# Least convincing hair on TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 15, 1999, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044 "1999-12-15T14:52:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/1 "1999-12-15T14:52:00Z")
i was standing in front of the mirror and I noticed my bald spot is growing…sigh. Wehn i was done I flipped on the TV and i was watchig “The Practice”. I looked at Dylan Mcdermott and I thought “Good lord, what is that thing on his head ?”, and so I want to know who else on TV has such a bad looking rug? * * * You want brilliance BEFORE I’ve had my coffee!!! ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/2 "1999-12-15T14:59:00Z")
Marv Albert wins this contest. * * * Well, shut my mouth. It’s also illegal to put squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/3 "1999-12-15T15:09:00Z")
Gotta be Ernest Angeley! ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/4 "1999-12-15T15:51:00Z")
I think the worst “hair” of all time goes to Liberace. ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/5 "1999-12-15T16:45:00Z")
No, no! There’s some freakish old guy on one of the country channels that I’ve seen while surfin’ past. I think he hosts his own show. Looks to be about 60ish, but has the weirdest fake hair and bad 'do to boot. It looks like very fine copper wire, and it is perfectly straight, in a bouffant combover sort of thing. Imagine a California surfer dude style circa 1960, and you’re getting close. * * * **Launcher may train without warning.** ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/6 "1999-12-15T16:54:00Z")
Marv Albert, closely followed by William Shatner. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/7 "1999-12-15T16:56:00Z")
Sam Donaldson? & that Nightline guy. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/8 "1999-12-15T17:06:00Z")
I second the vote for Ted Koppel aka Alfred E. Newman. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/9 "1999-12-15T17:06:00Z")
I think [this one](http://www.tbn.org/newsltrs/9912/991220.htm) speaks for itself. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/10 "1999-12-15T17:11:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I think this one speaks for itself. AAAHHHHHHHHHH!!! That’s simply frightening. _Please_ don’t do that again. * * * **StoryTyler** _I am too in shape! :::muttering::: Round is a shape._ [C’mon up and see me sometime.](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/11 "1999-12-15T17:13:00Z")
George Jones ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/12 "1999-12-16T06:25:00Z")
Sam Donaldson. Was there ever any doubt? * * * “That’s entertainment!” —Vlad the Impaler ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/13 "1999-12-16T06:50:00Z")
From the description, the unnamed guy on the country station sounds a lot like “Whisperin’” Bill Anderson. And even if it isn’t, it perfectly describes him. ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/14 "1999-12-15T19:13:00Z")
Thanks **Mjollnir**! Here’s the man (although this album cover really doesn’t do full justice to the coiffure: [http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000DH6.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000DH6.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif) * * * **Launcher may train without warning.** ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/15 "1999-12-16T11:01:00Z")
The late Raymond Burr had a short lived television series after his _Perry Mason_ and _Ironside_ days. I don’t remember the name of the show or what it was about, but more than twenty years later I can still remember the wig he wore. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/16 "1999-12-16T12:47:00Z")
Mullinator, were you talking about \* his \* or \* her \* wig? ---
**Author:** ![Gumby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@Gumby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gumby)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/17 "1999-12-16T12:53:00Z")
Firstly Odieman bite your tongue, Dylan Mcdermott is a lovely little specimen of man. And Mullinator you cruel thing, where did you find that and why did I open it? I am seriously disturbed now. erhhhhhhhhhhh I don’t have anything to rival that atrocity, but I (as a woman) actually have some irrational fear of losing my hair - not that I am, just that I went to a catholic boarding school and one of the nuns was bald and she has affected me for life, we don’t need scary things like that. (although if it was a choice between the hair in Mullinator’s pic or being bald, i may just chose bald.) ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/18 "1999-12-16T13:54:00Z")
You can either take them separately or as one example of poor wigdom. However, I think she is carrying most of the load with that pile of fiber on her head. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-convincing-hair-on-tv/12044/19 "1999-12-16T14:05:00Z")
He’s not really a “TV” guy, but what about Dan **Weave** rino? You know, the quarterback for the Miami Dolphins? Every time I pointed out my reasons for knowing that’s a weave, my husband didn’t believe me. Then Mr. Weaverino started doing the 1-800-LOAN-YES commercials with his father… **Who is as bald as a cue ball!**