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Remembering Some Great TV Characters
November 25, 2012 | Doc Savage

Posted on 11/25/2012 8:59:03 AM PST by Doc Savage

Just remembering some of the great TV characters from years ago. Perhaps you have a few of your own favorites to add.

Sgt. Vince Carter

Arnold Ziffel

Barney Fife

Jethro Bodine

Gunther Toody

Grandpa Munster

Maynard G. Krebs

Eddie Haskell

Ted Baxter

Maxwell Smart


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollywood
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To: COBOL2Java

+1 for Crusader Rabbit and Rags the Tiger and, later, Rocky and Bullwinkle and the gang.


21 posted on 11/25/2012 9:27:24 AM PST by Donkey Odious ( Adapt, improvise, and overcome - now a motto for us all.)
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To: Doc Savage

Syd Ceasar, Imogene Coca, Andy Devine as “Jingles”, and, skipping ahead three decades, Mork and Mindy


22 posted on 11/25/2012 9:33:46 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: Doc Savage; All

Sgt. ‘Chip’ Saunders, Caje, Kirby, Littlejohn and Doc.
(Combat!)

Agent John Drake (Secret Agent)

Napoleon Solo, Illya Kuryakin and Alexander Waverly
(The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)

Mrs. Emma Peel (The Avengers)

Honey West

Dr. Richard Kimble (The Fugitive)

Barney, Wojo, Harris, Nick Yemana, Fish, Deitrich and Little Leavitt (Barney Miller)

Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. (The Paper Chase)

Captain Francis X. Furrillo and all of Hill Street Station.
(Hill Street Blues)

Hal, Lois, Francis, Reese, Malcolm and Dewey (Malcolm in the Middle)

Archie Goodwin and Nero Wolfe (The Nero Wolfe Mysteries from A&E)

Mayor Ton Kane (Boss)


23 posted on 11/25/2012 9:35:09 AM PST by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Resident FReeper Kitty Poem /Haiku Guy)
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To: Doc Savage

I’m glad you didn’t include that bastard Andy Taylor in the mix. Damned liberal sellout.


24 posted on 11/25/2012 9:36:09 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: ConorMacNessa

Less Nessman WKPR News


25 posted on 11/25/2012 9:37:10 AM PST by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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To: Doc Savage

Wile E. Coyote


26 posted on 11/25/2012 9:41:29 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Doc Savage

Jackie Gleason, Milton Berle , Captain Video, Howdy Doody, Kukla Fran and Ollie, Kate Smith, Lawrence Welk.

The whole Hee Haw gang.


27 posted on 11/25/2012 9:43:38 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Doc Savage

Diver Dan

Honeymooners - “To the moon ALICE!”

Supercar

Sky King

Mighty Mouse

Branded - (Chuck Conners after Rifleman)

F-Troop


28 posted on 11/25/2012 9:45:02 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Doc Savage

Pluck your magic twanger Froggy from the Andy Devine Saturday AM show.


29 posted on 11/25/2012 9:47:56 AM PST by duckman (I'm part of the group pulling the wagon!)
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To: Doc Savage

Chester Goode and Festus Haggen.

Freegards


30 posted on 11/25/2012 9:48:07 AM PST by Ransomed
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To: Doc Savage
Chuck Connors as The Rifleman. Cheyenne Bodie. All three Maverick brothers. ♥♥
31 posted on 11/25/2012 9:48:59 AM PST by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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To: maine yankee
Nessman was great - I liked the episode where they had the turkey promotion. For Johnny Fever, my favorite was the sobriety test where his reaction time got shorter the more he drank.



Keep Faith with the Fallen of Benghazi! Let the Obama Regime, for once, tell the Truth!

Fiat Justitia, Ruat Coelum!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

32 posted on 11/25/2012 9:49:35 AM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: Doc Savage

Colonel Flagg (MASH): “If it weren’t for war you wouldn’t know what peace is.”


33 posted on 11/25/2012 9:49:48 AM PST by Go Gordon (It's barack hussein obama - because he doesn't believe in capitalism.)
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To: A_perfect_lady
... and the whole cast of Barney Miller!

Roger that . . . especially Fish and Yemana!

34 posted on 11/25/2012 9:51:23 AM PST by choirboy
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To: Jack Deth

Fugitive is on Me TV KVOS on cable and allot of the other shows. Also Antenna TV station...


35 posted on 11/25/2012 9:54:00 AM PST by tallyhoe
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To: Doc Savage

Corporal Egarn, SGT O’Rourke, CPT Parmenter, Wrangler Jane, Crazy Cat, the Chief - F Troop


36 posted on 11/25/2012 9:56:43 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Doc Savage

Louie Depalma, Tony Banta, Reverend Jim, Latka Gravis - Taxi


37 posted on 11/25/2012 10:00:34 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Doc Savage

Lt. Columbo
George Jefferson
Mr. T


38 posted on 11/25/2012 10:03:39 AM PST by mikrofon (TV Bump)
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To: Donkey Odious
Rag land “T” Tiger as I recall.
39 posted on 11/25/2012 10:04:05 AM PST by jaz.357 (Welcome to hell. Here's your accordion.)
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To: Doc Savage

Jock Mahoney as “Yancy Derringer.”

Just released on dvd. Good fun.


40 posted on 11/25/2012 10:06:14 AM PST by greene66
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