TV Binge Watch (Part 1)

Shows with a key Arab or Middle Eastern character

  1. Star Trek: DS9 - Dr. Julian Bashir
  2. Community - Abed Nadir
  3. Lost - Sayid Jarrah
  4. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow - Zari Tomaz
  5. Make Room for Daddy - Uncle Tonoose
  6. Superstore - Sayid
  7. Doctor Who - Yasmin Khan

Shows with a key Arab or Middle Eastern character

  1. Star Trek: DS9 - Dr. Julian Bashir
  2. Community - Abed Nadir
  3. Lost - Sayid Jarrah
  4. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow - Zari Tomaz
  5. Make Room for Daddy - Uncle Tonoose
  6. Superstore - Sayid
  7. Doctor Who - Yasmin Khan
  8. Arastoo Vaziri - Bones

Shows with a key Arab or Middle Eastern character

  1. Star Trek: DS9 - Dr. Julian Bashir
  2. Community - Abed Nadir
  3. Lost - Sayid Jarrah
  4. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow - Zari Tomaz
  5. Make Room for Daddy - Uncle Tonoose
  6. Superstore - Sayid
  7. Doctor Who - Yasmin Khan
  8. Bones - Arastoo Vaziri
  9. Quantico - Nimah Amin

Shows with a key Arab or Middle Eastern character

  1. Star Trek: DS9 - Dr. Julian Bashir
  2. Community - Abed Nadir
  3. Lost - Sayid Jarrah
  4. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow - Zari Tomaz
  5. Make Room for Daddy - Uncle Tonoose
  6. Superstore - Sayid
  7. Doctor Who - Yasmin Khan
  8. Bones - Arastoo Vaziri
  9. Quantico - Nimah Amin
  10. MASH - Max Klinger

I’ll pass.

Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers

  1. Don Pardo

(These could be game show prize guys–“You’ve just won a brand new car!”–or somebody introducing guests on a variety or panel show, or similar.)

Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers

  1. Don Pardo
  2. Johnny Gilbert

Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers

  1. Don Pardo
  2. Johnny Gilbert
  3. Johnny Olson

Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers

  1. Don Pardo
  2. Johnny Gilbert
  3. Johnny Olson
  4. Jay Stewart

Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers

  1. Don Pardo
  2. Johnny Gilbert
  3. Johnny Olson
  4. Jay Stewart
  5. Don Morrow

Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers

  1. Don Pardo
  2. Johnny Gilbert
  3. Johnny Olson
  4. Jay Stewart
  5. Don Morrow
  6. Rod Roddy

Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers

  1. Don Pardo
  2. Johnny Gilbert
  3. Johnny Olson
  4. Jay Stewart
  5. Don Morrow
  6. Rod Roddy
  7. Johnny Jacobs

Is there some kind of industry rule that one in three has to be named “Johnny”?

Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers

  1. Don Pardo
  2. Johnny Gilbert
  3. Johnny Olson
  4. Jay Stewart
  5. Don Morrow
  6. Rod Roddy
  7. Johnny Jacobs
  8. Shadoe Stevens

He announced and was a panelist on John Davidson’s version of Hollywood Squares, but also announced on other shows.

And was the announcer in The Kentucky Fried Movie! (“Samuel L. Bronkowitz presents…Catholic High School Girls in Trouble,” etc.)

Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers

  1. Don Pardo
  2. Johnny Gilbert
  3. Johnny Olson
  4. Jay Stewart
  5. Don Morrow
  6. Rod Roddy
  7. Johnny Jacobs
  8. Shadoe Stevens
  9. Jack Clark

Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers

  1. Don Pardo
  2. Johnny Gilbert
  3. Johnny Olson
  4. Jay Stewart
  5. Don Morrow
  6. Rod Roddy
  7. Johnny Jacobs
  8. Shadoe Stevens
  9. Jack Clark
  10. Ken Ryan

This was mine, so I’ll pass.

Episodes where a real musician plays a fake musician

  1. Law & Order - “Blaze” (John Doe plays Teddy Connor)

Episodes where a real musician plays a fake musician

  1. Law & Order - “Blaze” (John Doe plays Teddy Connor)
  2. The Big Bang Theory - “The 2003 Approximation” (Simon Helberg plays Howard Wolowitz)

“Footprints on the Moon”

Episodes where a real musician plays a fake musician

  1. Law & Order - “Blaze” (John Doe plays Teddy Connor)
  2. The Big Bang Theory - “The 2003 Approximation” (Simon Helberg plays Howard Wolowitz)
  3. Wiseguy - Debbie Harry plays a singer named Diana Price and sings her new solo Brite Side.

Episodes where a real musician plays a fake musician

  1. Law & Order - “Blaze” (John Doe plays Teddy Connor)
  2. The Big Bang Theory - “The 2003 Approximation” (Simon Helberg plays Howard Wolowitz)
  3. Wiseguy - Debbie Harry plays a singer named Diana Price and sings her new solo Brite Side.
  4. The Snoop Sisters - “The Devil Made Me Do It” (Alice Cooper plays The Prince)

ETA: Not that Prince. “The Prince” was Cooper’s character’s name, according to IMDB.

Episodes where a real musician plays a fake musician

  1. Law & Order - “Blaze” (John Doe plays Teddy Connor)
  2. The Big Bang Theory - “The 2003 Approximation” (Simon Helberg plays Howard Wolowitz)
  3. Wiseguy - Debbie Harry plays a singer named Diana Price and sings her new solo Brite Side.
  4. The Snoop Sisters - “The Devil Made Me Do It” (Alice Cooper plays The Prince)
  5. I Love Lucy - Desi Arnaz plays Ricky Ricardo