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Who is our greatest TV character?

Norman Gunston, Humphrey B. Bear, Grace Sullivan, Harold Bishop -who are Australia's great TV characters?

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Norman Gunston
Aunty Jack
Dorrie Evans
Ted Bullpit
Con the Fruiterer
Humphrey B. Bear
Maggie Beare
Effie
Kath Day-Knight
Mike Moore
Harold Bishop
Ossie Ostrich
Ja’mie King
Lizzie Birdsworth
Mr Squiggle
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Grace Sullivan

They are all iconic TV characters -but which is the best?

TV Tonight will soon be asking you to vote for our finest Australian television characters -those fictional creations that writers, comedians and creative people have put on our screens.

But first it’s time for you to put forward some names….

Please leave your suggestions below in ANY the following categories:

Best Sitcom Character
Best Sketch Comedy Character
Best Soap Character
Best Drama Character (ie. other adult drama)
Best Kid’s TV character
Best Live Animal Character
Best Variety Character
Best Pay TV Character

NB: As this is a preliminary stage, names only need to be put forward once for consideration. So if your suggestion has already been put forward, you don’t need to repeat it.

All names must be fictional characters.

Voting will begin in a separate TV Tonight survey later.

56 Responses

  1. Best Sitcom Character – Matron Dorothy Conniving-Bitch (Let the Blood Run Free)
    Best Sketch Comedy Character – Tim & Debbie (Australia You’re Standing In It)
    Best Soap Character – Maggie Cameron, Don Finlayson (Both Number 96)
    Best Drama Character (ie. other adult drama)
    Best Kid’s TV character – Mrs Flowerpots (Adventure Island)
    Best Live Animal Character – Woodrow (WonderWorld)
    Best Variety Character – Mary Hardy
    Best Pay TV Character – Tabitha (Graveyard Shift)

  2. Best Sitcom Character: Kevin Rudd
    Best Sketch Comedy Character: John Laws (a la 730)
    Best Soap Character: Margie ‘Blitzkrieg’ Abbott
    Best Drama Character (ie. other adult drama): Craig Thomson
    Best Kid’s TV character: Karl Stefanovic
    Best Live Animal Character: Sam Newman
    Best Variety Character: Ahn Doh
    Best Pay TV Character: Brian Walsh

  5. Can’t believe we’ve forgotten: “My Names McGooley, What’s yours?” Stellar cast Gordon Chatter, John Mellion, Judi farr, Nolene Brown. Also Frank Fring in”Up the Convicts”. What about “Let the Blood run Free”. All giants of the comedy genre. Anything Graham Kennedy did. This is going to be hard…

  6. I’ver had a bit of a think…

    Best Variety Character/s category:
    Roy Slaven (John Doyle) and HG Nelson (Greig Pickhaver)

    Best Comedy Character:
    Mike Moore (Rob Sitch in Frontline)

  7. Best Sitcom Character –
    Maggie Bear (Ruth Cracknell) Mother and Son

    Best Sketch Comedy Character
    Pixie Anne Wheatley (Magda Szubanski) Fast Forward

    Best Soap Character
    Charlene Mitchell (Kylie Minogue) Neighbours

    Best Drama Character (ie. other adult drama)
    Joan “The Freak” Ferguson (Maggie Kirkpatrick) Prisoner

    Best Kid’s TV character
    Aggro – Cartoon Connection

    Best Live Animal Character
    Fatso – A Country Practice

    Best Variety Character
    Plucka Duck

    Best Pay TV Character
    Pam Ann

  9. Drama – Nina & Billie Proudman, The whole Rafter family, Jenny Gross

    Best live animal character – Bobby (Toadie’s dog on Neighbours)

    Actually Toadie would be another soap character and Lou, Susan and Karl.

  11. Best Sitcom Character >> Maggie Beare (Mother & Son)
    Best Sketch Comedy Character >> Kath Day-Knight (Fast Forward)
    Best Soap Character >> Bea Smith (Prisoner)
    Best Drama Character >> Sargeant Tom Croydon (Blue Heelers)
    Best Kid’s TV character >> Mr Squiggle
    Best Live Animal Character >> Fatso (A Country Practice)
    Best Variety Character >> Norman Gunston

  15. best sitcom – ted bullpit/kingswood country
    best sketch comedy – chenille/fast forward
    best soap – bea smith/prisoner
    best drama – nina proudman/offspring
    best kids – agro/cartoon something
    best live animal- bouncer/neighbours
    best variety – straunie/ before the game

  19. Love the comments.. can’t wait for the poll.. can’t really add much to it unless I added every chris lilley character

    Anyone said dame Edna?

  21. Best Sitcom Character – Ted Bullpit from Kingswood Country
    Best Sketch Comedy Character – Kerry Anne Kennel (Gina Riley) from Fast Forward
    Best Soap Character – Joan Fergusson (The Freak) from Prisoner
    Best Kid’s TV character – Claude the Crow and Norm the Kangaroo from Shirl’s Neighbourhood
    Best Variety Character – Bob Downe (Mark Trevorrow)

  22. Best soap character has to be Molly from a country practice. The country actually mourned. Her death scene was riveting tv although no death scene shown.
    Bet drama character is Rake.
    And Magda in the neck brace in fast forward for sketch comedy.

  23. Oh, and i got one more…

    Although non-speaking and not that ”livable”, do the likes of Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat (from The Dream with Roy and HG) and any of the ”characters” (Big Ted, Jemima, etc) on Play School count by any means?

  24. @David K. – he’s not my favourite any more but at the time I thought the Steve Vizard ‘Come fly with me” gay steward was fairly amusing.
    Fortunately ones’ tastes change as one moves towards maturity.

    @Andrew – I remember that too! I think my gag was a bald-faced rip-off, actually. But Ray Martin (aka “Mr Australia”) was an actual fictional character portrayed by Eric Bana in Full Frontal (or Fast Forward). Incredibly Banal he was too.

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