TV trivia challenge: name the show from the minor character

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[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman]
Serena Benson is the mother of Det. Benson (Mariska Hartigay) on L&O:SVU.
Here’s some more:

Janice Wentworth

Zatelli (no first name given, but he does have an official title)

Elizabeth Miller

Ben Scanlon

Here’s a hint. All of these characters have a particular thing in common…
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All characters from “Barney Miller.”

Wentworth was a detective played by Linda Lavin. Zatelli was the uniformed cop who did occasional clerical duties (and eventually came out as gay).

Was Elizabeth Barney’s wife (Barbara Barrie)?

Scanlon doesn’t ring a bell…

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Frostillicus, Proposition Joe is from The Wire.

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  1. Jerzei Balowski

  2. John Constable

  3. Alice Richards

  4. Ralph Kane

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Oops, forgot to add one of my own:

Zeeno

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[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman]
Serena Benson is the mother of Det. Benson (Mariska Hartigay) on L&O:SVU.
Here’s some more:

Janice Wentworth

Zatelli (no first name given, but he does have an official title)

Elizabeth Miller

Ben Scanlon

Here’s a hint. All of these characters have a particular thing in common…
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I’m guessing that Ben Scanlon is the DA from “The Green Hornet.” I do know his name was Scanlon.

BTW, the actor who portrayed him, Walter Brooke, was a very, very busy actor, though I doubt he ever saw any serious paydays. He uttered one of the best known quotes in film history: “Plastics.”

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[QUOTE=kunilou]
Rarely seen chief engineer on WKRP.

How about…

Bob Barsky
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Allie’s sportscaster boyfriend on Kate and Allie .
And Captain Bass was the district commander on NYPD Blue .

Mine again:

Steve Richards

Dirk

Duddleson

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[QUOTE=Fiddle Peghead]
Oops, forgot to add one of my own:

Zeeno
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Wasn’t that the placekicker Oscar Madison tried to set Myrna up with on The Odd Couple ? “Keek!”

“What happened to dinner?”
“He ‘keeked’ it out the window!”

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Yes, want2know. Very good.

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[QUOTE=zamboniracer]
IRL Art Donovan was a member of the old Baltimore Colts football team who made many hilarious appearances on Dave Letterman’s show, talking old school about the old days, but I don’t think that’s who you mean.
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No, not him. Just to avoid confusion with that Donovan, I’ll clarify: “The Art Donovan I’m thinking of was a character in an hour-long drama show.”

Bit of a hint too, I guess–it rules out half-hour sitcoms.

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Paolo

Whitey (I had to look this one up to get the name–from a half-hour sit-com)

Winnie and Nelson

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[QUOTE=gigi]

Whitey (I had to look this one up to get the name–from a half-hour sit-com)

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One of Beaver’s friends on Leave it to Beaver.

Mine:

Greedy Gretchen (sort of a character–she was never seen)

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[QUOTE=gigi]
Paolo

Whitey (I had to look this one up to get the name–from a half-hour sit-com)

Winnie and Nelson
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Whitey was one of Beaver’s pals on Leave it to Beaver .
Winnie and Nelson were Sondra and Elvin’s twins on The Cosby Show .

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[QUOTE=want2know]
Allie’s sportscaster boyfriend on Kate and Allie .
And Captain Bass was the district commander on NYPD Blue .

Mine again:

Steve Richards

Dirk

Duddleson
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F Troop…Duddleson.

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[QUOTE=want2know]
Steve Richards

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Wow, that takes this NYPD Blue fan back a few years!

Low-level snitch and hustler, with very annoying mannerisms, whose major score was a $40,000 reward for helping the detectives locate a kidnapped businessman.

Yes, i’m a BIG fan.

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[QUOTE=mhendo]
Wow, that takes this NYPD Blue fan back a few years!

Low-level snitch and hustler, with very annoying mannerisms, whose major score was a $40,000 reward for helping the detectives locate a kidnapped businessman.

Yes, i’m a BIG fan.
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Excellent, mhendo !
And Foxy40 is also correct on Duddleson.

Just Dirk left; hint: must-seetm sitcom.

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[QUOTE=gigi]
Paolo
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Paolo was the swarthy foreign guy Rachel used to bang before she hooked up with Ross on Friends.

How about:

Tino

Eugene Belvin

The Dregs of Humanity (band)

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[QUOTE=Max Torque]
The Dregs of Humanity (band)
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WAG The Drew Carey Show?

Hint: The Whitey I was thinking of was not human.

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Dr. Ellis West

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[QUOTE=astorian]
All characters from “Barney Miller.”

Wentworth was a detective played by Linda Lavin. Zatelli was the uniformed cop who did occasional clerical duties (and eventually came out as gay).

Was Elizabeth Barney’s wife (Barbara Barrie)?

Scanlon doesn’t ring a bell…
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Yep. Barbara Barrie was “Elizabeth.”

Det. Scanlon was a recurring character from (I think) Internal Affairs with a grudge against the precinct and showed up occasionally to harass them.
Here’s some more,

Mike Yates

John Benton

Lytton (no first name given)

Sabalom Glitz

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[QUOTE=Max Torque]

The Dregs of Humanity (band)
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My GOD, that’s familiar! I don’t know it and it’s going to bug me until I figure it out. Silver Spoons, maybe??

As long as we’re doing bands, I’ve got a relatively easy one:

The Zit Remedy