|
Character / Actor |
Occupation |
Program |
Patsy Stone
(Joanna Lumley) |
Fashion magazine editor. Patsy is a
stuck-in-the-1970s substance-abusing ex-hippie
Londoner with a tall, blond hairdo and
far too much lipstick. She is the close friend and constant companion of
Edina Monsoon. |
Absolutely Fabulous
(Ab Fab) |
Edina "Eddie" Monsoon
(Jennifer Saunders)
|
40-year-old spoiled brat
who owns her own PR business. Edina overindulges in smoking, drinking,
drugs, shopping, and fads.
Edina's daughter Saffron
is much more mature and "together" than her mother.
Edina supports her bad
habits from the alimony provided by two ex-husbands |
Absolutely Fabulous
(Ab Fab) |
|
Matt Crower (Jake Weber) |
Doctor in the Town of Trinity. Matt is
a recovering alcoholic who lost his wife and daughter in a car accident in
which he was driving drunk. |
American Gothic |
Otis Campbell
(Hal Smith) |
Resident town drunk in the town of Mayberry,
North Carolina who frequently locks himself up in the town jail when he
wants to sleep off a binge. |
The Andy Griffith Show |
Michael Garibaldi
(Jerry Doyle) |
Space Station Security Chief |
Babylon 5 |
Judith Webster
(Susanna Thompson) |
Wife of Episcopalian Minister (Why does she
drink? Well, she has a gay son, a drug-selling daughter, a brother who
embezzled the school's $3 million building fund, a shrew of a mother and a
mother-in-law with Alzheimer's. Need I say more? |
The Book of Daniel |
Marcia Brady Logan
(Leah Ayers) |
Alcoholic wife with two children and a salesman
husband whose on the brink of falling of the wagon (then recovers within one
episode). |
The Bradys |
Christine Cagney
(Sharon Gless)
Charlie Cagney, her father (Dick O'Neill) |
NYPD police detective & her retired policeman
father. Alcoholism runs in the family. |
Cagney & Lacey |
Sam Malone
(Ted Danson). |
Bartender/Bar owner of local Boston pub called
Cheers. Sam uses the beer bottle cap from the last bottle of beer he drank
as a talismans against ever drinking again |
Cheers |
Norm Peterson
(George Wendt) |
Portly Accountant. Norm spends all his time
drinking beer at Cheers. He'd rather be with his buddies than go home to his
wife, Vera (whom he says he loves dearly). When Norm enters the bar,
everybody yells "Norm" and then Norm exchanges a short bit of humorous
banter with the bartender on duty before downing beer after beer after
beer. |
Cheers |
Colleen McMurphy
(Dana Delany) |
Army Nurse Lt. serving during the Vietnam War.
Eventually the stress of the war (which she kept bottled up inside of
herself) drove her to drink. She became an alcoholic and traveled about the
world. She took a long time to find herself. |
China Beach |
Dr. Eddie Fitzgerald
(Robbie Coltrane) |
Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, a brilliant
psychologist who uses his talents to "crack" cases for the police. Eddie is
also an alcoholic, overweight, and a chain smoker. |
Cracker |
Maryann Thorpe
(Christine Baranski) |
Betty Ford Clinic veteran. Maryann is a cynical
divorcée. She is living very comfortably off the alimony from her
ex-husband. Maryann is frequently seen with some kind of drink in her hand. |
Cybill |
|
Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) |
Alcoholic wife of oil baron J.R. Ewing. If you
were married to such an evil, conniving, treacherous husband as J.R Ewing,
you'd drink too. |
Dallas |
|
Foster Brooks |
Comedian Foster Brooks made alcoholism his trademark by
creating a lovable but blitzed drunk known as "The Lovable Lush" who
stuttered, stammered and belched his way through a conversation. He once
explained his "Favorite Hangover Cures" on an installment of the variety
program THE BOOK OF LISTS/CBS/1982. His drunk routine was a recurring skit
on the comedy variety program THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW/NBC/1965-74.
|
The Dean Martin Show |
|
Dean Martin |
His "Showbiz Persona" as one who imbibes the
booze. To see Dean without his trademark cigarette or a drink in his hand
would be like a day without sunshine. |
The Dean Martin Show |
| Bree Van de Kamp (Marcia Cross) |
Prim and proper suburban houswife who lives on Wisteria Lane in the town of Fairview. She takes to drink after a stressful year culminating with letting her boyfriend die of an overdose after she learned he'd killed her husband. |
Desperate Housewives |
Jinny Exstead
(Nancy McKeon) |
Jinny is an alcoholic police detective working
in the city of San Francisco. Her condition has endangered her job security
on a number of occasions.
