Title pretty much sums it up.
For me, I strongly identified with Ellie May Clampett from the Beverly Hillbillies because of our mutual love of ‘critters’. I so wanted to be her, with her exotic pets, and thought she was SO pretty!
I would have also loved to be Samantha Stevens from Bewitched. I thought she was beyond pretty and wouldn’t it be fun to have her power??
Jamie Sommers, the bionic woman.
I wanted to be Jonny Quest and James West.
Perry Mason
(50’s kid speaking)
ZORRO !!!
That’s my answer as well. I identified with her mostly because of her accent, but also the critters.
Charlie Brown. I didn’t want to be him, but I definitely identified with him. It didn’t help that my mother bought me a Charlie Brown lunchbox with matching thermos, and an actual Charlie Brown polo shirt, with the unmistakable horizontal, black jagged stripe.
Man, I loved that shirt.
I wanted to be Murphy Brown minus the whole liberalism/single motherhood thing. I wanted to be a journalist at the time, so yeah. Murphy was badass.
“Howlin’ mad” Murdock.
No wonder I turned out so well.
Danny Partridge, or any character played by Johnny Whittaker.
Characters - Robin, Doogie
Actors - Ricky Schroeder, NPH
Batman (Adam West version)
Spock, logically.
I wanted to be Laura Petrie; feared I would be Millie Helper; but knew really I would end up as Sally Rogers.
And so I did!
Bunny Rabbit on Captain Kangaroo. Maybe that’s where I got the habit of slamming my forehead on the counter to emphasize my point.
Mostly I wanted to be Mr. Spock. I really didn’t want to be ANY of the females that were portrayed on TV, not that I can recall right now, anyway.
In my peer group, it was common for the kids to declare which actor/character from TV shows and movies that they wanted to be. And I was always the weird one who didn’t identify with a female, I identified with males. Yes, I’m heterosexual, and female…I just didn’t want to be a stereotypical ditzy female.
B. A. Baracus. Only without the fear of flying.
I wanted to be a Walton child. I wanted a functional family desperately.
Wanted to be:
Batman (Adam West)
Captain Kirk
Identified with:
Fat Albert
& kinda Dr. Van Helsing.
The titular character from Hey Arnold! He was so cool and collected and had passion for a lot of different things.