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The greatest TV characters ever?


Most unique, memorable, iconic.

Archie Bunker (All in The Family)
Omar Little (The Wire)
Samantha Jones (Sex and The City)

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Archie Bunker
Ralph Kramden/Ed Norton
Kramer
Capt. Kirk/Spock
Tony Soprano
Homer Simpson
Lt. Columbo
Mary Richards
Latka
Fonzie
Gilligan

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Good list!

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Albert Steptoe in Steptoe and Son - Wilfrid Brambell
Arthur Daley in Minder - George Cole
Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers - John Cleese
Cordelia in Buffy TVS - Charisma Carpenter
Corporal Jones ( "Don't Panic !!!" ) in Dad's Army - Clive Dunn
Dana Scully in The X-Files - Gillian Anderson
Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Poirot - David Suchet
Horace Rumpole in Rumpole of the Bailey - Leo McKern
Kara Thrace (Starbuck) in Battlestar Galactica - Katee Sackhoff
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gaultieri in The Sopranos - Tony Sirico
Sir Humphrey Appleby in Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister - Nigel Hawthorne
Walter White in Breaking Bad - Bryan Cranston





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Great choices!

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Col. John "Hannibal" Smith (The A-Team)

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I’d be more in the Murdock camp as a great tv character.

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Fred G Sanford

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Dr. Gregory House (House)
Saul Goodman (Better Call Saul)
Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock)
Lyster Nygaard (Fargo)
Bojack Horseman (Bojack Horseman)
Rick and Morty (Rick and Morty)

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Tom & Jerry

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Mad Dog Murdock from A Team.
Barney How I Met Your Mother.
JJ - Good Times.
Al Bundy - Married with Children.
Spike - Buffy/Angel.

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That’s “Howling Mad Murdock,” bub.

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Oh shit it is too! I'm tired!

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Nathan Young in misfits.
no competition
https://youtu.be/7wU6LCAwlHQ
https://youtu.be/YfY8i5_O0qs

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That was a great show before they changed most of the cast.

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