Play It Again Sam ... And Maybe Again. Quiz

Answer: Ozzie's Girls

The sitcom series "Ozzie's Girls" premiered on January 1, 1973, in first-run syndication. The series was picked up following the successful broadcast of the pilot episode aired on September 12, 1972.

In the series, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson decide to rent out the rooms of their grown sons, David and Ricky, after they left home to pursue their own careers. Their rooms are rented to a pair of college students, Susan Hamilton (Susan Sennett) and Brenda McKenzie (Brenda Sykes).

The series focused on the aspects and differences of the Nelson's managing a household with two girls instead of two boys.

Ozzie Nelson served as writer, executive producer, and co-director for the series. David Nelson, the oldest son of Ozzie and Harriet, served as both a series producer and co-director.

The series aired 24 episodes in its single season (January 1, 1973-September 1, 1974).

Answer: Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!

"Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!" was a popular saying heard, regarding the sibling rivalry between Marcia and Jan, the two oldest Brady girls. The phrase was never used as a title for a spin-off series.

The Brady's were featured in specials after the series ended. They included
"The Brady Girls Get Married" in 1981, which lead to a series, and "A Very Brady Christmas" broadcast in December of 1988.

The four sequel series were, "The Brady Kids", a 22 episode animated cartoon series that aired 1972 through 1974, "The Brady Bunch Hour", which aired in 1972, "The Brady Brides" which aired in 1981, and "The Bradys", a series that aired in the 1989-1990 television season.

The original series aired 117 episodes during its five season run on the ABC Television Network. (1969-1974).

Answer: Dan Aykroyd

Dan Aykroyd played Sgt. Joe Friday in the 1987 feature length movie "Dragnet".
The comedy drama co-starred Tom Hanks as Friday's partner, Detective Pep Streebek.
Aykroyd never played the Joe Friday role on television.

Jack Webb originated the role of Sergeant Joe Friday. Webb starred in the 1951 version of "Dragnet". The series ran for eight seasons (1951-1959), producing 276 episodes, and receiving five Primetime Emmy Awards.

Webb returned to primetime television in 1967 with a remake of his original series. Harry Morgan co-starred as Friday's partner, Officer Bill Gannon.
The series ran for four seasons. For each of the seasons, the year was added to the title ("Dragnet 1967", through "Dragnet 1970").

After Jack Webb's death in 1982, a new version of "Dragnet" was produced in 1989, and shown in first run syndication.
The series starred Jeff Osterhage as Detective Vic Daniels and Bernard White as his partner, Detective Carl Molina. Although the names of the main characters were change, everything else remained the same. The series titled "The New Dragnet" aired 52 episodes over two seasons.

A 2003 network version of "Dragnet" starred Ed O'Neill as Sergeant Joe Friday.
Ethan Embry co-starred as Detective Frank Smith, Friday's partner. After 12 episodes and low ratings, the series was retooled for the final 10 episodes. The series title was changed to "L.A. Dragnet", Sergeant Joe Friday was promoted to Lieutenant, and the cast was change. Instead of a single partner, Friday supervised a team of young detectives.
Overall, the series ran for two seasons with 22 episodes.

Trivia ... DID YOU KNOW ...

That Jack Webb planned to return with a third version of "Dragnet" in 1982. Kent McCord, who played Officer Jim Reed in Webb's series "Adam-12" had been selected to play Joe Friday's new partner. It had not been determined if McCord would play the role of Jim Reed or a new character for the new show. Pre-production work for the new series abruptly ended after Webb suffered a fatal massive heart attack on December 23, 1982.

In the 1951 and 1967 versions of "Dragnet", Jack Webb paid homage to many of the police offices and ranking police staff members by using their real names, ranks, and positions in the episodes. The "names that were changed to protect the innocent" were only those of the victims, the accused criminals, and any law enforcement officers accused of wrongdoing.

Many fans of the original series remember that in the final season of "Dragnet", Joe Friday was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, yet when the show returned for the 1967 run, Friday was again a sergeant.
Webb would later explain in a press interview that the role of a lieutenant was mostly supervisory, and lieutenants rarely worked cases in the field. By returning the Joe Friday character to a sergeant, he would still fight crime and investigate cases in the field.

