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Fan quiz: Can you match these famous TV actors to their lesser-known early roles?
These actors were in parts big and small before they landed the role that made them famous.
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Some actors are most famous for their very first onscreen role while others work for years playing small parts before landing the gig that makes them a household name.
Here are 12 well-known actors from classic television shows. Can you guess which roles each person played before the one for which they're most remembered?
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Before starring in Adam-12, Martin Milner was a regular on what show?
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Before he played the title role in Gilligan’s Island, Bob Denver was in over a hundred episodes of which sitcom?
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Before she led The Donna Reed Show, Donna Reed starred in which classic Christmas movie?
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Before playing Grandma Walton, Ellen Corby had a small role in which Alfred Hitchcock thriller?
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Before her own iconic sketch show, Carol Burnett was part of the regular cast of which comedy show?
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Before David Hasselhoff became fearless crime fighter Michael Knight and teamed up with the super car named K.I.T.T., what daytime soap opera did he appear on?
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Before leading his fellow prisoners at Stalag 13 as Colonel Robert E. Hogan in Hogan’s Heroes, what other hit series was Bob Crane a regular on?
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Before he played wisecracking yet dedicated Army surgeon Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H, Alan Alda starred in which 1971 horror film?
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Before Nichelle Nichols’s groundbreaking role of Lt. Nyota Uhura in Star Trek, what Gene Roddenberry/Lee Erwin penned television episode did she appear?
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Before Lynda Carter’s iconic role as the Amazonian Super heroine Wonder Woman, what crime drama did she appear in?
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Before George Reeves became the “Man of Steel” fighting crime and saving Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen as Superman, he played one of a pair of twins in what period drama set during the Civil War?
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Before Jeffery Hunter starred as the original Star Trek’s Captain Christopher Pike, what classic western did he star in with the legendary John Wayne?
Fan quiz: Can you match these famous TV actors to their lesser-known early roles?
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5 out of 12.
9/12. Not a bad score, as some of these were pretty obscure.
9/12
7 out of 12. George Reeves was also on one of the funniest "I Love Lucy" episodes: "Lucy and Superman."
5 out of 12....ouch
The ones I missed, I never heard of....and I'm OLD
6 out of 12 :(
6/12.
8. From the correct answer.
8. From the correct answer.
6/12, pitiful. Nakia, never heard of it.
8/12
7/12
Didn't do too well...8/12. My bad!
9/12. Good tough quiz.
You smoked that quiz, great job!
11/12. Never heard of Nakia. It must have been a real doozy
I've never heard of it either, but I did watch Ironside, Cannon and Mannix and knew she was not a regular on those programs.
it never said she was a regular, only that she 'appeared' in it.
5/12
I think this quiz also should've mentioned a pre-"Mission Impossible" Martin Landau in the "Twilight Zone" episode "Mr. Denton on Doomsday".
I did awful here LOL :)
8/12
I won't even post my score I bombed so badly. Quite the humbling experience.
Maybe the healing will begin once you try sanctimony and silly native superstition.