Who is the best TV dad of all time?

Warm, wise, useless, terrifying: television has produced every kind of father, and they all share one ballot.

1

Homer Simpson

The Simpsons patriarch who strangles his son one minute and gives up everything for him the next.

2

Philip Banks

Uncle Phil from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, a tough judge who became Will's real father figure.

3

Phil Dunphy

Modern Family's relentlessly upbeat realtor dad who parents by cool-dad enthusiasm.

4

Danny Tanner

Full House's obsessively tidy widower raising three daughters with hugs and life lessons.

5

Red Forman

That '70s Show's ex-Navy dad, all threats and gruffness with real affection underneath.

6

Bob Belcher

Bob's Burgers' burger-flipping dad who never once mocks his kids' weirdness.

7

Hal Wilkerson

Malcolm in the Middle's manic, hobby-obsessed dad barely surviving four sons.

8

Andy Taylor

The Andy Griffith Show's widowed small-town sheriff, the original calm and decent TV dad.

9

Ward Cleaver

Leave It to Beaver's 1950s father, the template every later sitcom dad reacted against.

10

Eric Taylor

Friday Night Lights' coach, a father to his daughter and half of Dillon's teenagers.

11

Jack Pearson

This Is Us' idealized father whose flaws and early death shaped three children's lives.

12

Peter Griffin

Family Guy's oblivious man-child, proof that being a TV dad is not the same as being good at it.