Old Timers: TV

Happy Days:

Cast: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Marion Ross, Tom Bosley, Erin Morgan, Anson Williams

Richard "Richie" Cunningham

Nickname(s) Richie Gender Male Occupation Reporter, Soldier, Screenwriter Family Joanie Cunningham (sister), Marion Cunningham (mother)
Howard Cunningham (father)
Chuck Cunningham (brother) Spouse(s) Lori Beth Cunningham (wife) Children Richard Cunningham Jr. (son) Relatives Roger Phillips (cousin)
Flip Phillips (cousin)
KC Cunningham (cousin)
Sean Cunningham (grandfather)
Charles "Chauchi" Arcola (brother in law)

Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli

Gender: Male
Occupation: Mechanic, Part Owner of Arnold's Restaurant, Teacher (1956-)
Relatives Chachi Arcola (cousin), Spike (cousin and a child burlesque of Fonzie), Danny (adopted son)

Howard Cunningham

Husband, father, business owner (hardware store), lodge member, family man. Frequently seen reading the daily newspaper in his easy chair.

Marion Cunningham

Wife, mother and homemaker. She was the only character whom Fonzie allowed to call him by his real first name, Arthur, which she always did affectionately.

Joanie Cunningham

Nickname(s) Shortcake Gender Female Family Marion Cunningham (mother)
Howard Cunningham (father)
Richie Cunningham (brother)
Chuck Cunningham (brother)
Chachi Arcola (husband) Spouse(s) Chachi Arcola Relatives Lori Beth Cummingham (sister-in-law)
Richie Cunningham, Jr. (nephew)
                                  Roger Phillips (cousin)
                                  Flip Phillips (cousin)
                                  KC Cunningham (cousin)
                                 Sean Cunningham (grandfather)

Warren "Potsie" Webber

Male
Works at Howard Cunningham's Hardware Store
Father: Ryan T Webber

MacGyver

Cast: Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, Bruce McGill

Angus MacGyver

Gender Male
Occupation Special agent
Family Ellen Jackson (Mother)
James MacGyver (Father)
Sean Angus Malloy (Son) Relatives Harry Jackson (Grandfather)
Cecilia Jackson (Grandmother) Nationality United States

Pete Thornton

Nickname(s) Pete
Gender Male
Occupation Special agent Director of Operations
Spouse(s) Connie Thornton (divorced) Children Michael Thornton
Nationality United States

Jack Dalton

Gender Male
Occupation Entrepreneur
Family Francine Layland Dalton (Mother), Jack Dalton, Sr. (Father)
Nationality United States

Mission Impossible

Cast: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martain Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

James Phelps

Jim Phelps (portrayed by the late Peter Graves, in his Golden Globe-winning role) was the Director of the Impossible Missions Force, or IMF, in seasons Two through Seven of the initial television series, 1967-1973. Phelps grew up in Norville County (state unknown). He was a popular quarterback in his youth and later served in the United States Navy. He was the son of the deceased A. Phelps, who owned a marina on a local lake. It was implied by the business name "A. Phelps and Son" that Jim Phelps was his father's only son. During the course of the series, Jim Phelps donated the marina's land to the county to be used as a local park.

Rolin Hand

Rollin Hand's role as an IMF agent was that of an actor and disguise expert. In a theatrical brochure that headed his dossier, he was described as a quick-change artist and billed as "The Man Of A Million Faces." As such, he had formidable skills in mimicry and voice imitation (introduced in the second season) as well as a mastery of make-up that rivaled that of Lon Chaney, Sr. He was also an expert at sleight of hand and pickpocketing, which came into play in several missions where he would pick pockets or hide things on someone else's person without their knowledge.

Barney Collier

Barnard "Barney" Collier's main role as an IMF agent was that of an electronics and forgery expert. He also had an extensive knowledge of building infrastructure such as wiring and plumbing standards, including building standards in foreign countries. Generally, Collier was brought in on missions to supply high-tech custom mission support. On occasion, he would custom build a computer which would be well ahead of its time, such as a computer that could read playing cards face down on a table or a computer that could beat the world's greatest chess players.

