ClaireBear, I understand completely the fascination with Rod Serling. I remember always being drawn to the witty, intellectual characters over the hunks, but it's always nice when the intellectual ones are also good looking!

Programs from my childhood with those sorts of individuals were Star Trek (Spock was more interesting than the rest), Wild Wild West (Artemis Gordon was always the witty one), and as I got older, many of the characters I saw those sorts of individuals on programs like Mystery! in the U.S.. John Thaw on Morse was certainly a flawed individual, but fascinating nonetheless. The detective in the Dalgliesh programs (can't think of the series now--Roy Marsden was the actor) was always very appealing--the DCI who was a poet. I'm sure there are more, but they don't come to mind at the moment. Oh--and Timothy Dalton as Rochester in Jane Eyre. Though he was far too handsome to really pull off Rochester, he was surly enough to appear unattractive.

SRS