# What TV Show Character Did You Have A Crush On When You Were A Kid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163 "2006-04-25T17:14:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/1 "2006-04-25T17:14:27Z")
When I was about 12, I do freely confess that I had a crush on Holly Marshall, from _Land Of The Lost_. :o And, if the LOTL fansites I’ve checked are any indication, so did **a lot** of other little boys. Holly seems to have been the _femme fatale_ of the Middle School set. 😃 So, what TV characters did you have crushes on, in your Middle School years? ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/2 "2006-04-25T17:16:16Z")
You are all going to laugh. Please remember I was eleven when TNG came on. Wesley Crusher. Yes, the character was annoying, but I still think he was kinda cute. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/3 "2006-04-25T17:18:15Z")
Don’t remember any TV characters as much as I remember Joey Heatherton urging me to be a pefect sleeper… ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/4 "2006-04-25T17:19:55Z")
Erin Grey in _Buck Rodgers_. Bidi bidi bidi. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/5 "2006-04-25T17:21:49Z")
I had a huge crush on Emma Peel from the Avengers. The show was on in reruns when I was a kid. Also, Mr. Kotter’s wife on welcome back Kotter and Daisy Duke. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/6 "2006-04-25T17:26:33Z")
Laurie Partridge was soooo dreamy! Oh wait, middle school? Jodie Foster, I guess. In high school, I had a thang for Angels. ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/7 "2006-04-25T17:28:58Z")
Lucas from SeaQuest DSV. RIP, Jonathan Brandis. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/8 "2006-04-25T17:29:48Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Erin Grey in _Buck Rodgers_. Bidi bidi bidi. I opened this thread expressly to mention Wilma Deering/Erin Grey, only to be out-drawn by **Loach**. Damn you! :: shakes fist :: Sigh. _Shgoratchx!_ just might have been the best episode evah!! Aliens: “Off think, off think” Me: “Go, you horny little men!” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/9 "2006-04-25T17:33:34Z")
Joy (Caroline Ellis) from _The Bugaloos_. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/10 "2006-04-25T17:47:24Z")
Laura Petrie (Mary Tyler Moore) from **the DFick Van Dyke Show** , of course. I think a lot of guys my age were smitten by her. And Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) of **the Avengers** , as noted above. Looked good in a catsuit, was smart, and had that British accent. Yum! ---
**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/11 "2006-04-25T17:48:20Z")
Daria and Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/12 "2006-04-25T17:48:26Z")
Keith Partridge. I still love him. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/13 "2006-04-25T17:50:51Z")
Anthony Russo, from “Blossom”. He was smart and kind, but with a bad-boy background (he was a recovering drug-addict). Then he married a black woman whom I could live through vicariously (even though I’m not a woman). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/14 "2006-04-25T17:52:07Z")
Kelly, the beautiful sidekick in the short-lived Robert Wagner secret-agent TV series “A Man Called Sloane.” Smokin’ hot. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/15 "2006-04-25T17:55:37Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > When I was about 12, I do freely confess that I had a crush on Holly Marshall, from _Land Of The Lost_. :o > > And, if the LOTL fansites I’ve checked are any indication, so did **a lot** of other little boys. > > Holly seems to have been the _femme fatale_ of the Middle School set. 😃 > > So, what TV characters did you have crushes on, in your Middle School years? Margaret Houlihan from MASH. Allie’s daughter from KATE & ALLIE. (Not to mention Kate.) And, Jane Parker as played by Margaret O’Sullivan. (Yes, I know she wasn’t a TV character, but I only saw her on TV. Oh! And Lieutenant Uhura. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/16 "2006-04-25T18:00:19Z")
No crushes, as such. I had middle-school erections over Donna "Ellie May " Douglas and Barbara “Jeannie” Eden, though. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/17 "2006-04-25T18:00:47Z")
> [@Cerowyn](#): > > I opened this thread expressly to mention Wilma Deering/Erin Grey, only to be out-drawn by **Loach**. Damn you! :: shakes fist :: > > Sigh. _Shgoratchx!_ just might have been the best episode evah!! > > Aliens: “Off think, off think” > Me: “Go, you horny little men!” Just to make you guys feel good: Erin is a regular at the San Diego Comic Con and she still looks great. I mean, she has aged better than any other woman that I can think of (like a female Dick Clark). She does look a bit older, but it’s like she stepped out of a time machine or something. As for my crush, “Bridget” - Meredith Baxter Birney, from “Bridget Loves Bernie” (later went on to “Family Ties”). And, of course, Bailey Quarters from “WKRP” ---
**Author:** ![Pazu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pazu/32/15522_2.png) [@Pazu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pazu)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/18 "2006-04-25T18:01:33Z")
In my mid-teens, I had a thing for Lydia (June Chadwick) from the _V_ television series. Go figure. Musta been the eighties-hair thing. When I was much younger, I liked Nova from _Star Blazers_, which is interesting, since I’ve never been a huge fan of Leiji Matsumoto’s art style. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/19 "2006-04-25T18:01:59Z")
Well the first and most obvious one is _Sam_ from **Who’s The Boss**. She was cute and athletic. I dug/dig that. My biggest crush was probably _Six_ from **Blossom**. Again, she was a cute girl and seemed nice. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/20 "2006-04-25T18:08:07Z")
Wanda from ‘Doogie Howser’ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163.md?page=2)