1970s Male TV Characters Trivia Quiz

Answer: Galen

This was the one hour TV show based on a series of movies about a future Earth where apes the size of people spoke and ruled the Earth. (People played the parts.) Unlike the first movie, people were able to speak so that only a few apes were involved in each episode. Galen (Roddy McDowall) was a friendly chimpanzee who helped the two astronauts from the present planet Earth who somehow time traveled into the future by traveling into space.

Answer: Gonzo

"The Muppet Show" was a half hour comedy variety musical series performed primarily by puppets, called "muppets", with one guest star who was a person each week. Gonzo was a purple character with a long bent nose who dated a chicken. No one knew what kind of animal Gonzo was supposed to be.

In the movie "Muppets From Space" it was implied that Gonzo came from another planet. On the show he called himself Gonzo the Great and tried to perform stunts.

Answer: Orson

"Mork and Mindy" was a half hour sitcom about a silly space man who lived on Earth with an Earth woman. His job was to make a call each week to planet Ork to his boss, Orson, to explain something about people on Earth. Orson was said to be extremely fat, but he was never shown on camera. He spoke to Mork each week.

Answer: Oscar

Oscar was the man in charge of the OSI, a government spy organization which created bionics (machinery) which were used to repair "The Six Million Dollar Man" who had machinery replacing his right arm, one eye, and both legs. Most of the stories involved people trying to steal technology. Sometimes androids or space aliens were up to something.

Answer: Trapper

Trapper John, commonly called "Trapper" by his friends, was a doctor at the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the half hour sitcom "M*A*S*H". The TV program was based on a movie which was based on a book about doctors in Korea during the Korean War. A few years after the character left this series, there was a one hour drama called "Trapper John, M.D."

Answer: Tripper

This was a half hour sitcom about Jack Tripper living with two women in a two bedroom apartment. As the years went by, Janet and various women were in the apartment, and he worked as a chef in a restaurant where his boss commonly called him "Tripper".

Answer: Meathead

This was the half hour sitcom about a man, presumably in his fifties, who lived in a house with his wife, his daughter, and his daughter's husband, Michael, who was going to college and didn't have a regular job. Michael was liberal and commonly disagreed with his father-in-law, Archie, about almost everything, so Archie called him "Meathead, dead from the neck up".

Answer: McGee

Based on a comic book character, the series began when Banner did experiments with gamma radiation to increase strength in a person in time of emergency. He zapped himself, and whenever he became angry, the radiation turned him into a large green super strong man.

In the first TV movie, McGee thought Banner was dead because he saw Banner go in the house and the Hulk come out, but he didn't see Banner come out because Banner had turned into the Hulk. McGee spent the rest of the series going to whatever town had the latest Hulk sighting.

Answer: J.J.

J.J. was the oldest son of Florida Evans (the maid from "Maude" who now had her own spinoff show) who painted pictures. He sometimes made funny comments and shouted, "Dyn-o-mite!" There was a father, mother, daughter, and two sons who lived in a low cost apartment. As time went on the father died, and J.J. tried to make a living with various jobs.

Answer: J.R.

J.R. Ewing became one of the most famous characters in the history of television. His father was retired for the most part when he allowed his oldest son, J.R. to run the Ewing empire, which included oil, cattle, and land. One time J.R. made a deal to take over the oil leases of a foreign nation which somehow created a civil war. Luckily, J.R.'s friends won the war, or else he would've lost everything.

The series became a continuing drama at the time when J.R. was shot at the end of the season. America had to wait till the fall to find out if J.R. survived and to find out "Who shot J.R.?"