Her philosophy on life: "In the words of Cyndi
Lauper: Girls just want to have fun. What's the point of planning for the
future? I want the most out of today!" Jinny
has gone to AA but fallen off the wagon In the
spring of 2003, Jinny sat alone on a park bench at night nipping away at
bottle of booze wrapped in a brown paper bag. When Jinny came home and tried
to hide her breathe by chugging down a can of coke, her new boyfriend
Detective Jack Ellis (himself a recovering sober for five years) offered
Jinny this advise: "Always carry a spare change of clothing, use an
industrial strength mouth wash not the minty stuff and don't take a shower
but go to the spa and sweat the alcohol out of your system. Finally, the
best advice I can offer you: 'Never marry an alcoholic'." Upon hearing
Jack's speech, Jinny swore to him that she'd go back to AA and stop
drinking, He simply told her "Don't swear, just show me." |
The Division |
Mrs. Maggie Wick
(Richard Chamberlain) |
Nigel Wick's alcoholic mother from London. Her
son Nigel also had an addiction to drugs and went to a rehab clinic to dry
out. |
The Drew Carey Show |
Laura Kelly
(Mary Page Keller) |
Caterer-turned-real estate saleswoman had a tattoo on her
left breast that displayed her address. The tattoo enabled her to find her
way home, in case she had gone on a drinking binge and forgot where she
lived. |
Duet / Open House |
Max Bickford
(Richard Dreyfus) |
Widowed, Jewish recovering alcoholic college
professor who taught American Studies at Chadwick College for 23 years. |
Education of Max Bickford |
Celia Mallory Warren
(Susan Dey) |
Alcoholic wife of military lawyer Jack Warren
and daughter to Admiral Thomas Mallory, a widowed military man. |
Emerald Point N.A.S. |
Dr. Doug Ross
(George Clooney) |
Emergency Room physician at Chicago's Cook
County Hospital. When asked how he handles stress Doug says "Usually I
drink, but I'm not a very good role model.'' After he woke up next to a
nameless one-night-stand who was dying from a coke-induced seizure, Doug
began to clean up his act. Doug's father was an alcoholic, irresponsible,
womanizer who was never there or him. |
ER |
Abby Wyczenski Lockhart
(Maura Tierney) |
Divorced, alcoholic, insecure
Emergency Room Nurse at Chicago's Cook County
Hospital. She later became a doctor but still struggled with her addiction
with the help of her AA sponsor. |
ER |
Annette Daly
(Rebecca Smith) |
Annette is a solicitor for the firm of Ashton &
Daly in the suburban Carrigstown, in the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. She
is a recovering alcoholic and hasn't had a drink for over three years. |
Fair City |
Father Jack Hackett
(Frank Kelly) |
Catholic Priest living with other priests on
Craggy Island. When not asleep in his chair he is usually shouting abuses,
screaming for a drink or just screaming." |
Father Ted |
Andrew Covington
(John Ritter) |
Ben's Covington's troubled, alcoholic father |
Felicity |
Fun Bobby
(Vincent Ventresca) |
Alcoholic boyfriend of Monica Geller. Bobby was
the life of the party until everyone realized he was only funny when he was
drunk. When Bobby stopped drinking, he turned into a bore and nobody wanted
to be around him anymore. He was so boring that Monica started drinking to
handle being with him. Eventually, Bobby dumped Monica because he felt her
drinking was compromising his sobriety. |
Friends |
Bender Bending Rodriguez
(Voice of John DiMaggio) |
Wise-cracking, alcoholic robot (Bending Unit
22) who used to "Bend" Iron bars. One the first episode Bender was
depressed and tried to kill himself in a suicide booth but after meeting
Fry, a pizza delivery boy from the year 2000, he became his friend. Bender's
favorite drink is beer and Olde Fortran
malt liquor. When asked
"Do robots get frisky when they've had a
few drinks? Bender replied "Who doesn't get frisky when under the
spell of liquor's magic? Heavy drinking doesn't bother Bender but
magnets mess up his inhibition unit causing him to folk sing.
|
Futurama |
Claire Silver
(Suzanne Pleshette) |
Gambling, bourbon-swilling, foul-mouthed
grandmother of TV producer, Jake Silver |
Good Morning Miami |
|
Gavin Stone |
Self-important morning show host of "Good
Morning, Miami." |
Good Morning Miami |
|
Gus Borden |
Ex-Cop |
Get a Life |
|
Grace Kelly |
Housewife/Oil Refinery Worker |
Grace Under Fire |
Charlie Doyle
(Johnny Vegas)
|
Alcoholic friend of Danny Spencer, a middle-aged
semi-celebrity who is the voice of a popular cartoon bear |
Happiness |
Captain Frank Furillo
(Daniel J. Travanti) |
Police Captain |
Hill Street Blues |
John "J.D." La Rue
(Kiel Martin) |
Alcoholic Police partner of Neal Washington |
Hill Street Blues |
Chief Inspector Morse
(John Thaw)
|
Dour, self indulgent alcoholic police
detective from Thames Valley CID
in Oxford, UK |
Inspector Morse |
