TV's Best and Worst Dads

From Mike Brady to Homer Simpson to Frank Costanza, there has been no shortage of memorable father characters on television over the past fifty years.

Read about the best, and the worst, of them at MSNBC's toast to TV dads.

Personally, I learned a thing or two from Charles Ingalls. The guy was solid as a rock when it came to his family. Michael Landon owned the character like no other writer-actor. Plus, he was the master of the lip quiver! "Half-pint, I luv ya, but we have to sell your kidney to save the farm."