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TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time
IMBD ^ | 29 Jun 2011 | Raisley Gordon

Posted on 12/28/2015 7:20:17 AM PST by Leaning Right

A list of - in the author's opinion - the 50 greatest TV characters of all time. Just something to take your mind off of all the bad news of the day.


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To: Cecily
They included Buddy Sorrell but not Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke himself)?

Rob Petrie was a straight man; he was the guy who made the other comics look good, most of the time.

The other comics being Morey Amsterdam, Rose Marie, Mary Tyler Moore, Richard Deacon, and Carl Reiner.

101 posted on 12/28/2015 8:47:48 AM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Steely Tom

That may be, but for me Rob and Laura Petrie are the most memorable characters from that show.


102 posted on 12/28/2015 8:53:25 AM PST by Cecily
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To: Responsibility2nd
I recognize all these characters, but never even heard of Emma Peel.

She probably has a sister named Nana.

103 posted on 12/28/2015 8:54:29 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Responsibility2nd

Mrs Emma Peel was played by Diana Rigg, it was British TV series and a spy show. Still shown around the world.

Diana Rigg went and was a Bond girl in the 1969 film “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”.


104 posted on 12/28/2015 8:58:46 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Leaning Right

The top 10 is way too subjective, many TV characters I would have in that top 10 list other than many of those shown.


105 posted on 12/28/2015 8:59:59 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Dr. Sivana

It is really a poorly assembled list, there are many other great characters that should be up there but TV Guide has to stay within a range that the young pups can relate to.


106 posted on 12/28/2015 9:12:52 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: dfwgator

Cute but not much chest.


107 posted on 12/28/2015 9:15:23 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Leaning Right
George Costanza made the top 10 but not Kosmo Kramer?

The list is no good.

108 posted on 12/28/2015 9:17:05 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: Leaning Right
My top ten (shows are in parentheses):
  1. Sheriff John (Sheriff John's Lunch Brigade)

  2. Beany (Time for Beany)

  3. Herbert Philbrick (I Led Three Lives)

  4. Bunny Rabbit (Captain Kangaroo)

  5. Mayor Hogg (The Beverly Hillbillies)

  6. Jet (Captain Z-Ro)

  7. Crazy Guggenheim (The Jackie Gleason Show)

  8. Ann Marie (That Girl)

  9. Mike Nelson (Sea Hunt)

  10. Engineer Bill (Cartoon Express)

109 posted on 12/28/2015 9:17:34 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Charles Henrickson
"the greatest supporting characters of all time"

Uh, Kosmo Kramer.

110 posted on 12/28/2015 9:20:27 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: Leaning Right

I was a big fan of Taxi back in the day but no way is Louie number 1.

I would put Lucy Ricardo at number 1. After that, maybe Marshall Dillion at number 2 with some of the MASH characters in the top ten.


111 posted on 12/28/2015 9:22:25 AM PST by Ticonderoga34
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To: Leaning Right

Elliot Ness as played by Robert Stack, should have been on the list. Also, John Singleton Mosby - GRAY GHOST was a huge hit across the country during the 1950s, even in liberal NE.


112 posted on 12/28/2015 9:23:53 AM PST by Dante3
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To: Fiji Hill

John Zacherle (The Cool Ghoul)


113 posted on 12/28/2015 9:25:26 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Leaning Right

I just realized that Walter White from Breaking Bad isn’t on this list. He should be somewhere in the top 50 with maybe Saul Goodman.


114 posted on 12/28/2015 9:31:05 AM PST by Ticonderoga34
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To: Leaning Right

Richard Kimble


115 posted on 12/28/2015 9:35:11 AM PST by Ronald_Magnus
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To: TontoKowalski
Also, what was the name of Edina's blonde friend?

Patsy Stone. Played by Joanna Lumley. I believe she was a model back in the 60s.
116 posted on 12/28/2015 9:41:46 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Ticonderoga34
I just realized that Walter White from Breaking Bad isn’t on this list. He should be somewhere in the top 50 with maybe Saul Goodman.

As good as they are, I'd go with Mike Ehrmantraut.

Mike is pretty much the sole reason that Better Call Saul is worth watching. The scene where he talks about what happened to his son was unforgettable.

117 posted on 12/28/2015 10:09:16 AM PST by ConfusedAndLovingIt
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To: daler; fatnotlazy; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON; KC_Lion
We could start by putting Al Bundy on that lofty perch.

Al Bundy would have known who Emma Peel was.

George Costanza would have known that Bozo the Clown deserved to be on the list.

118 posted on 12/28/2015 10:17:52 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Leaning Right

No Gunsmoke?


119 posted on 12/28/2015 10:25:27 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Larry Lucido

Perhaps you’re referring to the actual MWC episode where Al ordered a VHS Avengers collection, and was aghast to find they shipped him the later episodes with Mrs. Peel’s “ugly” replacement.


120 posted on 12/28/2015 11:17:55 AM PST by daler
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