Question:Can you tell me if Bob Saget narrates "How I Met Your Mother"? And were "Yes, Dear" and "Still Standing" canceled?
Answer: Saget is the narrator on "How I Met Your Mother." And "Yes, Dear" and "Still Standing" have been canceled. Hey, the CBS schedule has room for only so much comic gold.
Question:When I was a little kid (I'm 19 now), there was this show on TV where a man and his kids were driving one day, and the earth opened up and they fell into the ground and ended up living with the dinosaurs. I thought the show had Bob Saget in it, but we Googled his name to figure out what it was called and can't find it. Can you tell us the title and if it's on video or DVD?
Answer: Bob Saget has appeared with comedians whose careers are now extinct, but not dinosaurs. That show was "Land of the Lost," which was so super-wonderful that there were two versions of it. The first aired Saturday mornings on NBC from 1974 until 1977. The second version aired on ABC on Saturday mornings from 1991 until 1993 and then jumped over to Nickelodeon. In the first version, the dad was played by Spencer Milligan. In the second version, the dad was Timothy Bottoms. Both versions are on DVD.
Question:I have a friend who thinks "Laguna Beach" is real. Can you tell her the truth?
Answer: Your friend is half right, and you're half right. The participants on the show are real people — or at least as real as you can be in Southern California — but the producers have confessed to Time magazine that some scenes and relationships are "enhanced" in the editing room.
Question:How old is Susan Lucci from "All My Children"? I always thought she must have an amazing plastic surgeon, but lately she's looking a little ragged (like me).
Answer: Lucci will be 60 on Dec. 23.
Question:I watched the first episode of "Runaway" on The CW, and I noticed a character named Brady. Who was he? Has he been in any other shows?
Answer: That's Andrew Lawrence, a member of the Lawrence acting dynasty, which includes older brothers Joey ("Blossom") and Matthew ("Boy Meets World" and "Gimme a Break"). Andrew appeared on the short-lived Fox series "Oliver Beene," and all three brothers appeared on the WB sitcom "Brotherly Love," which aired from 1995 until 1997.
Question:There was a TV movie with Sam Waterston as a journalist who was trapped in Nazi Germany with his pregnant wife. What was it and is it available?
Answer: That's "The Nightmare Years," a 1989 miniseries based on William Shirer's book "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." Waterston plays Shirer, who was a journalist with CBS News, and Marthe Keller plays his wife. Oh, and Kurtwood Smith of "That '70s Show" plays Josef Goebbels. It's on video and DVD.
Question:Who was the actor playing the school principal on the Sept. 27 episode of "Criminal Minds"?
Answer: That was John Rubinstein, whom you might remember from the lighthearted cop show "Crazy Like a Fox" (CBS, 1984-86) or "Family" (ABC, 1976-80). He also played Linwood Murrow on "Angel" (WB, 1999-2004) and has appeared on episodes of "CSI," "Cold Case," "Without a Trace," "Friends," "House" and "Law & Order."
Question:As Halloween draws near, people argue about the best "Dracula" film. I never hear anyone mention my favorite, which was a three-hour (or more) version on PBS with Louis Jourdan as Dracula. Has this ever been shown again, and is it available on video or DVD?
Answer: That's a 1977 BBC version of "Dracula" that aired in America on the PBS series "Great Performances." It's on DVD, but only in England. The cast also included Judi Bowker and Frank Finlay.
Question:On the Sept. 22 episode of "CSI," they played a song with the lyric (possibly title) "Where Are You" sung by Frank Sinatra. What is this song called, and is it on CD?
Answer: The song is called "Where Are You," and it's from Sinatra's 1957 album of the same name. It's on CD.
Question:What is the name of the actor who played Fritz on the TNT series "The Closer"? Will the show return for another season? Y'all are so sweet for answering our questions!
Answer: Nothin' to it. Jon Tenney plays Fritz. He's been a regular on several other short-lived series, including "Kristin" (NBC, 2001), "Brooklyn South" (CBS, 1997) and "Good Company" (CBS, 1996). In guest roles, he played the brother of Will (Eric McCormack) on "Will & Grace" and the brother of Miles (Grant Shaud) on "Murphy Brown." He's also appeared on episodes of "CSI" and "Without a Trace," among many others. He was married to Teri Hatcher from 1994 until 2003. "The Closer" is scheduled to return for a third season next summer.
Question:Is that the voice of Richard Thomas, a k a John Boy Walton, on commercials for BB&T and Mercedes Benz? I don't know who else to ask!
Answer: Oh, so I'm your last resort, am I? It is he.
Question:Is "The 4400" over?
Answer: No. New episodes are scheduled to be produced beginning early next year for a return next summer.
Question:My brother and I seem to be the only people who remember this show from the 1970s. It was a cartoon that aired on Thursday evenings an hour or half-hour before "The Waltons," possibly on the same network. This cartoon show was about a family with a mom and dad and several kids and was called "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home." Do you remember this one?
Answer: "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home" was Hanna-Barbera's lame attempt to make a "relevant" family sitcom along the line of "All in the Family." It was syndicated in 1972-73, which means it ran at different times on different stations in different cities. Tom Bosley supplied the voice of father Harry Boyle, who just couldn't figure out what was up with the kids these days, and Jack Burns supplied the voice of his right-wing neighbor. Folks such as Jonathan Winters and Don Knotts did guest roles.