Best tv dads

[MSOrange]

Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there. Let's discuss our favorite tv dads. These are mine off the top of my mind.

1. Ward Cleaver - Watching reruns as an adult has really made me appreciate how good of a guy Ward was putting up with all of Beaver's antics.
2. Jim Anderson - Father Knows Best
3. Frank Costanza /Arthur Spooner - Had to put them in a tie. Neither character was a very good father, but at least they were hilarious being bad at it.
4. Steven Keaton - Really was a good father but now that I watch as an adult, very underrated on how much humor he added to life.
5. Andy Taylor - Never really a huge Andy Griffith Show fan but I can still appreciate Andy being a good father.

 

[OburgOrange]

Pill Cosby

 

[upperdeck]

always like Wilford Brimley in "Our house" but that may be because I liked him the Natural as a kid and I liked his oatmeal commercials

and of course michael landon as charles Ingalls and ralph Waite who played John Walton and also Jackson Gibbs both great dads

 

[donniesyracuse]

Michael Bluth
Mike Brady
Martin Crane
Peter Griffin
Stan Smith
Tony Soprano
Harold Weir

 

[Trueblue25]

 

[orange79]

Broke the universe, saved the universe. Not bad...

 

[justgold315]

Al Bundy, Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin

 

[Briancuse]

Morte Seinfeld.

 

[MSOrange]

Pill Cosby

He would have easily made my top 5 if not for everything that's come up. Now he's probably at the bottom.

 

[MSOrange]

Michael Bluth
Mike Brady
Martin Crane
Peter Griffin
Stan Smith
Tony Soprano
Harold Weir

Martin Crane is another good call. He'd make my next 5 after my top 5

 

[bevosu]

Merlin Olsen...

 

[Tobias Funke]

Me

 

[tbonezone]

andy griffith. lorne greene. bill bixby. sam waterson in "i'll fly away". something noble in dad's going it alone.
of course they all had great support systems.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

The dad from Boy Meets World always struck me as a good dude.

 

[PoppyHart]

Me

maebe, let me think about it.

 

[AZOrange]

Walter White

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

He would have easily made my top 5 if not for everything that's come up. Now he's probably at the bottom.

The TV father was great.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

Michael Landon on Little House

 

[obliterata]

Michael Landon - Little House On The Prairie
Danny Thomas - Make Room For Daddy

 

[Shawn91111]

Jack Arnold
Dan Conner

 

[OrangeDW]

Jason Seaver on Growing Pains.

 

[SUFaninNJ]

 

[Briancuse]

I always liked Mr Keaton on Family Ties.

 

[MSOrange]

Jason Seaver on Growing Pains.

I've been watching those reruns before work. Mr Seaver was a quality guy for sure

 

[MSOrange]

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That one is a tough call since it took 2 of them to do the job. But that's also considering there was no mom. We'll have to go to the judges on this best tv dad ruling. I'm not optimistic about the Russian judge.