Top 10 TV Gunslingers, Sharpshooters & Marksmen
Cason Murphy - June 4, 2010
TOP SHOT -- the first reality competition series on History -- pits 16 skilled marksmen against each other in elimination challenges. Colby Donaldson hosts. You know Colby as the three-time SURVIVOR contestant who dominated challenges during SURVIVOR: AUSTRALIA, including the competition in which he used a slingshot to shoot macadamia nuts at plates. But Colby isn't just a slinger, he's also a true marksman. He's been shooting since he was six-years-old, growing up as a hunter in Kentucky.
In anticipation of the TOP SHOT series premiere (Sunday, June 6 at 10pm on History), TV Tango rifled through history to gauge which of TV's deadeyes were the ten deadliest. So get ready as we take off the safety, pull back the hammer and fire off TV's ten best sharpshooters and their weapons of choice.
|
|
|
Naveen Andrews on |
Sayid Hassan Jarrah Sure, Sayid could kill you with anything from a bamboo shoot to a dish rack - but more often that not, this Arabic assassin does his dirty deeds with the business end of his murderous muzzle.
Registered Weapon: Chinese Type 56 SKS semi-automatic carbine rifle
Location: An island somewhere in the South Pacific
Quote: "What good would it be to kill you, if we're both already dead?"
|
|
|
|
Michael Chiklis on |
Victor Samuel "Vic" Mackey It ain't easy being the good cop or the bad cop, but Vic proves he can play both roles - searching out gangsters and goody-two-shoes with a sidearm that makes The Barn and the One-Niners alike take notice.
Registered Weapon: .45 ACP Smith & Wesson Model 4506-1
Location: Farmington District, LAPD - Los Angeles, California
Quote: "Hey, option one is: we take him alive. But feel free to consider option two."
|
|
|
|
Kiefer Sutherland on |
Jack Bauer Time is always of the essence in Jack Bauer's world - so why should he waste crucial ticks of the clock conversing with tight-lipped terrorists when a bullet to the kneecap can do all the talking for him?
Registered Weapon: SIG-Sauer P228
Location: CTU, Los Angeles Branch - Los Angeles, California
Quote: "But I'm the one with the gun."
|
|
|
|
Stepfanie Kramer on |
Sergeant Dee Dee McCall In the 1980's everything was bigger, and Dee Dee tracked down L.A. lawbreakers with a handgun almost as huge as her Aquanet hairdo.
Registered Weapon: .32 ACP Walther PPK
Location: Division 122, LAPD - Los Angeles, California
Quote: "Boy, this really fries my eggs!"
|
|
|
|
Jennifer Garner on |
Sydney Anne Bristow Sydney's infallible ability to disarm her opponents with titillating outfits and then finish them off with her diamond-sharp shooting proves that this quadruple agent is the ultimate Glock tease.
Registered Weapon: Beretta 92FS Inox
Location: SD-6 - Los Angeles, California
Quote: "If I'm rough, it's because you like me to..."
|
|
|
|
Nathan Fillion on |
Captain Malcolm Reynolds Mal's surly "shoot first and ask questions never" attitude and galatic gat are the only things that keep his crafty crew alive in the wild wild west that deep deep space has become.
Registered Weapon: Moses Brothers Self-Defense Engine Frontier Model B
Location: 03-K64 Firefly-class transport Serenity
Quote: "If anyone gets nosy, just...you know…shoot 'em…politely."
|
|
|
|
Peta Wilson on |
Nikita Jones One part sexy secret agent plus two parts hesitant hitwoman equals Nikita - a deadly dispatcher who says she'd never shot a round before recruitment…but the pile of bodies say differently.
Registered Weapon: Ruger KP89DC
Location: Section One - Paris, France
Quote: "I'm not a killer."
|
|
|
|
Kate Jackson on |
Sabrina Blaylock Duncan Bullets met brains when Sabrina switched from public service to private investigating - but she kept her service-issued snubnose, even after trading in her LAPD blues for a pair of beige bellbottoms.
Registered Weapon: .38 Special Smith & Wesson Bodyguard
Location: Charles Townsend Detective Agency - Los Angeles, California
Quote: "Goodbye Charlie!"
|
|
|
|
Chuck Connors on |
Lucas McCain Lucas might have customized his rifle with a rapid-fire reload, but this prairie pa showed his true nature when he'd occasionally hit frontier folk in the gut with a nugget of morality instead of a nugget of lead.
Registered Weapon: Modified 1892 .44-40 Winchester "lightning" rifle
Location: Last Chance Saloon - North Fork, New Mexico
Quote: "A man doesn't run from a fight, Mark…but that doesn't mean you go runnin' to one, either."
|
|
|
|
Richard Boone on |
Paladin After Paladin established his high-priced, high-falutin' life of luxury, this black-clad white knight realized that the only way to keep the peace was to keep the pistol holstered - unless it was his last resort.
Registered Weapon: .45 caliber Colt Single Action Army revolver
Location: Hotel Carlton - San Francisco, California
Quote: "Have Gun, Will Travel. Wire Paladin. San Francisco."
|
|
|
Honorable Mention:
|
|
|
Don Knotts on |
Deputy Bernard P. Oliver "Barney" Fife Even though Sheriff Andy Taylor let his deputy only carry one bullet in his front shirt pocket, Barney still managed to misfire his gun 11 times. Barney accidentally shot the courtroom ceiling, Andy's desk and a rear tire of the squad car -- to name just a few "targets." And to think Barney instructed people on gun safety all those years.
Registered Weapon: .38 Smith & Wesson M&P Model 10 revolver
Location: Mayberry PD - Mayberry, North Carolina
Quote: "Ya got to nip it in the bud!"
|
|
|
Did we go off half-cocked and miss your favorite? Shoot us a comment!
Cason Murphy started in the entertainment business at the age of three when he "picked a rabbit out of his hat" during a tap recital - and hasn't had the good sense to get out yet. When he's not selling his soul to academia at UCLA's School of Theater, Film & Television, he is making good use of his DVR.
