Who are Your Favorite TV Characters?

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Buffy Willow Zander Angel Spike Wesley Cordelia …the whole cast of Angel and Buffy hehe

Jack Bauer 24

Scully and Mulder X Files

Hal and Lois and the whole family, Craig, from Malcolm in the Middle

JD and Turk Dr Cox Elliot Carla Janitor from SCRUBS

Fry Bender Leela Profressor Futurama

Zuko Aang Kitara Sokka Avatar the Last Airbender
 
Pavel Chekov-Star Trek
Mr. Spock - Star Trek
Captain Kirk - Star Trek
Mike Nesmith - Monkees
Peter Tork - Monkees
Jack and Jennifer Devereaux - Days of Our Lives
Miley Stewart - Hannah Montana
Ross and Rachel - Friends
Murphy Brown - Murphy Brown
Hawkeye Pierce - MASH
Major Margaret Houlihan - MASH
Herman Munster - The Munsters
Bones and her Agent/Partner - Bones
Enos Straight - Dukes of Hazzard
Suzanne Sugarbaker - Designing Women
Bo Duke - Dukes of Hazard
Clark Kent - Smallville
Amanda Carrington (as played by Catherine Oxenberg) - Dynasty
Judge Harry Stone - Night Court
Dan Fielding - Night Court
Gopher - Love Boat
 
Brisco County Jr. - Brisco, Bowler, Socrates, Bly
Simpsons- Sideshow Bob, Mr. Burns,
X-files - Mulder, Scully, Krycek, Lone Gunmen, Smoking Man
Avatar - Sokka, Zuko, Iroh
Invader Zim - Zim, Dib, Membrane, the Tallest
Scrubs - Janitor

Not really “characters”, but Curtis from “Take Home Chef”, and from the original Iron Chef, I like Kaga, Iron Chef Japanese Rokusaburo Michiba (I do not like ICJ Morimoto), and IC Chinese Chen Kenichi.
 
Claire_C said:
Brisco County Jr. - Brisco, Bowler, Socrates, Bly
Simpsons- Sideshow Bob, Mr. Burns,
X-files - Mulder, Scully, Krycek, Lone Gunmen, Smoking Man
Avatar - Sokka, Zuko, Iroh
Invader Zim - Zim, Dib, Membrane, the Tallest
Scrubs - Janitor

Not really “characters”, but Curtis from “Take Home Chef”, and from the original Iron Chef, I like Kaga, Iron Chef Japanese Rokusaburo Michiba (I do not like ICJ Morimoto), and IC Chinese Chen Kenichi.
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Not really characters? They’re not characters in any sense, they are real people and real chefs who happen to be on television 🤷
 
My top 10:
Quincy, MD (Quincy)
Jordan Cavenaugh, MD (Crossing Jordan)
Lt.Cdr. Leonard H. McCoy, MD (Star Trek)
Cdr. Spock (Star Trek)
G’Kar (Babylon 5)
Londo Molari (Babylon 5)
Vir Cotto (Babylon 5)
Capt. Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce, MD (MASH)
Capt. Sherman T. Potter, MD (MASH)
Malcom Reynolds (Firefly)

(#11 is Fr. Mulchahy, from MASH, and 12 is Rev. Book, from Firefly.)
 
LilyM said:
Not really characters? They’re not characters in any sense, they are real people and real chefs who happen to be on television 🤷
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Well, Kaga is a character. He is not really an eccentric billionaire who wanted to taste food that was truly a work of art, and founded Kitchen Stadium, so he could pit the greatest chefs of the world against his Iron Chefs, in the King of Iron Chefs Tournament. That is the fictional premise to provide an entertaining framework for real cooking contests to take place. Even though they are real people, they have a persona on Iron Chef. Take Home Chef is a little different, but I still like him, even though he’s real. I was just saying I liked them on TV, not implying that they were made up.
 
LilyM said:
Not really characters? They’re not characters in any sense, they are real people and real chefs who happen to be on television 🤷
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At least some of them, as portrayed on TV, are characters.

Alton Brown, for example, presents himself as a character in Good Eats; that character is based strongly on himself, but isn’t actually him. He’s said so in interviews.
 
Aramis said:
At least some of them, as portrayed on TV, are characters.

