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HOT GALLERY: Snakkle Celebrates 25 Years of FOX with Our 13 Favorite Characters
D’oh! Has it really been 25 years since the FOX Network first graced our television screens? Launched in April of 1987, Rupert Murdoch created the “fourth network” to compete with the old guard, otherwise known as ABC, CBS, and NBC. Married…With Children and The Tracey Ullman Show were among its prime-time debuts in 1987, with shows like 21 Jump Street and Duet soon rounding out the programming. Of course, these were only the beginning. In honor of 25 years on air, Snakkle celebrates 13 of our favorite FOX characters. By Katherine Butler
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Katey Sagal as Peg Bundy and Ed O’Neill as Al Bundy in Married…With Children, 1996
One of its first flagship shows, Married…With Children premiered on FOX in 1987, bringing a whole new meaning to the idea of family dystopia. Running for eleven seasons until 1997, it ranks among Time Magazine’s 100 best shows of all-time. Sagal played oversexed wife Peg Bundy to O’Neill’s permanently sullen Al Bundy. They were a dystrophic June and Ward Cleaver for the 1990s, bringing in huge ratings for the network. Both Sagal and O’Neill continue to work today—Sagal plays another matriarch on FX’s Sons of Anarchy, while O’Neill heads another family over on ABC’s Modern Family.
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