A nice little telly quiz for you...

1. What was the name of the shop opened by Reginald Perrin which only sold useless things?

2. Which soap opera character's death in January 1971 was due to electrocution from a faulty hairdryer plug?

3. Name the French/Ivory Coast production, made in 1969 and shown as a serial for children on BBC1 in the early '70s, which concerned a young African boy who grows up to be the chief of his tribe.

4. Who played the girlfriend of Richard O'Sullivan's character in the sitcom Robin's Nest?

5. What sort of animal was Twinkle in a famous episode of The Goodies?

6. First shown in colour in 1970 (after two series in black and white), which tense ITV drama featured a character named Toby Meres?

7. Which well-known sports commentator wrote the children's drama Jossy's Giants?

8. What was 'Tucker' Jenkins' actual Christian name?

9. Which controversial Thames/Euston Films series of the '70s grew out of a one-off episode of Armchair Cinema shown in June 1974?

10. Name the 1975 children's series, written by Peter Dickinson, in which adults suddenly begin destroying machinery and reverting to mediaeval superstition.

11. What was the surprise that awaited Tom Long at the end of the final episode of BBC1's Tom's Midnight Garden (1974)?

12. The fifteenth series of which long-running BBC1 drama began in 1977 with a four-part story entitled Horror Of Fang Rock?

13. Put these three Gerry Anderson series in the correct order that they were first broadcast: The Protectors; Space: 1999; UFO.

14. Which future dynamic duo appeared together in a 1977 episode of The New Avengers entitled Obsession?

15. Who am I? Born in Bradford in 1925, my roles in the '70s included Thomas Cranmer in The Six Wives Of Henry VIII; the Kommandant in Colditz; Mr Fletcher in The Squirrels; and Toby Esterhase in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

16. What was the name of the snake in The Sooty Show?

17. Who had a PhD in geography and a pregnant girlfriend, but no job?

18. Why did Don Henderson, who played George Bulman in The XYY Man and Strangers, wear gloves for the role?

19. What was the name of Basil's winning horse in the Fawlty Towers episode Communication Problems?

20. "Manor House station to Gibson Square." Which 1979 comedy drama?

12=Doctor Who, not sure about the rest.

I think I should put up a 90s quiz!

That's what I was going to say!

Is 4 whatshermane, who used to be your avatar back in the halcyon days of avatars? Sally, er, um...



There was a 70s show called Thriller. I remember it as being great, but I was only about nine or ten at the time. There's a DVD box but it costs about a hundred quid. Any thoughts?

1. Grot
4. Tessa Wyatt
8. Peter
14. The Professionals
17. Wolfie Smith ??

1. Grot
2. Val Barlow?
4. Tessa Wyatt
5. a cat

7 is Sid Waddell-surely that's 80s TV?

5. yes the cat that looms over the PO tower, looks like my balloons but its grey/blue colour

My mistake, sorry. :unsure:

Parus

Dragonfly

Correct answers so far:

1. Grot
2. Valerie Barlow
4. Tessa Wyatt
5. a cat
7. Sid Waddell
8. Peter
12. Dr Who
14. The Professionals
19. Dragonfly

6. Callan
10.The Changes
16. Ramsbottom

15 = Bernard Hepton

3 is roots?

Correct answers so far:

1. Grot
2. Valerie Barlow
4. Tessa Wyatt
5. a cat
6. Callan
7. Sid Waddell
8. Peter
10.The Changes
12. Dr Who
14. The Professionals
15. Bernard Hepton
16. Ramsbottom
19. Dragonfly

13 - UFO, Protectors, Space 1999

Only got 1. Grot :lol:

Some guesses;

3. Elephant Boy

9. I Clavdivs

13. Protectors (Nyree Dawn Porter :wub: ), UFO (Gabrielle Drake :wub: ), Space 1999 (women on TV just weren't as fit by the late 70s).

17. Bloke with a Welsh name that I can't remember.

Correct answers so far:

1. Grot
2. Valerie Barlow
4. Tessa Wyatt
5. a cat
6. Callan
7. Sid Waddell
8. Peter
10.The Changes
12. Dr Who
13 - UFO, Protectors, Space 1999
14. The Professionals
15. Bernard Hepton
16. Ramsbottom
19. Dragonfly

Vvillager is on the right lines with 17. -_-

Hywel Bennett

Just realised that 9 surely has to be The Sweeney... although I don't have any recollection of Armchair Theatre whatsoever........ you SLAAAAAG!

Shelley

Doh! Of course. Hywel Bennett was great in Tinker Tailor too.

Correct answers so far:

1. Grot
2. Valerie Barlow
4. Tessa Wyatt
5. a cat
6. Callan
7. Sid Waddell
8. Peter
9. The Sweeney (the original drama was called Regan)
10.The Changes
12. Dr Who
13 - UFO, Protectors, Space 1999
14. The Professionals
15. Bernard Hepton
16. Ramsbottom
17. Shelley (played by Hywel Bennett)
19. Dragonfly

Was 20 The Knowledge?!

Yippee, I got one right. Took a bit of googling. I knew that he'd been in a really good film with Billie Whitelaw which turned out to be Twisted Nerve after a quick search. About time that it was repeated.

:)

18. To cover up his wedding ring that he couldn't take off.

Very good!

Can we have another pop quiz soon?

u haven't finished mine yet

It's too hard, that's why.

:lol: ah!

We got most of them. :lol: There comes a point when you have to reveal the rest of the answers. That time may be now.

hang on

:mellow: oops

no. no, no - don't know :rolleyes:

The missing answers were:

3. Yao

11. The elderly woman living downstairs turned out to be the young Victorian girl he had been meeting in the garden at night.

Well done everybody. :)

I got a fair few of those. Sad to see a lack of questions about "Devenish", "The Crez", "Pardon My Genie", "The Cuckoo Waltz",etc. Ah, well.