I was only going to have you name 10 but I couldn't . I have too many favorites!:D

Mine in no specific order;

Ross Poldark- Poldark

Luther Van Dam- Coach

Hayden Fox- Coach

JR Ewing- Dallas

Lt. Colombo- Colombo

Jackie Harris- Roseanne

Thomas Magnum- Magnum P. I.

Howard Borden - The Bob Newhart Show

Rhoda Morgenstern- Mary Tyler Moore

Angel Martin- The Rockford Files

Stephanie Vanderkellen- Newhart

Jim Rockford- The Rockford Files

Naomi Harper- Mama's Family

Thelma Harper- Mama's Family

Dean and Sam Winchester- Supernatural

Castiel(Cass)- Supernatural

Jeff Maitland- Family

Gary Frank- Family

Absolute favorites:

Lucy Ricardo: I Love Lucy
Ethel Mertz: I Love Lucy
Thelma Harper: Mama’s Family & The Carol Burnett Show
Eunice Higgins: Mama’s Family & The Carol Burnett Show
Iola Boylan: Mama’s Family
Jessica Fletcher: Murder, She Wrote
Ben Matkock: Matlock
Laverne Todd: Empty Nest
Edith Bunker: All in the Family
Florence Johnston: The Jeffersons
Barney Fife: The Andy Griffith Show
Dick Loudon: Newhart
Larry, Darryl, & Darryl: Newhart
Sam Drucker: Green Acres & Petticoat Junction
Fred Ziffel: Green Acres & Petticoat Junction
Fran Fine: The Nanny
Pee-wee Herman: Pee-wee’s Playhouse
Aunt Esther: Sanford and Son
ALF: ALF
Flo Castleberry: Alice & Flo
Granny: The Beverly Hillbillies
Elly Mae Clampett: The Beverly Hillbillies
Julia Sugarbaker: Designing Women
Steve Urkel: Family Matters
Carl Winslow: Family Matters
Hazel Burke: Hazel
Sophia Petrillo: The Golden Girls
Helen Roper: Three’s Company & The Ropers
Dorothy Jane Torkelson: The Torkelsons
Bubba Skinner: In the Heat of the Night
Bree Van de Kamp: Desperate Housewives
Stefano DiMera: Days of our Lives

Eddie Haskell - Leave It To Beaver
Larry Mondello - Leave It To Beaver
Luther - Coach
Barney - Andy Griffith Show
Spence - The King Of Queens
Jack - Three's Company
George "Kingfish" Stevens - Amos & Andy Show
Laura - Holliston
Neil - The Inbetweeners
Gilligan - Gilligan's Island
Richie - Happy Days
Stan "Wojo" Wojciehowicz - Barney Miller
Johnny Fever - WKRP
Dave Lister - Red Dwarf
Arnold Rimmer - Red Dwarf
Ted - The Adventures Of Pete and Pete
Fred - I Love Lucy
Laverne - Laverne & Shirley
Patsy and Edina - Absolutely Fabulous


John Boy - The Waltons
Dr Smith - Lost In Space (original)
Bill Maxwell - The Greatest American Hero
Spike - Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Willow - Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Nasir - Robin Of Sherwood
Jonathan - Jonathan Creek
Maddie - Jonathan Creek
Adrian Monk - Monk
Kolchak - Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Ka D'Argo - Farscape
Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan - Farscape
Daryl - The Walking Dead
Ash - Ash Vs The Evil Dead
Rosco P Coltrane - Dukes Of Hazzard
Starbuck - Battlestar Galactica (original)
4th and 10th Doctor - Doctor Who
Spock - Star Trek
Data - Star Trek: The Next Generation
Bill - Freaks & Geeks

Also, Ms. Swan from MADtv.

Michael Scott - The Office
Kelly Kapoor - The Office
Elka Ostrofsky - Hot In Cleveland
Melanie Moretti - Hot In Cleveland
Victoria Chase - Hot In Cleveland
Ron Swanson - Parks & Recreation
Sophia Petrillo - The Golden Girls
Rose Nylund - The Golden Girls
Fez - That '70s Show
Simone Foster - Head of the Class

Wow! So many great characters!` I have to add Eddie Haskell, John Boy,Shirley Feeny. So many more!

