Who gets your vote for the best TV father?
You can choose from current TV fathers or from ones from the past. Some front runners might include Jim Anderson (Robert Young) from "Father Knows Best", Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) from "Little House on the Prairie", and Dr. Alex Stone (Carl Betz) from "The Donna Reed Show".
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If we were to include movies, I'd have to go with The Old Man in the movie A Christmas Story
As the head of the nuclear family, he bellowed, he mused, he grimaced, he wise-cracked, he danced and celebrated, and his enthusiasm for major prizes, furnace and fuse battles and the ongoing war with the Bumpus’s hounds was unparalleled in film history. As a father role model The Old Man had no peer and his look of pride as he caught Ralphie uttering the forbidden F-Bomb was unmistakable. R.I.P. Darren McGavin, you are the most memorable father figures ever.
GuyKeith
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July 29, 2018
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I wasn't aware we could father TVs. Learn something new every day.
evidentialist
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July 29, 2018
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I want to say Cliff Huxtable, but it's been tainted...
ghettophilosopher
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July 29, 2018
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You can still say it....the character he played was incredibly well written and a VERY GOOD father. One of the best...
That's exactly what I thought!
I think with the reality of the time, Archie Bunker, because people actually related with him and his opinionated personality more than you think.
Partyhawk
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July 28, 2018
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Archie was very funny, but I didn't like how he was unkind towards his daughter's polish-jewish boyfriend.
His daughter disagreed with almost all of his beliefs and he despised her husband....best father because? But I agree that racists abound in the U.S., people actually relate to the current president too.
Mr. Gru from Despicable me
mek7730
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July 28, 2018
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LOL not a bad choice! hahaha
Dan Conner. He put up with Roseanne!
bleurowz
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July 28, 2018
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but ended up with a runaway teenage daughter, a pregnant teenage daughter....and cheated on Roseanne in the original series....and sure didn't care about his health to any degree....and not the smartest light on the tree or the most ambitious. Honestly, his only good quality was his sense of humor. He was NOT a good dad.
@SkotlandSkye True. Though he was the most real.
Blake Carrington would have been great to have as a dad....or J.R. "Jock" Ewing, Sr. or Chase Gioberti.
I would have settled for Philip Drummond or Philip Banks too.
SkotlandSkye
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July 28, 2018
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Steve Douglas (Fred MacMurray) in "My Three Sons." Can't remember the guy ever getting really mad and raised three pretty good sons.
lerlo
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July 28, 2018
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@RobLawrence Had some good wisdom for the boys and his kids liked him. 
Ozzy Osbourne!
CaroleKay
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July 28, 2018
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LOL right? his love for his family does show through his eccentricities...
Jack Pearson (Actor - Milo Ventimiglia) from "This is Us"
BufftonBeotch
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July 28, 2018
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Jack Pearson (Actor - Milo Ventimiglia) from "This is Us"
BufftonBeotch
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July 28, 2018
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