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Television 2025-11-25 (Season 42)

1980s TELEVISION

This spin-off premiered 21 years after the show that inspired it but took place nearly a century later

Television 2025-10-06 (Season 42)

TV 2025

The star of this new streaming drama said, "Nobody could gain a pound, lose a pound... we had to look exactly the same for 7 months"

Television 2025-07-03 (Season 41)

TV

"Lord of the Flies" inspired this series as did the 1994 film "Heavenly Creatures", which starred one of the show's actresses

Television 2025-04-30 (Season 41)

BUSINESS & TELEVISION

This TV show that debuted in 1960 licensed its name 8 years later to a childrens' health product that's still around today

Television 2025-03-18 (Season 41)

CLASSIC TV SHOWS

Posted over the door of this show's setting was a notice reading, "Maximum room capacity 75 persons"

Television 2024-12-12 (Season 41)

TV PROPS

A prop central to the title character on this '60s sitcom began as a special Christmas edition whiskey decanter

Television 2024-12-06 (Season 41)

TV CHARACTERS

On TV in the 1960s & the 2020s, this character has a first name that's partly from Latin for "death"

Television 2024-10-01 (Season 41)

SITCOMS

The first British sitcom to win a Best Comedy Golden Globe, it was remade in a U.S. version that had almost 15 times as many episodes

Television 2023-06-14 (Season 39)

TV & FILM CHARACTERS

He debuted on TV in 1967; the show's creator wanted someone from behind the Iron Curtain to be on "our side"

Television 2023-01-20 (Season 39)

TELEVISION

Mike Post combined the sound of a slamming jail door, an anvil & 100 men stomping on a floor for this series that debuted in 1990

Television 2022-12-26 (Season 39)

TV FINALES

In a reunion over 40 years in the making, Dolly Parton appeared as an angel named Agnes in the final episode of this comedy in 2022

Television 2022-04-04 (Season 38)

CURRENT TELEVISION

Fittingly, the last name of the family at the center of this drama is from French for "king"

Television 2022-02-17 (Season 38)

LONG-RUNNING TV SHOW CHARACTERS

This character who has been on the air for more than 50 years is only 6 1/2 years old

Television 2022-02-02 (Season 38)

RECENT TV

The credits on "The Queen’s Gambit" included this man as "special consultant"

Television 2021-05-31 (Season 37)

THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION

The day it debuted in 1980, this network with an Italian name aired a Carnegie Hall celebration of Aaron Copland's 80th birthday

Television 2021-04-05 (Season 37)

DAYTIME TV PERSONALITIES

Accepting a Lifetime Achievement Emmy, he said, "Just take... 10 seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are"

Television 2020-05-20 (Season 36)

CLASSIC TV SITCOMS

"I Love Lucy" used the French word "enceinte" in a 1952 episode title because CBS didn't want this word used

Television 2020-03-23 (Season 36)

1970s SITCOMS

A warning on early episodes said this show "seeks to throw a humorous spotlight on our frailties, prejudices and concerns"

Television 2019-07-11 (Season 35)

WOMEN ON TV

This character featured in a 1992 Time magazine cover story on "Hollywood & Politics" returned to television in 2018

Television 2019-02-11 (Season 35)

PRIMETIME TV

"Complications" was a suggested title for this ABC drama that was renewed for a 15th season in 2018

Television 2019-01-18 (Season 35)

TV PERSONALITIES

In 2000 this man was the host of a No. 1 rated network show & a No. 2 rated syndicated talk show

Television 2018-12-12 (Season 35)

SCI-FI TV

One of the twin planets this alien race called home was Remus

Television 2018-02-13 (Season 34)

CLASSIC TV HOMES

In 2017 the Bel-Air estate used in this '60s TV show was listed for $350 million

Television 2017-12-08 (Season 34)

PRIMETIME TV ACTRESSES

On the beat since 1999, she plays the longest-running female character currently on TV in a primetime non-animated series

Television 2017-03-10 (Season 33)

TV CHARACTERS

Oxford Dictionaries lists his name as a verb meaning to "make or repair (an object) in an improvised or inventive way"

