Ok....here's one....one of a kind....never to be duplicated....essential TV characters. I'll start.

[clarice]

Barney Fife
Floyd the barber
Mr. Haney (green acres)
Maxwell Smart

[Scuba]

1. Det. Stanley Thaddeus "Wojo" Wojciehowicz.

And Randy on "My Name is Earl."

[clarice]

2. Good ones...Randy....lol.

[OriginalGeek]

6. Every once in a while we see him on a show nowadays

and I always holler "WOJO!" I just loved him so much in Barney Miller it makes me happy when I see him in anything else.


I liked Crabman too but yeah, Randy.

[restorefreedom]

40. also crabman on MNIE nt

[yuiyoshida]

3. Lieutenant Commander Data

[NightWatcher]

5. Wasn't Data a rehash of Spock?

a fact based, emotionless resource for the Captain...

[yuiyoshida]

7. Hmm...

[NightWatcher]

9. They are not identical but very similar and fill the same niche on similar shows

I liked the original series, watched a little of the next generation, but never watched any of the shows that followed (DS9, Enterprise...)

[Downwinder]

4. Hiram Holliday

[clarice]

8. Thought of a few.....Ted Baxter? Herb Tarlick? (WKRP)

[Tipperary]

12. Oh, Ted Baxter for sure!

Lou Grant as well I think.

Sue Ann Nivens. I miss that show.

[clarice]

13. Me too....it was a classic. nt

[Art_from_Ark]

10. The Robot and Dr. Smith-- Lost In Space

Sgt. Schultz and Colonel Klink-- Hogan's Heroes
Dr. Lovelace-- The Wild, Wild West
Grandpa-- The Munsters

[clarice]

17. wow....all GREAT ones. nt

[clarice]

21. bTW...I LOVED Wild Wild west. Do you know if it's in syndication?nt

[Art_from_Ark]

37. I don't know if The Wild, Wild West is still in syndication,

but the complete series is available on DVD

[clarice]

38. Cool thanks, gonna look into it.

[WinkyDink]

48. I get it on my local station, with all of the gloriousness of Robert Conrad's trou! Haha!

[clarice]

56. I liked his cute little vest.lol

[Hassin Bin Sober]

73. Yeah. I had it on the other day and my boyfriend was like "what the hell is this? This was a series?"

He thought the movie was original. Harrumph . Kids these days. They don't realize everything is a remake.

Now I sound like my dad.

When I was a kid everything was a "remake"

[benld74]

11. Newhart Show

George Utley
Larry
Darryl
Darryl

[clarice]

14. yes to all. nt

[trof]

67. "Hi, I'm Larry. This is my brother Darryl and my other brother Darryl.

[2naSalit]

97. Ha!

Long before that show was a thing, I actually knew a guy named Dennis who had a son named Dennis with his first wife. the got a divorce and he married another woman who had a son with him and they named that one Dennis, eventually they divorced. I met Dennis, the dad, one day when he had both boys over for his custody days and trying to address any of them was just odd since all three were named Dennis.

[Tipperary]

15. Maude.

Archie Bunker.

[clarice]

16. Yup....good ones. nt

[femmocrat]

18. All of the Golden Girls, especially Rose.

The Sugarbaker sisters on "Designing Women".

Those are two of my all-time favorite shows.

[clarice]

19. Am i detecting a theme here? lol. Thanks

[PasadenaTrudy]

20. Walter White n/t

[sarge43]

22. The one and only Reverend Jim Ignatowski (Taxi)

[WinkyDink]

47. One of the Top 5 moments in Sit-Com history! My late husband and I would do this routine often!!

[sarge43]

50. I wonder how many takes they had to do

before the cast and crew stopped cracking up and got it in the can.

It's up there with Tim Conway's elephant story and WKRP's Turkey Massacre

[KamaAina]

23. Mork and ALF.

They're both out of this world!

[MosheFeingold]

24. Maxwell Smart was copied by

Inspector Gadget (same actor, even I think).

