|
Organization |
Members |
Program |
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The Beavers |
Dick Loudon (Bob Newhart)
Rural Vermont Lodge |
Newhart |
|
Benevolent Order of Bison Lodge |
Herbert T. Gillis (Frank
Faylen,
(Grocery Store owner in Central City) |
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis |
|
The Bloodhound Gang |
Three kids who track down
suspects using scientific methods of deduction. Their calling card reads:
"Whenever there's trouble, we're there on the double." |
Contact |
|
The Brooklyn Patriots |
Chester A. Riley (Jackie
Gleason/William Bendix), an aircraft worker living in Los Angeles joined
this social group for the companionship of other local Brooklynites
including his neighbor Jim Gillis (Sid Tomack/Tom D'Andrea).
|
The Life of Riley |
|
The Brotherhood Club |
Police officer Gunther Toody
(Joe E. Ross) and his partner, Francis Muldoon (Fred Gwynne) from 53rd
Precinct in the Bronx were dues paying members.
|
Car 54, Where Are You? |
|
The Caribou Club |
Lodge members included
bumbling architect Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake/Will Hutchins), and his
boss Mr. Dithers (Florenz Ames/Jim Backus), the owner of J. C. Dithers
Construction Company.
|
Blondie |
|
The Caribou Lodge |
Frank Barone (Peter Boyle).
The lodge is just a bunch of old guys - veterans from WWII and Korean War
who hang out, shoot the breeze and hide from their families. If a member
does something wrong, they can lose the right to wear their antlers. |
Everybody Loves Raymond |
|
The Cobra Lodge |
Vinton Harper (Ken Berry)
Lockwmith from Raytown, USA |
Mama's Family |
|
Delta Gamma |
University of Wisconsin
fraternity house. Richard "Richie" Cunningham (Ron Howard) became a member
of this fraternity when he transferred from Jefferson High School |
Happy Days |
|
Delta House |
Rowdy 1960s fraternity
located on the campus of Faber College, a Pennsylvania college town founded
in 1904 by Emil Faber. |
Delta House |
|
Fraternal Order of the Bass |
Membership roster included
Lenny Kosnoski (Michael McKean) and Andrew "Squiggy" Squigman (David L.
Lander), two moronic beer brewery truck drivers. Their lodge hats sported
fish parts.
|
Laverne & Shirley |
|
Fraternal Order of Loons |
Founded in 1872, their
mascot is a caged loon bird. Each member wears a black feathered derby hats
and greets each other by flapping their arms and "Woooing" like a loon. The
leader of the lodge is called the High Loon. His hat is shaped like a flying
black and white loon with wings spread wide as in flight. |
Coach |
|
Glorious Guardians of Good |
Based in the fictional town
of Fernwood, Ohio, the GGG was a fraternal organization whose members
included Tom Hartman (Greg Mullavey), an automobile assembly line worker.
The head of the lodge was the Keeper of the Keys, also known as "Massah".
|
Mary Hartmann, Mary Hartmann |
|
The Kings of Queens |
Its members included
blue-collar bigot Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor), a loading dock foreman
who later became the owner of a local Queens tavern on ARCHIE BUNKER'S
PLACE/CBS /1979-83. The head of the New York brotherhood was called the
Grand Potentate. All members got a prepaid burial insurance after twenty
years. Their lodge hat was a golden fez with blood red lining. Lodge phone
number: 555-4378.
|
All in the Family |
|
Knights of the Scimitar |
Clifford "Cliff" Claven
(John Ratzenberger), the talkative know-it-all Boston mailman was a member
of the "Knights of the Scimitar." He once sponsored his friend Norm
Peterson (George Wendt) into the Lodge. When beer-drinking Norm discovered
the Lodge was alcohol-free, he refused membership and quickly retreated to
the comfort of his barstool at Cheers tavern.
|
Cheers |
|
The Leopard Lodge |
1950s Milwaukee based social
group on the 1950s. The Leopard Lodge (No. 462) members included hardware
store owner Howard Cunningham (Tom Bosley) who began as Leopard first class
and eventually attained the rank of Grand Puba. |
Happy Days |
| The Loyal Order of the Corn |
Strange lodge located in Eerie, Indiana. |
Eerie, Indiana |
|
Mallard Lodge |
Fraternity that construction
company owner, Frank Lambert (Patrick Duffy) joined. Frank was former
president of the Tile and Grout Association.
|
Step By Step |
|
The Midnight Society |
Clandestine neighborhood
club composed of kids of various ages that told scary stories around a
campfire in the middle of the woods. The youthful members of the Midnight
Society challenged each other to tell the scariest story. |
Are You Afraid of the Dark? |
|
Moron Union |
Moe, Larry and Curly
belonged to the Moron Union. Showing their identification badges as proof of
membership, these three zany idiots sang their Fraternal theme song. "We are
Morons, through and through, Let us sing our song for you...Euuuuuuuu". At
this point the threesome made silly grins, grimaces and sounds.
