|
Character / Actor |
Occupation |
Program |
|
Reginald Van Gleason III (Jackie Gleason) |
Wealthy Park Avenue Socialite.
Reggie loves his Martini's and often goes through elaborate mixture rituals
to create the perfect cocktail. When he tastes the final product he gives
out his trademark cry "Ooohh!, that's good booze!" |
The Jackie Gleason Show |
Lt. Colonel Sarah
"Mac" MacKenzie
(Catherine Bell) |
Marine lawyer serving in the Judge Advocate
General's corps. Once during a trial, her alcoholic history was mentioned by
an opposing attorney to taint her credibility. To which she cried "How dare
you!"
Mac became an alcoholic in her teens. Her mother abandoned her to an
abusive, alcoholic father, Joseph MacKenzie on the night of Mac's 15th
birthday. On the night of her Senior Prom, Mac was riding in a car with her
good friend, Eddie. Both drunk, they had a car accident, which killed Eddie.
Luckily, Mac's Uncle Matt came to the rescue, took care of her at the
hospital and then moved her to Red Rock Mesa, Arizona where she dried out.
She has been sober ever since. |
JAG |
John Hemingway
(John Larroquette) |
Bus Terminal Night Manager |
The John Larroquette Show |
Gary Ewing
(Ted Shackelford) |
Gary worked as used-car salesman at Knot's
Landing Motors. He was a reformed alcoholic who originally deserted his wife
Valene Ewing, but then remarried her and moved to Southern California to
escape the stress of the wealthy and treacherous Ewing clan in Dallas. A
member of Alcoholics Anonymous, Gary later sponsored Earl Trent as a new
member and then had an affair with his wife, Judy. |
Knot's Landing |
Lennie Briscoe
(Jerry Orbach) |
NYPD Police Detective a
recovered alcoholic and eternal cynic |
Law & Order |
Ernest Pratt
(Richard Dean Anderson) |
Alcoholic, frontier gambler, womanizer and
dime-store novelist who lives in the old west town of Sheridan. The people
of Sheridan mistakenly believe that Pratt is the hero of his novels, namely
Nicodemus Legend. |
Legend |
Beatrice O'Reilly
(Carol Burnett) |
Shy, insecure married woman who drinks heavily.
Eventually she attends AA, cleans up her act and opens a halfway house for
other female alcoholics. |
The Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
(1982 TV -Movie) |
Mr. Isaiah Edwards
(Victor French) |
Lumber mill worker in Walnut Grave, Minnesota.
Edward's problem with drinking cost him his marriage. He left Walnut Grove
but returned in the spring as a recovering alcoholic. |
The Little House on the Prairie |
Captain Jim Kennedy III
(Robert Urich) |
Divorced, alcoholic Captain of the cruise ship
Sun Princess |
The Love Boat: The Next Wave |
Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce
- a.k.a. "Hawkeye"
(Alan Alda) |
Army doctor serving at the 4077th Mobile Army
Surgical Headquarters during the Korean War. Hawkeye and his buddy Trapper
John (later B. J. Hunnicut imbibed a lot of booze (made from a still they
kept in their tent). Hawkeye and his pals drank to forget the trauma and
pain of the war. |
M*A*S*H |
Mrs. Nell Naugatuck
(Hermione Baddeley) |
Hard-drinking English maid (Maude's second) who
worked for Maude Findlay, a liberated housewife living in Tuckahoe, New
York. |
Maude |
Murphy Brown
(Candice Bergen) |
Murphy Brown is an outspoken investigative
journalist and news anchor for a TV show called FYI. She is also a
recovering alcoholic who has stayed at the famed Betty Ford Clinic.
|
Murphy Brown |
Daedalus Patrick "Paddy" Murphy
(George Segal) |
Recovering alcoholic insurance investigator who
lives with a extremely beautiful and much younger Asian model. |
Murphy's Law |
Andy Sipowicz
(Dennis Franz) |
Veteran NYPD Police Detective. Andy is like Job
in the Bible with many tribulations falling into his life. His son was
killed in a robbery; his second wife, Sylvia was shot and killed in a court
house; his partner died of a heart condition and his day-to-day life as a
cop is filled with frustrations, disappointment and lots of street scum. But
through it all Andy resists drinking. Of course, at times he is tempted to
drink and a few times he has fallen off the wagon, but ultimately, Andy
remains sober for the sake of his new son, Theo and because Andy is a
survivor. |
NYPD Blue |
|
Mikey |
Mentioned only. Rick's older brother. Recovering
alcoholic. Lives in Kansas. Married to Leslie. Has a son. |
Once and Again |
Bailey Salinger
(Scott Wolf) |
Bailey is an alcoholic.
