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XPTV Television Quiz

How much do you know about our TV shows?

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XPTV1: Talk show host, Harvey Brownstone, is famous for being:

The first New York Radio DJ to play Rock N' Roll

The first Hollywood writer to walk out in the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike

The first openly gay judge in Canada

The first Canadian talk show host to interview Burt Reynolds

The first talk show host to be featured on XPTV1

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XPTVUS: Bryan Cranston is famous for his role as Walter White, the frustrated high school chemistry teacher in "Breaking Bad", but in which of our XPTVUS binge series did he play family man Hal Wilkerson?

Soap!

Malcolm In The Middle

M.A.S.H

The Waltons

The Dukes Of Hazzard

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XPTV2: One of our afternoon TV series is a 1978 spin-off from one of our other afternoon TV series from 1974, but which two series are we talking about?

Mork & Mindy spin-off from Happy Days

The Dukes Of Hazzard spin-off from The Waltons

Stargate SG1 spin-off from Star Trek Next Generation

The Yogi Bear Show spin-off from Looney Tunes

Quantum Leap spin-off from UFO

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XPTVUK: All but one member of the Monty Python team went to either Oxford or Cambridge universities, but who was the one who didn't?

John Cleese

Terry Jones

Eric Idle

Terry Gilliam

Graham Chapman

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XPTV1: Mike Read, who presents the XPTV1show "The Heritage Chart", had a daily weekday radio show on BBC Radio 1, but what was his time-slot?

Overnight

Lunchtime

Drivetime

Evening

Breakfast

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XPTVUS: Officer Jebediah Turner in the cop show "CHiPs" was played by actor Michael Dorn. In which show does he star daily on XPTV2?

The Dukes Of Hazzard

Star Trek: The Next Generation

The Six Million Dollar Man

Prisoner: Cell Block H

Cheers!

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XPTV2: The series "Cheers!" spawned two direct spin-off shows (along with crossovers onto many other popular shows of the day). Most of us know that the show "Frasier" was one of those spin-offs, but what was the name of the other less successful one?

Jennifer Slept Here

Misfits Of Science

Street Hawk

Three's A Crowd

The Tortellis

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XPTVUK: In series 4 of Rising Damp, one character was recast due to "other commitments". The new cast member was particularly difficult to work with, and Producer, Vernon Lawrence, says he used to shudder whenever that character appeared in the script. Which character was it?

Rupert Rigsby

Ruth (Miss) Jones

Alan Moore

Vienna The Cat

Philip Smith

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XPTVUS: In the opening credits of The A-Team, character Templeton 'Faceman' Peck, played by actor Dirk Benedict is startled by a silver suited "Cylon Warrior". This was intended as an "in-joke", but why?

Dirk Benedict was famously scared of the colour silver

The character "Templeton Peck" was originally supposed to be an android

The Cylons were the enemy in Dirk Benedict's previous TV series, "Battlestar Gallactica"

The producers of the show had previously produced Batlestar Gallactica, from which the Cylons originated

Actor George Peppard, who was wearing the Cylon costume was notoriously difficult to work with, and they used to say he was "about as easy as a Cylon"

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XPTV2: In the original series, The Saint, the title character was played by future James Bond actor, Roger Moore, but who took over the role in the sequel series "The Return Of The Saint"?

Pierce Brosnan

Edward Fox

Simon Ward

Ian Ogilvy

Colin Baker

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XPTVUK: In the title role of The Two Ronnies, one of the writers is credited as the fictional "Gerald Wiley". For which comic actor was that an alias?

David Jason

Ronnie Barker

John Cleese

Ronnie Corbett

Michael Crawford

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XPTV US: Which famous Harry Potter actor appeared in the final episode of "Frasier

Alan Rickman (Severus Snape)

Robbie Coltrane (Rubeus Hagrid)

Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter)

Michael Gambon (Albus Dumbledore)

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XPTV2: In Stargate SG1, which regular cast member provides the voice for Thor of the Asgard?

Richard Dean Anderson (Colonel Jack O'Neill)

Christopher Judge (Teal'c)

Michael Shanks (Dr. Daniel Jackson)

Amanda Tapping (Major Samantha Carter)

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Now just a couple of questions about our TV channels... (No right or wrong answers here so it won't affect your score.
1) What is your favourite show on our XPTV Global network?

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2) Is there a show you'd like to see on one of our channels that we're currently not broadcasting? (You're welcome to just say "No" if you think we already have the right content!)

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