# TV trivia challenge: name the show from the minor character **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 6, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140 "2007-02-06T22:40:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/61 "2007-02-08T00:15:06Z")
[QUOTE=Steve Wright] In a not dissimilar vein: Tanya Alexander Nina Barry Lieutenant Ninety Kyrano [/QUOTE] These are all Gerry Anderson characters, I think. Nina Barry is from UFO, and Kyrano is from Thunderbirds. Don’t remember the other two, I’m afraid… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/62 "2007-02-08T00:24:20Z")
[QUOTE=Dooku] Mine still unanswered: Molly Turgis New one from me: Larabee [/QUOTE] Larabee was the Chief’s assisstant on _Get Smart!_ Dr. Mary Kirkish Mike Gambit ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/63 "2007-02-08T03:06:40Z")
Since everyone of my previous characters has been answered correctly, I give you all a really tough one. Good luck! **Whit Prowdy.** ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/64 "2007-02-08T03:34:32Z")
This is a toughie: Dapper Dan, your Diaper Man. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/65 "2007-02-08T04:03:22Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Mike Gambit [/QUOTE] Mike Gambit was on “The New Avengers,” if I recall correctly. Worked with Purdy for John Steed. I guess nobody’s got Art Donovan yet, so I’ll bring him up again. Maybe another clue would help: late 70s-early 80s. ---
**Author:** ![Valerieblaise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Valerieblaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valerieblaise)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/66 "2007-02-08T04:53:59Z")
[QUOTE=Nutty Bunny] Isn’t that the band that Vanessa Huxtable travelled out of state to see, against her mother’s wishes? I’d never seen Claire Huxtable so angry! [/QUOTE] The band Vanessa snuck out to see was “the Wretched.” She and her friends drove to Baltimore to see them. There is no good reason for me to know that. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/67 "2007-02-08T05:30:49Z")
[QUOTE=Max Torque] Eugene Belvin [/QUOTE] For some reason, “Belvin” happened to flash through my mind yesterday. He was the nerd who occasionally showed up on _Happy Days_. IIRC, he had a brother or cousin named Melvin. Brian Roedecker ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/68 "2007-02-08T05:34:52Z")
re: Cockroach [QUOTE=gigi] Arg! It’s on the tip of my tongue. I want to say Cosby (for some reason I hear it in Theo’s voice??) or A Different World ?? [/QUOTE] He was Theo’s best friend. In the episode where they decide to shave their heads to get in a music video, Cockroach goes through with it, while Theo gets stopped just after covering his head in shaving cream. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/69 "2007-02-08T13:41:32Z")
[QUOTE=Valerieblaise] The band Vanessa snuck out to see was “the Wretched.” She and her friends drove to Baltimore to see them. There is no good reason for me to know that. [/QUOTE] Oh crap! You’re right. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/70 "2007-02-08T15:18:44Z")
[QUOTE=Steve Wright] In a not dissimilar vein: Tanya Alexander Nina Barry Lieutenant Ninety Kyrano [/QUOTE] Already revealed to be Gerry Anderson characters, is Lieutenant 90 one of the round robots from Terrahawks? ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/71 "2007-02-08T15:26:12Z")
What about Miss Nance? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/72 "2007-02-08T18:21:31Z")
These are only difficult because they’re so freakin’ old (as am I): Hamilton Burger Chief Kowalski Millie Helper Lumpy Rutherford ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/73 "2007-02-08T18:27:03Z")
Dave, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/74 "2007-02-08T18:29:52Z")
[QUOTE=jsc1953] These are only difficult because they’re so freakin’ old (as am I): Hamilton Burger Chief Kowalski Millie Helper Lumpy Rutherford [/QUOTE] Perry Mason ? The Dick Van Dyke Show Leave it to Beaver ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/75 "2007-02-08T22:17:17Z")
[QUOTE=Pushkin] Already revealed to be Gerry Anderson characters, is Lieutenant 90 one of the round robots from Terrahawks? [/QUOTE] **MacSpon** was dead on with Nina Barry and Kyrano; Lieutenant Ninety is from something a lot older than _Terrahawks_, I’m afraid. (Yes, they’re all from Gerry Anderson shows; two puppetry, two live-action.) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/76 "2007-02-08T22:19:02Z")
[QUOTE=jsc1953] These are only difficult because they’re so freakin’ old (as am I): Chief Kowalski [/QUOTE] Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/77 "2007-02-08T22:25:49Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. [/QUOTE] I think I remember every episode with the diving bell would feature the line “Crack the hatch Kowalski!” Usually after someone in a strangely decorated diving suit attacked it 😛 Easy but I’ll throw it in regardless, Mr Kyle 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/78 "2007-02-08T23:08:32Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] Dave, anyone? [/QUOTE] Lost? Hurley’s imaginary friend? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/79 "2007-02-08T23:32:11Z")
Correctomundo on Kowalski. From the same era… Mr. Waverley. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140/80 "2007-02-08T23:42:30Z")
[QUOTE=jsc1953] Correctomundo on Kowalski. From the same era… Mr. Waverley. [/QUOTE] The Man From U.N.C.L.E. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-challenge-name-the-show-from-the-minor-character/391140.md?page=5)