television-legacy

Sarah Michelle Gellar emerged as a defining force in television with her role as Buffy Summers in the landmark series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy Season 1, which aired in 19...

Jason Bateman appeared as James Cooper, the older brother of Laura Ingalls, in several episodes of the television series Little House on the Prairie during the early 1980s. This...

The role of Bobby Ewing is central to the legacy of the prime-time soap Dallas, and several actors have stepped into the character across the series’ long history. The most pr...

The core cast of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air centers on Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager from Philadelphia sent to live with affluent re...

Richard Thomas is best known for his iconic portrayal of John Belushi on Saturday Night Live and as Frank Fontana on NYPD Blue , but his presence extends into the Law & Order un...

The Mod Squad emerged in the late 1960s as a countercultural police drama that redefined television. Instead of stoic professionals, it followed three young rebels—Julie Barne...

Erin Moran, who played Joanie Cunningham on Happy Days , died in 2017 at age 56. She passed away from complications related to stage IV squamous cell carcinoma. Moran first publ...

Carl and Harriette Winslow are the parents on the long-running American sitcom Family Matters, portrayed by actor Reginald VelJohnson and actress Jo Marie Payton. In the show, t...

Jon Hamm is best known for Don Draper in Mad Men, yet his work in broadcast comedies such as Parks and Recreation contributes to his broad television legacy. This article explai...

Roger Ewing is best known for playing Thad Greenwood on the long-running television Western Gunsmoke, a role that helped define the show's later period and established him as a...