What characters have landed in jail?

Archie Bunker- All in the Family
Thelma Harper- Mama's Family
Rose, Blanche, Dorothy- The Golden Girls
Mouth McFadden- One Tree Hill
Dan Scott- One Tree Hill

Dan Connor - Roseanne
all the Facts Of Life girls (basically, that is sort of where the show essentially starts for most fans) as well as Mrs. Garrett in another episode

Ozzie Nelson, actually, in one episode of The Adv. of Ozzie & Harriet

Full House when Danny and Joey were at the Fraternity Reunion they landed in jail and D.J. had to get them out

How could I have forgotten about the Ricardo's and the Mertz's from I Love Lucy? lol.

Mr. Roper and Jeffrey Brookes in The Ropers
Jack in Three's Company
Larry and Balki in Perfect Strangers (before the wedding)

Mrs Ropers and Janet Three's Company

Thomas Magnum, Jim Rockford

Robert Guillaume Benson

J.R. Ewing-"Dallas"
Lt. Tom Paris-"Star Trek: Voyager"
Sam Malone-"Cheers"
Rob Petrie-"The Dick Van Dyke Show"
Niles and Frasier-"Frasier"
Mary Richards-"The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
Dick Preston-"The New Dick Van Dyke Show"
Fred, Lamont, and Rollo-"Sanford and son"
Jed and Jethro-"The Beverly Hillbillies".
wasn't there an episode of "THE LOVE BOAT" once where that guy named Gopher (or whatever his name was-wonder what his parents were on when they came up with that name?:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: ) landed in jail?

Mr C Fonzie Anson and Donny Happy Day's

in the fresh prince of bel air, carlton and will ended up in jail, after a pair of cops pulled them over and thought that the car that they were in was stolen when it wasn't. also in one of the latter seasons, phil and will were in jail and caught by police after attending a spa, i think. i can't remember

Mrs C Happy Day's was also in Jail

Vint Harper when they thought he was the polite burgler

Doug and Cariie went to Met jail when Doug ran on to the field to get a ball for Arthur and Cariie tried to pull a vendor over the counter

Jerry Seinfeld at shopping mall jail for peeing in the parking garage

Mel Sharpels (too many parking tickets) and Tommy Hyatt (a pizza fight)

Al Bundy Married With Children, Earl Hickey My name Is Earl, the castaways Gilligan's Island Gilligan put them in jail when they decided that they needed law and order.

Mr. Roper and Jeffrey Brookes in The Ropers
Jack in Three's Company
Larry and Balki in Perfect Strangers (before the wedding)

What episode of THREE'S COMPANY was that?

Jack was in jail in the Three's Company episode "Macho Men."

Night Court - Harry (for challenging one of the new judge's policies on how he ran the courtroom), Christine Sullivan (for mouthing off at a new female judge, only for Harry to flirt w/ the female judge to persuade her to bail Christine out), Billie (for refusing to name an informant on a case of a cat), Dan (after finally riling up another new judge enough to throw him in jail).

Barney Miller - Barney (himself landed in jail on the 2-part ep. "Quarantine," I forgot how) and Dietrich (for illegally taking part in a protest).

Family Ties - Steve and Elyse (for protesting against nuclear fire arms in season one and ended up spending Thanksgiving in jail).

FoL - All the girls and Mrs. Garrett and/or Bev Ann at various points. All the girls even landed in jail on a Bev Ann ep. when Blair, Natalie, Tootie, and Bev Ann all got busted for trespassing on a character's property, played by Richard Moll.

Simon & Simon - The Simon Bros.

Gimme a Break - The whole Kanisky Family and Nell, except the Chief.

On "Family Matters", Steve and Eddy ended up in jail, because Eddy's cousin had stolen a car.

I Love Lucy:

Fred and Ricky ended up in jail when they pretended to be robbers in the episode EQUAL RIGHTS.

The fab four ended up in jail in Bent Fork, Tennessee when Lucy was speeding and wouldn't shut her mouth.

The fab four were also in jail when Lucy thought new tenants were foreign spies and they shot up the apartment almost shooting a policeman.

Lucy was in jail in Paris for possession of counterfeit francs.

The Jeffersons - Helen and Louise ended up in jail on one ep.

Seinfield - The series finale ended w/ all of the 4 main characters locked up in jail.

I'd respond, but the topic also exists at this thread (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=192446&highlight=Jail). Could we merge this thread with the one I mentioned?

I'd respond, but the topic also exists at this thread (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=192446&highlight=Jail). Could we merge this thread with the one I mentioned?

I don't see why we can't. :)

In Season 1 of I Dream of Jeannie, there was this guy who owned a yacht had a daughter who had the hots for Tony, and while on the yacht Jeannie popped in to see Tony. The guy and the girl saw Tony and Jeannie talking and then when they looked back Jeannie was gone. They thought that Tony had pushed her overboard. He went to jail but got out when Jeannie came to see Tony and they saw she was alive.
In an episode in Season 2 called My Master Napoleon's Buddy, Tony went to jail because they thought Tony was going to kill Napoleon.
Jeannie even put Tony in a jail cell once in Season 2 so he couldn't go out on a date with a girl he knew from college.

In Season 1 of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Will and Carlton both went to jail because the cops thought that they stole the car that belonged to Mr. Furth, Phil's legal partner at his law firm. Turns out they were wrong.

On Home Improvement, Al and Tim went to jail when they were arrested for scalping game tickets in front of the theatre where Jill and Eileen took them to see a play.

On an episode of Full House, Jesse went to jail on his wedding day because he went skydiving and landed in a truck full of tomatoes. Rebecca came by later and bailed him out and they got married.

Gomer Pyle of the Gomer Pyle Show
Barney Fife (He put his own self in jail)

Alex P. Keaton on Family Ties. In the episode where he was pretending to support the ERA to get a girl to like him.

Mike Seaver on Growing Pains. In the pilot episode he ends up in jail for driving without a license.

Jessica Tate was arrested for the murder of Peter Campbell.
Wil and Carlton went to jail for car theft.

JD from "Scrubs"
Debra Barone from "Everbody Loves Raymond"
Wasn't there an episode from "That Girl" where Ann Marie is arrested?

Jessica Tate Husband was Arrested Mr Tate.

The series finale of "Hill Street Blues" saw Lt. Norman Buntz arrested.

The series finale of the original "Mission: Impossible" had everyone arrested.