Addams Family? Munsters? Those are obvious. But that's what came to mind.
Seth McFarlane ( Brian Griffin ), Doc Martin.
When I was "growing up" NOBODY would have dared be a non-believer, or at least say it. That was the days of Romper Room, Mickey Mouse Club, Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, I Love Lucy. They may not have talked about religion during the program but you "just knew" they were believers.
Oh my goodness - you are sooooo right about that. When I let it slip once at work I thought two of my coworkers were going to have a seizure right then and there.
Look how long it took television to admit that married people actually slept in the same bed.
George Carlin and penn and teller.
The best.
On this side of the pond it isn't quite the same issue but I suppose Dave Allen was obviously questioning/ridiculing the whole religious thing especially given his Catholic upbringing.
Yes, and Terry Wogan revealed he didn’t believe in god in a BBC interview. Another disillusioned Irish catholic!
Mulder on the X-Files when I was in High School, is the only one I can remember seeing.
Meathead AKA Michael Stivic on"All in the Family."
I forgot about him! lol
Today? Brian Griffin. (The dog) Which Seth MacFarlane does in his own voice. So----Seth MacFarlane.
As a Brit, I can remember Terry Wogan on telly all the time when I was younger. I always thought he was an Irish Catholic, and nominally he was. However, in an interview on BBC a few years before he died he disclosed that he no longer believed there was a god. I always liked him anyway, but he rose several notches in my eyes then.
Good question, let's see. Kaine from Kung Fu my Buddhist Period, Spock I doubt he was, not sure about Captain Kirk?, Sean Leuc Picard, Carl Sagan, Einstein.Likewise Hawkeye Pierce. Mulder of course and that about takes me through to Uni years.
Doctor Who as he was always annoyed with anyone with ridiculous religious delusions, most of the original Star Trek crew (I was deinitely disappointed in Ohura when she got all sappy at the end of the episode Bread and Circuses), Carl Kolchak the Nightstalker didn't seem to be a believer but did go in for the ritual superstition connecting religion and monsters. Rod Serling seemed to be beyond religion as host of The Twilight Zone.
My all time favourite Star Trek atheist would have to be 7 of 9, even though she did believe in the Borg collective.
Fuck the Borg..
Might as well be a Pentecostal,.
@BufftonBeotch Borg don't flop around on the floor making weird noises unless you hit them with a phaser with adapted frequency modulation. Pentecostal do it every Sunday, I've seen it when I dated a Pentecostal girl in my teens, scary shit.
@Surfpirate Still hive mentality, though.
There Are FOUR Lights!
The first time I ever heard the word "agnostic" was from Mike Stivic on "All in The Family".
First time I heard many words said on TV was on "All in the Family."
And other Norman Lear shows.
My dad was very fluent in racist slurs though.
To be clear, Lear was obviously mocking small-minded, living room racism.
He thinks Ann Coulter is hot.
No points for him.
@BufftonBeotch She has not been on his show in a very long time...???? Maybe he's not as fond of her as he once was - or maybe the rating take a dip when she's on...????
@Lavergne I just can't imagine a reasonably intelligent man ever associating with that hate twig.
@BufftonBeotch I have to look it up.
Family Guy has a few, Sheldon from Big Bang is current but most of my tv didn’t talk religion so you only knew if a character WAS not if they were not.
Sorry this is off topic but your reference to Dr Gregory House reminded me of his A Bit of Fry and Laurie days and you can see he was hedging his religious bets here.......
Dave Allen (UK tv) He'd always finish his show with "May your god be with you"
superman
Don`t think I ever remember him being a nonbeliever. Searching my head vaguely remember George Reeves having said some deity condition.
@azzow2 by Superman’s very “existence” he was a non believer of the earthly god.
None when I was growing up (that was too long ago) but I can still remember how I nearly swallowed my tongue when the security chief on Babylon 5 casually revealed that he was an atheist. And I was in my 40s at the time.
Love that show. This is one of the first scenes I saw and this alone got me hooked. It's also one of my favorite scenes.
@Freespirit64 Going to look for it on Netflix do the marathon has been some time since I had watched it.
@azzow2 I'm not real mushy. But that wedding episode...I cried several paper towels worth of tears....
@Freespirit64 I love that character she is so that.