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Tomorrow, I shall take my breakfast under the covers - a twice-yearly occurrence around case Watson (birthday, too!) - and I shall enjoy the mild but heartfelt tribute to my fatherhood. Later, I’ll give my old man a card and a gift, and char a few burgers in his honor. And
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1 year ago
Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke Show)
Darren Stevens (Dick York-Bewitched)
James Evans (Good Times)
Dan Connor (Roseanne)
J R Ewing (Dallas)
Howard Cunningham (Happy Days)
Rocky Rockford (Rockford Files)
Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
Burt Campbell (Soap)
Fred Ziffel (Green Acres)
I'm barbecuing for my Dad tomorrow as well. I never thought about it, but it must be a wide practice.
1 year ago
Oh, but Frank Costanza, definitely. I mean I have actually sat and watched the harmless "King Of Queens" only in the hopes of catching a few seconds of Jerry Stiller brilliance.
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Did anyone actually like Richie Petrie?
1 year ago
I'm not so sure about the others - they were real fathers, perhaps not good ones. Certainly, Fred Munster - although undead - was a fine father to Eddie.
1 year ago
To add to the list of best TV dads:
John Schneider as Jonathan Kent on Smallville.
Since the 1970s some of the best fathers have been father-figures rather than actual fathers, surrogate dads to the rest of the cast.
Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Col. Potter on MASH
Dr Westphall on St Elsewhere, with Aushlander as a surrogate grandfather---Westphall was a good father to his teenage daughter and autistic son but most of his fathering was of Dr Morrison.
Adam Schiff on Law and Order.
After 1970 or so, the fathers in TV sitcoms all but disappeared. When they returned in the late 1980s they became the biggest babies on their shows.
Fathers have been largely absent from TV dramas on the main networks because the main characters are almost always intended to be sex symbols and the shows they're in focus almost entirely on their heroic work lives.
There are more fathers on the premium channels and cable networks---WB, now the CB, had a bunch, but they've all been canceled now.
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