Captains Courageous III: TV Captains Quiz

Answer: I Dream of Jeannie

"I Dream of Jeannie" had a run of five seasons, from 1965 to 1970. In 1978 Hagman, son of actress Mary Martin, began a stint of 357 episodes of CBS's prime time soap opera "Dallas", playing the role of J.R. Ewing. "Dallas" was on the air from 1978 to 1991.

Answer: Captain Kangaroo

Captain Kangaroo was the brainchild of Bob Keeshan, who created and played the captain. Keeshan was also the original Clarabell the Clown on the "Howdy Doody Show" from 1947 to 1952. Bob Keeshan died at age 76 in 2004.

Answer: Hill Street Blues

Michael Conrad played the role of Sgt. Phil Esterhaus, who conducted the roll call at the beginning of each episode for the first three years. It was Esterhaus who cautioned the departing officers at the end of each roll call with "Let's be careful out there." He won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in each of the first two seasons. Sadly, during the fourth season, Conrad passed away from urethral cancer.

Answer: Frank Burns

Frank Burns was a major. Among the other major characters, Henry Blake was a lieutenant colonel and his replacement, Sherman Potter, was also a colonel. "Hot Lips" Houlihan was also a major, as was Burns' replacement, Charles Emerson Winchester. Radar O'Reilly and Max Klinger were both corporals, and Father Mulcahy began the series as a first lieutenant, but finally earned his captain bars after several attempts at promotion.

Answer: Wilton Parmenter

One of the running gags in "F Troop" was Parmenter's clumsiness, which was an inside joke reflecting the fact that Ken Berry was an accomplished dancer. But the bulk of the comedy was handled by the antics of Tucker and Storch as Sergeant O'Rourke, a military con man, and Corporal Agarn, his dimwit sidekick.

Equally comedic as Tucker and Storch were the residents of a small village which made up the entire Native American tribe known as the Hekawi. Tapping into the theory that Native Americans constitute a lost tribe of Israel, the tribe got its name from an old joke answering the question, "What is the name of the Lost Tribe?" The answer being, "Where the heck are we?", i.e., "We're the Hekawi."

"F Troop" only ran for two seasons. It was filmed in black-and-white in season one and in color in season two.

Answer: Benjamin Sisko - Deep Space Nine

Kirk commanded the Enterprise in the original television series (1966-69) as well as in the six feature films featuring the original crew. Jean-Luc Picard was the captain of a new Enterprise-D in the second "Star Trek" TV series (1987-94), called "The Next Generation." The third TV series (1993-99), "Deep Space Nine," featured Sisko as the captain of a space station, rather than a starship. Janeway, played by Kate Mulgrew, was the captain of the Voyager, which was also the title of the fourth series (1995-2001). Scott Bakula played Archer, who also commanded the Enterprise in the fifth series (2001-05), called "Star Trek Enterprise."

The "Excelsior" was captained by Hikaru Sulu in a feature film, "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country."

Answer: Samantha "Sam" Carter

Carter began the series as a captain, although she was promoted to major in season 3 and to lieutenant colonel in season 8, whereupon she assumed command of SG-1 for the rest of that season.

Answer: Captain Caveman

Forty eleven-minute episodes of "Captain Caveman" were made for use in "Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics" in 1977 and "Scooby's All-Stars" in 1978, before getting its own half-hour show in 1980.

The figure of Captain Caveman was drawn without clothes except for an orange cape with large black spots and a body covered with long hair from which he pulled various objects. Extending from his hair were a large nose and bare arms and legs. His club enabled him to fly, as well as supplying useful tools.

"Alley Oop" was a newspaper cartoon caveman who inspired an early Sixties pop song, but he was never called a captain. Captain K'nuckles was a villain in a TV cartoon series beginning in 2008 on the Cartoon Network called "The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack."

Answer: Mod Squad

Andrews was born Tiger Andrews to Syrian parents. He was wounded in Sicily during World War II. Prior to five seasons as Adam Greer in "Mod Squad", he played Lieutenant Johnny Russo for the three-season run of "The Detectives" from 1959 to 1962. His Greer role earned him both an Emmy and a Golden Globe nomination. He passed away in 2007.

Answer: Captain Wallace Binghamton

"McHale's Navy" was inspired by and based on "The Phil Silvers Show", although the latter was set in the Army. Both shared a lot of elements with the later "F Troop," but without the Indians, of course.

"McHale's Navy" also spawned three feature films.

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