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