Television 2016-12-15 (Season 33)

NYC TV

In 2010, in its fourth season, this TV show shifted its primary setting to 6th Avenue, 2 blocks west

Television 2016-10-07 (Season 33)

TELEVISION

The focus of a 1970s miniseries & its recent remake, he arrived at Annapolis in 1767 aboard the ship the Lord Ligonier

Television 2016-01-27 (Season 32)

THE EMMYS

It's the first show nominated for both Outstanding Comedy Series (2014) & Outstanding Drama Series (2015)

Television 2016-01-06 (Season 32)

SITCOMS

When it premiered in 1974, this TV show used a 1955 No. 1 hit as its opening song

Television 2015-06-22 (Season 31)

THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION

This live-action TV show about a family debuted in 1965 & was set in 1997

Television 2015-04-28 (Season 31)

MOVIES & TV

The first hit feature film based on a "Saturday Night Live" sketch was "The Blues Brothers"; this was the second

Television 2015-03-16 (Season 31)

KIDS' TV CHARACTERS

Marquez is the last name of this character who debuted in 2000

Television 2015-01-01 (Season 31)

TELEVISION

Set to the song "You've Got Time", a montage of real women who were incarcerated is in the opening credits of this series

Television 2014-06-12 (Season 30)

CURRENT TELEVISION

George Romero declined to direct a few episodes of this series, calling it "basically... just a soap opera"

Television 2014-03-21 (Season 30)

CURRENT REALITY TV

On learning what his series would be called, the star of this reality show said, "That sounds like a Chinese food place!"

Television 2013-12-19 (Season 30)

TV CHARACTERS

Jerry Jones, Mark Cuban & Mayor Mike Rawlings were 3 of the real folks at the 2013 memorial for this TV character

Television 2013-07-16 (Season 29)

THE WORLD OF TV

In 2013 Britain marked this show's 50th anniversary with a series of stamps of the 11 actors who have played the lead role

Television 2013-04-25 (Season 29)

TV SPIN-OFFS

Premiering in 1993, this show lasted 11 seasons, like its predecessor show; the 2 were set nearly 2,500 miles apart

Television 2013-04-17 (Season 29)

1960s TELEVISION

Jackie Gleason considered, but then decided against, suing this show that premiered September 30, 1960

Television 2012-10-19 (Season 29)

CABLE TV FIRSTS

When Turner Classic Movies began broadcasting on April 14, 1994, the first movie shown was this one

Television 2012-09-26 (Season 29)

TV ANIMATION

This teen duo debuted in a 1992 animated short in which they played baseball with a frog

Television 2012-07-24 (Season 28)

'80s SITCOM CHARACTERS

Creator Gary David Goldberg wrote this Republican character as unsympathetic, but the actor made him lovable

Television 2012-01-30 (Season 28)

1960s TV CHARACTERS

One of her first spoken lines is translated as "You have the face of a wise and fearless caliph"

Television 2010-10-04 (Season 27)

PRIMETIME TV

Now in season 23, its producer says it's the only show with "no script, no actors, no host & no re-enactments"

Television 2009-10-02 (Season 26)

EMMY WINNERS

These 2 men with 16 total career Emmys appeared in series with Mary Tyler Moore, one playing a TV host, one a TV producer

Television 2009-04-02 (Season 25)

TV CHARACTERS

She was born on February 22, 10,000 B.C. weighing 6 pounds, 12 ounces

Television 2008-10-22 (Season 25)

THE EMMY AWARDS

A former Screen Actors Guild president, he's the only actor to win both comedy & drama Emmys for playing the same character

Television 2008-01-28 (Season 24)

TV CELEBRITIES

Not an actor, he is the highest-paid foreign-born personality on the 2007 Forbes list of top television earners

Television 2008-01-25 (Season 24)

CLASSIC TV

Among those who objected to this drama series that premiered in October 1959 were Frank Sinatra & J. Edgar Hoover

Television 2006-12-11 (Season 23)

CABLE TELEVISION

The premiere of this miniseries was held at Normandy's Utah Beach Memorial on June 6, 2001