According to the "Merrian-Webster Dictionary", Dragnet is defined as "a series of actions that are done by police in order to catch criminals".

Answer: twelve

"The Flintstones" aired from 1960-1966. The series told the story of "a modern stone age family". The working-class family lived in the town of Bedrock.
The series centered on the exploits of two families who were next door neighbors and best friends.
For thirty years, "The Flintstones" were the most recognized and financially successful network animated franchise.

"The Flintstones" are credited with spawning a dozen spin-off series.

New series based on "The Flintstones" were: "The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show" (1971-1972), "The Flintstone Comedy Hour" (1972-1973), "The Flintstone Comedy Show" (1973-1974), "Fred Flintstone and Friends" (1977-1978), "The New Fred and Barney Show" (1978-1980), "Fred and Barney Meet The Thing" (1979), "Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo" (1979-1980), "Back to Bedrock" (1993), "The Flintstone Comedy Show" (1980-1982), "The Flintstone Funnies" (1982-1984), "The Flintstone Kids" (1986-1988), and "Cave Kids" (1996).

During the six season run of "The Flintstones", 166 episodes were originally aired.

Answer: Tim Daly

"The Fugitive: The Chase Continues" premiered on October 6, 2000, and starred Tim Daly as Dr. Richard Kimble. The series remained on the air for one season and broadcast 23 episodes.

The plot remained the same as was in the original series.
Kimble, who was wrongly convicted of the murder of his wife, escaped from custody following an accident that occurred while he was being transported to prison, and is pursued by a determined police lieutenant.
The new series, unlike the original series, ended in a cliffhanger with Kimble still on the run and in search for the "one-armed" man who actually committed the crime that he was convicted of.

Mikelti Washington co-starred as Lt. Philip Gerard, Kimble's determined pursuer.

In 1993, "The Fugitive" was released as a feature length film, starring Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble. Tommy Lee Jones co-starred in an Oscar winning performance as Samuel Gerard, Kimble's dogged pursuer.
In the film version, Gerard was portrayed as a U.S. Marshal instead of a police officer, as portrayed in both television versions. The movie also changed Gerard's first name to Samuel.

Answer: Beverly Hills Buntz

After "Hill Street Blues" (1981) completed its highly successful seven season run, the spin-off series, "Beverly Hills Buntz" (1987) premiered.

In the story, Norman Buntz, a morally questionable police detective assigned to the Hill Street precinct, resigns from the police department and relocate to Southern California. He decides to set up a one-man private detective agency in the city of Beverly Hills. Buntz was assisted by his friend Sid "The Snitch" Thurston, who also relocated to Beverly Hills with Buntz.

The series starred Dennis Franz as Norman Buntz and Peter Jurasik as his friend and assistant, Sid Thurston.

The series filmed 13 episodes, of which only nine were broadcast.

Answer: The Blue Knight

"The Blue Knight" was a series based on the novel written by then Los Angeles Police Detective Joseph Wambaugh in 1972.
The series, starring George Kennedy, premiered in 1975. Wambaugh's story about aging police patrol officer Bumper Morgan, was not an episode from the "Police Story" television series.

There were three drama crime series that started as episodes from Joseph Wambaugh's Primetime Emmy Award winning series.

"Police Woman" (1974-1978) starred Angie Dickinson as Police Woman Suzanna "Pepper" Anderson.
The "Police Story" season one episode "The Gambler" (1974), starring Dickinson as undercover officer Lisa Beaumont, served as the pilot for the "Police Woman" series. With one exception, the cast and characters from the "Police Story" episode were the same in the television series. Dickinson and the series producers chose to change the name of the lead character from Lisa Beaumont to Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson. One unexplained mystery was that in several episodes, Anderson's first name was said to be Leanne instead of Suzanne.
"Police Woman" (1974) aired for four seasons with 91 episodes.

"Joe Forrester" (1975-1976) was introduced in the "Police Story" episode titled "The Return of Joe Forrester" (1975). Lloyd Bridges played the title character in both the season two "Police Story" episode and on the series.
In the series, Joe Forrester was a veteran LAPD officer who usually covered his inner city patrol area by walking his beat. Forrester was well known and respected by the merchants and residents he protected. Joe Forrester was the typical "neighborhood cop".
"Joe Forrester" (1975) aired for one season with 23 episodes.