[Art_from_Ark]

68. Yeah, they were both Don Adams

Don Adams was also the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

25. Eddie Haskel, Maynard G. Krebs

[gratuitous]

26. Coach from Cheers

The episode where Coach helps Harry the Hat scam a scammer who’s been preying on the Cheers gang, at the end of it, everyone’s guessing about what they just saw. Coach, overly pleased with himself, dismisses them with “You couldn’t be more wrong!” Harry says, “No Coach, that was it” and without missing a beat or taking a breath, Coach exults, “That’s it exactly!”

I can't see anyone but Nicholas Colasanto pulling that off.

[clarice]

39. Classic

[Kaleva]

27. Gilligan and the Skipper

Might include the Professor too. Someone who could do amazing things with a coconut but couldn't fix a hole in a boat.

[Tipperary]

28. Joe Friday.

How can we forget him?

[cemaphonic]

29. Agent Cooper

[XemaSab]

55. Audrey Horne

[Jade Fox]

30. Detective Bobbie Goren...

from Law & Order Criminal Intent.

Loved him. Miss him.

[JeffHead]

66. My favorite Goren scene.

https://vimeo.com/56839045

[Jade Fox]

74. Good one....nt

[KT2000]

94. definitely! funny scene

also the scene where he sits in the classic Ferrari and revs the engine - and doesn't want to get out.

[narnian60]

78. Oh, a big yes!

Can't get enough of him. Husband knows to keep quiet when Goren is on the screen.

[csziggy]

31. Hymie (from Get Smart)

Ralph Monroe and Arnold the pig from Green Acres.

Florence Johnston from The Jeffersons.

[Aristus]

32. President Josiah Bartlet D- New Hampshire.

[kairos12]

41. +1000

[sarge43]

45. The best president we never had. n/t

[First Speaker]

33. Mr Green Jeans

[BlueJazz]

34. Newman "Jerry, you made us all look bad..nobody has ever broken the 50 percent barrier"

[pintobean]

49. Newman's best bit

[BlueJazz]

51. "They call him The Cleaner" "I'll need a clean 8 oz glass"

Geez..

[kairos12]

35. The library detective from Seinfeld.

[Kaleva]

36. I was just thinking about that character yesterday when I watched an episode of Seinfield

[kairos12]

42. Enjoy

[mucifer]

57. Seinfeld was great at making fun of cop shows. They did it in several episodes.

[mucifer]

58. Tom Baker's Dr. Who

[LiberalElite]

43. The gang from "Car 54 Where Are You?"

P.O. Toody
P.O. Muldoon
P.O. Schnauzer
P.O. Nicholson
Capt. Block

[LiberalElite]

44. Columbo! nt

[WinkyDink]

46. Rocky and Bullwinkle! Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd! Det. Lennie Briscoe!

[rurallib]

52. Latka Gravas from Taxi

[valerief]

53. Gigi Rotblum. nt

[cloudbase]

54. Mister Ed. n/t

[CBGLuthier]

59. Everyone depicted in this picture

[didact]

60. Vyvyan, Rick, Neil, & Mike

Maybe Lord Snot too

[OriginalGeek]

62. I miss them terribly.

[callous taoboy]

61. Maynard G. Krebs

Work!

[Brother Buzz]

92. What about Maynard G (stands for Walter) Krebs's cousin, Jerome?

Maynard receives his draft notice and Mr. Pomfritt and Dobie host a testimonial farewell dinner for him.

This episode introduces Michael J. Pollard as Maynard's beatnik cousin Jerome. Jerome was intended as a replacement for Maynard when Bob Denver was drafted in mid-1959, and was written out of the show after Denver failed his Army physical and returned to the series. I wish they had kept both, but apparently Michael J. Pollard was just to quirky for the writers.

[callous taoboy]

100. Yeah, I remember that crazy cat!

He was pretty strange, even for Dobie Gillis standards. But what a great show, hey?

[malthaussen]

63. Sgt. Phil Freemason Esterhaus

"Okay, let's roll. And let's be careful out there." That line still gives me a little frisson every time I hear it. And he was a great character otherwise, too.

