Single Season Sixties Sit-Coms Quiz

Answer: A man has to keep from being wasted by the syndicate

Jack Sheldon played Buddy Overstreet who just happened to overhear gangsters plotting a rub-out. When the crooks realized there was a witness, they spent from September 1966 to January 1967 attempting to eliminate him. Of course, they were unbelievably inept doing this, but the CBS series died a quick death.

Answer: Europe

Harry Burns, played by Larry Blyden, fronted a vaudeville style act featuring three lovely young women, Lois, Rusty and Terry. They traveled around Europe to entertain because their act did not prove popular in the U.S. Harry had the ambitious job of fronting the act, booking, handling the finances and attempting to chaperone the girls, with predictable results.

This series aired on NBC in the 1963-64 season.

Answer: Gene Kelly

This short-lived series was actually a re-make of the Academy Award winning movie that had starred Bing Crosby as a happy-go-lucky priest. Kelly fronted the small cast as Father O'Malley with Leo G. Carroll portraying Father Fitzgibbon. Also on hand was a pre-"Bewitched" Dick York, who played the local community center proprietor.

This show aired from October 1962 to September 1963 on the ABC network.

Answer: cartoonist

"The Tab Hunter Show" aired on NBC in the 1960-61 season. Hunter portrayed Paul Morgan, a free-living young man employed as a cartoonist for Comics, Inc. where he drew the strip "Bachelor at Large", mirroring his own life experiences.

Answer: a hotel

Mickey Rooney starred as the beleaguered new owner of the Marina Palms in Newport Harbor, California. He thought he could make a fortune with it but found the hotel manager, played by Sammee Tong, had incurred huge debts and employed many of his relatives as legal and financial advisors. Mickey's task was to attempt to tactfully straighten everything out with the help of his family. Rooney's own son, Tim, also played his son in the show which aired on ABC during the 1964-65 season.

Answer: being accepted in high society

Burl Ives starred as a rough-edged, nouveau-riche man from Oklahoma. More than anything, he wanted to get into the upper crust of society. In order to accomplish his dream, he hired a "tutor", St. John Quincy (Hal Buckley), and spent his time traveling from one society hotspot to another with his instructor, children, girlfriend and business partner in tow.

This series ran on ABC from 1965-66.

Answer: She was a man

Peter Kastner played a young man named Timothy that fell in love with an English starlet who was visiting America. When his photographer brother lost the photos he was supposed to send to England as an assignment, he dressed Tim in women's clothes are re-shot the pictures.

The new photos were a sensation and Tim was invited to England as a female model. Although it proved difficult to keep up his ruse, it enabled him to reunite with his love interest. This short-lived series aired from September 1966 to January 1967 on ABC.

Answer: They lived with chimps

Jack Weston and Peggy Cass starred as Walter and Elinor Hathaway who opened their home to three performing chimpanzees (Charlie, Enoch and Cindy) played by the Marquis Chimps. While Walter's profession was a realtor, Elinor was the chimp's booking agent. Why the chimps lived with the Hathaways and not with their trainer was never explained, but provided the comic element as the Hathaways had to deal with ape antics and trouble they caused with neighbors as Elinor came to regard them as almost human children.

This program ran on ABC in their 1961-62 season.

Answer: Occasional Wife

Michael Callan and Patricia Harty played the leads in this series on NBC. He was a bachelor who worked for the Brahms Baby Food Company which had a strong belief of marriage and family, causing him to be passed over constantly when promotions were handed out.

He finally got the idea of having his neighbor, Greta, pose as his wife when the boss visited or at company functions. In return, he agreed to pay for her art lessons. This plot could not sustain the series which aired during the 1966-67 season.

Answer: Red Buttons

In this ABC series airing in the 1966 season, Red played an accountant who was tapped to very reluctantly impersonate a secret agent that had been offed and to whom he bore an exact likeness. While Henry was a shy bumbler, the man he replaced was a debonair man of the world. Predictably, this provided most of the fodder for comedy. Playing Henry's constantly flustered boss at the CIS was Fred Clark.