Top 50 TV Icons

Posted by Gregness at 5:19pm Nov 13 '07
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So TV Land and Entertainment Weekly made a list of the top 50 TV Icons of all time. I actually think that they got this list right for the most part.

1. Johnny Carson
2. Lucille Ball
3. Oprah Winfrey
4. Bill Cosby
5. Walter Cronkite
6. Carol Burnett
7. Mary Tyler Moore
8. Jerry Seinfeld
9. Homer Simpson
10. Dick Clark
11. Roseanne
12. Dick Van Dyke
13. Jackie Gleason
14. Ed Sullivan
15. “Not Ready for Primetime Players”
16. David Letterman
17. Bob Newhart
18. William Shatner
19. Andy Griffith
20. Carroll O’Connor
21. Kermit
22. Milton Berle
23. Barbara Walters
24. Michael Landon
25. Heather Locklear
26. Farrah Fawcett
27. Regis Philbin
28. Howard Cosell
29. John Ritter
30. Alan Alda
31. Sarah Jessica Parker
32. Henry Winkler
33. Ellen DeGeneres
34. Bob Barker
35. Michael J. Fox
36. Diahann Carroll
37. George Clooney
38. Bea Arthur
39. Jennifer Aniston
40. Sally Field
41. Jon Stewart
42. James Gandolfini
43. Flip Wilson
44. Susan Lucci
45. Sarah Michelle Gellar ("Buffy")
46. Lassie
47. Simon Cowell
48. Jimmy Smits
49. Calista Flockhart ("Ally McBeal")
50. [private] Hagman (J.R. from "Dallas")


What do people think? :) Anybody on there that shouldn't be? Anybody missing?

Like I said, I think this list is pretty good, though Carroll O’Connor should be higher up on the list, I think.