TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time

#28 Jennifer Saunders as Edina Monsoon

#5 Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker

#9 Don Knotts as Barney Fife

#8 Diana Rigg as Emma Peel

#38 Nancy Kulp as Miss Jane Hathaway

#49 Jack Riley as Elliot Carlin

#42 Dabney Coleman as Bill Bittinger

#33 Shelley Long as Diane Chambers

#7 Peter Falk as Columbo

#11 Larry Hagman as J.R. Ewing

#50 Morey Amsterdam as Buddy Sorrell

#40 Joan Collins as Alexis Carrington Colby

#27 Jaleel White as Steve Urkel

#17 Michael J. Fox as Alex P. Keaton

#15 Regina Taylor as Lilly Harper

#31 David Hyde Pierce as Dr. Niles Crane

#19 Don Adams as Maxwell Smart

#4 Henry Winkler as Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli

#24 Richard Boone as Paladin

#30 Andre Braugher as Det. Frank Pembleton

#2 Art Carney as Ed Norton

#13 Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden

#18 Telly Savalas as Kojak

#39 Rip Torn as Arthur

#20 Ken Osmond as Eddie Haskell

#3 Lucille Ball as Lucy Ricardo

#22 Bob Denver as Maynard G. Krebs

#21 Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards

#29 Ted Knight as Ted Baxter

#44 Bruce Willis as David Addison Jr.

#34 Robin Williams as Mork

#43 Adam Arkin as Adam

#23 Dennis Franz as Det. Andy Sipowicz

#12 Jack Lemmon as Felix Ungar and Walter Matthau as Oscar Madison

#48 David Clennon as Miles Drentell

#47 Fyvush Finkel as Douglas Wambaugh

#45 Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison

#25 James Garner as Jim Rockford

#26 Roseanne Barr as Young Rossanne

#16 Phil Silvers as MSgt. Ernest G. 'Ernie' Bilko

#36 Redd Foxx as Fred Sanford

#10 Jason Alexander as George Constanza

#35 Michael Richards as Cosmo Kramer

#14 Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson

#37 Avery Brooks as Hawk

#41 William Daniels as Dr. Mark Craig

#6 Leonard Nimoy as Spock

#1 Danny DeVito as Louie De Palma

#32 Christopher Lloyd as Reverend Jim Ignatowski

#46 Lucy Lawless as Xena