Here’s a quiz you might not want to score so well on.  How well do you remember the details of popular 1960’s television series?  Score 1,960 points for every correct answer and no points for every wrong answer.  No fair consulting Google.

(1) What was the name of the telephone operator on the Andy Griffith Show?

(a) Clara
(b) Sarah
(c) Juanita
(d) Charlene

(2) On the Beverly Hillbillies, comedy actor Louis Nye played the part of

(a) Jethro Bodine
(b) Milburn Drysdale
(c) Sonny Drysdale
(d) Sam Drucker

(3) On Gunsmoke, the first name of the actor who played Doc was

(a) Milburn
(b) Mansour
(c) Holiday
(d) Blake

(4) On The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, we would share a little “tea” with

(a) Officer Judy
(b) Rocky
(c) Aunt Bee
(d) Goldie

(5) On the spy spoof Get Smart, the difference between the “agent numbers” of co-stars Barbara Feldon and Don Adams was

(a) 7
(b) 13
(c) 39
(d) 99

(6) The name of the “normal” character in the Munsters family was

(a) Beverly
(b) Edward
(c) Darren
(d) Marilyn

(7) The first character to act as cook and caregiver in My Three Sons was

(a) Mr. French
(b) Charley
(c) Bub
(d) Mr. Wilson

(8) One of these 1960’s female characters was not a housemaid:

(a) Hazel
(b) Alice
(c) Rosie
(d) Ethel

(9) Which of these characters was the female handyperson on Green Acres?

(a) Alf
(b) Arnold
(c) Ralph
(d) Hank

(10) On The Fugitive, the title character hunted for a killer who had lost…

(a) his right arm
(b) his left eye
(c) his left hand
(d) his right leg

Correct answers are in the comments.  Post your score if you dare.  Good luck.

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CecilCecil, the actor who played a sea serpent in the 1960’s television show Beany and Cecil, and who was in fact a professionally-trained sea serpent in private life, died on Tuesday near his home in San Fransisco Bay.  He was 58.

His manager, Davey Jones, said the cause was seasickness.

A competent actor with a lispy, fluid voice, Cecil was born Acrochordus Granulatus Zimmerman in 1959.  He formally adopted his stage name later that year, after his eponymous television show became popular among pre-schoolers.

Cecil played a good-natured, bumbling character, loved by all who met him but especially by Beany, a squinty, fatherless boy portrayed by Gilbert Gottfried.  The on-screen displays of affection did not, however, continue off the set — directors complained that Cecil drank heavily, slurred his lines, and often salivated on his co-stars.

After production on Beany and Cecil ended in 1962, Cecil drifted for a number of years before turning to cruise-ship theater in the early ’70s.  His last memorable role was that of the serpent in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, for Carnival Cruise Lines in 1978.

Cecil was due to reunite with Beany and Uncle Captain on an episode of Matlock in 1994, but the show was pre-empted on its scheduled evening by coverage of the O. J. Simpson Ford Bronco chase.  The reunion episode was never aired and is now considered lost.

Cecil is survived by his ex-wife Ness and their six daughters, Hydra.

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