**THE BIG TV QUIZ**

3. What's often said about the fourth series of Monty Python's Flying Circus - and why isn't it quite true?

no idea, but i think it's the first one without cleese

5. Catchphrases (one point for the show, another point for the name of character associated with it)

iii. Who loves ya, baby? - kojak
vi. Silly old moo! - alf garnett
viii. I'll 'ave 'alf - eddie's mate down the pub in 'love thy neighbour.

12. Who is Brian Clemens and where would you see his name?

i think he was the writer of supernatural stories for a few ITV series.

Bette Midler was not in The Laugh-In

2. Why was the HBO series Luck dropped after just one season? Who starred in it?

No idea

3. What's often said about the fourth series of Monty Python's Flying Circus - and why isn't it quite true?

It wasn't 'real', or as funny because Cleese had left. Not sure about the second part, but I think Cleese still wrote some of it.

4. What were the first words spoken on Coronation Street? 

a. Now the next thing you’ve got to do is get a sign writer in...
b. Crikey, it's cold out there!
c. Well Florence is your real name in't it?
d. I'll see you on Thursday then. Ta-ra!

It was (a). Ena to Florrie, I think. I was there!


5. Catchphrases (one point for the show, another point for the name of character associated with it)

i. Hey now! – Hank in the Larry Sanders Show
ii. I'm in charge! - Bruce Forsyth in Sunday Night at the Palladium
iii. Who loves ya, baby? - Kojak in Kojak
iv. I heard that! pardon? – it's from Peter Tinniswood's I Didn't Know You Cared - is it Uncle Mort?
v. Say good night, Gracie! - George Burns in Burns and Allen
vi. Silly old moo! - Alf Garnett in Till Death do us Part
vii. Bang, zoom! - dunno
viii. I'll 'ave 'alf - dunno

6. Which US TV show made stars of Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless?

Cagney & Lacey

7. Which much-loved BBC show made (again) a star of Billy Dainty and Barbara New?

Dunno

Don't care

9. Who was known as 'the thinking man's crumpet'? Who thought up this epithet, and which show was he most famous for in the 70s? who else starred with him in this show?
Joan Bakewell. Dunno parts two and three



11. In which year was Beavis and Butthead first aired on MTV? Name two of their classmates.
Never watched it

12. Who is Brian Clemens and where would you see his name?
dunno

13. Whose appearance in The Muppet Show in 1978 earned him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Variety or Music?

Dunno

14. Who called who 'the best fuck in the world' live on TV in the UK 1991, what were they about to do, what was the name of the show, and who presented it??
Cobain: Courtney: play something?: The Word: Terry Christian

15. What did Tom Cruise do on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2005?
Bounce on a couch

16. Which UK show is the world’s longest news and current affairs TV programme?
Panorama

17. Knight Rider featured a talking car called KITT. What does KITT stand for?
Never watched it

18. What did Father Jack drink that caused his apparent death in the final episode of Season 1 of Father Ted?

a. Toilet Duck
b. Dreamy Sleepy Nighty Snoozy Snooze
c. floor polish
d. Windolene

c I think

Just to save time - ALL guesses right so far apart from Charlie's guess for no. 10.

I need the name of the fella in Love Thy Neighbour.

All I wanted for no. 3 was 'Cleese wasn't involved', which is what people say (not YOU lot of course!) but in fact that's not strictly true because he cowrote a sketch with Graham Chapman



Still left to get:

5. vii

7.

8.

9. the second, third and fourth parts (clue later as this isn't very easy)

11. first part (easy enough to guess this, I would have thought)

12. Charlie's right but there's a bit more you could say...

13.

14. more detail needed

17.

That's why I specified 'on MTV'! 1993 is right

Right you are.

Anyone else?

No. Right time period, roughly. But for a younger audience