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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: Hot Tabasco
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.

41 posted on 12/28/2015 7:37:58 AM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: tacticalogic

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.


42 posted on 12/28/2015 7:38:18 AM PST by moovova
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To: Leaning Right
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.

43 posted on 12/28/2015 7:38:26 AM PST by TontoKowalski (Satisfied Customer #291)
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To: Leaning Right

No Skreech? The list is bogus.


44 posted on 12/28/2015 7:39:01 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God)
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To: CaptainK

I don’t even recognize #1.


45 posted on 12/28/2015 7:39:59 AM PST by Overtaxed
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To: Charles Henrickson
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.
46 posted on 12/28/2015 7:40:13 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Leaning Right

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.


47 posted on 12/28/2015 7:40:20 AM PST by IronJack
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To: HonkyTonkMan

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


48 posted on 12/28/2015 7:41:07 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Leaning Right

Interesting.


49 posted on 12/28/2015 7:41:17 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Leaning Right

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.


50 posted on 12/28/2015 7:43:22 AM PST by PlateOfShrimp
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To: Leaning Right

Jay Silverheels as “Tonto.”


51 posted on 12/28/2015 7:43:30 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hunga Tonga-Hunga.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
The idiots who made the list have a picture of Steve Martin for Sgt. Bilko!
There's only one Sgt Bilko ...
52 posted on 12/28/2015 7:44:04 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: pgkdan
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.

53 posted on 12/28/2015 7:44:44 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

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


54 posted on 12/28/2015 7:45:14 AM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: Leaning Right

Rockford or Brett Maverick depending on your generation


55 posted on 12/28/2015 7:45:50 AM PST by CrashCole
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To: Responsibility2nd

The Avengers...


56 posted on 12/28/2015 7:46:56 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: TontoKowalski

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.


57 posted on 12/28/2015 7:47:11 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: Leaning Right

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.


58 posted on 12/28/2015 7:48:36 AM PST by upchuck (Happiness never decreases by being shared.)
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To: Leaning Right

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


59 posted on 12/28/2015 7:48:49 AM PST by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: eCSMaster
Tonto

Now how could I disagree with that!

60 posted on 12/28/2015 7:49:43 AM PST by TontoKowalski (Satisfied Customer #291)
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