Remembering Some Great TV Characters

November 25, 2012 | Doc Savage

[Doc Savage]

Just remembering some of the great TV characters from years ago. Perhaps you have a few of your own favorites to add.

Sgt. Vince Carter

Arnold Ziffel

Barney Fife

Jethro Bodine

Gunther Toody

Grandpa Munster

Maynard G. Krebs

Eddie Haskell

Ted Baxter

Maxwell Smart

[Bob the builder]

Aunt Ester
Colonel Flagg
Red Skelton

[wtc911]

Sgt. ‘Chip’ Saunders, Caje, Kirby, Littlejohn and Doc. (Combat!)

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I have had the good fortune of getting to know Pierre Jalbert (Caje) fairly well and Jack Hogan (Kirby) a little bit over the past decade. Pierre is in Bevely Hills and Jack is in NC.

[Fiji Hill]

• Herbert Philbrick, an FBI agent who infiltrated the Communist Party in "I Led Three Lives"

• Amos Wentworth Hogg, mayor of Bugtussle, Okla.--as shady and crooked as a politician can get--in "The Beverly Hillbillies"

• Major Domo, a robot in "Johnny Jupiter"

• Boris Badinov, a bad guy from the "Bullwinkle" cartoons, known for such quotes as "cross my heart and hope you die"

[wtc911]

Larry Storch (Cpl Agarn) had an interesting family. His wife had a daughter with a Black musician around 1952 or so (couple of years before Storch married her). They gave the daughter to a middle class Black family in Jersey to raise but the girl spent the summers with them as a kid of “fresh air fund” kid. She grew up and made a career out of her childhood as being symbolic of race in America in the fifties and sixties.

[jaz.357]

[pterional]

Sorry but I look at the beginning of TV,media and the movie industry as the start of how the communist,godless, sodomites were able to gain access to American homes and destroyed traditional values and Christianity . The liberal agenda was quite visible in TV shows from the 50’s and 60’s. Hollywood can rot in hell.

[real saxophonist]

Johnny Gage and Roy DeSoto.

Number 6.

Commander Ed Straker.

Commander John Koenig.

[Fiji Hill]

Wow, great list. Way to counter the popular opinion that conservatives are old and out of touch. LOL!

Surf over to some of the music threads on this board. Those will counter the image that conservatives only like harpsichord music, which they listen to while sipping sherry.

[Oztrich Boy]

[dfwgator]

[Hegewisch Dupa]

right on the money, man!!!!

[dfwgator]

Actually all of the characters: Manuel, Sybil, Polly, Major......great cast.

[southern rock]

Alot of oldies pop up on the music threads too. I was sort of just kidding anyway, but it's not just the original poster's list. I have no idea what 90% of the posts on this thread are talking about -,and I'm in my 40's.

There may be something to this image problem tinngy ;)

[MarDav]

From Rawhide
Gil Favor
Rowdy Yates
Wishbone

From Laredo
Reese Bennett
Chad Cooper
Joe Riley

From F Troop
Morgan O’Rourke
Randolph Agarn
Wilton Parmenter
Hannibal Dobbs

From Combat:
Sgt. Saunders
Lt. Hanley
Kirby, Cage, Littlejohn

[Focault's Pendulum]

Corporal Egarn, SGT O’Rourke, CPT Parmenter, Wrangler Jane, Crazy Cat, the Chief - F Troop

Turn left at the rock that looks like a bear....turn right at the bear that looks like a rock.

[real saxophonist]

Rik, Vyvyan, Neil and Mike.

[Mike Darancette]

especially Fish and Yemana!

Abe still lives!!

Check his status daily

http://www.abevigoda.com/

[miss marmelstein]

Wow! I wish we had this as a kid in NYC. We had “Davey and Goliath,” a Protestant children’s show that I used to watch (I’m a Catholic).

[mass55th]

William Boyd in Hopalong Cassidy; Bobby Diamond and Peter Graves in Fury; Phil Silvers as MSgt. Bilko in The Phil Silvers Show; Lloyd Bridges in Sea Hunt; Dick Simmons as Sgt. Preston in Sgt. Preston of the Yukon; Robert Stack in The Untouchables; Lee Aaker as Rusty in The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin; Peggy Wood in Mama (aka I Remember Mama); Gertrude Berg in The Goldbergs; Wally Cox in Mr. Peepers; Eve Arden in Our Miss Brooks; Ann Sothern in Private Secretary; Gale Storm in My Little Margie; Walter Brennan as Grampa Amos, and Richard Crenna as Luke in The Real McCoys; Richard Boone as Paladin in Have Gun, Will Travel; Ward Bond in Wagon Train; Leo G. Carroll, Robert Sterling and Anne Jeffreys in Topper; Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, and Tim Conway in McHale’s Navy; Dean Jones in Ensign O’Toole; Tommy Rettig in Lassie; Mickey Dolenz in Circus Boy; Ken Berry, Forrest Tucker, and Larry Storch in F Troop; Buddy Ebsen in The Beverly Hillbillies; Richard Basehart and David Hedison in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; Duncan Renaldo as The Cisco Kid; James Garner in Maverick; Jack Webb in Dragnet; Vince Edwards in Ben Casey; Richard Chamberlain in Dr. Kildare; Elizabeth Montgomery in Bewitched; Bill Bixby and Ray Walston in My Favorite Martian; Fred MacMurray in My Three Sons; Bea Benaderet and Edgar Buchanan in Petticoat Junction. And that doesn’t include the shows that Jack Benny, Sid Caesar, Ed Wynn, Jimmy Durante, etc. had.

[SES1066]

Well the ones I am thinking about aren't really 'Characters', I mean they are not characters as is specified although they really were characters when they were there, you get my drift man?

The cast and staff and especially the writers of "Laugh In"!