Greatest TV characters you never saw

Published: Sep 22 2011 02:19:38 PM EDT Updated On: Jan 14 2013 02:00:00 AM EST

Some of the greatest TV characters in the history of television never appeared on the screen. Take a look at the some of the greatest TV characters you never saw.

Norm from Cheers — 1 / 34

Charles/Burrows/Charles Company

Do you know who Norm Peterson's wife was on the hit sitcom "Cheers?"

John Hillerman and Tom Selleck in Magnum PI

Harold Peary and Lillian Randolph in The Great Gildersleeve

Snoopy Peanuts characters in baseball gear

Peanuts creator Charles Schulz unseen TV characters

Barbara Billingsley unseen TV characters

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