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Are these classic TV character actors or 1960s baseball All-Stars?
Can you tell Dabs, Mudcat and Shug from Cookie, Catfish and Boog?
Classic TV character actors had all kinds of kooky names. Some of them were perfectly tailored to their frequent appearances in Westerns while others were simply family names that you don't hear every day.
Another realm of pop culture with a penchant for strange monikers was professional baseball, especially in the 1960s. Players had all kinds of nicknames.
Here are the names of classic TV character actors mixed with some of the memorable MLB ballplayers of the 1960s. Can you tell who is who from the names alone?
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Yogi Berra
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Slim Pickens
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Hank Aaron
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Ernie Banks
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Dabbs Greer
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Cookie Rojas
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X Brands
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Nellie Fox
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Chill Wills
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Scatman Crothers
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Boog Powell
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Cactus Mack
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Mudcat Grant
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Minnie Minoso
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Big Buck Maffei
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Catfish Hunter
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Shug Fisher
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Tristram Coffin
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Blue Moon Odom
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Guich Koock
Are these classic TV character actors or 1960s baseball All-Stars?
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19/20. Missed number 15.
* 19/20 here! I guessed wrong on #12 ♣
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Got 'em all cause I knew all the ball players.
19/20 shanked #17
WOW - 18 of 20
But only KNEW 10 while 8 were LUCKY guesses
FUN survey
But only KNEW 10 while 8 were LUCKY guesses
FUN survey
20/20
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Snap! Our quiz guesser lynngdance done took this down in a jiffy. Now we can all sit back, relax and view. Thanks again lynngdance. Also Moody was just in the Rear (behind Lynn).
Rear Window 1954 1h 52min
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Cast:
James Stewart
Grace Kelly
Raymond Burr
Thelma Ritter
Wendell Corey
https://archive.org/details/rear-window-1954_202107
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Your extra bonus during the week movie.
Our movie this week is a Action-Comedy-Crime
Silver Streak (1976) 1 hir 53 min
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast:
Gene Wilder
Richard Pryor
Jill Clayburgh
Patrick McGoohan
Ned Beatty
Ray Walston
Scatman Crothers
On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train. Along with a lot of laughs of course.
https://archive.org/details/ss-1976
Our movie this week is a Action-Comedy-Crime
Silver Streak (1976) 1 hir 53 min
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast:
Gene Wilder
Richard Pryor
Jill Clayburgh
Patrick McGoohan
Ned Beatty
Ray Walston
Scatman Crothers
On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train. Along with a lot of laughs of course.
https://archive.org/details/ss-1976
You are heading for an Odyssey. A 2001: A Space Odyssey as mater of fact. From past to present future.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 2 hr 28 min-Adventure-Sci-Fi
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast:
Keir Dullea
Gary Lockwood
William Sylvester
Daniel Richter
After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer H.A.L. 9000.
https://archive.org/details/2001-aso-1968
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 2 hr 28 min-Adventure-Sci-Fi
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast:
Keir Dullea
Gary Lockwood
William Sylvester
Daniel Richter
After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer H.A.L. 9000.
https://archive.org/details/2001-aso-1968
Movie Quiz July 16 2021
This movie one of the best by a long time director. You know him very well indeed. The main actor is truly magnificent in all types of movies. Co-actor with a short cinema career taking marriage and house wife as top priority. Other actors not only in movies but TV series and shows that lasted decades. This movie one for the dramatics, suspense and crime. If you have not seen it then you are out of the classic movie loop one would think. If you have then now owning a copy as soon as one of our posters get it.
Ones we all remember. Kick it up some.........
John Fogerty - The Old Man Down The Road.
Canned Heat Let's Work Together.
Status Quo - Whatever You Want.
HEART - Crazy On You.
The Knack - My Sharona.
Show Me The Way - Peter Frampton.
Action Thriller bonus movie
Some of the crew and other terrorists are getting ready to take over a USS Battle Ship. The thing is it has a trove of nuclear missiles in which they intend to steal. If the US government does not follow orders they intend to use two of them against Hawaii. In seconds it will turn the whole island into 10 thousand degrees and kill millions. What will happen and who is to stop them.
