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11-14-2018, 12:30 AM
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Butter Pie
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Who are your favorite television characters?
I was only going to have you name 10 but I couldn't . I have too many favorites!
 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 |
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11-14-2018, 09:06 AM
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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 |
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11-14-2018, 10:26 AM
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Omaha & Fritz
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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 |
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11-14-2018, 12:40 PM
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Also, Ms. Swan from MADtv.
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11-14-2018, 12:50 PM
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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 |
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11-14-2018, 03:48 PM
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Butter Pie
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Wow! So many great characters!` I have to add Eddie Haskell, John Boy,Shirley Feeny. So many more!
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11-15-2018, 12:27 AM
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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 |
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11-15-2018, 08:26 AM
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So many great ones to choose from, but it's really hard for me to pick.
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11-15-2018, 09:50 PM
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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 !
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11-17-2018, 06:57 AM
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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!!! |
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11-20-2018, 08:40 PM
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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) |
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01-14-2021, 05:49 PM
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Johnny - Cobra Kai The Mandalorian (Din Djarin) and Grogu (aka Baby Yoda) - The Mandalorian |
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01-17-2021, 06:44 PM
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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) |
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01-17-2021, 07:29 PM
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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) |
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01-21-2021, 12:54 AM
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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. |
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