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The 50 Greatest TV Icons of all time: 4. Bill Cosby
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Zaz
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4/2 7:44pm
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RE: The 50 Greatest TV Icons of all time: 25/26: Farrah Fawcett/Heather Locklear
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I liked him in "Don't Drink the Water"...
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JediANGELA
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4/22 1:59pm
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RE: The 50 Greatest TV Icons of all time: 25/26: Farrah Fawcett/Heather Locklear
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24. MICHAEL LANDON
Few actors have embraced family-friendly fare like Landon, star of Bonanza, Highway to Heaven, and Little House on the Prairie, where his heart-to-hearts with daughter ''Half-Pint'' (Melissa Gilbert) became the stuff of folksy legend. Witness their weepy mountaintop reunion in ''The Lord Is My Shepherd,'' a tough-love scene that encapsulates his sobering — and commanding — onscreen presence.
Little House on the Prairie, there was a show from the books? 
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Zaz
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4/22 7:45pm
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RE: The 50 Greatest TV Icons of all time: 24. Michael Landon
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He was the only Minnesotan farmer with a Hollywood mullet, certainly. 
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JediANGELA
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RE: The 50 Greatest TV Icons of all time: 24. Michael Landon
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23. BARBARA WALTERS
She beckons the hills of Hollywood and the halls of power to bring their tired, their rich, their huddled, scandal-prone masses yearning to tell all. For decades, a historic parade of disgraced politicians, teary-eyed celebs, and murderous mortals have been through her soft-lens wringer. Many imitators have tried, but nobody veers from silly (dancing the tango with Patrick Swayze!) to serious (going mano a mano with Fidel Castro!) like Walters.
A celeb, yes. One of the top 25 TV icons?
No.
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Zaz
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5/8 8:26am
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RE: The 50 Greatest TV Icons of all time: 23. Barbara Walters
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I agree. Though I love the classic SNL skit of her interviewing Godzilla: "No, Bawa, I really want to direct."
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JediANGELA
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22. MILTON BERLE
They didn't call him Mr. Television for nothing. Not only was he the first major TV personality to dress in drag (which landed him on stage at the 1993 MTV VMAs with disco diva RuPaul), Uncle Miltie was on the air for over 40 years as the host of variety hours like Texaco Star Theater and as a frequent guest star. A triple threat, he sang with Sinatra, bantered with Tallulah Bankhead, and never let a joke fall flat.
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21. KERMIT
He began as a puppet made of an old green coat and a Ping-Pong ball. But thanks to the imagination and voice of Muppet master Jim Henson, Kermit was transformed into so much more. On Sesame Street, he taught kids how to read and relish their youth. On The Muppet Show, he played straight man to a world of gonzo characters. When he guest-hosted The Tonight Show in 1979, it was a coronation: Kermit had become more than an entertainer. He had become our friend.
Its the Muppet Show, or should we be singing the Rainbow Connection?
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6/1 3:45pm
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RE: The 50 Greatest TV Icons of all time: Milton Berle and Kermit the Frog
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All hail the green one.
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Zaz
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6/2 7:21am
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RE: The 50 Greatest TV Icons of all time: Milton Berle and Kermit the Frog
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Berle was the host of one of the first TV shows, but he was nothing but a rather crude comic, IMO; though I've never seen the show; it was early 50's. Have seen him since then, on other shows. His SNL hosting job was suppressed by Lorne Michaels, because he thought it was so bad; you can't see him in the reruns. A zeitgeist figure.
Kermie, OTOH, is iconic.
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rumsmuggler
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RE: The 50 Greatest TV Icons of all time: Milton Berle and Kermit the Frog
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Kermit is awesome. I'm glad to see him on this list.
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Zaz
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6/4 1:09pm
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RE: The 50 Greatest TV Icons of all time: Milton Berle and Kermit the Frog
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Me, too.
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JediANGELA posted:
22. MILTON BERLE
Is it bad that I dont know who this is?
21. KERMIT
Its the Muppet Show, or should we be singing the Rainbow Connection?
Kill two birds with one stone: Milton Berle is the guest on the Muppet Show, Season 2, episode 3.
On that episode, I actually learned something: the featured music in The Sting, "The Entertainer", actually has lyrics. Berle sang said lyrics while Rowlf the Dog played the song on piano--a cool tip of the hat to Berle's days as a vaudeville performer early in his career. Here's the link. The song comes in at 2:55.
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JediANGELA
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20. CARROLL O'CONNOR
Archie Bunker was hard to love. He hated African Americans, Jews, homosexuals, feminists, rich and poor, zealots and atheists. Yet O'Connor made Archie likable. Perhaps it was his teddy-bear belly or his authentic Queens drawl ('''Tanks,'' he'd say). Or because he was so easily flustered (like when guest star Sammy Davis Jr. kissed him in season 2). O'Connor's Archie smartly kept us debating throughout the '70s: By tuning in to laugh, were we ridiculing bigotry or giving it a soapbox?
I saw his chair!
19. ANDY GRIFFITH
The Andy Griffith Show's Sheriff Andy is so low-key, it's easy to underestimate the skill required of Griffith to make quiet rectitude and folksy wiseness so warmly funny. Nowhere is this more evident than in the classic ''Opie, the Birdman,'' in which son Opie (Ron Howard) accidentally kills a bird, and Andy guides the boy with gentle judiciousness.
He should be higher in my opinion.
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RE: The 50 Greatest TV Icons of all time: Andy Griffith & Carol O'Connor
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I've seen a rerun of "All in the Family" in which Archie goes on the news to state his views--the way O'Connor slouched on a stool in embarrassment was funnier than anything he said.
Re: Griffiths; I haven't seen very much of his show, but enough to see he was a matchless straight man, a much underrated talent.
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18. WILLIAM SHATNER
"There are many adjectives one could use to describe James Tiberius Kirk, interstellar man of action. Brave. Suave. Empathetic. But the one that best exemplifies the captain of the Enterprise is confident. Shatner was all swagger, like a blend of James Bond and young Elvis. (It's a blend he now uses to an exaggerated — and Emmy-winning — degree on Boston Legal.) Whether he was negotiating with mad geniuses, troubling with Tribbles, or macking on a bevy of space hotties, we bought Star Trek because Shatner sold it to us."
Tim Allen's parody/satire on Shatner ("There goes the shirt!") in "Galaxy Quest" is priceless.
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RE: The 50 Greatest TV Icons of all time: William Shatner
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17. Bob Newhart
Newhart's deadpan in the face of craziness is wonderful stuff. He's had four series, two of which were very long-running. The last two were very short, but we love him, anyway.
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