Bill Flannigan of Spy Magazine once contended that Steve Douglas (Fred MacMurray, “My Three Sons”) was a pathological mass murderer based upon the continued string of mysterious disappearances from the show.
I’ve theorized that The Professor on “Gilligan’s Island” kept setting Gilligan up to fail. I always assumed it was due to some covert plan (that, perhaps he was on the run from HUAC or some college dean for impregnating is daughter) but it could be that he had some variation on Munchausen-by-Proxy.
Major Nelson and Jeannie clearly had a sadomasochistic realationship in “I Dream of Jeannie”, albeit it with some interesting roll reversals.
One barely even knows where to start with Sherlock Holmes or James Bond.
**Hawkeye Pierce ** is obviously bipolar. He had one episode where he didn’t sleep for days and became psychotic so that he had to be tranquilized. He had another psychotic break in the last episode where he was hospitalized. So that’s at least two fullblown manic episodes. He had a depressive episode where he became so despondent he decided he was really dead, lay down in a bus carrying corpses and refused to leave. There’s probably a few dozen other clearly manic or depressive episodes.
Charles Winchester fulfills all the criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Frank Burns has a bad case of Paranoid Personality Disorder
George Costanza has all the hallmarks of a sociopath. Actually, you could say that all the Seinfeld characters do since they all lack empathy and sometimes maliciously set out to hurt others, but I think he’s the worst.
James Bond is a sociopath. He sees people as objects to be used to advance his goals. The ease with which he kills people suggests that he does not empathize with others, or see other people as being equal to himself. He’s had dozens of sex partners (that we know of) but it never seems like he actually loves any of them. Even calling them “girlfriends” is a stretch. They are nothing more than an outlet for his sexual desires, to be used and disposed of as easily as the condoms which we hope he’s using.
“Oh, my shoelace came undone and sort of dragged on the floor of the bathroom.” (throws it away) “That’s the end of that.”
Could Charlie from Charlie’s Angels be agoraphobic? We never see him, and there’s no sign he ever leaves the headquarters from whence he issues the Angels their orders. And there were no cell phones back then, so he’d have to call from the same place every time. Then again I have only seen like five episodes of that show so maybe we do see him eventually.
Hmmm…Well, except for the noncanonical Seven-Percent Solution I don’t think Holmes could really said to be dependent on cocaine. His usage of it seems to be infrequent and voluntary, more as a means to self-medicate the lethargy that strikes him inbetween cases. Nor do even his worst traits seem to be obsessive/compulsive; his indoor marksmanship, for instance, seems to be more a product of bordom and a desire to stimulate than any compulsive behavior. As for an Autistic Spectrum Disorder, I find that unlikely; auties and Aspies, while sometimes capable of great intellectual feats, tend to lack the ability to develop the sort of integrating “common” sense and ability to tease out explanations from seeminly unconnected facts that Holmes so aptly executes.
In general, he’s quite rational, if moody and excitable. He could be Bipolar Type II (as his excitable episodes don’t appear to extend into mania), but I’m guessing he had more of an extreme case of ADD combined with dysthymia and some amount of social anxiety, as well as a fairly moderate Antisocial Personality Disorder. (He seems to ignore social conventions but doesn’t actively make people uncomfortable.)
Now, what is the deal with Watson? He seems a little too…admiring, and for a worldly man of medical training, surprisingly credulous. :dubious: