Can you name the actor or actress who starred in both U.S. TV series?

Series 1	Actor/Actress	Series 2
The Mary Tyler Moore Show		Golden Girls
My Favorite Martian		The Incredible Hulk
All In The Family		In The Heat Of The Night
NYPD Blue		CSI: Miami
Knight Rider		Baywatch
The Mary Tyler Moore Show		Too Close For Comfort
Hill Street Blues		NYPD Blue
E/R (1984 comedy)		er (1994 drama)
The Odd Couple		Quincy, M.E.
Dharma & Greg		Criminal Minds
Rhoda		The Simpsons
Lassie		Lost In Space
Charlie's Angels		Scarecrow and Mrs King

Series 1	Actor/Actress	Series 2
The Mary Tyler Moore Show		The Love Boat
The Cosby Show		A Different World
Flamingo Road		NCIS
Six Feet Under		Dexter
Bonanza		Highway To Heaven
My Two Dads		Mad About You
Soap		Empty Nest
The Flying Nun		Brothers and Sisters
The Jeffersons		Amen
Cagney & Lacey		Judging Amy
Sister, Sister		The Game
Star Trek		Mission: Impossible
Silver Spoons		NYPD Blue

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TV Show Commonalities III Quiz

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Created by: rockgolf -
Published: August 30th, 2009
Category: Television
Plays: 33,993

Tags: Actress Quizzes, Actor Quizzes, Show Quizzes, III, common, starred, both

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	joeschmoe:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 04:39 GMT	2 points
	Pretty sure Sally Field was in "The Flying Nun" and not "The Flying Num." "Flying Numb" would probably be a better show, though.

	Shaft41:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 04:48 GMT	1 point
	Captain Stubing is God.

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	montecarlo:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 04:53 GMT	-3 points
	i think we need a 4th quiz of this type. cus, you know, these arent obscure enough. (rolls eyes).

	Otacon:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 05:01 GMT	0 points
	August 30th must be the day for people who were in multiple things.

	JohnJF:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 05:06 GMT	14 points
	I'm guessing I'm the only person who guessed "the dog" for the Lassie/Lost in Space one.

	ElDavo:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 05:09 GMT	-2 points
	How is er (1994) series 1 will E/R (1984, ten years earlier) is series 2? I know it's just arguing semantics, but that struck me as funny.

	rockgolf:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 05:19 GMT	-1 points
	As I pointed out when I submitted this quiz, the only regular character (of 8) from The MTM Show who didn't go on to star in a series of their own was Georgia Engel, who played Georgette. At least she hasn't... so far. She was recently a semi-regular on Everybody Loves Raymond. @elDavo: E/R from 1984 was a comedy series starring Eliott Gould on CBS. Clooney had a supporting role as a doctor, but not the same one he played on ER. The naming was coincidental. It's not the only time that's happened on TV. There was a short-lived 1979 series about 3 kids under 12 called Friends that starred Jill Whelan who went on to do The Love Boat.

	RandallPinkston:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 05:23 GMT	7 points
	@rockgolf: elDavo's point is that the 1984 series should be listed as series 1, and the 1994 series should be listed as series 2. Right now they're in the wrong order.

	steeltown:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 05:36 GMT	8 points
	14/26 means I watch too much TV, but not enought to get me to 100%. And David CAruso can star in a bazillion series but he still can't act.

	ElDavo:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 05:46 GMT	3 points
	Meant to say "while" not "will". I suppose that does make it harder to understand what I meant.

	Chumley:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 06:05 GMT	1 point
	in the comedy E/R George Clooney played a police officer not a doctor.

	Chumley:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 06:07 GMT	1 point
	Also if you wanted George Clooney, "Sisters" or "Roseanne" or "Facts of Life " would have been better clues. (Unless you wanted to highlight that he was in two shows with the same title,)

	Shinyhubcaps:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 07:02 GMT	5 points
	Anyone else have trouble spelling Gavin MacLeod? And then again, "Tia" was acceptable for Tia Mowry, whose surname I actually knew how to spell.

	steeltown:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 07:11 GMT	5 points
	Yeah, Jared, I tried mcleod,macleod, macloud, mccloud, & even yelled "Morrie! Mr Grant, Help!" The only consolation is that in the gaelic it's probably spelled Mahc Caioughuyylldd. (OK, the double l's & d's are Welsh, but I can't pronounce or spell any of them.

	steeltown:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 07:29 GMT	1 point
	See this http://www.scotchat.org/help/faq_qanda.php?id=63 for an explanation of why we 'Muricanz have difficulty withspelling & pronouncing Scottish names, to say nothing of why we can't find these ancestors when trying to do one's genealogy. I also found a link that claimed that the name MacLeod means "son of ugly," but that seemed sssssssssssoooooooooooo strange that I just left it.