Henry Winkler aka the fonz form happy days
richie richie cunningham form happy days
Tim Allen form home inmprovment
al form home inmprovment
wilson form home inmprovment
randy form home improvement
brad form home inmprovment
Jaleel White as Steve Urkel from family matters
Carl Winslow form Family Matters
eddy Winslow form family matters
Fred savage Kevin Arnold form the wonder years
Paul Pfeiffer form the wonder years
Winnie cooper form the wonder years
Vicki Lawrence- Mama's Family
vent harper form mama;s family
George Jefferson's form the Jefferson's
Fred G Sanford FORM Sanford & son
Lamont form Sanford & son
Aunt Esther" from Sanford & son
zack form saved by the bell
kelly kapowski FROM SAVED BY THE BELL
ben savage form boy meets world
Topanga Lawrence FROM BOY MEETS WORLD
SHAWN FORM BOY MEETS WORLD
Ethel Mertz: I Love Lucy
Fred mertz form I love Lucy
Lucy Ricardo form I love Lucy
little Rickey form I love Lucy
alice kramden form the honeymooners
Ralph Kramden from the honeymooners
Ed Norton from the honeymooners

So many great ones to choose from, but it's really hard for me to pick.

Oh my gosh I forgot Chief Bill Gillespie and Bubba Skinner (In The Heat Of The Night) IMO Carroll O'Connor's role as Bill Gillespie far outshone his Archie Bunker character. He was wonderful !

Dorothy Zbornak (The Golden Girls)
Blanche Devereaux (The Golden Girls) (all of the characters from the show, really!)
Hyacinth Bucket (Keeping Up Appearances)
Jack and Karen (Will & Grace)
Phoebe Buffay, Chandler Bing & Joey Tribiani (Friends)
Eric & Donna (That 70s Show)
Lisa Miller Hughes Grimaldi... (et. al) As the World Turns
Alexis Colby Carrington... (et. al) Dynasty
Daphne Moon Frasier
Jackie Harris Roseanne

Goodness, there's way more than this. I'll have to add more later!!!

Some of mine:

Lt. Frank Ballinger of the Chicago Police (Lee Marvin, M Squad)

Defense attorney Perry Mason (Raymond Burr, from Perry Mason, 1957-66 on CBS)

Detective Paul Drake and secretary Della Street (William Hopper and Della Street, from that same series)

Dr. Bob Hartley, Chicago psychologist (Bob Newhart, from his self-named 1972-78 CBS comedy)

Captain Barney Miller of the fictional 12th Precinct of the NYPD (Hal Linden, from that 1975-82 ABC police comedy called Barney Miller)

Defense attorney Tony Petrocelli, his wife Maggie, and their detective Pete Ritter (Barry Newman, Susan Howard and Albert Salmi, from Petrocelli [1974-76 on NBC])

Lt. Mike Stone and Insp. Steve Keller (Karl Malden and Michael Douglas, from the 1972-77 ABC police/detective series The Streets of San Francisco)

Josh Randall, bounty hunter (Wanted: Dead or Alive, 1958-61 CBS Western)

Eddie Haskell - Leave It To Beaver
Larry Mondello - Leave It To Beaver
Luther - Coach
Barney - Andy Griffith Show
Spence - The King Of Queens
Jack - Three's Company
George "Kingfish" Stevens - Amos & Andy Show
Laura - Holliston
Neil - The Inbetweeners
Gilligan - Gilligan's Island
Richie - Happy Days
Stan "Wojo" Wojciehowicz - Barney Miller
Johnny Fever - WKRP
Dave Lister - Red Dwarf
Arnold Rimmer - Red Dwarf
Ted - The Adventures Of Pete and Pete
Fred - I Love Lucy
Laverne - Laverne & Shirley
Patsy and Edina - Absolutely Fabulous


