SPOILER ALERT: This post contains all the answers to Quiz #54. If you haven’t taken the quiz yet, you might want to try the questions-only version first!
Ready to see how you did? Here are all the questions and answers from this week’s quiz, which featured our fun “Making a Muppet Out of You” theme.
Round One: Making a Muppet Out of You
Simple concept – we gave you the name of a Muppet character and you had to tell us whether they were in Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, or both.
1️⃣ Bert and Ernie
Answer: Sesame Street
2️⃣ Dr Teeth
Answer: Muppet Show – leader of Dr Teeth and The Electric Orchestra
3️⃣ Robin the Frog
Answer: Muppet Show – Kermit’s Nephew
4️⃣ Oscar the Grouch
Answer: Sesame Street
5️⃣ Marvin Suggs
Answer: Muppet Show – played the Muppaphone which involved hitting little muppets with a big mallet to get a tune
Round Two: Marathon/Fil Rouge
Questions related to topics and personalities we’ve featured in previous episodes of the My 70’s TV Childhood podcast.
1️⃣ The Mr Men cartoons featured in February 2024. Who was the original narrator of the series?
Answer: Arthur Lowe
2️⃣ Way back in June 2021 we looked back at the usually pretty dire programming on bank holidays. A regular feature was the Harlem Globetrotters playing at the Empire Pool Wembley. What was the name of their usual opponents who kept on coming back for a beating?
Answer: The Washington Generals
3️⃣ In September this year we looked back at “All Creatures Great and Small.” Who played James Herriot’s wife Helen in the original run of the show?
Answer: Carol Drinkwater. She was played by Lynda Bellingham in the 1980’s revival
4️⃣ Christmas memories were to the fore in December 2020. Which circus regularly appeared on BBC TV on Christmas Day, much to Oliver’s irritation!
Answer: Billy Smart’s Circus
5️⃣ In October 2023 we celebrated the life of Brian Cant. As a host of Play School, he had to work with the famous group of toys. Which one of those did Oliver, and from listener feedback many of you, find deeply disturbing?
Answer: Hamble
Round Three: Name That Tune (1971)
Our specially constructed Wheel of Fate landed on 1971! Here are the five theme tunes from TV shows first broadcast on UK television that year.
1️⃣ Theme Tune 1
Answer: Here Come the Double Deckers!
2️⃣ Theme Tune 2
Answer: Grasshopper Island
3️⃣ Theme Tune 3
Answer: Barlow at Large
4️⃣ Theme Tune 4
Answer: The Old Grey Whistle Test
5️⃣ Theme Tune 5
Answer: Mr Benn
Round Four: TV Times
Anything goes in this round – questions about various 70s television shows, personalities, and notable programming from the era.
1️⃣ In what year did strike action cause ITV to be off the air for eleven weeks?
Answer: 1979
2️⃣ According to BARB ratings, the most watched TV show of 1971 was a boxing match in March of that year billed as “The Fight of the Century.” Who were the two fighters involved?
Answer: Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier
3️⃣ In the sitcom “Citizen Smith” what was the name of the revolutionary organisation led by Wolfie Smith played by Robert Lindsay?
Answer: The Tooting Popular Front or TPF
4️⃣ Staying with Citizen Smith, Peter Vaughan played Mr Johnson, Wolfie’s girlfriend Shirley’s father. What role did he play in the sitcom “Porridge?”
Answer: Mr Grout or Grouty
5️⃣ What was the setting for the sitcom “Only When I Laugh” starring James Bolam and Peter Bowles which was first shown in 1979?
Answer: A hospital ward
Bonus Question
Excluding the pilot, how many episodes of “The Sweeney” were produced? (You can have three either way!)
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