I seem to recall that the Brady Bunch episode in which Marcia met Davy Jones was from 1973, but I could be mistaken about that. Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., had started their post-5th Dimension career by 1975 ("I Hope We Get to Love in Time" was a minor hit for them.). Of course, the Bradys themselves were gone by 1975.
And no one has mentioned it, but it seems like there have been many shows in which characters appeared on game shows, and participated in these game shows in character (not to be confused with actors appearing on these game shows as fundraisers for charities). It is interesting to watch these characters interact with the game show host, who is of course not acting, but rather hosting the show (although it's possible that he may have been given a script or some lines to read).
[/b] Best example of this I can think of is when the Harpers (
Mama's Family) appeared on
Family Feud, and Naomi leaned over several of her own family members to get her kiss from Richard Dawson!
I suppose such shows were fairly easy to do, because the set (of the game show) already existed, and most of these game shows were syndicated, and thus not the "intellectual property" of any one network.
I was gonna mention this, but the only other REAL one off the top of my head was Sanford & Son where Grady & Fred were in the audience od (Let's Make a Deal(
))Fred ended up knocking over the set...lots of other had fake game shows, like Laverne & Shirley with Lenny & Squiggy eating the sausage they won on a dark stage, Doogie Howser was on some "genius" version of Jeopardy & Peter brady was a loser of the Golden Scoop Award on that kid's t.v show with the Cartoon King (may have been real in Los Angeles but I wouldn't have known)
--In addition to "Mama's Family," there was an episode of "Angie" (ABC, 1979-80) where the family went on the Feud.
--After the premiere of the syndicated Ray Combs (in addition to CBS daytime) "Family Feud," there was a fall 1988 episode of the NBC comedy "227" (with Marla Gibbs and Jackee) where the cast also made an appearance on the Feud (interestingly, in both the Dawson and Combs versions it appeared that a lot of NBC O&O's picked up the syndicated Family Feud despite the network versions being on ABC and CBS, respectively).
--There was a fall 1986 episode of "227" where Marla Gibbs' and Jackee's characters appeared on "Wheel of Fortune."
--Three seasons earlier (1983-84), there was an episode of "Gimme a Break" where Nell Harper (Nell Carter) and Addie (Telma Hopkins) also appeared on "Wheel" (right when both the NBC daytime and syndie versions were becoming megahits) and won a trip to NYC (where the final season--Season 6--in 1986-87 of Gimme a Break would eventually move to, while the Season 3 NYC episode actually provided some of the opening shots of Nell and Addie in NYC in the show's Season 6 opener).
--"The Odd Couple" made a hilarious appearance on "Password" (the ABC Allen Ludden version)
--In the final season of "Wonder Years" (1992-93), the episode where Kevin Arnold was preparing for his SAT also included Monty Hall reprising his "Let's Make a Deal" hosting gig (in a dream sequence by Kevin).
--The "Sanford and Son" episode involving a game show appearance by Fred Sanford which was referred to earlier was actually "The Gong Show."
--In 1988, there was an episode of "Mama's Family" where Thelma (Vicki Lawrence) appeared on "Jeopardy!" and won a trip to Hawaii (after she made an impressive comeback before Final Jeopardy in order to qualify with only $100).
--And last but not least (while speaking of Jeopardy), how can we not forget "Cheers" and Cliff Claven's appearance on "Jeopardy!" ("What are three people who have never been in my kitchen?"--also blowing $22,000 in Final Jeopardy with that response)
