Quiz: Can You Name These Iconic TV Shows, From A Single Scene?

Whether you are a fan of TV or just a fan of trivia quizzes. Lets see if you can name these iconic TV shows from a single scene. Some of these shows were huge hits and some may have even broke ratings records. We will be sharing some interesting facts about each of these shows to help give you some clues, as some of these will be quite difficult to guess.

 


One of the most iconic TV shows of all time started from a radio show, where the radio show host was approached about turning her show into a TV show. This show also started re-runs in order to give the original host enough time off for her baby.

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NBC turned down the first pilot of this show, but than ordered the second which introduced a new main character. One of the characters also broke through the racial barriers in television to become one of the first black women with a prominent role in a TV show.

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Two of the stars in this show would play word games to pass the time between takes. This show was soo popular that Queen Elizabeth herself was a huge fan of it. In fact she was such a big fan that she invited the stars to perform live in London.

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The main character of this show was originally offered to a different actor that turned it down because he didn’t want to be apart of an ensemble cast. In the opening scene there is a flag at half mass, this was because it was filmed when John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

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They didn’t have a huge budget for this show, so some of the ladies of the show would often wear their own clothes on set. One of the main male characters in the show went on to film for 5 years while he was injured until he attempted a stunt on the show and was injured further and sent to the hospital.

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One of the main characters of this show was originally only contracted for 1 episode, but that quickly turned into a one year contract, than a five year contract. When the show finally went off the air, it went out as the number one rated show. That makes it only 1 of 3 shows in history to do this.

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Even though this show was one of the most iconic and memorable shows of all time. It never broke the top 30 in ratings. This show also shared studio space briefly with another large iconic tv show called Star Trek.

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This show was originally supposed to be set in the 1920s not the 1950s. Henry Winkler didn’t expect to get the role of Fonzie when he saw Monkees drummer Micky Dolenz at the audition for the same role. Shortly after Winkler was diagnosed with dyslexia he only had six lines for this role but still made up his lines, since he had trouble reading them.

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This show was a regular competition for The Adam’s Family and would usually get slightly better ratings. Even though during set it appeared the cast would get along quite well. Off set things were not as cohesive at they would have liked.

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This show was originally a book from a cruise director that was a tell all book. The show was filmed on real boats, with real passengers. Throughout the shows history, they had some guest appearances from other shows including Charlie’s Angels in a crossover.

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Barbara Eden played a magical Jeannie in this show, but she wasn’t just good for her acting. One of the episodes featured a live lion and with some of her previous experience and knowledge, she knew it would be best to bond with the animal before shooting the scene. Her co-star didn’t follow her lead with that so when it came time to film the lion let out a frightening roar at her Co-star and scared off multiple cast members.

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This show was a mix of James Bond type of action and Mel Brooks Comedy which would turn into a big hit. It turned into a big comedy-action hit that it would eventually get its own movie named after it.

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Hugh Beaumont started acting to earn money after he landed a pastor gig at a small church that the town couldn’t afford to pay him. Ken Osmond, who played Eddie Haskell would go on to be a police officer and get shot in the line of duty.

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When Lynda Carter landed the lead role for this TV show she had less than $100 in her account and had to borrow money to pay rent that month. Little did she know this TV show would change her life. This show would eventually lead to being a huge box office success as a movie.

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The cast of this show ware actors that had actually served time in the military. As the show would go on, some of the cast would leave little notes with complaints about some of the scenes. To fix this issue the writer would change the script to force the actors to pretend it was parka season even when it was over 90 degrees.

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This show was originally based off a British Sitcom and gained a lot of traction after the new CEO of CBS purged the network of a few rural shows. Most of the scenes for Archie Bunker would come from Norman Lear’s father.

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The bar that this show took place in would eventually change its name to the name of the show. With the show taking place in a bar, the lead actor who played Sam in the show, would take classes at a bartending school for part of his training for his role.

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This show would only start after two of the pilot shows would not be deemed worthy of broadcast. During the search for actors and actresses It was down to the last day before filming when they came across Suzanne Somers audition for Chrissy. So she got the role on accident as they weren’t originally trying to cast her for the role.