-- Mal

[abbeyco]

64. Johnny Fever - WKRP

loved that show and miss it every Thanksgiving.

[callous taoboy]

101. Great show. I have a bunch saved on a hard drive.

[Shrek]

65. The smoke monster on "Lost"

The kid from St. Elsewhere who owned the snow globe.

[jmowreader]

69. Hawkeye Pierce.

[NobodyHere]

70. Tom Servo and Crow

[geardaddy]

84. +1 million

MST3K is having a revival

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000#Revival_.282016.E2.80.93ongoing.29

[Capt.Rocky300]

71. Aunt Clara on Bewitched.

She loved doorknobs and actually collected rare ones in real life.

[DFW]

72. Robert Liebling and Paul Stöver

Both played by the one and only Manfred Krug.

In the States, the only one I can think of off hand not yet mentioned is Barbara Eden's "Genie"

[KamaAina]

75. Hyacinth

"It's Bouquet!"

[cyberswede]

76. It's me, it's me, it's Ernest T!

[Auggie]

77. Tony Soprano

[PassingFair]

79. Dame Edna

[lame54]

80. Phil Dunphy

[NaturalHigh]

81. Alf.

[LynneSin]

82. Either Charlie Kelly or Frank Reynolds from 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'

It's this generation's 'Seinfeld' but even better. I love this show and 10 seasons strong it's still absolutely funny as hell!

[deutsey]

83. Carlton The Doorman

from Rhoda.

He was made all the more memorable because we never actually saw him, just heard his voice over the intercom, so everyone who watched the show probably had a different image of what he looked like.

[geardaddy]

85. Manuel the Waiter

Basil Fawlty
Cybil Fawlty

Bubbles
Ricky
Julian
Mr. Lahey
Randy
Sam Tarasco
Philadelphia "Phil" Collins
J-Roc
Corey and Trevor
(pretty much the entire cast of TPB)

[Joe Shlabotnik]

95. +1

No one will ever recreate these characters, (....that oddly enough I grew up with only with different names)

Cheers from Canada

[blaze]

86. Alice!

The Brady Bunch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_B._Davis

[MerryBlooms]

87. I would have to say Julia Child, for starters...

Iconic woman... the gateway to just about every modern cooking show.

Mr. Rogers. Nothing else needs to be said there, I think.

Redd Fox, Sanford and Son. Comedic genius.

Archie Bunker. Love it or hate it, I think the show qualifies.

The variety shows-- Carol Burnett, Sony and Cher, Laugh-In, The Flip Wilson Show, Hee Haw...

[NaturalHigh]

88. Radar O'Riley and Max Klinger.

[NJCher]

89. Alice Morgan from "Luther"

Cher

[lastlib]

90. Hawkeye Pierce, Radar O'Reilly, and Cpl. Max Klinger!

Come to think of it, almost everybody in the M*A*S*H cast would fit!

[DFW]

91. One ringy dingy....

Ernestine, the telephone operator

also:
Brett Maverick
Perry Mason (Burr incarnation)
Kelly and Scott (Culp and Cosby)
Martin Beck
John Steed and Emma Peel (McNee and Rigg versions)
Frank Thiel and Karl-Friedrich Böhner
Karnak the Magnificent
Herman Munster
Gomez and Morticia Addams
The Samurai (Belushi versions)

[Skittles]

93. Colonel Flagg

"You took a red commie over a white American and that's pretty pinko"

a true teabagger!!!

[Joe Shlabotnik]

96. Fish from Barney Miller,

and also Fred Sandford and Lamont.

[mainstreetonce]

98. Hugo Hurley Reyes

LOST

[Wolf Frankula]

99. Arnold Horshack

n/t

Wolf

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

102. Smothers Brothers

[Va Lefty]

103. Det. Andy Sipowicz

Wish some channel would run NYPD Blue like they do Law and Order

[malthaussen]

104. Oh, I don't think Sipowicz was unique.

Since Dennis Franz played essentially the same character in "Hill Street Blues."

-- Mal