|
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 |
Bree has a drinking problem. She doesn't want
to admit it, but the neighbors know about it, especially after she was
found lying face down on her front lawn when she should have been
babysitting the neighbor's kids. The death of her husband hasn't help Bree
cope with her drinking problem, either. Further complications arise when
her gay son steals her credit card. But when he threatens to make false
accusations about being molested as a child, Bree gives him back the
credit card. She then goes on a drinking binge, falls asleep in the
dressing room at a dress store and wakes up after the store closed. Her
friend comes to rescue, but she tells him "I'm raising a monster. Know
wonder I drink...That (what she just said) makes me look like I have a
problem but I don't." |
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 |
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 |