|
The Three Stooges |
|
Mystic Knights of the Sea |
Black fraternal organization
based in Harlem. Its members included Amos Jones (Alvin Chidress), Andrew
"Andy" Brown (Spencer Williams) and the conniving George Stevens (Tim Moore)
the lodge's head "Kingfish" who always got his loyal members involved in all
sorts of dead end schemes. |
The Amos 'N Andy Show |
|
National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood (NO MAAM) |
Women hating fraternal
organization. Its chief member and advocate was Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill), a
henpecked husband with two children and a dog who worked as a shoe salesman
in a Chicago mall. |
Married...with Children |
|
The Raccoons
(also called "The International Order of Friendly Sons of the Raccoons";
"The International Order of Loyal Raccoons", or "The Royal Order of
Raccoons) |
Bus driver Ralph Kramden
(Jackie Gleason) and sewer worker Ed Norton (Art Carney) were members of the
Raccoon Lodge located in the heart of Brooklyn, New York. |
The Honeymooners |
|
The Red Hand Gang |
A group of five pre-teen
city juveniles who attempted to investigate and solve crimes Members
included Matthew Laborteaux as Frankie; J.J. Miller as J.R.; Jolie Newman as
Joannie; Johnny Brogna as Lil' Bil; and James Bond III as Doc.
|
The Red Hand Gang |
|
Regal Order of the Golden Door to Good
Fellowship |
Based in Mayberry, North
Carolina, its members included the easy-going Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy
Griffith) and his faithful but bumbling deputy Barney Fife (Don Knotts). The
group's password was "Geronimo."
|
The Andy Griffith Show |
|
The Righteous Apples |
Group of five Sherwin High
School musicians in Boston who decided to seek out and help others less
fortunate than themselves. Roster of members included Charles "Big Neck"
McMorris (Mykel T. Williamson); Samuel "D.C." Rosenkrantz (Joey Camen);
Glorette Carson (Kutee); Sandy Burns (Elizabeth Daily) and J.T. (Bob Harcum).
|
The Righteous Apples |
|
The Royal Order of Camels |
Rural brotherhood based in
the small farming community of Hooterville. Members included Uncle Joe
Carson (Edgar Buchanan), a local resident of the Shady Rest Hotel; Sam
Drucker (Frank Cady), a grocery store owner; and two railroad engineers
Floyd Smoot (Rufe Davis) and Charley Pratt (Smiley Burnette).
|
Petticoat Junction |
|
The Royal Order of the Mystic Nile Lodge |
One of its members was the
cantankerous Grandpa McCoy (Walter Brennan), a former West Virginian farmer
now living on a ranch in the San Fernando Valley in California.
|
The Real McCoys |
|
Royal Order of the Water Buffaloes (Originally
called the "Loyal Order of Dinosaurs," and the "Royal Order of the Water
Buffaloes.") |
Originally called the "Loyal
Order of Dinosaurs," and the "Royal Order of the Water Buffaloes." their
membership roster included loudmouth Fred Flintstone (voice of Alan Reed)
and his friend and neighbor Barney Rubble (voice of Mel Blanc). |
The Flintstones |
|
Sacred Order of the Stonecutters |
Secret fraternal
organization. Each session of the Stonecutters began with the solemn
proclamation "the Sacred Order of the Stonecutters has since ancient times
split the rocks of ignorance that obscures the light of knowledge and truth"
followed by "Now let's all get drunk and play Ping-Pong." |
The Simpsons |
|
The Scooby Gang |
Group of Teenagers who
investigate supernatural occurrences in the town of Sunnydale, California.
|
Buffy The Vampire Slayer |
|
The Scorpions |
Youngster Dennis Mitchell
(Jay North) wanted to join a club of older boys called the Scorpion Club.
The club members wore T-shirts with the silhouette of a scorpion. Making his
initiation as difficult as possible, they told Dennis he had to find a goat,
a derby, and a bugle (that was stored in Mr. Wilson's garage). Dennis
finally formed his own club called the "Buzzards" that had members more his
own age.
|
Dennis the Menace |
|
Smiling Sons of the Friendly Shallally's (SSFS) |
A group of Irish lodge
members (aka the "SSFS") mentioned by the resident bug-eyed drunk, Crazy
Guggerheim (Frank Fontaine) in the "Joe The Bartender" sketches on THE
JACKIE GLEASON SHOW/CBS/1962-66.
|
The Jackie Gleason Show |
|
Sons of the Tundra |
Fraternal lodge located in
the town of Cicely, Alaska. The members of this "Men's Only Club," were
called "Fraters." They greeted each other with a two finger salute. The
Fraters hosted an annual dinner that distributed toys. Initiation fees cost
$2000. |
Northern Exposure |
|
The Wildebeests |
On episode #11
"The Electron Doesn't Fall Far from the
Tree"
Drew's dad George Carey comes to town and pressures him to join his lodge,
the Wildebeests, so he can make new business connections. But Drew's not too
wild about joining, especially after learning that most of the members are
bigots.
|
The Drew Carey S |
