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1. Somewhere on the planet Earth, twenty four hours a day, this television comedy is still playing in endless re-runs. It featured a ditsy redhead, a Cuban band leader, and two neighbors named Fred and Ethel. Please name it.
2. "I Married Joan", starring radio and film comedienne Joan Davis, hit the airwaves a year after "I Love Lucy". The plot concerned a judge married to a wacky wife played by Davis. What well-known actor played her harried husband?
3. Betty White is a true television icon. No doubt you can name of several sitcoms in which she appeared or starred. What was the name of her first syndicated sitcom?
4. Gale Storm starred in "My Little Margie" (1952-1955), as a twenty-one year old with a penchant for getting into trouble, much to the confusion of her fifty year old father. What was the name of the silent film star who played the father?
5. It took some courage for a network to have a series based on an ethnic theme, but because "The Goldbergs" (1949-1956) had a strong radio following since 1929, it became a popular television program. Who was the star of the series, wrote many of the scripts and was the winner of the first Emmy awarded for Best Comic Actress?
6. While most of the sitcoms up to this time tended to center on stay-at-home wives, in 1966 the mold was broken by a sitcom about a single woman trying to be an actress in New York. The show had a close association with a sitcom pioneer, Danny Thomas. In fact, the star of "That Girl" was his daughter. What was her name?
7. A widowed mother with aspiration to be a professional singer desperately needed a day job. She was hired by Mel at Mel's Diner and became friends with the other waitresses, Flo, Vera, and Belle. If you know the name of the mother, you know the name of the sitcom. What was it?
8. Network executives often were reluctant to book shows that were not derivative. When "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" was proposed, not only was it different but was proposed as a daily, not a weekly, sitcom. It was a broad parody of television soap operas. Eventually, it was sold into syndication, Who was the producer?
9. Should a mortal marry a witch? This was the theme of "Bewitched" (1964-1972). Elizabeth Montgomery, daughter of actor Robert Montgomery, starred as Samantha Stevens, married to a mortal, Darrin, who was played by Dick York and Dick Sargent. During the show's run, what stage and screen actress played Samantha's mother?
10. "Maude" (1972-1978) starred Bea Arthur as an out-spoken liberal woman trying to maintain her fourth marriage. This Norman Lear production was a spin-off of "All in the Family" as the character was conceived as Edith Bunker's cousin who was a natural foil for Archie. The sitcom had moderate success until an episode about a controversial subject damaged its ratings. What was that issue?
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