# Most beaten up characters of television **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beaten-up-characters-of-television/540125 "2010-05-20T14:08:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beaten-up-characters-of-television/540125/61 "2010-05-21T12:14:52Z")
Christopher Chance from Human Target gets mangled in every episode. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beaten-up-characters-of-television/540125/62 "2010-05-21T13:54:20Z")
[QUOTE=Stink Fish Pot] Jim Rockford … That poor guy took a pounding just about every week. [/QUOTE] I’m working through season five on DVD and it’s not quite as often as that. He was duffed up by a biker gang in the last episode I watched though 🙂 Another vote for Rockford ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beaten-up-characters-of-television/540125/63 "2010-05-21T14:21:21Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > Not physical abuse, but I sort of love the running joke on Parks and Recreation that has everyone picking on Gerry. If we’re going to count verbal abuse in place of physical violence, then I would throw the name “Meg Griffen” out there. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beaten-up-characters-of-television/540125/64 "2010-05-21T15:30:11Z")
Not many will remember this show, but the wonderful character actor Ross Martin played the sidekick in the TV show **Mr. Lucky**. He was constantly being beat up, slugged, knocked out, thrown overboard (it took place on a floating casino ship), roughed up or whatever. It was so prevelant that on one show Martin’s character Andamo says, “Sorry I’m late boss, but I didn’t hear the proclamation,” “What Proclamation?” “That it was hit Andamo day.” ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beaten-up-characters-of-television/540125/65 "2010-05-21T16:51:07Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > Wish I had a copy of Jo Davidsmeyer’s book on “Combat!” because she has a list of the number of times the characters were wounded in the five year run. Saunders (Vic Morrow) was the most wounded. Yeah, he was really head and shoulders apart the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beaten-up-characters-of-television/540125/66 "2010-05-21T18:09:37Z")
Steve Trevor from Wonder Woman. Dude has been knocked unconscious, drugged, and kidnapped so many times that he should be brain dead from all the concussions by now. I never watched Rockford. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beaten-up-characters-of-television/540125/67 "2010-05-21T19:18:17Z")
> [@NicePete](#): > > Yeah, he was really head and shoulders apart the rest. Explains a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beaten-up-characters-of-television/540125/68 "2010-05-21T22:26:27Z")
Can’t believe no one’s mentioned the redshirt security guys on _Star Trek_ yet. 'Course, they got killed more often than beaten up… ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beaten-up-characters-of-television/540125/69 "2010-05-22T00:28:19Z")
BUSTER. (Mythbusters) . ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beaten-up-characters-of-television/540125/70 "2010-05-22T05:32:06Z")
Matt Dillon survived more gunshots than anyone should expect to. ---
**Author:** ![ProfessorX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@ProfessorX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProfessorX)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beaten-up-characters-of-television/540125/71 "2010-05-24T04:40:30Z")
Whoever said Westen is right, he arranged for Bruce Campbell (his friend in the show) to torture him. When you’re setting your friends up and getting them to torture you just to get information you need - that’s badass. New episodes of BN are coming back on June 3rd I just saw which is incredible. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beaten-up-characters-of-television/540125/72 "2010-05-24T04:58:57Z")
Heh, this was one of the first questions Jimmy Kimmel asked Michael Emerson on his show tonight. Kimmel: How many times were you beaten up on the show? Emerson: How many episodes was I in? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beaten-up-characters-of-television/540125.md?page=3)