I love television and always have done. I simply can’t understand why some people don’t even have one; It’s like a sort of mental middle class hippyish-ness where they think they’re having ‘quality time’ with ‘real people’ instead where as far as I can see they’re just cutting their noses off to spite their faces! They could be cuddled up with ‘real people’ enjoying a giggle over the box, why ever not?!

Think of all the things they’re missing out on, all the TV dramas, comedy, factual documentaries… Blimey, I’ve even been known to stoop as low as the Antiques Road Show and Songs Of Praise when there’s NOTHING else! It’s like a little friend buzzing away in the back ground even if I’m not really watching it!

Television rocks solid and personally, as someone who watches a LOT of it, I can say it’s never done me any harm (twitch, tick, goggle eye ;-))!

I’ve many favourite programmes (mainly drivel if you ask my husband) and many favourite characters (mainly attractive males if you ask my friends) and in honour of Father’s Day, a day when we shall probably do nothing but enjoy a roast and a good film (on the television) I’m going to tell you my top TV Dad’s of all time ever!

Here goes!

5.) In fifth position it’s a toss up between Geoffrey Palmer’s Dentist Dad, Ben Parkinson in ‘Butterflies’ and Robert Lindsay’s portrayal of, urm, a Dentist Dad called, well, Ben, from ‘My Family’. They are, pretty much, the same character in the same (but differently titled) programmes 25 years apart. I loved both ( clearly watched re-runs of the former, I’m not THAT old) and I love their grumpy characters who at the bottom of all their moaning and miserly are just in love with their bonkers wives and annoying offspring! The Ben’s have made me laugh lots and had to be on my list!

 

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4.) At number four, my TV Dad simply has to be Ross from ‘Friends’. He showed young twenty something’s what being a Dad is all about when you’re young and single and as well as the humour, his character always showed a Daddy being the best Daddy he could be, despite (twice actually) not being with the Mother of his children. Modern families at their best and all on my fave TV show of all time! I might be wrong but to my eyes it never dates and Ross’s love for little Ben and later on Emma still makes me squeee when we see it in episodes like ‘The One With The Holiday Armadillo’ and ‘The One Where Rachel Has A Baby’ (parts 1 & 2 – I’m a ‘Friends’ geek)!

 

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3.) Third place goes to Alf Stewart from Home and Away! Just for sheer longevity I think! Biological Dad, Foster Dad, Step Dad, putter upper of first wife going mental and seeing dead foster daughter Bobby come out of the fridge! Heck, he’s probably even fathered a flaming gala! That Dad dude has put up with a lot! He DEFINITELY needs to be recognised as a TV Dad!

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2.) HAD to be a hottie and there ain’t much hotter or more foxy than McDaddy himself! Well, McDreamy really but we’re talking Dads so… Patrick Dempsey’s Dr Derek Shepherd on Greys Anatomy became a Daddy when he adopted Zola after saying this :

‘I was holding her yesterday, and she was crying and then she stopped. And I’ve held a lot of babies, I’ve fixed a lot of babies. But, I looked down at Zola, and I don’t know what it was, but I just couldn’t imagine her being with any other parent or with any other family. We’ve been trying so hard to start a family, and she needs one. Let’s adopt her. I’m serious, let’s adopt her.’

Annnnnnnnd swoon! No wonder Murrrrdth (that seems to be how they pronounce the name Meredith at Seattle Grace/Mercy West Seattle Grace/Grey Sloane Memorial Hospital) said ‘yes, yes, YES please let’s adopt babies and then try and make a shed loads more of em’! Or words similar! As if he wasn’t gorgeous enough with his little beardy chin and luscious dark hair surrounding his deeply interesting eyes! Brain surgeon, foxy to trotsy and with a heart…

(And please DON’T! I don’t want to know about his demise! I’m not on to that series yet and I’m pretending I don’t know that it’s happened – I do know but SHHHHHHHH!) 

 

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1.) Hmmm… Tough call for spot número uno! Do I go for David Jason’s beautiful portrayal of Del Boy as a Dad for the first time, Dirty Den’s calculating nasty Father or bumbling Earl of Grantham Robert Crawley from Downton…

Decisions, decisions but it’s gonna have to go to good ole Del Boy! How many actors can make you belly laugh and then cry with sadness in the same scene?

The night his baby Damian was born Del’s character looks up to the night sky and talks to his dead mother, holding Damian for the first time. He promises to give him everything he never had and it brings a tear to my eye every time I hear him say:

“I wanted to do things, be someone, but I never had what it took. But you, you’re different. You’re gonna live my dreams for me. You’re gonna do all the things I wanted to do, and you’re gonna come back and tell me if they’re as good as I thought they would be…” 

Honestly, Del Boy HAS to be my number one top TV Dad! Doesn’t he have to be everybody’s really because of course you can, if you squint a bit, just merge Del with Pa Larkin (also David Jason) and that’s just PEEEEEEEERFIK’! 

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So that’s it, my top 5 TV Dads! Bit of comedy, bit of drama and a bit of a hawt dawg – why not?! 

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