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Can you name the show given a lead actor? Enter a Show in the box below Correctly named Shows will show up below Answers do not have to be guessed in order This game contributed by Thalia on 10/16/2009 Source: IMDb You have 6 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 5403 TV Shows (U.S.) 3654 Broadway Opening Lines 3638 You Do Know Jack 1533 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1503 Same Last Name 1250 And more...
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Actor	Show	Years on Air
Jack Webb		1951-1959
James Arness		1955-1975
Buddy Ebsen		1962-1971
Elizabeth Montgomery		1964-1972
Tony Randall		1970-1975
Alan Alda		1972-1983
Penny Marshall		1976-1983
Conrad Bain		1978-1986
David Hasselhoff		1982-1986
Cybill Shepherd		1985-1989
Scott Bakula		1989-1993
Tim Daly		1990-1997
Kelsey Grammer		1993-2004
Dennis Franz		1993-2005
Roma Downey		1994-2003

Actor	Show	Years on Air
David James Elliott		1995-2005
Sarah Michelle Gellar		1997-2003
Dylan McDermott		1997-2004
Kevin James		1998-2007
James Gandolfini		1999-2007
Jessica Alba		2000-2002
Peter Krause		2001-2005
Anthony LaPaglia		2002-2009
Amber Tamblyn		2003-2005
Hugh Laurie		2004-present
Wentworth Miller		2005-2009
Tina Fey		2006-present
Lee Pace		2007-2009
Simon Baker		2008-present
Lea Michele		2009-present

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	MovieDynamic:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 08:41 GMT	4 points
	Interesting choice of shows...

	JohnJF:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 08:44 GMT	6 points
	I guess with an average audience age of 97.3 or so, JAG was bound to not be guessed that often.

	Slugma:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 08:47 GMT	1 point
	Joan of Arcadia! I like how I always do terribly on these TV quizzes, but get that when it manages to show up.

	springmom:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 08:50 GMT	1 point
	The first one also aired from 1967-1970. Those are the ones I remember, I don't think I've ever seen a show from the first time it was on the air. Same actor.

	Thalia:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 08:54 GMT	1 point
	@springmom, that one actually had the year 1967 in the title, though, and is listed as a separate show on IMDB.

	Grapefruit:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 09:00 GMT	14 points
	If only the third to last answer said "2007 - present". Why must they cancel all the good shows?

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	jacintos:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 10:39 GMT	1 point
	^^^Dark Angel had more than one season. The Mentalist is on its second season. All signs point to Glee having many seasons.

	Nolij:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 10:44 GMT	2 points
	Thank you for including my two favorite shows that were axed too soon (Tamblyn and Pace). Now I'm going to go back to not watching them on tv anymore.

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	jiminymatthew:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 16:23 GMT	12 points
	For some reason, even though I know it's impossible, I'm still holding out hope that someone, somewhere, will want to put Pushing Daisies back on the air. Best show ever.

	kingmouse:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 16:38 GMT	2 points
	i think dark angel is pretty relevant because alba has made a bigger name for herself and most people forget about that show dark angel where she got her start

	Beefy:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 17:37 GMT	3 points
	I watched the show with Conrad Bain every week, but somehow I never realized that someone with the name Conrad Bain was on the show.

	DLJessup:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 17:38 GMT	0 points
	@kingmouse: Actually, I think that "Idle Hands" was where Alba got her start. Certainly, the trailers for that film were the first time that I saw her.

	Jenbebe:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 17:46 GMT	2 points
	Totally knew Conrad Bain, along with the name of everyone else (even Danny Cooksey) on that cheesy show I watched every day in syndication.

	rockhopperlad:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 19:43 GMT	2 points
	22/30. I was doing fine till I got to the '90s. I guess that's when I started watching less TV.

	MrOss:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 20:12 GMT	2 points
	11.5% for Pu. Da. I guess that's why it didn't survive . I think it's funny that I got 22 without seeing an episode of half the shows I guessed.

	SundropKid:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 20:28 GMT	1 point
	miss you Jack Webb! Pretty amazing that he was the producer, director and star. I know he's not the only one to do that, but it's a short list.

	Kicking222:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 21:49 GMT	1 point
	"Pushing Daisies" answer = 5/5. That's all I needed to see.

	Karmacode:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 23:07 GMT	0 points
	Actually she got her first big break in a Flipper remake. Yeah I have a fountain of useless knowledge.

	caramba:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 00:03 GMT	2 points
	Got Pushing Daisies because of Rockgolf's Lee quiz

	Josh:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 01:42 GMT	0 points
	Conrad Bain was so NOT the star of Diff'rent Strokes.

	chikka2:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 02:06 GMT	0 points
	Brilliant idea for a quiz...begs for a sequel!5/5

	MickeyM2:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 06:16 GMT	3 points
	Oh how I miss the Pie Maker, Charlotte Charles,Emerson Cod, and little Olive Snook.

	math_teacher_mom:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 07:32 GMT	0 points
	Sorry, techinical point: The purple used for the background is really hard to read.

	awesomegerbzy:	Oct 25th, 2009 at 00:42 GMT	0 points
	I should have remembered that MASH is on every Sporcle television quiz haha BUT glad to see Buffy getting some love.

	dbris:	Oct 25th, 2009 at 01:56 GMT	0 points
	Loved this quiz. Doing well on this quiz proves I watch too much television. Joan of Arcadia was a great show that I hated to see canceled.

	nwtider:	Oct 28th, 2009 at 10:43 GMT	-1 points
	Should not Baywatch work for Hasselhoff? Or Cybill for Cybill Shepherd? Or Barnaby Jones for Buddy Ebsen? They were certainly lead actors in those long-running shows. Kelsey Grammer was on Cheers, but he was not the lead. It seems unnecessarily arbitrary to accept only one title when the actor headlines multiple shows that were on the air for several seasons.

	yippeeyappee:	Oct 29th, 2009 at 23:19 GMT	1 point
	@nwtider I think that's why they give the years of the show's run, so it narrows the answer to one show - good memory for old shows, though!