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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:09 PM
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TV game
Describe a TV show without giving away the title of it, and see if anyone can ID it. Show can't be newer than 10 years old. If you want to be sneaky, you can describe it in an unusual way, just as long as it's still factual. Example: "A liberated woman tries to gain harmony when she marries a stuffy conservative." The answer, in this case, is "Bewitched." (Yeah, it describes a few, but that's what I picked.) You don't have to guess on one already given, just post one of your own. The only rule is that the show had to be shown in the United States in its history.

First one: Two men share an apartment to try and get back on their feet, but domestic tensions arise when both men try to one-up the other.



(It should be easy :))
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:11 PM
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1. an orphaned
little boy grows up to lead a duel identity.
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Fox Mulder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:12 PM
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3. Batman
Edited on Wed May-28-08 06:12 PM by Fox Mulder
or Superman?
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:17 PM
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5. hmm,
close...very close.
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:24 PM
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18. I was thinking Smallville, you basically got it, kudo's, its hard
to think of a sentence, that isn't too vague, yet doesn't give it away either.
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:45 PM
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52. Self-delete.
Edited on Wed May-28-08 06:46 PM by Brigid
wrong spot.
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:11 PM
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2. The Odd Couple? nt
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:15 PM
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4. Yes! Very good!
"A wealthy couple decides to gentrify a rural area, and end up increasingly frustrated and upset when the community refuses to take that snobby attitude from them."
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:20 PM
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8. Green Acres?
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:21 PM
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11. Yup!
:)
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:17 PM
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6. This show chronicles . . .
A group of wacky co-workers and their misadventures in the workplace.
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:18 PM
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7. The Office? nt
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:21 PM
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10. Nope.
It's much older than that.
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:21 PM
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12. WKRP in Cincinati? nt
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:23 PM
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15. Nope.
Think legal profession.
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:24 PM
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16. legal profession, hmm, LA Law, nt
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:25 PM
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21. Nope.
It was a sitcom.
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:26 PM
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Night Court, duh on me, nt
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:28 PM
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28. Yes!
My all-time favorite. Dan Fielding cracked me up! :rofl:
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:28 PM
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29. Yes!
My all-time favorite. Dan Fielding cracked me up! :rofl:
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:20 PM
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9. "Just Shoot Me"?
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:22 PM
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13. Nope.
Older than that one, too.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:25 PM
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19. "Star Trek: the New Generation", right?
Oh, wait. You said "wacky" not "boring as hell". I change my guess to "Battlestar Gallactica".
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:23 PM
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14. I think you're describing "Two and a Half Men"
Also, "Perfect Strangers". Possibly "Full House" as well.
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:36 PM
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43. heh
It was the Odd Couple. Couldn't be Two and a Half Men, because it's not at least 10 years old. :)

But yes, Perfect Strangers could have been described similarly.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:24 PM
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17. Ok
Young woman moves to midwestern city, gets job in newsroom, hilarity and brilliant television ensue.
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:25 PM
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20. Mary Tyler Moore show? nt
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:26 PM
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23. Correct!
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:26 PM
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thanks, its been a while since I've seen it, nt
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:25 PM
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22. Suddenly Susan
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:26 PM
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24. ok
man harbors every males dream in his home
and only one other male knows of it
he keeps it secret





lost



:hi:
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:28 PM
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26. I Dream of Genie? nt
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:32 PM
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37. YES!!!
lost
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:28 PM
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30. "I Dream of Jeannie"?
*I* don't have that particular fantasy, but whatever. :-)
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:33 PM
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38. ok it was a broad brush statement!!!``
but

your right!!!!


lost
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:27 PM
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25. A sheriff
who doesn't carry a gun.
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:29 PM
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34. Andy Griffith?
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:30 PM
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35. Bingo, :) nt
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:39 PM
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44. Adventures of Robin Hood?
Edited on Wed May-28-08 06:40 PM by Bucky
That, or Carter Country. Anyone remember that?
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 07:11 PM
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60. I do!
I don't remember a lot of it anymore, but it was Kene Holiday as the sheriff or deputy, and the two women officers ran the office.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:28 PM
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27. Ok here's one: Six FRIENDS live in NYC, where they drink coffee & enjoy being FRIENDS w/ each other.
Occasionally they swap apartments or have sex with each other, too. Then they drink more coffee with their FRIENDS. Any guesses?
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:28 PM
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32. oh shit, I know it!
The Adventures of Spiderman!!!
























Ha, Friends. :D
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:29 PM
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33. The Brady Bunch?
Not so much friends as family, though.

Only one bathroom, too.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:28 PM
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31. Bosom Buddies?
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:40 PM
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45. Same city!
Nah--it was Odd Couple. :)
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:31 PM
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36. A little girl
fights with the shop keepers daughter...
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:40 PM
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47. the little girls mother, also fights with the shopkeepers wife as well,
well..most of the town fights with the shopkeepers wife. :)
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:42 PM
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48. Little House on the Prarie?
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:42 PM
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50. Bingo, Mrs. Oleson made the show in my opinion, nt
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:33 PM
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39. This is the story . . .
of a man who leaves home to live on his own in a large city, only to have an unexpected roommate show up at his door.
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:34 PM
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40. Perfect Strangers, ? nt
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:35 PM
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41. Yep.
I loved that show. We so happy, now we do the dance of joy!
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:36 PM
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42. ......
:D
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:40 PM
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46. This one tells . . .
Edited on Wed May-28-08 07:00 PM by Brigid
the story of a close-knit family struggling to make in a big-city ghetto.
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:42 PM
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49. Good Times, nt
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:43 PM
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51. Yep.
Actually much better than the standard '70's sitcom.
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:46 PM
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53. Little guy makes it big in the big city.
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:50 PM
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55. Different Strokes? nt
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:53 PM
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56. Nope.
The guy is an adult.
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:48 PM
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54. a show about the Anti-George W. Bush
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:54 PM
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57. The West Wing?
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:57 PM
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59. yup
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:54 PM
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58. The West Wing?
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Doc_Technical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 09:32 PM
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61. Show was like "Route 66" except instead of two guys

traveling around the country, there was one guy. Instead of riding on four
wheels, he rode on two, and the show was only half as good.
Instead of calling the show "Route 33", the called it ??
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 07:25 PM
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65. Along Came Bronson?
Michael Parks, I believe.
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mwooldri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 09:37 PM
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62. This show features a Police Call Box.
This show was often originally shown on PBS stations in the 70's and 80's, maybe late 90's. Has been revived and now shows on Sci-Fi channel, though my local PBS station has been picking up some of the new revived series.
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 07:27 PM
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66. Dr. Who
Edited on Thu May-29-08 07:28 PM by hyphenate
Current doctor is Malcolm Tennant, who, incidentally, played the bad guy in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. :D
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 12:15 AM
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63. Small-town sherriff's department discovers that the only real threat to the town is themselves
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 07:31 PM
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67. Well
We talked about Carter Country upthread, so that would be my first guess. My second guess, which is too new, is Reno 911, which I don't watch, so I don't know how accurate that guess would be.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 12:23 AM
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64. Dozens of women inexplicably found the bespectacled, ordinary-looking doctor the sexiest man around.
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 07:34 PM
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68. I'm not coming up with anything
on this one. A hint, or the answer, please? :)
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