TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time

IMBD ^ | 29 Jun 2011 | Raisley Gordon

[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.

[Steely Tom]

I think the best character on that program was Rev. Jim.......

Yes, I like Christopher Lloyd.

Too bad he was never teamed up with Michael Richards.

[moovova]

Yeah...I was gonna mention Rowdy Yates...then Chester (from Gunsmoke).

Lot of good programs from way back then. Heck, I loved Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres. Good, clean comedy.

[TontoKowalski]

Edina Monsoon. #21. Underrated.

I always thought the show Absolutely Fabulous was the PERFECT parody of the liberal mindset and lifestyle.

It might be obscure for my fellow Freepers in Flyover Country, but worth streaming a few episodes.

[demshateGod]

No Skreech? The list is bogus.

[Overtaxed]

I don’t even recognize #1.

[Dr. Sivana]

I would put Barney Fife #1 and Ed Norton #2 as the greatest supporting characters of all time.

Yes on Fife. We have the advantage of seeing what happened to the show after he left. Howard and Goober and teh rest together do not equal one Barney Fife.

Ed Norton was needed to make Ralph Kramden bearable. An uber choleric married to a choleric woman is just too much without having a character as sanguine as Kramden was choleric as an offset.

[IronJack]

Captain Kirk? The Robot and Dr. Smith from “Lost in Space?” Adam West’s Batman? The Cartwrights? Det. Belker from “Hill Street Blues?” There are probably even some soap stars that should be on that list (Richard Chamberlain as Dr. Kildaire, e.g.).

I’m not sure what criteria this writer used, but I don’t see a lot of agreement with his choices.

[9YearLurker]

Mike Brady—what’s that, the blandest character of all time?

[trisham]

Interesting.

[PlateOfShrimp]

No Ensign Parker????????????

People have to ask who Emma Peel was ???????????????????

No Curley!?!?!??!?!???????????????

No Sgt. Saunders???????????????????????????????

This is just nuts. Anyway, TV went downhill when it went to color, amirite?

If they are gonna have modern characters, they should definitely add Dale Cooper.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Jay Silverheels as “Tonto.”

[oh8eleven]

The idiots who made the list have a picture of Steve Martin for Sgt. Bilko!
There's only one Sgt Bilko ...

[Travis T. OJustice]

I beg your pardon but The Avengers was not some ‘obscure’ show from the 1960’s.

I've never heard of it. It's obscure.

[PhiloBedo]

Mr. Steed’s sidekick. Good looking at that!!

[CrashCole]

Rockford or Brett Maverick depending on your generation

[Tennessee Nana]

The Avengers...

[LostInBayport]

You are spot on with your assessment of that show. It is a satire of the emptiness of our popular culture and the shallowness and narcissism that feeds it.

Plus it is laugh out loud funny. Drudge had a photo of Granny Hillary out with her grandbaby and it did remind me of Edina using her grandchild as a prop to impress the swells.

[upchuck]

I stopped watching TV in 2008. In fact, the last thing on TV I watched was Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican convention.

Interesting, then, that no TV shows from the 2000’s made the list. Not surprising.

[william clark]

Somewhere there should be a place for Bob Einstein’s Officer Judy.

[TontoKowalski]

Tonto

Now how could I disagree with that!