He is one of five orphaned siblings (the middle brother) struggling to keep
their close-knit family intact after the death of their parents. He later
gets a job in a bar, but is that a good idea for a recovering alcoholic?
|
Party of Five |
|
Chris |
Chris is a gay and a
recovering alcoholic, He attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings regularly
and has been sober for many months.
|
Real World Chicago |
Reba Hart
(Reba McEntire) & Cheyenne Hart
(Joanna Garcia) |
Teenager Cheyenne Hart
realizes that she is an alcoholic and joins AA. Soon after, she reveals to
her mother, Reba that it is very hard to go through the day without some
alcohol. Reba then confesses that she, too, is an alcoholic and they tackle
the problem together.
Cheyenne: "Mom, Dad... I have great news...
I'm an alcoholic!"
[everyone stares]
Van: "I'm having a beer."
-- episode "Hello...my name is Cheyenne!" |
Reba |
Willy Lump Lump
(Red Skelton)
 |
Drunken husband character.
To scare Willy into stopping drinking, his wife once attached all the
furniture to the ceiling of their apartment. When he came home, he had a
hell of a time adjusting to the room. Note: Remember Red's classic
commercial skit for "Guzzler's Gin" where he progressively got smashed while
drinking the sponsor's product during a series of commercials. Lucille Ball
did a variation of this Gin commercial when she demonstrated a vitamin
product called "Vitameatavegemin" with a high alcohol content on the sitcom
I LOVE LUCY/CBS/1951-61 |
The Red Skelton Show |
Micah Torrence
(Paul Fix) |
Alcoholic Marshal from the town of North Fork,
New Mexico. On occasion, Micah has bad bout with the booze, and local
rancher Lucas McCain takes over law enforcement duties. |
The Rifleman |
Billie Frank
(Sherilyn Fenn) |
Out-of-work alcoholic soap opera actress. With
the support of Alcoholics Anonymous, Billie tries to manage her temper and
her addictions. |
Rude Awakening |
Sarah Travis
(Linda Blair) |
Sarah Travis, an alcoholic teenager struggling
with her feelings of insecurity and problems of adolescence. |
Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
(1975 TV-Movie)) |
Stuart Smalley
(Al Franken) |
Stuart is twenty five pounds overweight, poor,
and a child of an alcoholic father. He has a TV show where he councils
people with positive affirmations. Stuart family has the "alcoholic gene"
and he is afraid to drink. His father is always going on drinking binges. A
sample of Stuart's positivity ("I'm fun to be with. Because I'm good enough,
I'm smart enough and doggone it, people like me.) Stuart once said "You
know, it is a lot like alcoholism. I loved my parents, before Dad became an
alcoholic. He insulted me, calling me "Waste of Space," and, "Sir Eat a
Lot." I found out that I had to learn to swim or sink under the weight of
his constant put downs." |
Saturday Night Live |
|
Audie (Margaret Colin) |
Real Estate Agent (in a collapsing market) |
Sibs |
Barney Gumble
(Voice of Dan Castellanta) |
Alcoholic, belching loser who hangs out at Moe's
tavern in the town of Springfield. Frankly most of the guys who hang there,
including Homer Simpson, are a bunch of booze hounds. Their beer of choice:
Duff's Beer. Barney once drank beer that spilled into a butt-laden ash tray. |
The Simpsons |
|
Kenny McCormick's Dad (Voice of Trey Parker) |
Poor, alcoholic father of Kenny McCormick. Kenny
always got killed at the end of each episode ("Oh My God, they killed
Kenny!") |
South Park |
Marsha Klein
(Julia Deakin) |
Alcoholic, chain-smoking, landlady. |
Spaced |
Audrey Radford
(Harriet Sansom Harris). |
Materialistic, alcoholic unfeeling,
harsh-tongued boss of publicist Henry McNeely.
|
Stark Raving Mad |
Maddy Piper
(Andrea Bendewald) |
Recovering alcoholic who works as an
investigative reporter at The Gate, a trendy San Francisco-based
magazine. Maddy was Susan Keane's rival in high school. |
Suddenly Susan |
Ed McMahon
|
Late night talk show sidekick for THE TONIGHT
SHOW. Ed was often teased for having booze in his cup by host Johnny
Carson. Ed McMahon was a spokesperson for Budweiser beer and earned the
nickname Mr. Budweiser. |
The Tonight Show with
Johnny Carson |
Ruby Romaine
(Tracy Ullman) |
An aging alcoholic Hollywood make-up artist.
Ruby is one of Tracy Ullman's many off beat characters. |
Tracey Takes On |
Leo McGarry
(John Spencer) |
Chief of Staff in the White House under the
President Bartlet's administration. Leo is a recovering alcoholic and drug
abuser with a failing and ultimately broken marriage. Dies of heart attack
in April, 2006 while on campaign trail as vice-presidential running mate for
Congressman Matthew Santos. |
West Wing |
Karen Walker
(Megan Mullally) |
Rich socialite who frequently has an alcoholic
drink in her hand. If ever there was a candidate for AA, Karen fits the
bill. |
Will & Grace |
