32 Bits of Classic TV Trivia to Enjoy on A Brown Tweed Couch in A Wood-Paneled Basement

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32 Bits of Classic TV Trivia to Enjoy on A Brown Tweed Couch in A Wood-Paneled Basement
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Whether you’re on a nostalgic trip down memory lane or you’re a student with a TV history project of some kind, boy have we got the goods for you. The storylines of some of these shows hold up, so if you youngins can get past the grainy, yellowish (or even black-and-white) picture, you’ll be in for a real treat. 

You might have to pause and Google terms like “home telephone,” but you should mostly be able to follow along.

Thriller

Anthology Shows LER LER HRI 1960 - 1962 THRILLER Stephen King considers this one of the best horror shows ever. Boris Karloff hosted this gothic horror show, and even starred in some episodes. The series was canceled when Alfred Hitchcock pulled strings to not have it compete with his own anthology. CRACKED.COM

Pavel Chekov

Chekov was added to Star Trek to attract young viewers. CRACKED.COM Pavel Chekov did not ар- pear on 'Star Trek' until the first episode of the second season. The character was created to attract young viewers by resembling Davy Jones of The Monkees.

Batman

Canceled? Really? R BATMAN ABC decided not to renew the '60s series, but NBC offered to pick it up. ABC agreed but didn't tell the art/props department, so the sets were destroyed. NBC wasn't willing to build a whole new Batcave, so Batman met an untimely end. CRACKED

Stevie Wonder

COMEDY NERD Stevie Wonder once showed up as a guest star on The Cosby Show. The story is that Theo and Denise have a car accident involving Stevie Wonder, and he gives them a chance to visit his studio (yeah, it's kinda contrived, but it's a sitcom -that's how they work). CRACKED.COM

The Addams Family

The Addams Family Producer Scott Rubin came up with the idea of turning The Addams Family TV show into a movie after a bunch of people in a van returning from a 20th Century Fox screening started singing the show's theme song. НЕ PITCHED HIS ADAPTATION IDEA THE NEXT DAY. CRACKED.COM

Sesame Street

CRACKED COM 123 SESAME STREET The show has won 189 Emmys. That's enough to give four to every US President in history.

Star Trek

The Star Trek episode Amok Time showed us Vulcans' mating season, which is triggered by a condition called Pon Farr which would kill Spock unless he mates... Unless you saw the German edit, which changed Pon Farr to a space fever, cut out all mating references and turned everything else that happened into a hallucination Spock was having. CRACKED COM

Happy Days

Happy Days Love HAPPY AMERICAN STYLE DAYS CRACKED.COM THE PILOT THE SHOW Originally called New Family in Town, the show's pilot was shot three years before the first episode aired. In the interim, ABC chucked the pilot up on the anthology series Love, American Style.

All in the Family

st. Paddy's Day in fiction All in the Family The series finale is a st. Paddy's Day episode. This episode revolves around a big party that Edith is trying to help Archie with, and ends with a confirmation of Archie and Edith having a loving relationship, before the show was rebooted as Archie Bunker's Place. CRACKED.COM

I Love Lucy

I LOVE LUCY, CBS The cast's wardrobe, as well as the set and props, were all shades of gray to make sure that the show looked good in black and white. CRACKED.COM

Kids Incorporated

CRACKED.COM Kids Incorporated was a musical TV show aired during the '80s and '90s. It featured children and teenagers, many of whom would become famous after they left the program. Fergie, Mario Lopez, Martika, Eric Balfour, and Jennifer Love Hewitt are among them.

Gilligan

Gilligan's Island STARRING BOB DeNVER STARRING BOB DENVER as GILLIGAN CRACKED.COM THE PILOT THE SHOW Lost for over thirty years, the original pilot featured different actors playing The Professor, Ginger, and Mary Ann (known as Bunny) - as well as a truly jarring calypso theme song.

Crusader Rabbit

The First Cartoon CRUSADER RABBIT 1950's Crusader Rabbit was the first animation designed for television. One producer would later create The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. CRACKED.COM

The Harlem Globetrotters

The Harlem Globetrotters GILLIGAN'S ISLAND CRACKED.COM Gilligan & CO. had jumped so many sharks by this point, they needed to give the 'trotters an entire TV movie to up the campy ante enough for anyone to notice.

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Moonlighting

Moonlighting CRACKED COM The writers found out they were cancelled before the finale was in the can, sO they wrote a fourth-wall obliterating episode

The Newhart Universe

32 Bits of Classic TV Trivia to Enjoy on A Brown Tweed Couch in A Wood-Paneled Basement

Fred Rogers

Fred Rogers The host and creator Fred Rogers insisted that every word used on the show be intentional. He did not want to mislead or confuse his presc

Boss Hogg

CRACKEDCOr SORRELL BOOKE was a true overachiever. Before becoming Boss Hogg in The Dukes of Hazzard, Booke got degrees from both Columbia and Yale. He

SNL in the '70s

In 1974, Johnny Carson asked NBC to stop broadcasting reruns of The Tonight Show on weekends. To fill the minute gap on Saturday nights, NBC came up w

George A. Romero and Mr. Rogers

CRACKED.CON George A. Romero, the father of zombie flicks, actually got his first directing gig from Mr. Rogers. Mr. Rogers Gets a Tonsillectomy, di

M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H WAS ON THE AIR FOR 3816 DAYS, MORE THAN THREE TIMES THE LENGTH OF THE KOREAN WAR (1128 DAYS). CERNE WARD 18210717 GRACKED COM

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