#major dad

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Vintage Magazine - Mad Magazine #303 (June1991)

Art by Mort Drucker

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Strutting past the soundstage where they're filming Major Dad

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Have you seen Major Dad (1989-1993)?

Yes

Partially

No, but I've heard of it

Never heard of it

Voting ended onNov 20, 2024

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Character Actress

Beverly Archer (born July 19, 1948) Television and film actress who is perhaps best known for her television roles as Iola Boylen on Mama's Family and as Gunnery Sgt. Alva Bricker on Major Dad.

In addition to her roles as a regular member of the cast on Mama's Family and Major Dad, Archer has appeared on a number of other programs, including The Young and the Restless, ALF, and the movie Project: ALF. She played a thieving teacher in The Brady Bunch Movie and appeared in two episodes of Married... with Children as Miss Hardaway, a sexually repressed librarian and abstinence counselor who is in love with Bud.

During the 1977-1978 season she starred in the series We’ve Got Each Other with Oliver Clark.  

She also appeared in a 1994 episode of Full House, where she played the role of an unsympathetic SAT test monitor. She made guest appearances on episodes of Grace Under Fire, Family Ties and The Fall Guy. She portrayed Nancy Walker's daughter in The Nancy Walker Show. Aside from acting, Archer wrote episodes for both Mama's Family and ALF.

Archer appeared in a 1987 episode of Rosie, where she played the role of Kate Boston the former student at Peachtree Academy. In addition to acting, Archer also wrote three ALF episodes.

She retired from acting in 2002.  (Wikipedia)

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The Simon & Simon brothers together - after the show had ended!

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I’m watching Major Dad because it’s up on streaming, but I’m also watching NCIS: LA, which has the same actor, and since I usually refer to actors by the role I know them in best, I’ve always called him “Major Dad”, but on NCIS he’s an admiral, so I’ve been calling him “Admiral Dad”.