BOOMER QUIZ: GOLDEN AGE OF TV

This will be part one of a nine-part series of quizzes about the Baby Boomer era. The sections covered will include a Historical Timeline 1955-1975; The Golden Age of Television; Top U.S. Song Hit Singles 1955-1970; Drugs; Famous Pairs; Who Gave Them Their Big Break?; Top Movies; Top Rated TV Shows of the 60s; and Miscellaneous.

There will be no grading system for these quizzes, I created them just for the fun of it. Play it with your friends. The answers will be immediately available in case you're not so good with delayed gratification (as they claim about us).

Feel free to share, but give me credit, dammit. The first quiz, the Golden Age of Television, begins after the fold. Copyright 2008 Maggie Jochild.

THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION
(Being a fan of Nick at Night will not help you much with these questions; you had to have been there. NOTE: Despite my earnest effort to be inclusive, note how few females are in the lists above and how extremely few [to none] characters of color there are. Hence The Revolution, still underway.)


TV WESTERNS
(My dad watched every one of these) -- Match each show to its star in the column that follows:

Bat Masterson
The Big Valley
Cheyenne
Death Valley Days
The High Chaparral
Laramie
Maverick
The Rifleman
Sugarfoot
Wagon Train
Wanted Dead or Alive

Gene Berry
Ward Bond
Richard Boone
Chuck Connors
Robert Crawford, Jr.
Victoria Cristal
James Garner
Will Hutchins
Steve McQueen
Ronald Reagan
Barbara Stanwyck
Clint Walker



SPACE AND SPIES
Match each show to its star in the column that follows:

The Avengers
Dr. Who
I Spy
Land of the Giants
Lost in Space
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Mission Impossible
The Prisoner
The Saint
Star Trek
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Richard Basehart
Gary Conway
Bill Cosby
Peter Davison
Peter Graves
June Lockhart
David McCallum
Patrick McGoohan
Roger Moore
Diana Rigg
William Shatner


DETECTIVES AND DOCTORS
Match each show to its star in the column that follows:

Ben Casey
Dr. Kildare
Dragnet
The Fugitive
Honey West
Ironside
Julia
Marcus Welby, MD
Mod Squad
77 Sunset Strip
The Untouchables

Raymond Burr
Diahann Carroll
Richard Chamberlain
Vince Edwards
Anne Frances
Peggy Lipton
Richard Janssen
Robert Stack
Jack Webb
Robert Young
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.


LAWYERS AND TEACHERS
Match each show to its star in the column that follows:

Perry Mason
Mister Novak
Room 222

Raymond Burr
Richard Chamberlain
Karen Valentine


CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING
Match each item in column one with its most closely associated item in colum two:

Alfalfa
Buffy
Bunny Rabbit
Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent
Crusader Rabbit
Davey
Dondi
Dudley Do-Right
Flipper
The Funny Company
Gumby
Jonny Quest
Lassie
Mark Lester
Mighty Mouse
Mr. Magoo
Mr. Peabody
Pippi Longstocking
Quick Draw McGraw
Ricochet Rabbit
Ruff
Schoolhouse Rock
Sky King
Tarzan
Tom Terrific
Underdog
Yogi Bear

Boo Boo
Bud
Captain Kangaroo
Cheetah
Dishonest John
Droop-a-Long
El-Kabong
The Explorers Club
Goliath
Hadji
His boy Sherman
I'm Just A Bill
Jack Wild
Jody
Nell Fenwick
Manfred
Nephew Waldo
Mr. Nilsson
Oilcan Harry
Penny
Pokey
Ragland Tiger
Reddy
Shrinkin' Violette
Spanky
Sweet Polly Purebred
Timmy

[ANSWERS TO ALL THE ABOVE ARE HERE.]

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