|
Organization |
Member(s) |
Program |
|
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 |
|
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 Show |
