# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/21 "2006-04-25T18:15:17Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Also, Mr. Kotter’s wife on welcome back Kotter… Totally. Totally. Also, Agent 99, Bailey from _WKRP_, and when I was a little older, Mallory from _Family Ties_. But in those early years, I dreamed about being the filling in a Bailey/Julie Kotter sandwich. Drool, drool. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/22 "2006-04-25T18:21:04Z")
We’re sure giving away our ages here, aren’t we? [Meredith MacRae](http://imdb.com/gallery/hh/0534297/headshot.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=MacRae,%20Meredith&seq=2) played Billie Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction and drove me nuts. I had an old TV Guide cover with her on it that I kept in my desk in 4th grade. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/23 "2006-04-25T18:23:03Z")
Pamela Ferdin, once the voice of Lucy Van Pelt and a guest-shot staple on '60s television (she’s a couple of years older than me), now a nurse and animal activist with a criminal record. I always pick the bad girls. :: sigh :: ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/24 "2006-04-25T18:24:51Z")
Peggy Lipton on “The Mod Squad.” Pure babesville. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/25 "2006-04-25T18:27:23Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > Pamela Ferdin, once the voice of Lucy Van Pelt… **Pamelyn** Ferdin ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/26 "2006-04-25T18:29:38Z")
From reruns: Bobbie Jo Bradley (Lori Saunders) of _Petticoat Junction_ From then-current shows: Barbara Cooper (Valerie Bertinelli) of _One Day at a Time_ ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/27 "2006-04-25T18:29:57Z")
The original Becky on Roseanne. She looked like a normal person, except hotter. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/28 "2006-04-25T18:38:19Z")
[Bernadette Stanis](http://thedukescelebs.tripod.com/othercelebs/bernadette1.jpg) from Good Times is STILL fine as hell. Growing up, I must confess having a thing for [pale](http://images.absolutenow.com/poster/Yvonne_De_Carlo/10104254.jpg) [white](http://www.modernista.se/fountain/bilder/morticia.jpg) [women.](http://www.quizquest.fsnet.co.uk/Elvira-010.jpg) ---
**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, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/29 "2006-04-25T18:49:08Z")
Laura Petrie (Mary Tyler Moore) from **the Dick 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:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/30 "2006-04-25T18:51:46Z")
Jo from The Facts of Life Whatever Valeri Bertinelli’s character’s name was on One Day at a Time Cha-Chi on Happy Days (after Happy Days, Scott Baio was dead to me) Sissy from Family Affair Dare I admit, Mike Seaver from Growing Pains? Emily Hartley, The Bob Newhart Show Gage on Emergency! All grown up Laura on Little House on the Prairie McGyver (but what lesbian wasn’t?) Ernie from Sesame street. (yes, the muppet, I was young…What?) My god I was quite the hormonal child! ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/31 "2006-04-25T18:58:20Z")
Oh, I am so boring and mundane. I loved: Ricky Schroeder on _Silver Spoons_ MacKenzie Astin on _The facts of life_ Michael J. Fox on _Family Ties_ And, Davy Jones on _The Monkees_. I never watched MacGyver, but I would have had a crush on him too. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/32 "2006-04-25T18:59:34Z")
Cheryl Ladd from when she started on Charlie’s Angels. Is it wrong that I now lust after her daughter? Oh yeah, Valeria Bertinelli. One Day at a Time baby. And of course Pam Dawber from Mork and Mindy. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/33 "2006-04-25T19:07:34Z")
Emma Peel for sure, (although I’m not sure if those sorts of thoughts really qualify as “crushing.”) Two proper crushes in the late seventies and early eighties: “Barbara” (Valerie Bertinelli) on _One Day at a Time_, and “Patty” (Sarah Jessica Parker) on _Square Pegs_. ([Hubba hubba. Hot nerd chicks.](http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2690/pegsgowns2yl.jpg)) ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/34 "2006-04-25T19:07:57Z")
When I was really little, like around six or seven, I had the hots for [TV’s Annie Oakley](http://www.skypoint.com/members/schutz19/oakley.htm)! ---
**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, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/35 "2006-04-25T19:08:24Z")
I was still in school in the '70s, so that qualifies me as a kid I think. So yeah. Pam Dawber and Jan Smithers. And Jenny Agutter, though she wasn’t a TV character in any shows I watched. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/36 "2006-04-25T19:18:56Z")
Honey West and Mary Ann Summers. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/37 "2006-04-25T19:25:11Z")
Batgirl, Yoeman Janice Rand, and of course, Agent 99. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/38 "2006-04-25T19:36:00Z")
ABC Evening News’ Peter Jennings, who was not a character per se, unless you count “general casting for dashing, debonair foreign correspondent,” which he definitely was back in his London bureau days. He was _smokin’_, pardon the pun. And to a lesser degree, Jameson Parker from “Simon & Simon”. (Parker was the uptight blond one, with the classic swimmer’s body, who bore no familial resemblance to his brother, played by Gerald McRaney.) I rather liked the preppy type! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Logan\_5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/fbc32d/32.png) [@Logan\_5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Logan_5)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/39 "2006-04-25T19:44:31Z")
Swooning from past fond memories… Jodie Foster when she would appear on The Courtship of Eddie’s Father Jo from the Facts of Life Pamela Sue Martin from Nancy Drew Mysteries Oh and Debra Winger as Drusilla (Wonder Girl) Wonder Woman’s younger sister I really had a thing for tomboys ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163/40 "2006-04-25T20:27:05Z")
Mrs. Peel has already been mentioned, so I’ll just add my #2 & #3 faves: Barbara Eden, from “I Dream of Jeanie,” and Mary Ann from “Gilligan’s Island.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-character-did-you-have-a-crush-on-when-you-were-a-kid/354163.md?page=1) [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=3)