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This show spawned from All in the Family, but would go on to last longer than All in the Family. Even though this show would take off and do better than expected. Marla Gibbs kept her day job for two years after starting her role in this show.

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This show aired from 1961-1966 with 5 seasons and 158 episodes. Through the years it made multiple lists of top 50 or top 100 tv shows of all time. In 1997 this show would go on to win 15 Emmy Awards.

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This show lasted 8 years airing from 1984 to 1992 and was considered the biggest hit in the 1980s. This show was loved by soo many that it almost brought back the sitcom genre by itself. This show paved the way for other great shows including The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and In Living Color.

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Originally aired in 1970 and lasted until 1977 and earned 29 Primetime Emmy Awards. Dick Van Dyke Show helped to get this show started. Ted knight was not doing well financially when he was cast for the role of Ted Baxter as he was living paycheck to paycheck.

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This show lasted from 1978 to 1986 across two different networks. The main character of this show played by Gary Coleman had some serious health issues during the show dating back to his birth. It led to him receiving a kidney transplant during the show.

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This show was based of a comic book and had a surprising 120 episodes in just 3 seasons. The first 2 seasons it would air 2 episodes a week and on the third season just one episode a week. It also made it on the list of top 100 greatest American television shows of all time.

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This show would get a fairly slow start with just good enough ratings. that is until Jonathan Harris started ramping up his comedic lines with his role when he would talk to the robot. He was able to do this without the producer since he had the licensing rights to his character.

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With 16 of its episodes still in the 100 most-watched television episodes in American History. Accumulating 7 Emmy nominations and its first 2 seasons ranking as the number 1 series of the year. This show would eventually spawn into a movie in 1993.

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This show aired 168 episodes over 6 seasons, which made it the longest lasting broadcast run inspired by World War 2 for an American television series. The original script was going to have the show set in an American Jail instead of a WW2 prison camp.

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This show was filmed in different parts of Florida as it follows a chief warden at the marine preserve. It has been re started multiple times and even had a couple of movies made about it. Considered to be “Lassie of the sea” as some have said.

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Even though this show had solid ratings when CBS changed CEOs, this show got canceled as part of what was called “The Rural Purge”. The actors in this show said that it was so well written that they didn’t have to change or make up any lines during the six years it was aired.

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Most of this short lived TV show was filmed on location in the Bronx. Some critics of the show were not happy with the comedic take of police officers as they are supposed to and serve. Chrysler did provide the set with 4 automobiles in the first season and 7 in the second season.

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In this shows 11 years of being aired, there was only 2 cast members that would last the entire show, Carole Burnett and Vicki Lawrence. Carole Burnett describe the famous waddle of Ms. Wiggins to be due to a wardrobe issue.

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There are many different interesting facts about this tv show, but there is one that really stood out to us. The cast members for Kizzy, George, and Tom were all born within 3 years apart. So Tom and Kizzy in the show were actually 3 years older than there father’s character George, in real life.

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This show would last 7 seasons and host many co-stars but the 2 stars stayed the same, Martin Milner and Kent McCord. This was also one of the first police TV series to be as realistic as possible and show the general public police procedures and police jargon.

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Through the 4 seasons and nearly 100 episodes, we learn a few things about this show. The Sweathogs got their name because the building they were had a new top floor that had no A/C. This show also played host to many celebrities including Della Reese, George Carlin, James Wood, John Astin, and Pat Morita.

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Through 9 seasons and over 220 episodes, this show won many awards and even more nominations. This show started as a made for TV movie and with its success CBS would place the order for a TV series based off the same characters, but would only keep the actor who played Johnny-Boy for the TV series

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In an interview with than CBS’s President he admits to regretting on passing up Sanford And Son, claiming it was one of the stupidest things he had ever done. Richard Pryor and Paul Mooney, would go on to write 2 episodes in season 2 of the six seasons this show ran.

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This show has spawned many re-starts and multiple movies based on or featuring the main character of the show. The producer wanted to change the main characters skin color, but Stan Lee at the time considered that a deal breaker and insisted it stay green.

