There But Not There - Unseen Characters Quiz

Answer: Tarquin

In "Keeping Up Appearances", our most frequent contact with Sheridan Bucket comes when he telephones his parents, usually speaking to his mother. As Sheridan is never seen or heard, we only ever hear Hyacinth's side of the conversation, which often leads to Sheridan asking for money.

This is often as a result of Sheridan wanting to imitate his roommate Tarquin in some way. While nothing is ever said about the nature of Sheridan and Tarquin's relationship, in one conversation with Hyacinth, Sheridan mentions that neither of them are interested in girls, which Hyacinth takes as "a comfort to a mother's heart".

Answer: Urinal cakes

Although she is never seen, we often hear descriptions of her from other characters, allowing a picture of her to develop - she is small, extremely pale and incredibly thin, to the extent that she failed to set off a whoopee cushion upon sitting on one; she has abnormally tight quadriceps, a rigid spine, slightly webbed hands that she is self-conscious about, and is unable to produce saliva.

She also undergoes frequent plastic surgeries, and other eccentric health treatments.

Answer: Carol Ann Susi

The voice of Mrs Wolowitz can be heard in 40 episodes out of the total of 279 during the run of "The Big Bang Theory". Following Carol Ann Susi's death in 2014, the writers decided that Mrs Wolowitz would not be recast, and had the character pass away during a trip to Florida in the season 8 episode "The Comic Book Store Regeneration".

However, the character made a final appearance in season 11's "The Bitcoin Entanglement" during a flashback, when archive audio of Carol Ann Susi was used.

Answer: Anderson Shelter

When spending the night in the Anderson Shelter, a type of air raid shelter built using corrugated steel panels in domestic gardens, the Mainwarings sleep in a set of bunk beds, with Mrs Mainwaring always taking the top bunk. From the significant sagging of her mattress, we gain an idea of her appearance.

However, although the character was unseen in the 80 episodes of "Dad's Army", she did appear in the 2016 film version, played by Felicity Montagu.

Answer: Her mother

While Gladys Emmanuel is fond of Arkwright (in spite of his penny pinching) and wants to marry him, she refuses to do so while her apparently invalided mother requires her care. This is a constant source of frustration to Arkwright, who often imagines of "favourable circumstances, happier times, like when her mother dies".

In the sequel series, "Still Open All Hours", we learn that, although Gladys's mother did eventually pass on, she never did get round to marrying Arkwright before he died too.

Answer: Garfield

Although Garfield made his first animated appearance in a 1980 special called "Fabulous Funnies" voiced by Scott Beach, it was in the character's first solo special, "Here Comes Garfield" in 1982, that Music first provided his voice, continuing to do so in a number of specials, a TV series and video games up to his death in 2001. Lorenzo Music also provided the voice of Dr Peter Venkman in the animated series "The Real Ghostbusters"; the actor Bill Murray, who originally played Venkman in the 1984 live-action movie, was subsequently cast as the voice of Garfield in two theatrical releases in 2004 and 2006.

Answer: Gig Young

Although Gig Young was the original choice to play Charlie, by the mid-1970s he was already suffering badly from alcoholism (which had already led to him being replaced in a number of roles, including as The Waco Kid in the film "Blazing Saddles") and, as a result of him being unable to read his lines in the original recording session for the pilot episode, producer Aaron Spelling called John Forsythe late one night to come and perform. Forsythe immediately obliged, rising from his bed, putting an overcoat over his pyjamas, going to record the lines, and then immediately returning home to bed. Forsythe played Charlie in all but one episode of the series, as well as two spin-off movies in the 2000s.

Answer: Suspicious incidents involving fires

Although we never see Father Bigley, we hear numerous descriptions of him, including puffy fish lips bigger than the rest of his face, facial blotches, and an inability to waggle his ears. Father Bigley is an avid fan of the Irish singer Dana, and officiated at OJ Simpson's wedding.

Answer: Orson

Mork knows Orson personally and sometimes makes derogatory remarks about Orson's weight. However, their relationship appears amicable, to the extent that Mork asks Orson to be the godfather of his son Mearth. Prior to this, Mork had sought Orson's permission to marry Mindy and Orson agreed because he felt it would further understanding of 'Earth traditions'. Orson learns much about human emotion via Mork's experiences, and is grateful to Mork for this education.

Answer: Novelist

In the early episodes of "Magnum, PI", Robin Masters made occasional voice appearances, with his voice provided by the actor Orson Welles. After Welles's death in 1985, the writers of the show, rather than recasting the voice role, instead began teasing out a new storyline in which Magnum began to believe that Jonathan Higgins, the caretaker of the Masters estate, was in reality Robin Masters.

This was never confirmed or denied during the course of the show's run - in the final episode, Higgins appeared to confirm that he was Masters, before later retracting this confirmation.