Fireball Game IX: Mixed Media

[franktangredi]

39. Styx/Renegade/Lorenzo Lamas/22. Tilt

21. Moody Blues/The Voice/Blake Shelton/24. The Angry Birds Movie

19. Jackson Browne/The Pretender/Patrick Bachau/6. The New Age

13. Natasha Bedingfield/Touch/Kiefer Sutherland/32. Freeway

With these additions, every movie and song has been used at least once.

In List B, three items will be used twice, one item will be used three times, and one item will be used six times.

Currently, three have been used twice, one three times, and one six times. So the last match must be a third use of either Hall & Oates, Belinda Carlisle, or Fleetwood Mac.

I found a series called Private Eyes, but none of the cast members seemed to match.

[mrkelley23]

Fleetwood Mac had a #1 song called Dreams, which was also the title of a TV series in 1984, featuring Jami Gertz, who was in Twister.

Pretty obscure, but it does fit.

[franktangredi]

Fleetwood Mac had a #1 song called Dreams, which was also the title of a TV series in 1984, featuring Jami Gertz, who was in Twister.

Pretty obscure, but it does fit.

So I think we're done? This was a fun puzzle!

[Pastor Fireball]

Fleetwood Mac had a #1 song called Dreams, which was also the title of a TV series in 1984, featuring Jami Gertz, who was in Twister.

Pretty obscure, but it does fit.

So I think we're done? This was a fun puzzle!

I don't have all of the answers with me right now, but later, I will provide all of the intended answers that you guys didn't find.

I know that you mentioned Robert Costanzo in the short-lived TV series "Glory Days". You seem to have glazed over one of the other actors from that series. Some guy named Pitt. He was one of the misses.

[Pastor Fireball]

OK, I just went through all of the reported matches in this thread and cross-checked them with my answers. There were a total of seven matches on my list that nobody found. You guys already know one of them, as I mentioned it in the last comment:

17. BENJAMIN BUTTON = Brad Pitt, who was on "Glory Days" (35. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN)

"North" had two additional matches, and both of them go through Jussie Smollett.

20. NORTH = Jussie Smollett, who is on "Empire" (4. SHAKIRA)
20. NORTH = Jussie Smollett, who was on "On Our Own" (30. BOBBY BROWN)

He plays one of Taraji P. Henson's sons on "Empire", but his first TV series was "On Our Own". That was an ABC sitcom from 1994 that also starred all of Jussie's brothers and sisters--Jake, Jurnee, Jazz, Jojo, Jocqui, Jiminy, Judo, Jester, Jonquil, Jinky... or something like that. Naming Smollett kids is like naming Sarah Palin's kids. Frank did get a completely different "On Our Own", which was a CBS sitcom from 1977.

Frank mentioned a long time ago that David Bowie might be here for "Fame"... but he didn't quite get that ball over the line.

15. POETIC JUSTICE = Janet Jackson, who was on "Fame" (29. DAVID BOWIE)

David Bowie was here a third time:

25. RAISING HELEN = Hayden Panettiere, who was on "Heroes" (29. DAVID BOWIE)

Frank got Hayden for "Nashville", but missed her on her earlier series. Incidentally, another person in "Raising Helen" had a match of his own:

25. RAISING HELEN = John Corbett, who was on "Lucky" (40. GREG KIHN BAND)

That was the short-lived FX show that Corbett did in lieu of co-starring in "My Big Fat Greek Life", the short-lived CBS sitcom version of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding".

The last match once again involved the lead actor from one of the discovered TV series where Frank matched up somebody farther down the cast list:

32. FREEWAY = Michael T. Weiss, who was on "The Pretender" (19. JACKSON BROWNE)

But well done on finally nailing the theme and making the links. See ya'll in 2017!

[franktangredi]

This was a very good puzzle. I wish I hadn't been too swamped to tackle it 100% earlier.

I have a general knowledge game that will be ready to go early in the new year. Just have to write 90 more clues.