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These actors played their own relatives on TV – can you name them all?
The stars of Green Acres, The Addams Family, Matlock and more played dual roles in special episodes.
The trope of the doppelganger, two characters who look exactly the same played by the same actor, has been used countless times by all kinds of different shows. A slightly different take is to have the same actor play two different characters who are related in some way.
Usually reserved for sitcoms, although it can be seen in the classic Western Maverick and crime drama Matlock, this gimmick allows a show’s main star to branch out with more than one character – sometimes in the same scene!
Here are ten actors from classic shows who played someone related to their usual main character. Can you name all these identical relatives?
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Who is Carolyn Jones playing in the Addams Family?
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Who are Florence Henderson and Robert Reed playing in The Brady Bunch?
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Who is Eddie Albert playing in Green Acres?
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Who is Eva Gabor playing in a different Green Acres episode?
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Who is Fred MacMurray playing in My Three Sons?
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Who is Max Baer Jr. playing in The Beverly Hillbillies?
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Who is James Garner playing in Maverick?
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Who is Dick Van Dyke playing on his show?
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Who is Andy Griffith playing in this black-and-white episode of Matlock?
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Who is Ken Barry playing in Mama's Family?
These actors played their own relatives on TV – can you name them all?
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* Perfect Score!
9/10, missed number 8.
8/10! missed numbers 7 and 8. i was a bit out of tune.
5/10 answers little out of tune! 🙁🙄
9 out of 10 makes me smile
3/10 way out of tune!!!
Nostalgic fun!
6 out of 10 not a picnic
I missed John Inman as Mr Humphries and his mother Annie from Are you being served.
Samantha and cousin Sabrina
Wilbur and his father Angus Post
Jeannie And her sister Jeannie II
Wilbur and his father Angus Post
Jeannie And her sister Jeannie II
6/10 smdh
6/10 I knew the important ones that's all that matters lol 😆
''You got 7 out of 10" ------------Did you hit all the right notes or were your answers a little out of tune? ---A little out of tune. ----I got 2, 5 and 8 wrong!
These actors played their own relatives on TV – can you name them all?
You got 10 out of 10
Did you hit all the right notes or were your answers a little out of tune?
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In Question #10, the creators of this quiz spelled Ken Berry's last name wrong. They spelled it with an "A" instead of an "E", and that's why I almost didn't find him on "IMDb" when I looked his name up on there.
You got 10 out of 10
Did you hit all the right notes or were your answers a little out of tune?
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In Question #10, the creators of this quiz spelled Ken Berry's last name wrong. They spelled it with an "A" instead of an "E", and that's why I almost didn't find him on "IMDb" when I looked his name up on there.
3/10. I had to guess on all of them except for The Beverly Hillbillies one and the Mama's Family one.
6/10. Not as easy as I thought it would be.
Herman had Johan
Agreed . Thought I could nail this. Don’t want to admit how many I got wrong.
That's one of my favorite episodes!!
7/10
am i loopy? wasn't there a triple by Dick van Dyke?
also Patty Duke's regular double cousins? didn't they do a triple?
also Patty Duke's regular double cousins? didn't they do a triple?
7/10. 3, 4 and 8.
10. Damn. Thought that was Eric Braeden.
10. Damn. Thought that was Eric Braeden.
...back when he was still Hans Gudegast?
Or the werewolf on Kolchak:The Night Stalker?