	beatrixkiddo:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 08:57 GMT	11 points
	'the hoff' should count for hasselhoff :)

	Tapestry:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 09:57 GMT	-3 points
	I got 10/26 I knew the first and the last (percentage wise) which I find amusing I never remember the obscure but I remembered her!(only 7.8% remmebered)

	Oru:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 10:21 GMT	3 points
	Why is 'Michael Hall' not accepted and why is 'Hall' by itself accepted?

	cocky:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 10:49 GMT	1 point
	@rockgolf...Engel played the Athletic Director's wife on Coach. Her character was very similiar to the one she played on MTM...an airhead. Oddly, both shows were set in Minnesota and Ted Knight was dead by then, so it could have been (but wasn't) the same character.

	janiac:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 10:53 GMT	0 points
	Another one for my two dads was the girl - Staci Keanan- who starred in step by step

	muse:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 12:38 GMT	1 point
	mark harmon was also inthe great st elsewhere.

rockgolf:

Aug 30th, 2009 at 13:18 GMT

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@musegal: Everyone in St Elsewhere was great. You could almost do a TV commonalities of people who passed thru the show. Harmon's character was the first in prime time to get AIDS as I recall, and caught it from a woman. That broke a lot of popular myths at the time.
@Oru: I just tried Hall and it worked. (Sounds like a lozenge commercial, doesn't it?)
@janiac: Step By Step - another commonality goldmine.
@Jared: "Tia" I allowed as an answer without the last name because she was original known as one half of twins, like Mary-Kate and Ashley.
@cocky: Yeah, Engel's been on a few shows, but never a lead character.

	cocky:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 13:23 GMT	1 point
	Yeah, I didn't see the word "lead" in your first post until after I made mine. She probably couldn't carry a lead role. I saw an interview with Ed Asner and he said she was as ditzy as her character.

	Chiaprofessor:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 13:40 GMT	2 points
	Actually, Clooney's character in the sit-com E/R was an EMT.

	chikka2:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 14:06 GMT	1 point
	very satisfying quiz. Success due to a lifetime of TV watching. Thanks rockgolf

	Isstvan:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 14:10 GMT	1 point
	@chumley and @Chianerd, You're both wrong. In E/R Clooney played an orderly. The police officer was played by Bruce Young. The EMT was played by Jeff Doucette.

	springmom:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 14:23 GMT	1 point
	Actually, series # 2 for ML should be Little House on the Prairie, as it was on BEFORE Highway to Heaven. It also lasted for more seasons.

	rockgolf:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 15:21 GMT	2 points
	@springmom: Little House would certainly have worked as well. I don't know that it would have affected the answer rate much. @Isstvan: Upon even further research, George Clooney's role in the 1st E/R was that of Peggy "Hot Legs" O'Hallaran, the nurse that patients adored and doctors craved. It seems there's no role Clooney can't play. ;-)

	theGrit:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 16:32 GMT	4 points
	LOVE that it accepted The Hoff. Nice suggestion, beatrixkiddo!

	PhiloKGB:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 17:40 GMT	2 points
	Also from Cagney and Lacey, Sharon Gless currently can be found in the best action/comedy/drama on TV, Burn Notice.

	cocky:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 17:41 GMT	2 points
	Trapper John MD and Battlestar Galactica could have paired with Bonanza as well.

	The:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 17:50 GMT	1 point
	Feel free to vote me down, but I just lost the game.

	woogs:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 21:33 GMT	2 points
	I love how I was able to just type "The Hoff" hahaha

	doanie:	Aug 31st, 2009 at 00:06 GMT	1 point
	betty white had her own show in 1955 called the betty white show. each night for 15 minutes at either 7pm or 7:15pm. just her.

	is89:	Aug 31st, 2009 at 00:16 GMT	1 point
	Why are none of these answers Mary Tyler Moore? It was the only way I was going to get any of these.

	ChestRockwell:	Aug 31st, 2009 at 01:01 GMT	1 point
	Could you possibly add any more Mary Tyler Moore actors?

	rockgolf:	Aug 31st, 2009 at 01:26 GMT	2 points
	Sure. Valerie Harper went on to Rhoda and Valerie. Cloris Leachman spun off into Phyllis. Ed Asner went on to Lou Grant, Thunder Alley, and just about every superhero cartoon since 1980, and of course Mary herself went on to Mary, Annie McGwire, & The Mary Tyler Moore Hour. Satisfied?

	ChestRockwell:	Aug 31st, 2009 at 02:13 GMT	3 points
	Nope. Need more.