Can You Picture the TV Show? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Gunsmoke

With 635 episodes to its credit, "Gunsmoke" was on television from 1955 to 1975. One of the first westerns aimed (no pun intended) at adults, it starred James Arness as good-guy marshal Matt Dillon. The episodes featured as much human drama as gunplay. Milburn Stone played Doc Adams. Miss Kitty (Amanda Blake)? Well, you could find her if you moseyed on over to the Long Branch Saloon.

Answer: The X-Files

"The X-Files" is classed as a science fiction horror drama television series, which seems to admit that most people didn't know how to classify it. The basis of the show was two FBI Special Agents, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) reviewing 'X-Files', FBI cases which were never solved.

Besides the so-called "Monster of the Week" episodes there was the recurrent extraterrestrial mythology, shepherded by the mysterious, duplicitous, conniving, lying, two-faced, back-stabbing (Yeah, he was easy to hate!) C.B.G. Spender (possibly not his real name), known to fans as the Cigarette Smoking Man, played by William B. Davis.

Answer: The Honeymooners

Originating as a series of sketches on the Dumont Television Network (America's original fourth network) variety show, "Cavalcade of Stars", "The Honeymooners" filmed 39 episodes for the CBS Network for the 1955 season. Jackie Gleason played bus driver Ralph Kramden with Art Carney playing sewer worker Ed Norton, who was Kramden's neighbor and often co-conspirator on some of Ralph's schemes to make money or gain prestige. Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph played Alice Kramden and Trixie Norton, respectively.

It is now considered one of the classics of television; it was the direct inspiration for "The Flintstones".

Answer: Friends

A show about a group of "Friends" living in New York City, the series lasted ten years and revolved around the lives, loves and careers of the six principal characters. It seemed to be the right show at the right time, earning 62 Emmy Awards and being listed as number 21 of "TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time".

The series finale in 2004 was watched by over 52-million Americans, one of the most-watched finales in TV history.

Answer: Green Acres

Known as the Old Haney Place, Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) and his wife Lisa (Eva Gabor) bought the farm (literally) from a sleazy salesman and attempted to make Oliver's dream of becoming a farmer come true. Diva Lisa knew nothing about rural ways - or household chores. Taking liberties with reality (everyone in town except Oliver could understand what Arnold the pig said, for instance) the show was a fan favorite for six years from 1965 to 1971.

It was cancelled as part of the CBS Network's decision to remove rural-themed shows for more modern topics.

Answer: Quantum Leap

There was this quantum physicist who had a time-travel experiment go wrong, so he bounced back and forth through time trying to correct his mistake. Scott Bakula played Dr. Sam Beckett; Dean Stockwell played his friend who tried to steer him through time.

The show was a mix of humor, drama and science fiction. Sam usually exclaimed "Oh boy" at the end of each episode as he made the leap to the next week's setting.

Answer: Cheers

According to a TV show, Sam Malone (Ted Danson), a former Boston Red Sox pitcher opened a bar called "Cheers" near Beacon Hill in Boston. The bar was a hit and so was the show which remained on the air from 1982 until 1993. The regular cast of characters socialized, relaxed and schemed together. "Cheers" acquired a long list of awards and spun-off two other series, "Frasier" and "The Tortellis".

Answer: Have Gun - Will Travel

Many television programs began as radio shows; this was just the opposite. "Have Gun - Will Travel" ran on TV from 1957 to 1963, with a radio version beginning in 1958. Richard Boone played the character Paladin on the TV series, both his name and the chess knight emblem indicating he was a knight, or in this case, a gentleman gunfighter. Paladin always wore black at a time when the good guys always wore white.

He was apparently a bon vivant when not working and was known well-enough in his city that his business card instructed those interested in his services to simply "Wire Paladin, San Francisco".

Answer: Twin Peaks

"Twin Peaks" was named for a fictional town in the U.S. state of Washington. Following the death of a homecoming queen, FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) was sent to investigate and found that many people in the town were leading double lives.

Then there was the dream about the dwarf in the red suit and the reappearance of the victim - but let's not get into that. The program lasted two seasons but acquired a very large cult following.

Answer: Last of the Summer Wine

"Last of the Summer Wine" began as an episode of Comedy Playhouse on the BBC in January, 1973. It was given its own program in November of that year and lasted until 2010, making it one of the longest-running sitcoms in the world. The storyline followed three (and briefly, four) pensioners who had no responsibilities and were free to spend their time doing little or nothing, sticking their noses into the lives of their fellow townsfolk.

It has aired in more than 25 countries.