24. MICHAEL LANDON
Few actors have embraced family-friendly fare like Landon, star of Bonanza, Highway to Heaven, and Little House on the Prairie, where his heart-to-hearts with daughter ''Half-Pint'' (Melissa Gilbert) became the stuff of folksy legend. Witness their weepy mountaintop reunion in ''The Lord Is My Shepherd,'' a tough-love scene that encapsulates his sobering — and commanding — onscreen presence.

Get This! Little House on the Prairie, season 1