This crossed my Facebook feed the other day, with the title “If you can recognize 5 of these people, you’re old.”
Well, I’m old. And I recognize most of them, but not all. So I did a little digging, and here are my results.
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The following table lists the personalities with one of the things they are notable for. Not necessarily their most “famous” work, or even one on CBS, but one that I was familiar with or enjoyed. Journalists have no particular show attached to their names because they were all over the place.
| 1 | Lassie | Lassie |
| 2 | Jean Stapleton | All in the Family |
| 3 | Walter Cronkite | Journalist – possibly the most famous of my generation |
| 4 | Alfred Hitchcock | The Birds |
| 5 | Mary Tyler Moore | The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| 6 | Ellen Corby | The Waltons |
| 7 | Gene Rayburn | The Match Game |
| 8 | Vivian Vance | I Love Lucy |
| 9 | Milburn Stone | Gunsmoke |
| 10 | Ann Sothern | The Whales of August |
| 11 | Barbara Bain | Mission Impossible |
| 12 | Nancy Walker | Murder by Death |
| 13 | George Burns | George and Gracie |
| 14 | Cicely Tyson | The Help |
| 15 | Arthur Godfrey | The Glass Bottom Boat |
| 16 | Red Skelton | The Red Skelton Hour |
| 17 | Gale Storm | It Happened on 5th Avenue |
| 18 | Danny Kaye | The Court Jester |
| 19 | Sandy Duncan | Roots |
| 20 | Telly Savalas | Kojak |
| 21 | Dale Evans | Roy Rogers |
| 22 | Roy Rogers | Roy Rogers |
| 23 | Ken Murray | Follow Me Boys |
| 24 | June Lockhart | Lost in Space |
| 25 | Arthur Murray | Arthur Murray Dance Studio |
| 26 | Kathryn Murray | The Arthur Murray Party |
| 27 | Eric Scott | The Waltons |
| 28 | Cami Cotler | The Waltons |
| 29 | Bonnie Franklin | One Day at a Time |
| 30 | William Conrad | Cannon |
| 31 | Eva Gabor | Green Acres |
| 32 | Allen Funt | Candid Camera |
| 33 | Tim Conway | The Tim Conway Comedy Hour |
| 34 | Danny Thomas | The Danny Thomas Show |
| 35 | Bob Keeshan | Captain Kangaroo |
| 36 | Dennis Weaver | McCloud |
| 37 | Ray Walston | My Favorite Martian |
| 38 | Sally Struthers | All in the Family |
| 39 | Garry Moore | Laugh-In |
| 40 | Linda Lavin | Barney Miller |
| 41 | Douglas Edwards | Newscaster and Correspondent |
| 42 | Betty White | The Golden Girls |
| 43 | Bob Schieffer | Journalist |
| 44 | Ned Beatty | Deliverance |
| 45 | Charles Kuralt | Journalist |
| 46 | Arlene Francis | What’s My Line |
| 47 | Jamie Farr | Mash |
| 48 | Adrienne Barbeau | Love Boat |
| 49 | Vicki Lawrence | The Carol Burnett Show |
| 50 | Mary McDonough | The Waltons |
| 51 | Don Knotts | The Andy Griffith Show |
| 52 | Lucille Ball | I Love Lucy |
| 53 | Ed Asner | The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| 54 | Jackie Cooper | Hennesey |
| 55 | Esther Rolle | Good Times |
| 56 | Joan Hackett | The Defenders |
| 57 | Eric Sevareid | Journalist |
| 58 | Mike Wallace | Journalist |
| 59 | Sherman Hemsley | The Jeffersons |
| 60 | Jack Whitaker | Deadly Heroes |
| 61 | Isabel Sanford | The Jeffersons |
| 62 | Judy Norton Taylor | The Waltons |
| 63 | Bob Denver | Gilligan’s Island |
| 64 | Caroll O’Connor | All in the Family |
| 65 | Dwayne Hickman | The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis |
| 66 | Richard C. Hottelet | Journalist |
| 67 | Will Geer | Broken Arrow |
| 68 | Lesley Stahl | Journalist |
| 69 | Art Carney | The Honeymooners |
| 70 | Tony Randall | The Odd Couple |
| 71 | Bob Newhart | The Bob Newhart Show |
| 72 | Dick Smothers | The Smothers Brothers |
| 73 | Hughes Rudd | Journalist |
| 74 | Ted Knight | The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| 75 | Georgia Engel | The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| 76 | Jon Walmsley | Adam-12 |
| 77 | Charles Collingwood | Journalist |
| 78 | Audrey Meadows | The Honeymooners |
| 79 | Valerie Harper | The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| 80 | Julie Kavner | Rhoda |
| 81 | David Harper | The Waltons |
| 82 | Bill Macy | Maude |
| 83 | Ken Berry | F-Troop |
| 84 | Art Linkletter | House Party |
| 85 | Glen Campbell | True Grit |
| 86 | Buddy Ebsen | The Beverly Hillbillies |
| 87 | Michael Learned | The Waltons |
| 88 | John Forsythe | Bachelor Father |
| 89 | Steve Allen | The Tonight Show |
| 90 | Carol Burnett | The Carol Burnett Show |
| 91 | Jim Nabors | Gomer Pyle |
| 92 | Beatrice Arthur | The Golden Girls |
| 93 | Loretta Swit | Mash |
| 94 | Ed Bradley | Journalist |
| 95 | Andy Griffith | Mayberry RFD |
| 96 | Lee Merriwether | Barnaby Jones |
| 97 | Demond Wilson | Sanford and Son |
| 98 | Lynda Carter | Wonder Women |
| 99 | James Arness | Gunsmoke |
| 100 | Dick Van Dyke | Cold Turkey |
| 101 | Jack Lord | Hawaii Five-O |
| 102 | Ralph Waite | The Waltons |
| 103 | Bernard Kalb | Journalist |
| 104 | Martin Landau | Mission Impossible |
| 105 | Rob Reiner | The Princess Bride |
| 106 | Lynnie Greene | The Golden Girls |
| 107 | John Amos | Roots |
| 108 | Bob Barker | Truth or Consequences |
| 109 | Bert Convy | Password |
| 110 | Dan Rather | Journalist |
| 111 | Richard Crenna | The Real McCoys |
| 112 | Mike Connors | Mannix |
| 113 | David Groh | Rhoda |
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