Alton Brown, for example, presents himself as a character in Good Eats; that character is based strongly on himself, but isn’t actually him. He’s said so in interviews.
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Yes. Thank you. If Curtis on Take Home Chef really lurked in grocery stores waiting to ambush women and go home with them and cook dinner, it would be creepy, and possibly criminal. On the TV show, it’s charming. He’s really a chef, but he plays a character of himself.
 
Claire_C said:
Yes. Thank you. If Curtis on Take Home Chef really lurked in grocery stores waiting to ambush women and go home with them and cook dinner, it would be creepy, and possibly criminal. On the TV show, it’s charming. He’s really a chef, but he plays a character of himself.
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I wasn’t particularly thinking of Kaga when I made my comment.

It’s part of being on TV that it’s selective in what it shows about you, and you perhaps appear a little different than you would in real life. That doesn’t mean that you’re a ‘character’. It’s just the nature of tv.

Barrack Obama doesn’t spend every minute of every day attending important ceremonies and critical meetings and making important speeches. Yet we don’t call him a ‘character’ just because we don’t get tv footage of him shaving, going to the can, doing boring mundane paperwork or working out in the gym. 🤷
 
Whoever said Dr. Jeffery Geiger is my soulmate 😃 😉 Mandy Patinkin is WONDERFUL!

Now, onto my list:

MASH*: Fr. Francis Mulcahy (this character helped start my conversion process :)), Cpt. Sherman T. Potter, and Klinger

Star Trek: Bones, Spock, Uhura, Data, Geordi, and Guinan

Criminal Minds: Gideon (again, I LOVE Mandy Patinkin)

Dead Like Me: Rube and George

House: Drs Cameron and Chase (he was a former seminarian… I would like to see him rediscover the faith)

Monk: Stottlemyer (especially after the last Christmas special)

Mr. Rogers Neighborhood: Mr. Rogers, King Friday XIII, and Lady Aberlain.

Saved by the Bell: Screech, Zack, and Kelly

Ericka
 
Killface from Frisky Dingo
Sam from True Blood
Earl from My name is earl
 
Patrick McGoohan as John Drake in Secret Agent / Danger Man.
and as No.6 in The Prisoner

Patrick MacNee and Dianna Rigg as John Steed and Emma Peel in The Avengers

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in the X-Files

James Garner as Jim Rockford in the Rockford Files

Clint Walker as Cheyenne Bodie in Cheyenne

John Thaw as Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse
 
wynnejj said:
Patrick McGoohan as John Drake in Secret Agent / Danger Man.
and as No.6 in The Prisoner

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James Garner as Jim Rockford in the Rockford Files

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John Thaw as Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse
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Ooo…I had forgotten these! Thanks for the reminder!
 
Jack Bauer!
Tony Almeida!
John Locke!
Desmond Hume!

And of course, President Bartlett.
 
Ilya Kuryakan, U.N.C.L.E. agent

Dr. Bones McCoy, Star Trek

Buck Cannon, High Chapparal

Brett Maverick

Frank Barrone (Raymond’s dad)

Dr. Greg House

Gee, in looking over this list, what a bunch…an interesting study in how strangely our minds work!!!
 
Professor Charles W. Kingsfield – The Paper Chase

Elim Garak – Star Trek Deep Space Nine
 
MacGyver- Angus MacGyver
Babylon 5 - Capt. John Sheridan, G’Kar
Doctor Who- Fourth and Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Sarah Jane Smith
Heroes- Hiro Nakamura
Sliders- Quinn Mallory
Quantum Leap- Dr. Sam Beckett, Sam the Bartender (from the series finale)
Stargate SG-1- Daniel Jackson and Gens. Jack O’Neill and George Hammond
Jericho (AKA the show that won’t die: cancelled, renewed, cancelled, soon to be a film:D )- Johnston Green, Jake Green, Robert Hawkins
Law & Order- Det Lenny Briscoe
Law & Order Criminal Intent- Det. Robert “Bobby” Goren

Alton Brown of Food Network’s Good Eats(great food using ordinary items).
Adam Savage and Kari Byron of Mythbusters
Les Stroud from Survivor Man
 
Two leap to mind.

The character that gave me the biggest belly-laughs was Archie Bunker.

The character is wish I were the most like is B.J. Hunnicutt from MASH; he’s so fundamentally decent and very witty.
 
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