Posted on 01/13/2019 5:43:26 AM PST by Leaning Right
Archie Bunker : [Maude refuses to get out of Archie's chair] Well, I got the secret weapon that can lay this little lady right away. Here we go. This country was ruined by Franklin Delano Roosevelt!
Cousin Maude : You're fat.
Archie Bunker : Sticks and stones may break my bones, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
Edith Bunker : Archie, you promised never to say that name again in front of Maude.
Archie Bunker : Franklin Delano Roosevelt!
Edith Bunker : [to Maude] He don't mean nothing. His whole family was for Roosevelt.
Archie Bunker : That was for two terms. But that was it. We didn't know the guy was going to hold on to the job like a pope!
Can you believe Leon Askin, who played Burkhalter, lived to the age of 98? He was also great in "One, Two, Three".
Scrappy Doo.
Knight Rider - The Car
Route 66 - The Car
My Mother the Car - The Car
Then Came Bronson - The Motorcycle
Mr. Ed - The Horse
Sex In The City - The Horse face
Michael J Fox as Alex P. Keaton on “Family Ties” was the same - he was NOT suppose to be liked...
The whole cast of Northern Exposure. They were all quirky and outstanding in their own way.
If you watched Hogan’s you also enjoyed Get Smart.
Barbara Feldon agent 99
If you watched Hogan’s you also enjoyed Get Smart.
Barbara Feldon agent 99
I liked the guy in the trash can.
Vinny Barbarino on "Welcome Back Kotter"
Siegfried and Hymie on "Get Smart".
Worf on "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
Foghorn Leghorn (originally created as a one-off foil for the less popular Henery Hawk) on "Loony Toons">
There is a clip of Jonathan Harris telling that story on YouTube. Basically, it is how Irwin Allen convinced him to be in the series. He wanted to get top billing in the credits, but that was already promised to the other actors (as part of their contract). So the compromise was to make him a “Special Guest Star” in the credits.
Not sure it was supposed to be a permanent arrangement. His character was supposed to get killed off after a few episodes, but got popular enough that those plans were changed. So, he just kept being a Special Guest Star.
In Hollywood, vanity is serious biz.
He was my favorite on the show! Do you know the backstory of that scene and what caused Tony’s hilarious reaction to Bobby’s hunting gear get-up?
Thank you! I had no idea. I’ve been watching the series again on Roku, so the question was on my mind.
Maude: “That man (Roosevelt) had charisma!” Archie: “I don’t care if he was sick!” (All In The Family was the greatest TV sitcom ever in imho.)
I have to confess even for a TV guy like me a number of these characters I have never seen or heard of.
Like anything else it’s a pretty subjective list weighted more on the last 25 years or so.
What about William Hopper as Paul Drake on “Perry Mason”?
How about James Spader as Alan Shore from “The Practice” & “Boston Legal”?
Stuart Margolin as Angel Martin on “The Rockford Files”.
If I had my TV almanac I could probably come up with a lot more
No just Wayne Rogers played Trapper John in the TV Show. When Rogers left the show after season 3, Mike Farrell was brought in to play Trapper’s replacement, BJ Honeycutt. Trapper John got enough points to return to the USA and the character went away until Pernell Roberts played Trapper John in the short lived “Trapper John, MD” TV Show years later.
The only MASH TV Show character to my knowledge to have two different actors play them was Father Mulcahey. William Christopher played Father Mulcahey in all episodes except for the pilot episode in 1972 when another actor played him.
Christopher played him every episode after, including the short lived spinoff “After Mash” starring Christopher, Harry Morgan and Jamie Farr, that aired for one season after MASH ended before getting cancelled.
Klinger was at best the 2 minute fun role in the series. When they moved to more TV time I could not stand him, or for that matter MASH in general after Col. Blake and Trapper John left. So basically I like the first three seasons and you can keep the rest. I got where I could not stand Alan Alda, did not like B.J., Col. Potter or Major Winchester.
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