Cinnoman Carter

Cinnamon Carter's role as an IMF agent was that of "femme fatale" and "woman in distress." In her IMF dossier, she was noted as being a successful model and the dossier scenes during her three seasons on the show showed at least three different magazine covers that she was featured on. Carter was often used to play on the vanities of powerful men to get them to lower their defenses. Frequently, she would play the role of a beautiful American woman on the make to draw the subject in. On occasion, she would play a woman in distress to distract someone. Carter never adopted elaborate disguises, as did practically everyone else on the program, because Barbara Bain, the actress playing her, suffered from claustrophobia, and could not abide being hemmed in by heavy makeup.

Willy Armitage

William "Willy" Armitage's main role as an IMF agent was that of "muscle" and a supporting player. In the first three seasons, Armitage was brought in on missions to work behind the scenes in mission prep or in minor role-playing such as a waiter at a party or a maintenance man. Often, he would have fewer than ten words of dialogue per episode. However, starting in Season Four, his role play, visibility and dialogue as part of missions did expand, including roles that required foreign language skills. While he was not generally used in very complex role play, on at least one occasion his on-the-fly interpersonal skills did save the mission.

Perry Mason

Cast: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman, Ray Collins

Perry Mason

Perry Mason is a fictional character, a defense attorney who originally was the main character in numerous pieces of detective fiction authored by Erle Stanley Gardner. Perry Mason was featured in more than 80 novels and short stories, most of which had a story line which involved his client being put on trial for murder. Typically, Mason was able to establish his client's innocence by demonstrating the guilt of another character. Gardner, who was one of the best-selling authors of all time, had "135 million copies of his books in print in America alone in the year of his death" in 1969. The character of Perry Mason was portrayed each weekday on a long running radio series, followed by the well-known depictions on film and television, including "television's most successful and longest-running lawyer series" from 1957 to 1966, another series in 1973-1974, starring Monte Markham and Brett Somers, and more than 25 made-for-TV movies from 1985 to 1993.

Della Street

Della Street was the fictional secretary of Perry Mason in the long-running series of novels, films, and radio and television programs featuring the fictional defense attorney created by Erle Stanley Gardner.

Paul Drake

Paul Drake was the private detective in the Perry Mason series of murder mystery novels by Erle Stanley Gardner. Drake was described as tall and slouching, frequently wearing an expression of droll humor. He is friend and right-hand man to Mason, a highly successful criminal defense lawyer in Los Angeles.

Hamilton Burger

Hamilton Burger is the fictional Los Angeles district attorney who is the nemesis of Perry Mason in the long-running series of novels, films, and radio and television programs featuring the fictional defense attorney created by Erle Stanley Gardner. The name is a pun; shortening "Hamilton" to the popular nickname "Ham" would produce "ham-burger".

Star Trek

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelly

Captain James Kirk

Species Human
Home planet Earth
Affiliation United Federation of Planets
Starfleet Posting Commanding officer,USS Enterprise andUSS Enterprise-A Rank CaptainAdmiral
Portrayed by: William Shatner
Chris Pine (2009)

Mr. Spock

Species Half-Vulcan (paternal) Half-Human (maternal)
Affiliation UFP Starfleet Vulcan Government
Posting USS Enterprise science officer/first officer USS Enterprise-A science officer/first officer/commanding officer
Federation Ambassador-at-Large Rank Lieutenant command
Captain Portrayed by Leonard Nimoy
Zachary Quinto (2009)

De. McCoy

Species Human
Home planet Earth
Affiliation United Federation of Planets Starfleet
Posting Chief Medical Officer, USS Enterprise and USS Enterprise-A Rank Lieutenant commander Commander Admiral
Portrayed by DeForest Kelley (1966-1991)
Karl Urban (2009)