I think I have pretty much determined that once you hit the age of about 50, TV Guide tracks you down and sends you a complimentary subscription. For those of you under about the age of 30, you might not really know about TV Guide. Sure, you may have the TV Guide channel on your cable system and you may have seen it in the grocery store, but you really don’t know. Until a few years ago, TV Guide was the number one selling magazine in the US. By a lot. It had been in number one for like 40 years. Every week people get a free tv guide in their Sunday newspaper, but when you got the TV Guide from the store it was like a whole other world. Every channel and every program. Summaries of every movie. Color photos of your favorite airbrushed stars. People would get into fights at grocery stores trying to get the Fall Preview issue. Prior to the internet, you didn’t know what the fall television shows were going to be until you read it in TV Guide.

Well, apparently they still have the same readers because they just did a poll of the toughest action stars in the history of television, and MacGyver won. I know, I know. Richard Dean Anderson was a great character, but I don’t know if he was all that tough. Plus, the show ended like 20 years ago. Magnum PI made the top five also. Wow. I must be remembering a different show because all I remember was a lot of beach and bad acting.

Here is the top 5.

1. MacGyver
2. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
3. Jack Bauer (24)
4. Sydney Bristow (Alias)
5. Magnum P.I.

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