# Guess the movie from the TV shows **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 5, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769 "2012-09-05T17:56:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/1 "2012-09-05T17:56:35Z")
Solve a puzzle or create a puzzle. A puzzle should list 3 or 4 TV shows. From each show pick a fairly prominent actor (not obscure, and not a guest star, but a regular). What movie were all of those actors in? Example: The Mary Tyler Moore Show Leverage Taxi Actors from those shows include MTM, Timothy Hutton, and Judd Hirsch. They were all in Ordinary People. Puzzle t1: McCloud Space 1999 Get Smart Puzzle t2: MASH The Dick van Dyke Show The Naked Truth ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/2 "2012-09-05T18:19:57Z")
Still working on the OP’s puzzles, but here’s one of my own: Law and Order MASH Murder, She Wrote ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/3 "2012-09-05T18:30:00Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Law and Order > MASH > Murder, She Wrote Jerry Orbach David Ogden Stiers Angela Lansbury Beauty and the Beast Good one! ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/4 "2012-09-05T18:30:24Z")
Ninja’ed! > [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Still working on the OP’s puzzles, but here’s one of my own: > > Law and Order > MASH > Murder, She Wrote Beauty and the Beast (Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, and Angela Lansbury) Married with Children E.R. Roseanne ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/5 "2012-09-05T18:31:57Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Solve a puzzle or create a puzzle. > Puzzle t1: > McCloud > Space 1999 > Get Smart Ken Lynch Martin Landau Edward Platt _North by Northwest_ ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/6 "2012-09-05T18:36:01Z")
The Dick van Dyke Show Arrested Development Saturday Night Live ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/7 "2012-09-05T19:28:13Z")
_**Family Matters Good Times Moonlighting**_ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/8 "2012-09-05T19:30:00Z")
_**SpongeBob SquarePants The Walking Dead Ally McBeal**_ ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/9 "2012-09-05T19:30:07Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > Ninja’ed! > Beauty and the Beast (Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, and Angela Lansbury) > > Married with Children > E.R. > Roseanne Revenge of the Nerds (Ted McGinley, Anthony Edwards, John Goodman)? Mission Impossible Unsolved Mysteries Police Squad ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/10 "2012-09-05T19:31:50Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > Revenge of the Nerds (Ted McGinley, Anthony Edwards, John Goodman)? D’oh! I was thinking McGinley, but going down the Christina Applegate path, since she’s had the best career of any of them. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/11 "2012-09-05T19:32:59Z")
_**The Odd Couple Archie Bunker’s Place N.Y.P.D.**_ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/12 "2012-09-05T19:35:26Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > Revenge of the Nerds (Ted McGinley, Anthony Edwards, John Goodman)? > Mission Impossible > Unsolved Mysteries > Police Squad * * * Airplane!\*\*\*: Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/13 "2012-09-05T19:39:31Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > _**The Odd Couple > Archie Bunker’s Place > N.Y.P.D.**_ No idea who was in NYPD, but Jack Klugman and Martin Balsam were in 12 Angry Men. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/14 "2012-09-05T19:40:25Z")
_**Third Rock from the Sun Rescue Me The Electric Company**_ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/15 "2012-09-05T19:41:28Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > No idea who was in NYPD, but Jack Klugman and Martin Balsam were in 12 Angry Men. You got it- \*\*\*NYPD \*\*\*was a gritty early Seventies cop show which starred Jack Warden (another juror). ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/16 "2012-09-05T19:44:22Z")
Almost too easy… _**The Flying Nun CSI: New York Bosom Buddies**_ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/17 "2012-09-05T19:49:36Z")
_**Taxi Sanford and Son Deadwood**_ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/18 "2012-09-05T19:50:56Z")
_**30 Rock Growing Pains The West Wing**_ ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/19 "2012-09-05T19:51:34Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Almost too easy… > > _**The Flying Nun > CSI: New York > Bosom Buddies**_ That’s all I have to say about that. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/20 "2012-09-05T19:54:08Z")
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