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Can you tell the difference between these classic TV characters and their doppelgängers?
Can you recognize these evil twins, criminal lookalikes and identical classmates?
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The German word “doppelgänger” refers to a person who looks very similar to someone they are not related to – an identical stranger. Though meeting your own doppelgänger in real life is relatively rare, you wouldn’t know that from watching television. All kinds of shows – westerns, sitcoms, dramas – all use the doppelgänger trope.
We’ve collected some classic TV doppelgängers and mixed them up with regular characters who just look a little different than usual. Can you identify who is who?
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Is this actually Captain Kirk or a lookalike alien?
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Is that Peter Brady on the left or someone else?
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That looks like Oliver Wendell Douglas from 'Green Acres' on the right, but is it?
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Is that Goober Pyle from 'The Andy Griffith Show' or someone who looks remarkably similar?
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Is that the real Festus Haggen or an identical outlaw?
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It's blonde Mary Tyler Moore! Is she playing Laura Petrie or a different character?
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Is this Wally from 'Leave it to Beaver' or a mustachioed double?
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Is this Fred Flintstone pretending to be a rockstar or a rockstar who looks like Fred Flintsone?
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Is this rifleman Lucas McCain or a criminal with similar features and a mustache?
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Is this Lucy Ricardo in disguise or a totally different character?
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Who is Raymond Burr playing here, Perry Mason or someone else?
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Continuing the facial hair trend, is this regular Spock in disguise or an alternate universe Spock?
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Is this Lorne Green as Ben Cartwright or someone else?
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Is this the Fonz with a beard or his identical cousin?
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Is this Greg Brady with different hair or a different character with the same face?
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Can you tell the difference between these classic TV characters and their doppelgängers?
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15 of 15
12-15 🤔
14 out of 15, pretty good 😊
13/15...Missed #4 and #7...I should have known that was Wally though. I do remember an episode of him with the 'stash. I think he was trying to impress some chick he knew.
You got 14 out of 15 - You were calm, cool and collected on that quiz. Great job! Missed #3...Oh for the love of....
10/15
Laura Petrie as a blonde? Seriously hot!! I want a date!
So you don't think it makes her look like Harpo Marx?
You got 11 out of 15
10/15.
14/15. Missed #3. Not a huge Green Acres fan.
11/15. Had a rough start but caught up.
12 out of 15
Fifteen out of fifteen.
I don't remember Fonzie with a beard and mustache...but I like!
I don't remember Fonzie with a beard and mustache...but I like!
Have to wonder whether they would count Captain Kirk as "real" or "imposter" when the transporter split him in two. Or when Janice Lester switched bodies with him (it was the real Kirk's body even though it wasn't really Kirk).
They missed a bet by not showing Jethrine Bodine; only case of a double on that whole series as far as I can remember, unless you want to count the two different guys played by the same actor late in the run (one was a Navy frogman).
Also interesting that they skipped Gilligan's Island. Especially since three of the castaways got doubles in the three seasons it was on, explaining each one in a pretty creatively different way (Mr Howell's was a guy who was deliberately impersonating him to spend his money, Ginger's was someone who wasn't aware of the resemblance until they gave her a makeover to boost her self-confidence, and Gilligan's was a Soviet spy who got plastic surgery so he could infiltrate and find out what those suspicious Americans were up to on that island).
They missed a bet by not showing Jethrine Bodine; only case of a double on that whole series as far as I can remember, unless you want to count the two different guys played by the same actor late in the run (one was a Navy frogman).
Also interesting that they skipped Gilligan's Island. Especially since three of the castaways got doubles in the three seasons it was on, explaining each one in a pretty creatively different way (Mr Howell's was a guy who was deliberately impersonating him to spend his money, Ginger's was someone who wasn't aware of the resemblance until they gave her a makeover to boost her self-confidence, and Gilligan's was a Soviet spy who got plastic surgery so he could infiltrate and find out what those suspicious Americans were up to on that island).
Seven out of 15.
Dang static electricity. I would have had a perfect score, I guess walking barefoot on carpet didn't help!
You got 14 out of 15
You got 14 out of 15
14/15. Missed the Peter Brady classmate.
I got 10/15..Good job but I missed 5
A perfect score. Unusual for me. I usually get at least one or two wrong.
14/15. Missed #13, but then I never watched "Bonanza" all that much.