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This trio of crime fighting women who took orders from a speaker box would eventually spawn movies after the years. As a TV series it would last 6 season and go through 6 main cast members with Jaclyn Smith being the only one of the original trio to stay all six seasons.

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This show was originally created as a kids teaching show, but would shortly turn into a show for all. It is also one of the longest lasting TV series through multiple re-starts and many different film appearances in big name movies along with movies that share the same name of the TV series.

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Bruce Lee wanted the lead role in this TV series as he was well known for his martial arts skills. Even though Carradine had no martial arts training when he was cast for the main role. He would devote the rest of his life to training and practiced tai chi and kung fu until he passed away.

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This TV series started off as a movie that would turn into 4 seasons and nearly 100 episodes of a thrilling action TV series. It may not have lasted a very long time but it would eventually spawn into a great comedy movie years later.

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This show would last 9 seasons and spread over 200 episodes and would go on to win multiple awards. Melissa Gilbert who played Laura Ingalls Wilder was one of only a few cast members that would last the entire 9 seasons. She would also go on to do 3 post series movies.

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As the head of a special state police task force, Steve McGarrett would lead his team on multiple missions taking down the criminals in the underworld of Hawaii. The show would last for 12 seasons and have re-starts that would also last several seasons with many people remembering the catch phrase, “Book ’em Danno”.

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With only 5 seasons and 114 episodes this TV series took you on a journey through the life of drivers in New York dealing with their abusive dispatcher. Even though it had a fairly short run, in those 5 seasons it racked up 18 Emmy Awards and over 30 nominations.

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This long lasting TV series of 9 seasons and over 200 episodes was a spin-off of “Different Strokes”. A group of girls under the guidance of a housemaker are attending a boarding school and will eventually help the housemaker start her own company.

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Running 7 seasons and over 150 episodes and 2 tv movies, this TV series took place on an island where people could visit to try and live out their wildest fantasies. Each time someone would visit the hosts would be faced with multiple challenges and would hardly ever fulfill the fantasy as expected.

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This TV series ran for 139 episodes through six seasons at it followed 2 state motorcycle patrolmen. As the show would follow the duo on all sorts of assignments from the most basic traffic calls to multi-death car accidents, they would always try to lighten the mood with some comedy.

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This TV series was a radio show that brought about the TV series. The series follows the life of Marshal Matt Dillon as he is in charge of Dodge City. For a wild west series it did very well as the TV series ran for 20 seasons and over 600 episodes.

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This show was the first television two-parent family African American sitcom that ran for 6 seasons. It was also the first spin-off from another spin-off from All in the Family. Netflix has been trying to revive the series in an animated version, but still keeps getting delays due to health restrictions.

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With 8 seasons spanning over 150 episodes, this American crime TV series was consistently ranked in the top 20 U.S. TV programs. It takes place in Hawaii as it follows an ex-navy officer and special forces soldier as he lives out his young retirement as a private investigator.

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In total this TV series would run for 6 seasons, but not as a big hit the first run. It never performed well on its first launch so the series was cancelled after just 2 seasons but than the reruns performed well. After the ratings went up they revived the series and it did much better this time.

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This series would span 10 seasons but only produce 69 episodes as it followed a homicide detective with the LAPD. He was typically called upon to investigate high profile cases where he would find a way to trap the culprits or get just enough evidence to convince them to confess.

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In this series that ran for 5 seasons and over 100 episodes. It follows the story of how two men with completely different personalities wind up sharing an apartment in New York together. With the two being so different it leads to many conflicts which also brings lots of laughter.

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With 5 seasons and over 150 episodes, this series is one of the more well-known sci-fi TV shows through history. The phrase of this show is used to describe surreal experiences. These experiences tended to lean more towards fantasy and horror.

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This show lasted 5 seasons and nearly 100 episodes and was ranked in the top 20 on TV Guide’s “Top Cult Shows Ever” in 2007. It takes you on a journey back through time as a Dr travels back through time finding himself trapped in the past and forced to change history for the better.

