What TV character has the most impressive resume?

Also architect and marine biologist!

Um. Frasier has a replica of the sofa Coco Chanel had in her atelier…

Andrea Thomas was an archeologist who found an amulet that gave her superpowers.

Prefer someone who was more self-made? Professor William Omaha McElroy was an Egyptologist at Yale University. He’d get conked on the head and become King Tut, master criminal.

Britt Reid was young, successful and, as the Green Hornet, had an arsenal at his disposal that rivaled Batman’s. On top of that, he had BRUCE FREAKIN’ LEE as his sidekick. In your face, Bruce Wayne!

In a low-turnout casting call, Buffy might give Sam and Dean a callback. Or not.

But Jarod trumps every single other name in this thread. Because he could do anything they could do only better and he didn’t need a resume. If he were to submit a fake one claiming a Ph.D. in cellular biology that he had never earned, that would be, in his case, false modesty, thrown in just to avoid embarrassing the cellular biologists who knew so much less about the subject than he did.

Dr. Sam Beckett from Quantum Leap.

Sam Carter weaponised a star. Beat that!

I guess it would depend on what job you’re looking to fill. The Winchesters don’t have a lot of formal education. Dean has a GED, and although Sam went to college, he didn’t graduate. And even if you need someone to kill some evil thing, with Sam and Dean there’s a high likelihood that they’ll fuck up terribly and get killed. (Although they’ll get brought back for some convoluted reason.)

OTOH, if the job you’re looking to fill is “underwear model” or something along those lines, they’d be fine choices. :wink:

He can also speak French…in Russian.

Stay thirsty my friends.

I’ve noticed this incongruity. George Reeves looked more macho in everything he did than when he wore the costume. Can’t figure out why Lois wasn’t getting wet for Clark. I can only guess that seeing a guy in super-hero costume on TV was impressive enough for them to ignore the problem. Adam West should have done a lot more sit-ups. The Batman movie guys must have noticed this and added the muscle suits.

Oh yeah, the resume. How about Jethro Bodine. Movie producer, knight, merry man, double naught spy, talent agent, bookkeeper, Oxford graduate, among other vocations and accomplishments.

Going back a long ways, I nominate Paladin from Have Gun, Will Travel. He speaks about fifteen languages. He is familiar with, and quotes, all sorts of world literature, back from the time of the Greeks. He was called on to be the judge of a wine contest. He knows his opera. He is a world class cook. He can ride a camel.
In one show he was ambushed, and showed up at a house in basically his underwear. By the time the half hour was over he gave the cook lessons on how to make better dishes, he seduced the widow lady of the house with poetry, he went over and fixed up her financial books, and beat the crap out of the evil ranch hands wanting to take over the spread. He outdraws and kills on the average of a bad guy per show also, almost all justifiably. He also makes a ton of money, and has constant female companionship.
Oh, and on one show he feeds Oscar Wilde most of his famous bon mots.
I’m only on the third season, so I apologize for this resume being so skimpy.

The Quantum Leap guy.

But since that is just make believe, the real answer is Jim Rockford. He can print up business cards and pretend to by anybody believably.

Chuck Norris

The last season finale, the Doctor prevented every star in the universe from going supernova at every point in time.

Can’t believe I’m the first to mention Buckaroo Banzai!

And didn’t he burn up a sun so that he could talk to Rose in the parallel universe?

Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock. He is the Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming for General Electric. Attended Princeton University on the Amory Blaine Handsomeness Scholarship and paid his way by working the day shift at a graveyard, and the graveyard shift at a Days Inn". Later attended Harvard Business Schoolwhere he was voted “Most.” Wrote “You’re So Vain” for Carley Simon. It’s also strongly implied that Jack once practiced martial arts under Chuck Norris.

Yeah the only TV character which I can think of with a more impressive resume than the Doctor would have to be Q. “He can stop death, create life, travel through time, stop time, multitask/create multiple versions of himself and create entire worlds effortlessly. He can change a person’s mind or make them take any action.”

How about a shout out for Xena? She defeated and killed a number of gods from various pantheons, out-thought and out-fought Caesar and Pompey, came back from the dead at least once, turned an archangel into the Devil himself, AND had a baby without benefit of impregnation.