Top 5 television characters

[Slacker]

 

[heyabbott]

Al Swarengen

 

[Slacker]

"Gunsmoke" aired for 20 seasons,
so generations of viewers followed Matt Dillon.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

What about the character who's been played by many more actors than five and is still going strong after 6o years -- Dr. Who.

 

[da man]

What about the character who's been played by many more actors than five and is still going strong after 6o years -- Dr. Who.

That's not his name.

He's simply The Doctor. And I believe someone mentioned him early in this thread.

 

[Tighthead]

My Top 5 Sopranos

Tony
Carm
Janice
Artie
Richie Aprile

I could list ten more easily.

 

[da man]

Would you believe... Maxwell Smart?

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Would you believe... Maxwell Smart?

Missed my list by that much.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

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I went with Basil in my list, but Manuel absolutely was a consideration.

I taught my son's parakeet to say "How are you, sir? I speak English. I learn it from a book."

 

[OscarMadison]

What about the character who's been played by many more actors than five and is still going strong after 6o years -- Dr. Who.

I can feel myself getting nerdier responding to this...

S/He's known only as "The Doctor" and the show is styled as "Doctor Who."

My very subjective list of ten favourite characters in no particular order:

1. Baber Siddiqui - Little Mosque on the Prairie - Anyone with North African/Mediterranean roots knows a Baber. Hi, Dad!

2. Malcolm Tucker - The Thick of It - I had a Shih Tzu who reminded me of Malcolm. The irony is I named him after one of the easiest-going players in the NHL.

3. Archdeacon Robert - rev. - Hard to believe Simon McBurney is the bitchy Archdeacon with a heart of something gold-ish on rev. and the hippy, dippy choir master on The Vicar of Dibley.

4. Speaking of which... David Horton - The Vicar of Dibley - Gary Waldhorn was an old hand at sitcoms by the time he played the Horton pere. I have a tendency to watch for instances of good writing and acting and seeing someone completely turn around a character who had been an amalgam of stock tropes with one word still impresses the heck out of me.

5. Alice Tinker-Horton - The Vicar of Dibley - Been there, done that, worn the collar. I love me some Alice.

6. Manny - Black Books - There's a lot to love about this odd little show. Manny is the human iteration of Peanuts' Snoopy.

7. Wanda Dollard - Corner Gas - Over-educated, under-employed, and somehow happy in her own skin. She's my spirit animal.

8. Brian Topp - Spaced - Anyone who ever spent time in art school knows a Brian. Ours at CCAC was a guy who used to dehydrate roadkill, lacquer it, and then mount it on posts around the campus.

9. Every Character Ellen Dubin Played - Lexx - Lexx was this weird and weirdly beautiful show a bunch of people who wrote about hockey watched during a lockout. We'd collectively agreed to watch a series together and no one could remember the name of the show with a living spaceship. So some of us ended up watching Farscape and others of us watched Lexx. Those of us who stuck with Lexx were labeled pervy freaks for it. I don't care. I own copies of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension AND Big Trouble in Little China if that tells you anything about my taste in sci-fi. So back to Dubin. She embraced every character with the glee of a local kiddie show actor on nitrous. She was so much fun to watch! Actually, everyone was.

10. Jim Moriarty - Sherlock - The best Moriarty ever. He creeped the heck out of me. Then he's The Hot Priest on Fleabag? Nooooooooooooo! (And am I the only one excited that La Phoebe is going to be in the next Indiana Jones movie?)

 

[Killick]

Moriarty in Sherlock *was* outstanding.

Kudos to whoever mentioned Dr. Perry Cox from Scrubs. Also, here's one I just remembered: Dan Fielding, Night Court.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Perry Mason.
Bret Maverick