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Through 4 seasons and over 100 episodes, this series shows you how an “Alien Life Form” crashed into a suburban families garage. As the family realizes they have an unexpected visitor at their house now, they make the best of it and allow the Alien Life Form to stay at their house with them.

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With 8 seasons and nearly 200 episodes, this series became one of the most popular sitcoms of the 1980s. Former major league baseball player moves to Connecticut to raise his daughter and work as a live in housekeeper. The show was nominated for more than 40 awards.

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Running 6 seasons and over 100 episodes, this show was like a modern version of Robin Hood. The main character has to stay ahead of the law enforcement as he helps stop criminals from succeeding in the crimes they are attempting to commit.

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Running 31 seasons and over 900 episodes, this is one of the longest running TV series. With his calm friendly demeaner Fred Rogers helped his mostly child audience overcome many everyday fears for young children.

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This TV series has had multiple restarts and films based off of it. In the 1960s this series would run for 4 seasons and almost 100 episodes When Sgt. Joe Friday and his partner would take on many different police cases to include public service, drugs, and riots.

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This TV series is based off a fictional character that lives with apes in the jungle. As a crowd pleaser this TV series has had multiple movies and many restarts. It was always a very entertaining series as it told you the story of a baby being raised in the wild by a group of apes and meeting someone like him when he grew up.

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This TV series has multiple movies and restarts of the series as well. It takes you on a journey of a girl named Frances who likes to go surfing at the beach with her friends and lives with her widowed father.

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In this series, Tim O’Hara ends up finding an unexpected friend that crashed his space ship on earth. Over the 4 seasons and more than 100 episodes the series ran for. It takes you through Tim introducing the unexpected alien as his Uncle Martin.

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This series lasted 5 seasons and over 130 episodes as it takes you through the life of an aspiring actress. As she wanted to be an actress, she would move from her hometown to New York City and land quite a few temporary gigs on her way to stardom.

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For 7 seasons and over 200 episodes, this show follows three sisters Bobbie Jo, Betty Jo, and Billie Jo. The three sister live with their uncle who runs a family hotel, and their mother who owns the hotel. The uncle likes to come up with get rich quick ideas that tend to leave them not getting too rich as most of his ideas are half planned.

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This spin-off of The Andy Griffith Show ran for 5 seasons and 150 episodes. It was a major hit in the ratings as it never placed below 10th. The show followed a sweet but not-so-smart marine from North Carolina.

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This series follows the main character named Doris after her husband dies and she takes her kids out to her family ranch. Shortly after being at the ranch she brings her kids and father back to the city as she lands a job as a secretary to a magazine publisher.

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This long running series of nearly 50 years, was based off a comedy act as it followed 3 men. Two of the actors Moe Howard and Larry Fine would last the entire series, the third man in the act was played by several different actors through the years.

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This show is about 2 cousins Bo and Luke who live in rural Georgia. Over the 7 seasons and almost 150 episodes, the 2 cousins along with other family members including Daisy are always trying to get away from the corrupt county commissioner Boss Hogg.

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This show was a spin-off of The Six Million Dollar Man as it followed a woman who had super human abilities. The main character played by actress Jaime Sommers would take on high risk government missions.

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In the mid-1980s, this show was part of NBC’s illustrious Thursday night comedy block, which also included Cheers and, for a time, Family Ties. It was a top 10 show in the ratings after a couple of slow seasons. Reinhold Weege created the show that lasted nine seasons between 1984 to 1992.

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This British TV sitcom was named the greatest British TV sitcom ever by a panel of comedians. It aired between 1975 and 1979, in that short time frame it produced one of the greatest scripted comedies ever.

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This show has had multiple TV series re starts and many movies through the years, but did you know this show was the first TV family to have a family computer. It was almost as big as a car, nothing like the laptops of today.

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Taking place in the universe amongst 12 colonies, the human race is in survival mode as an alien race called Cylons is trying to make humans extinct. The Cylons in a plot to trick the humans would offer the humans peace, but would betray them when they attack the colonies that are protecting the humans.

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With 15,000 episodes this show was awarded a Guinness World Record for the longest-running American soap opera in production. It also holds the record for the most Daytime Emmy Awards. It also celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2013.

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