Some of the best TV shows have kept us all gripped from the very first words of dialogue. The initial opening lines often set a mood or tone before the show begins, and help to define what the show is all about.
In this quiz you are presented with a series of opening lines of dialogue from various TV shows over the years. Can you match them to the correct show?
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Can You Name TV Show from First Line in First Episode? Quiz Questions
Which TV show opens with the line:
"In every generation, there is a chosen one."
The Vampire Diaries
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Charmed
Which TV show opens with the line:
"Sleek, sophisticated, seductive... the new Millenium Edition Crown Royal Funeral Coach."
Law & Order
NYPD Blue
Six Feet Under
Which TV show opens with the line:
"Little girl, I'm a policeman."
21 Jump Street
The Walking Dead
The Wire
Which TV show opens with the line:
"Once upon a time, an English journalist came to New York."
Sex And The City
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Murphy Brown
Which TV show opens with the line:
"This is the way it began that extraordinary night. The night 'He' came."
The Jetsons
ALF
House M.D.
Which TV show opens with the line:
"There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man?"
The Twilight Zone
Star Trek
Battlestar Galactica
Which TV show opens with the line:
"Fore!"
All in the Family
M.A.S.H.
Cheers
Which TV show opens with the line:
" Let go of my hair you little psychopath?"
The Brady Bunch
Married With Children
Home Improvement
Which TV show opens with the line:
"Now look boys, let's all eat a good breakfast today?"
The Brady Bunch
The Partridge Family
M.A.S.H
Which TV show opens with the line:
"Listen to yourself Bob. You follow her to work. You eavesdrop on her calls. You open her mail?"
The Brady Bunch
The Wonder Years
Frasier
Which TV show opens with the line:
"Binford Tools is proud to present, Tim 'The Toolman' Taylor?"
How I Met Your Mother
Boy Meets World
Home Improvement
Which TV show opens with the line:
"There's nothing to tell, it's just some guy I work with?"
Seinfeld
Will And Grace
Friends
Which TV show opens with the line:
"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and the gorilla starts throwing barrels at you?"
Futurama
The Twilight Zone
The Simpsons
Which TV show opens with the line:
"Gone fishing?"
Twin Peaks
The Andy Griffith Show
Arrested Development
Which TV show opens with the line:
"How about a beer, chief?”
Family Ties
The Golden Girls
Cheers
Which TV show opens with the line:
"Tonight's the night, and it's going to happen again and again. It has to happen."
Homeland
Hannibal
Dexter
8 Comments
9/16 Bit of a lazy quiz. The answers could have at least told us which character spoke each line!
10/16 better then I expected
9 / 16 – 56% They were all guesses except 1, some shows I haven`t watched.
I did good I got 15/16 right
11/15
7/16 👍
You got 10 out of 16!
Wow! You did exceptionally well considering how tough this quiz is! It takes the most ardent fan with the best memory to remember the opening lines in the first episode of any TV show, and you did it! Great work!
13/16