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Can you name these obscure sitcoms that featured huge TV stars?
You know the faces… can you guess the titles?
We all remember and adore these actors from The Andy Griffith Show, M*A*S*H, Gilligan's Island, I Love Lucy and more… but these TV icons also starred in some pretty under-the-radar shows.
Below, you will see 11 super familiar faces in some less familiar settings. These obscure sitcoms aired from the 1950s to the 1980s. It takes a trivia genius to name them all.
Because this one is a little harder, we're giving you a little help. Only the correct title is a real TV show — the other two options we've completely made up. See if you can sniff out the right answers!
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Andy Griffith will forever be known as the sheriff of Mayberry, but in 1970 he played an educator at a California private school in this sitcom.
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After he was Gilligan, Bob Denver portrayed a taxi driver with a diner-owner pal in this 1968 sitcom.
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In her final sitcom, Lucille Ball played a widow with a hardware store in this 1986 sitcom.
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Jim Carrey got an early start in this 1984 comedy from MTM Enterprises.
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Sally Field played wife with ESP in this supernatural sitcom from 1973.
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Michael Keaton and Jim Belushi played janitors in this 1979 sitcom.
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A young Carol Burnett played the girlfriend of a newsstand owner in this 1956 sitcom.
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After 'M*A*S*H,' McLean Stevenson had a string of minor sitcoms. In this 1978 Norman Lear production, he played a priest.
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Before he became J.R. Ewing, Larry Hagman played a divorced man in this 1973 sitcom.
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Long before he was Col. Potter on 'M*A*S*H,' Harry Morgan starred in the 1960 spin-off of the hit sitcom 'December Bride.'
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Finally, you know John Astin as the Riddler and Gomez Addams. Before all that, he was a carpenter in this 1962 sitcom.
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28 Comments
Missed the Jim Carrey one, which I honestly don't remember - but no surprise since I can't stand him lol
* Yet some of these shows were okay but failed to click in ratings! ☺
You got 11 out of 11
You rule!
Tastes have changed.
Miss the wholesomeness, of yesteryear.
You rule!
Tastes have changed.
Miss the wholesomeness, of yesteryear.
9/11
9 out of 11
8/11. I was rolling along until I got to 7.
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Wow, was there ever a life more misspent?
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Wow, was there ever a life more misspent?
6/10 and I guessed on every one of them.
9/11. I remember a lot of these as reruns.
Did pretty horribly, but I have to admit, they came up with some good alternate titles.
A couple were tough ones.........................8/11
7/11 ugh.
CAN YOU NAME THESE OBSCURE SITCOMS THAT FEATURED HUGE TV STARS?
You got 11 out of 11
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You got 11 out of 11
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You must be old and boring
Watch it, bubba. I'm not that old, and I'm hardly boring. In fact, this photo that I'm attaching to this message should give you an idea of what my personality is like, you dig?
You got 11 out of 11
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10 out of 11 I must be old I really remember some of these
6/11. Never saw several of these.
10/11 Missed #8.
Me too. Exactly the same.
Me three. Exactly the same.
You got 10 out of 11
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Missed # 7
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Missed # 7
You got 11 out of 11
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10/11 Missed the last one :/