Posted on 01/09/2017 9:37:52 AM PST by Leaning Right
1. Louie De Palma
2. Ed Norton
3. Lucy Ricardo
4. Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli
5. Archie Bunker
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“The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney” - Steven Wright
Joe Friday
Al Bundy isn’t on the list, but Rosanne is? Go figure.
That’s Dr. Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory.
Beat me to it, dangit.
An angry mob led by a balding madman screaming: "I sell shoes, damnit, and I'm stinking drunk!"....awesome episode.
Barney Fife should be top 5...
No Incredible Hulk? No Duke boys? No knight rider kitt? No bionic man? No Gilligan? No Nellie Olsen? No Herman Munster? No Mr. Bean? No Basil Towers? No Doctor Who?
Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore)
Batman (Adam West)
Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd)
The Rifleman (Chuck Connors)
Pa Cartwright - Bonanzo (Lorne Greene)
Cannon (William Conrad - who was also the greatest radio actor of all time)
Joe Friday (Jack Webb - another amazing radio talent)
Sherriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith)
Matlock (Andy Griffith)
Jessica Fletcher “Murder She Wrote” (Angela Lansbury)
Samantha “Bewitched” (Elizabeth Montgomery)
Endora “Bewitched” (Agnes Moorehead)
Rob Petrie “Dick Van Dyke Show”
Ward Cleaver, June Cleaver, Beaver Cleaver “Leave it to Beaver
Les Nessman “WKRP in Cinciatti” (Richard Sanders)
Robert Hartley “Bob Newhart Show”
The Beaver
Matt Dillon
REd Skelton’s characters
Just to name a few.
My favorite....
“So you think I’m a loser? Just because I have a stinking job that I hate, a family that doesn’t respect me, a whole city that curses the day I was born? Well, that may mean loser to you, but let me tell you something. Every morning when I wake up, I know it’s not going to get any better until I go back to sleep again. So I get up, have my watered-down Tang and still-frozen Pop Tart, get in my car with no upholstery, no gas, and six more payments to fight traffic just for the privilege of putting cheap shoes on the cloven hooves of people like you. I’ll never play football like I thought I would. I’ll never know the touch of a beautiful woman. And I’ll never again know the joy of driving without a bag on my head. But I’m not a loser. ‘Cause, despite it all, me and every other guy who’ll never be what he wanted to be are still out there being what we don’t want to be forty hours a week for life. And the fact that I haven’t put a gun in my mouth, you pudding of a woman, makes me a winner.”
Lloyd Bridges Seahunt
William Christopher, who played Father Mulcahy, died Dec. 30th.
When it comes to today's TV, there's a lot of truth in what you say. But most of the characters on that list are from the 60's and 70's. Sure, some played dimwits. But most didn't. Spock, Lt. Columbo, Oscar Madison, Jim Rockford, etc. ... hardly characters for the democrat urban crowd.
Starsky
Hutch
Baretta
Also raises the question of who was the greatest TV pimp” Huggy Bear from “Starsky and Hutch” or Rooster “Baretta” ?
Adam and Marilyn Whirlwind were my favs in Northern Exposure.
Right on.
Dillon was a giant befitting the America of his time.
Fly Guy!
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