| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | TV MUSIC $400: (I'm Ellie Kemper.) Like "30 Rock"'s, the theme song from "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" was written by Jeff Richmond, who is married to this creator of both shows Tina Fey |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES & TV SHOWS $400: (I'm Ellie Kemper.) Growing up, I wanted to be a nun due in part to my love of this 1965 movie about a young woman at an Austrian convent The Sound of Music |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | QUOTABLE TV SHOWS $200: "I'm not paying you to do stand-up, Mr. Squidward! Now get back to work!" SpongeBob (SquarePants) |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | QUOTABLE TV SHOWS $600: A classic of early TV: "Hello, friends, I'm your Vitameatavegamin girl" I Love Lucy |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | TV SHOWS BY SETTING $1200: St. Bonaventure Hospital, where Dr. Shaun Murphy works The Good Doctor |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | TV SHOWS' FIRST EPISODES $400: "12:00 A.M.-1:00 A.M." (2001) 24 |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | TV SHOWS BY FINAL EPISODE $800: Luring over 100 million viewers in 1983: "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" M*A*S*H |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS $200: Richard Hooker's "Novel About Three Army Doctors" was the basis for a film & a TV show, both with this name M*A*S*H |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | "M" TV SHOWS $200: Sitcom with Anna Faris & Allison Janney Mom |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | "M" TV SHOWS $400: Sometimes with duct tape, Richard Dean Anderson saved the day MacGyver |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | "M" TV SHOWS $600: On Discovery Channel, a "Bear" dropped in the middle of nowhere told you how he survived Man vs. Wild |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | "M" TV SHOWS $800: '80s show about the Blue Moon Detective Agency Moonlighting |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | "M" TV SHOWS $1000: Dennis Weaver cowboyed up as a cop in New York City McCloud |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | ABBREVIATED NO. 1 TV SHOWS $400: On ABC, 1999-2000:
"W.W.T.B.A.M." Who Wants to be a Millionaire |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | HBO, GO! $400: (I'm political commentator S.E. Cupp.) In addition to appearing on many real TV journalism shows, I was a consultant on this Aaron Sorkin HBO drama Newsroom |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | RADIO & TV GAME SHOWS $1200: (Hi. I'm Mo Rocca.) I'm a frequent panelist on this weekly NPR news quiz show that includes the games Bluff the Listener & Not My Job Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | TV SHOWS' OPENING LYRICS $1600: "Until I'm one with you my heart shall not pass through"--a reference to the U.S./Mexico border? The Bridge |
| #6525, aired 2013-01-18 | TV SHOWS IN SONG $2000: In 1975 he vowed, "& I'll jump & hey, I may even show 'em my handstand, because I'm on, ...the 'American Bandstand'" Barry Manilow |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | SONGS ON TV SHOWS $800: Weekend show on which you would hear songs like "Motherlover", "Iran So Far" & "I'm On A Boat" Saturday Night Live |
| #5741, aired 2009-07-20 | TV MEDICAL SHOWS BY HOSPITAL $1200: Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital House (M.D.) |
| #5741, aired 2009-07-20 | TV MEDICAL SHOWS BY HOSPITAL $2000: In the 1980s:
San Francisco Memorial Hospital Trapper John, M.D. |
| #5700, aired 2009-05-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TECHNOLOGY $800: (David Pogue reads the clue.) I'm holding a Blu-ray DVD player that can also download movies & TV shows from this service that's now living up to its name; its CEO has said, "There's a reason we didn't call the company DVD By Mail" Netflix |
| #4339, aired 2003-06-12 | TOP-RATED TV SHOWS $400: Its final episode, May 20, 1993, raised its ratings bar to 45.5 Cheers |
| #4047, aired 2002-03-19 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $200: Ugly John,
Charles Emerson Winchester III,
Hot Lips M*A*S*H |
| #3617, aired 2000-05-02 | TV SHOWS $200: (Hi, I'm Brook Kerr from the soap opera Passions.) With elements of the supernatural, "Passions" has been described as "'Peyton Place' meets" this Fox series The X-Files |
| #3383, aired 1999-04-28 | LONG-RUNNING TV SHOWS $1,600 (Daily Double): (Backstage at the Emmys: Hi, I'm Jay Leno, and the answer is:) My "Tonight Show" predecessor, Johnny Carson, became the full-time host after this man quit in March of 1962 Jack Paar |
| #3148, aired 1998-04-15 | TV SHOWS ON TV SHOWS $500 (Daily Double): (Hi. I'm Debbe Dunning.) It's the name of the home improvement show that's featured on "Home Improvement" Tool Time |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | TELEVISION $500: Marketing has begun on a line of nursewear from this TV medical show Trapper John, M.D. |
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