John Boy - The Waltons
Dr Smith - Lost In Space (original)
Bill Maxwell - The Greatest American Hero
Spike - Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Willow - Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Nasir - Robin Of Sherwood
Jonathan - Jonathan Creek
Maddie - Jonathan Creek
Adrian Monk - Monk
Kolchak - Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Ka D'Argo - Farscape
Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan - Farscape
Daryl - The Walking Dead
Ash - Ash Vs The Evil Dead
Rosco P Coltrane - Dukes Of Hazzard
Starbuck - Battlestar Galactica (original)
4th and 10th Doctor - Doctor Who
Spock - Star Trek
Data - Star Trek: The Next Generation
Bill - Freaks & Geeks

Wanted to add:

Johnny - Cobra Kai
The Mandalorian (Din Djarin) and Grogu (aka Baby Yoda) - The Mandalorian

Way too many to list but my top 12 are:

Dean Winchester (Supernatural)
Dr. Johnny Fever (WKRP)
Laverne Defazio (Laverne & Shirley)
Keith Partridge (The Partridge Family)
Max Black (2 Broke Girls)
Lisa Douglas (Green Acres)
Barney Fife (The Andy Griffith Show)
Gomer Pyle (Gomer Pyle USMC & the Andy Griffith Show)
Archie Bunker (All in the Family)
Ann Marie (That Girl)
Lucifer Morningstar (Lucifer)
Maude Findlay (Maude)

1st Earnest T Bass (TAGS)
2nd Major Hochstetter (Hogans Heroes)
3rd Reverend Jim (Taxi)
4th Uncle Tonoose (Make Room for Daddy)
5th Al Bundy (MWC)
6th Endorra (Bewitched)
7th Mr Haney (Green Acres)
8th the Cigarette Man (X-Files)
9th Thomas Wilder (Blue Bloods)
10th Scott Coltrane (Gunsmoke)

My top 5 would be:

1. All of the castaways from Gilligan's Island, especially Mary Ann and the Professor.

2. Lucas and Mark McCain from The Rifleman.

3. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu and Chekov from Star Trek.

4. Samantha, Darrin, Endora, Aunt Clara and Uncle Arthur from Bewitched.

5. The Fonz and Richie from Happy Days.

Bill Gillespie - In the Heat of the Night

George Wilson - Dennis the Menace

Mary Ann Summers - Gilligan's Island

Lucy and Ethel - I Love Lucy

John-Boy - The Waltons

Barnabas Collins - Dark Shadows

Mr. Ed - Mr. Ed

Arnold Ziffel - Green Acres

Some of mine:

Lt. Frank Ballinger of the Chicago Police (Lee Marvin, M Squad)

Defense attorney Perry Mason (Raymond Burr, from Perry Mason, 1957-66 on CBS)

Detective Paul Drake and secretary Della Street (William Hopper and Della Street, from that same series)

Dr. Bob Hartley, Chicago psychologist (Bob Newhart, from his self-named 1972-78 CBS comedy)

Captain Barney Miller of the fictional 12th Precinct of the NYPD (Hal Linden, from that 1975-82 ABC police comedy called Barney Miller)

Defense attorney Tony Petrocelli, his wife Maggie, and their detective Pete Ritter (Barry Newman, Susan Howard and Albert Salmi, from Petrocelli [1974-76 on NBC])

Lt. Mike Stone and Insp. Steve Keller (Karl Malden and Michael Douglas, from the 1972-77 ABC police/detective series The Streets of San Francisco)

Josh Randall, bounty hunter (Wanted: Dead or Alive, 1958-61 CBS Western)

Dana Delany as First Lieutenant (later Captain) Colleen McMurphy and Marg Helgenberger as Karen Charlene "K.C." Koloski – China Beach

Melissia Gilbert as Laura Ingalls Wilder, the oldest daughter of Charles and Caroline- Little House on the Prairie

Melissia Gilbert as Laura Ingalls Wilder, the oldest daughter of Charles and Caroline- Little House on the Prairie

Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) was their oldest daughter.