For the 1978 series "David Cassidy: Man Under Cover", a two hour episode of "Police Story" titled "A Chance to Live" served as the series pilot.
In both the pilot and the series, David Cassidy starred as Dan Shay, a youthful looking LAPD officer who while working undercover, was able to infiltrate a high school drug ring, posing as a student.
The series aired ten episodes during the 1978-1979 season.

"Police Story" aired 95 episodes during its five season run (1973-1978) on the NBC Network.
In 1976, "Police Story" won the Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Drama Series"

Answer: Make Room for Daddy

"Make Room for Daddy" (1953-1955) was either directly or indirectly responsible for eight different spin-off series.

In addition to "The Andy Griffith Show" (1960-1968) and "The Joey Bishop Show" (1965-1965), other spin-off series included "The New Andy Griffith Show" (1971), "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." (1968-1971), "The Jim Nabors Hour" (1969-1971), "Mayberry R.F.D." (1968-1971), "The Bill Dana Show" (1963-1965), and "Make Room for Granddaddy" (1970-1971).

"Make Room for Daddy" aired for three seasons before changing names to "The Danny Thomas Show". The series aired from 1953 to 1957 on the ABC Network before switching to the CBS Network, airing shows from 1957 until 1964.

Answer: Monte Markham

Monte Markham starred in the title role in the remake of the popular 1957 series. The series aired on the CBS Network during the 1973-1974 season. The single season yielded 15 hour long episodes. The premise and characters matched those from the original series.

Co-starring with Markham were Sharon Acker as Perry's confidential secretary Della Street, Albert Strattan as private investigator Paul Drake, Dane Clark as police homicide investigator Lt. Arthur Tragg, and Harry Guardino as District Attorney Hamilton Burger.

The series was canceled after coming in third place for its time slot. The series was beat in ratings by "The Wonderful World of Disney" (1969) on the NBC Network and "The F.B I." on the ABC Network.

The original "Perry Mason" series, starring Raymond Burr, aired for nine seasons (1957-1966) with 271 episodes.

Missing from the 1973 remake, to the disappointment of many hard-core Perry Mason fans was the dramatic theme song, "Park Avenue Beat", composed by Fred Steiner

Answer: Iron Chef New York City

The battle (contest) in New York between Chef Bobby Flay and Iron Chef Japanese Masaharu Morimoto was considered a classic, but it was a single episode and not a spin-off series.

"Iron Chef USA" (2001) aired two episodes in the series. William Shatner served as the Chairman of the Gourmet Academy USA. His team consisted of Iron Chef French: Jean-Francois Meteigner, Iron Chef Italian: Alessandro Stratta, Iron Chef Asian: Roy Yamaguchi, and Iron Chef America: Todd English.
On the short lived series, only Iron Chefs Stratta and English were involved in battles and both were victorious.

"Iron Chef America" (2005) aired 205 episodes. The show was hosted by Food Network personality Alton Brown. In the series, Chairman Kaga of the Gourmet Academy has retired and appointed his nephew to serve as Chairman. The nephew is played by actor and martial arts artist Mark Dacascos. The ten featured Iron Chefs throughout the run of the series, and their cooking specialties were: Mario Batali (Italian), Cat Cora (Greek/Mediterranean), Bobby Flay (Southwestern), Marc Forgioni (Modern American), Jose Garces (Latin Fusion), Alexandra Guarnaschelli (Modern American), Masaharu Morimoto (Japanese), Wolfgang Puck (Californian Cuisine), Michael Symon (Mediterranean), and Geoffrey Zakaarian (Modern American).
"Iron Chef America" aired for 11 seasons.

"The Next Iron Chef" was a limited run series that aired on the Food Network for five seasons (2007-2012) with 38 episodes.
Each season pitted a field of chefs in an eight episode elimination competition, with the overall winner becoming the newest "Iron Chef America".
Alton Brown and Marc Dacascos hosted the series.

The popularity of the show has become global with versions of "Iron Chef" being produced and broadcast in Israel, The United Kingdom, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia.