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Show TELEVISIONQ & A TRIVIA COLUMN By Jay Bobbin, Tribune Media Services By Jay Bobbin, Tribune Media Services Holding to tradition, many major celebrities appear in Wednesday’s encore presentation of last fall’s ‘Fifteenth Circus of the Stars’’ on Q: Myhusband and I watched ‘Home’ on Friday, July 5 and heard Dana Fleming give a farewell speech. She hinted her departure CBS. The included talents represent a wide variety of careers and work, was because of new management Will we ever know the true facts? She's a natural for such a program. and here’s a quiz on some of them: QUESTIONS: 1) Namethe very first TV series on which Robert Urich -- one of the ringmasters in the “‘Circus’’ outing - A: The answer basically is what you indicate you heard, since not long after the daily ABC showgot a new executive producer -- Marty - was a regular. Ryan, whose used to hold the same position on NBC’s “‘Today’’ -- the announcement was made that Fleming would be leaving, with former ABC sportscaster Beth Ruyak (also a veteranof the failed TV version of “‘USA Today’) becoming the new co-hosts. Reportedly, BOTH ‘‘Home’’ hosts came close to being replaced, since ABC’s morning newscaster Mike Schneider had been approached about supplanting £ wri MF Crystal Bernard stars as the fiery, cello-playing, airport lunch counter owner Helen, on | the NBC comedy “Wings.” | is still at ““‘Home.”’ Q: My daughter and I are ina hourlater than it’s been seen during the past season. While its ratings never have been anything to crow about, it’s delivering an important audience to ABC in demographic debate over the name of the series “Tronside’’ and whereit came from. terms, young viewers who have taken to the cast in a big way. You Gary Collins. He turned down the offer, though, and that’s why Collins I say it is fromthe iron van that he used, but she says it was because he can write to any and all of the performers in care of MGM-Pathe was such a tough policeman. Who's Television Productions, 10202 West right? A: Hmmm ... interesting debate, but if we go bythe history of the show itself, Robert Ironside simply was the given birth name of Raymond Burr’s character. Admittedly, 1t might seem like a nickname since the fictional San Francisco police chief was wheelchair-bound and it’s certainly more than a conici denceon the part of the show’s creators, given his impairment -- but at the start of the original 1967 pilot film, Ironside was fully mobile, with his dilemmaresulting later after he was struck down bya sniper’s bullet. Incidentally, in the course of doing his ‘‘Perry Mason’’ TV movies, Burr has mentioned on sev eral occasionsthat he wouldn't mind reviving “‘Ironside’’ in similar form if all of the original cast members could be regathered Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230. Q: Please tell me how I can get a copy of the music that plays during the opening credits of NBC's “‘Wings.’’ Also, does the actress who plays Helen play the cello in wrile to the stars’ A: Here’s good news for you . the western will start its third year in September, still on Saturdays, but an 46 Whoopi Goldberg as a weekly co- star? 3) David Soul played the latter half of ‘‘Starsky and Hutch’’ in the 1975-79 police drama, but who portrayed his partner? 4) Ann Jillian appeared as herselfin the aptly titled 1988 TV-movie “The Ann Jillian Story,’’ but who was Cast as her husband, Andy Murcia? 5) Richard Crenna returns to weekly TVwork this fall in a revamped ver- sion of ABC’s ‘‘Gabriel’s Fire,’” but who was his female co-star on his last series to date, the comedy ‘“‘It Takes Two’’ (1982-83)? 6) Though Joan Van Ark became a major TV presence as Val on “*“Knots Landing,’’ she appeared previously in the first season of a hospital comedy that also featured Cleavon Little and (in its initial round) James Whitmore. What was its title? reallife? A: To our knowledge, the show’s theme hasn’t been made available commercially as of yet. As for your second query, actress Crystal Bernard was skilled in several other instruments when she began the series -- namely keyboards, bass and drums - but she was onlya pre tender at playing the cello. 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