressing moral dilemmas.
Bonanza
plays the father on Succession
Brian Cox
Voiced Chef in South Park
Isaac Hayes
3 young E.T.s appear as humans & attend a New Mexico high school in books by Melinda Metz, the basis for this TV show
Roswell
Host of Meet the Press
Chuck Todd
ABC World News Tonight host 1983-2005
Peter Jennings
American satirical comedy-drama television series created, written, and directed by Mike White that premiered on HBO on July 11, 2021.[3][4] The series was greenlit in October 2020, filmed in Hawaii in late 2020, and features an ensemble cast including Murray Bartlett, Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Daddario, Jake Lacy, Natasha Rothwell, and Steve Zahn.
The White Lotus
In The Loop writer
Armando Ianucci
American mystery medical drama television series from Universal Studios that aired on NBC from October 3, 1976, to May 11, 1983. Jack Klugman stars in the title role as a Los Angeles County medical examiner who routinely engages in police investigations.
Quincy, M.E.
Host of the Late Late Show
James Corden
plays Kendall on Succession
Jeremy Strong
American comedy-drama television series that aired on ABC from March 3, 1985, to May 14, 1989. The network aired a total of 66 episodes.[1] Starring Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis as private detectives, and Allyce Beasley as their quirky receptionist, the show was a mixture of drama, comedy, mystery, and romance.
Moonlighting
American television sitcom, which aired on ABC from October 3, 1952, to April 23, 1966, and starred the real-life Nelson family. After a long run on radio, the show was brought to television, where it continued its success, initially running simultaneously on radio and TV. It was the longest running live-action sitcom in television history until It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia surpassed it on May 26, 2020
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
PBS news program about cars
MotorWeek
CBS Evening News host 1981-2005
Dan Rather
The series centers on the Griffins, a family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children, Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog, Brian. The show is set in the fictional city of Quahog, Rhode Island.
Family Guy
Guillermo del Toro Netflix series about suburban town with supernatural inhabitants
Tales of Arcadia
1972-78 show that centers on Robert Hartley, Ph.D. , a Chicago psychologist. Most activity occurs between his work and home life, with his supportive, although occasionally sarcastic, wife Emily (Suzanne Pleshette), and their friendly but pesty neighbor, airline navigator Howard Borden (Bill Daily).
Bob Newhart Show
British spy thriller television series, produced in the United Kingdom by Sid Gentle Films for BBC America and BBC iPlayer. The series follows (Sandra Oh), a British intelligence investigator tasked with capturing psychopathic assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer).
Killing Eve
American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from December 27, 1979, to May 13, 1993. A spin-off of Dallas, it was set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles and initially centered on the lives of four married couples living on a cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle. Throughout its fourteen-year run, storylines included marital strife, rape, murder, kidnapping, assassinations, drug smuggling, politics, environmental issues, corporate intrigue, and criminal investigations.
Knots Landing
American television series originally produced between January 7, 1982, and May 18, 1987, by Eilenna Productions in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television and sponsored by Yamaha musical instruments, which are prominently showcased in the episodes. The show is based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name. Using a mixture of drama and music, it followed the lives of the students and faculty at the New York City High School for the Performing Arts—a fictional establishment, but based heavily on the actual Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.
Fame
Redd Foxx
Sanford and Son
American drama television series created by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz for United Artists Television (under MGM/UA Television) and aired on ABC from 1987 to 1991.[1] It is about a group of baby boomers in their thirties who live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and how they handle the lifestyle that dominated American culture during the 1980s given their involvement in the early 1970s counterculture as young adults.
thirtysomething
led NBC Symphony
Toscanini
American drama television series for HBO, produced and developed by Rodrigo Garcia, about a psychotherapist,50-something Paul Weston, and his weekly sessions with patients, as well as those with his own therapist at the end of the week. The program, which stars Gabriel Byrne as Paul, debuted on January 28, 2008, now returning with Uzo Aduba.
In Treatment
the flagship television program of the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing each weekday in syndication in the United States and available worldwide on CBN.com.
The 700 Club
American fantasy horror drama television series produced and created by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries, a series of novels by Charlaine Harris. A reboot is currently in development.
The series revolves around Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress living in the fictional rural town of Bon Temps, Louisiana.
True Blood
American television show produced by Adam Carolla, Jimmy Kimmel, and Daniel Kellison that features actual crank calls made by show regulars and celebrity guests and re-enacted onscreen by puppets for a visual aid to show the viewer what is happening in the call.
Crank Yankers
Former CNN journalist who now hosts _____ & Company on PBS, global affairs interview program
Christiane Amanpour
Dreamworks franchise where fourth graders hypnotize principal into thinking he’s a superhero
Captain Underpants