Under Siege (1992) 1 hr 42 min
Director: Andrew Davis
Cast:
Steven Segal
Tommy Lee Jones
Gary Buscy
Erika Eleniak
https://archive.org/details/under-siege-720p-1170
Comedy, Crime and Mystery Bonus movie
Who Is Killing The Great Chefs Of Europe? (1978) 1 hr 52 min
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Cast:
George Segal
Jacqueline Bisset
Robert Morley
Jean-Pierre Cassel
https://archive.org/details/who-is-killing-the-great-chefs-of-europe.mpeg-4
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This movie one of the best by a long time director. You know him very well indeed. The main actor is truly magnificent in all types of movies. Co-actor with a short cinema career taking marriage and house wife as top priority. Other actors not only in movies but TV series and shows that lasted decades. This movie one for the dramatics, suspense and crime. If you have not seen it then you are out of the classic movie loop one would think. If you have then now owning a copy as soon as one of our posters get it.
Ones we all remember. Kick it up some.........
John Fogerty - The Old Man Down The Road.
Canned Heat Let's Work Together.
Status Quo - Whatever You Want.
HEART - Crazy On You.
The Knack - My Sharona.
Show Me The Way - Peter Frampton.
Action Thriller bonus movie
Some of the crew and other terrorists are getting ready to take over a USS Battle Ship. The thing is it has a trove of nuclear missiles in which they intend to steal. If the US government does not follow orders they intend to use two of them against Hawaii. In seconds it will turn the whole island into 10 thousand degrees and kill millions. What will happen and who is to stop them.
Under Siege (1992) 1 hr 42 min
Director: Andrew Davis
Cast:
Steven Segal
Tommy Lee Jones
Gary Buscy
Erika Eleniak
https://archive.org/details/under-siege-720p-1170
Comedy, Crime and Mystery Bonus movie
Who Is Killing The Great Chefs Of Europe? (1978) 1 hr 52 min
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Cast:
George Segal
Jacqueline Bisset
Robert Morley
Jean-Pierre Cassel
https://archive.org/details/who-is-killing-the-great-chefs-of-europe.mpeg-4
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Those that wish to participate in the Weekly Movie Quiz.
Reward:
Conversation as to what this movie might be
Winners name in MeTV Lights
Just plain ole fun
Let's Do it at: Monk proved Tony Shalhoub was definitely leading man material (stories)
Friday @ 10:00 P.M CT
The Show Must Go On-Another knock down quizorama and entertainment.
Oh yeah, I remember that movie 👍
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20 for 20
16/20
Had Tristam Coffin and Tris Speaker confused there for a minute.
100%! Only two I wasn’t sure about were Mudcat and Big Buck. Blue Moon Odom was one of my favorite players from the Oakland A’s. Also should have included Odom’s teammate Vida Blue. But, seriously, do you think anyone would miss Hank Aaron?! Especially considering the controversy over his death?
19/20 I did remember some of those great baseball players.Good quiz!
20/20 This had to be the easiest quiz I ever took on MeTV. Of course, I'm a long-term baseball fan, so I knew all the Baseball nicknames. I also know many tv characters, so I recognized all of those. #13 Jim "Mudcat" Grant has one of the great nicknames in baseball, and had recently passed away so I knew of him for many years now.
20/20. Quiz was easy because one of the two options of each question was "Baseball All-Star" instead of just "Baseball Player." An interesting question would've been Al Ferrara who played mostly with the Dodgers in the 1960s but also appeared on Batman three times and Gilligan's Island once. He would be considered a character actor in this quiz because he was never an All-Star.
But the quiz did not include a puzzler for Al Ferrara, who I also remember as an L.A. Dodger player in the '60s. He was mostly a ballplayer, notwithstanding the few appearances he made as a guest on tv shows.
18/20 A lot of lucky guesses but Big Buck & Shug killed my ace.
19/20; had to guess on the last four
Are these classic TV character actors or 1960s baseball All-Stars?
You got 18 out of 20
Did you get all of them or were the right answers kinda… Slim Pickens?
You got 18 out of 20
Did you get all of them or were the right answers kinda… Slim Pickens?
I read on IMDb.com how he got his famous name. He was riding on the rodeo circuit. Someone told him that he should take up another line of work because all he would ever get in the rodeo was "Slim Pickin's" and he adopted that as his name, with a slight spelling change on the last name! He had a marvelous screen personality and unique, raspy Southern drawl, although born near Fresno, CA. His birth name was the un-spectacular Louis Berton Lindley Jr. Best remembered for a single "cowboy" image: that of bomber pilot Maj. "King" Kong waving his cowboy hat rodeo-style as he rides a nuclear bomb onto its target in the great black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). He was only 64 when he died in Dec. 1983 from a brain tumor. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001620/bio