What the heck happened to these television husbands' wives?

It's like Where's Waldo, but with wives.

 

We all love a great single dad storyline, but doesn't anybody ever wonder where all these wives have run off to? Well, we did, and now we're making it your problem. We'll give you the name of a single man in a classic television series, and it's your responsibility to tell us what happened to his wife!

  1. Archie Bunker is single for a majority of Archie Bunker's Place. What happened to his wife, Edith?
  2. In The Brady Bunch, where is Mike Brady's first wife?
  3. What happened to the mother in My Three Sons?
  4. In the Leave It To Beaver sequel series, Still the Beaver, where is Beaver's wife?
  5. What happened to Frasier's first wife, Nanny G?
  6. What happened to Andy Taylor's first wife in The Andy Griffith Show?
  7. In Bonanza, Ben Cartwright has three wives, all of them deceased. How did his first wife, Elizabeth, die?
  8. What happened to Mark's mother in The Rifleman?
  9. What happened to Elizabeth Sanford in Sanford and Son?
  10. What happened to Alex Reiger's wife in Taxi?
  11. What happened to Lou Grant's wife in The Mary Tyler Moore Show?

What the heck happened to these television husbands' wives?

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125 Comments

bonwil 2 months ago
That was fun.. Most of my answers were guesses
Ratt1959 3 months ago
You got 9 out of 11. Enough dead wives on tv.
Griselda 3 months ago
Billy Mumy wished Andy's wife and all his vanishing girlfriends into the cornfield.
trogg888 3 months ago
It would have been fun to find out Andy was a serial killer and had killed them all
trogg888 3 months ago
Guess it's ot too healthy to be married to a sit com husband
Tanisha32 3 months ago
7/11 I didn't realize they were killing off wives like that back then. Did they do the same with the husbands of the single moms? Or were they allowed to cheat and be merry?
Tanisha32 3 months ago
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Avie 3 months ago
People don't "pass away," they DIE.

It's a simple word, with a distinguished pedigree, and conveys the idea far better than "pass away," which no less an authority than Scarlett O'Hara would describe as "mealy-mouthed."
Avie 3 months ago
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LeeHarper 3 months ago
8/10. So much death.

Wendy57 LeeHarper 3 months ago
Nice photo.
trogg888 LeeHarper 3 months ago
Is that Lincoln's wife?
spalding69 3 months ago
11/11 most of the choices were just plain stupid....trampled by buffaloes my eye.
HGN2001 3 months ago
You forgot some of the drama shows like Barnaby Jones' wife, Richard Kimble's wife, etc.
QazWiz HGN2001 3 months ago
murdered by one armed man.... LOL
cperrynaples HGN2001 3 months ago
Yep, and wasn't Cannon's daughter killed? Going back to Barnaby Jones, I believe Betty lost her husband!
trogg888 HGN2001 3 months ago
Kimble killed his wife,wait I mean "a one armed man killed her" great alibi dick
IndianaRockz 3 months ago
10/11

And lead character & suspiciously 'single dad' Sam Jones on Mayberry RFD. Perhaps he got some pointers from fellow suspiciously single dad, Andy Taylor .....
Some backyards might need to be dug up in good ol' Mayberry
Coldnorth IndianaRockz 3 months ago
Now THAT was funny
CouchPotato19 3 months ago
What creative writing. Almost all of the wives passed away. You would almost think it's the men's secret wish.
QazWiz CouchPotato19 3 months ago
era they live in says if died/divorsed... only one that switched is Edith, (which should have been a divorse, promoting the breaking down of the family structure. but instead All in the family did a big CANCER show when real actress Stapleton got Breast Cancer so Edith did too. later, Edith died heart attack because Edith beat cancer, (unlike Jean Stapleton... RIP)
cperrynaples QazWiz 3 months ago
Well, to be fair Stapleton lived 33 years longer than Edith!
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