Majel is the only person (actress, voice) who is in each episode of every Star Trek series. In addition, she also works on Earth: Final Conflict, another of Rodenberry’s stories, but certainly not based on the Trrek universe.
William Shatner also had a role in the self-penned Tek War saga, which actually had a very good concept.
The first person I thought of, and I don’t even see him mentioned by page three: Robert Young starred in Father Knows Best and Marcus Welby, M.D.
I guess I’m dating myself again.
Sorry if these were mentioned but I skimmed through pretty fast.
Bob Newhart? (does that count? Kinda the same person, and one of them was just a dream)
Andy Griffith (Matlock and The Andy Griffith Show)
Tony Danza (Taxi and Who’s the Boss?)
“Hold me closer Tony Danza”
Ted McGinley… just joking.
Early Edition and Chicago Hope shared a universe. I know they had at least one crossover episode.
I very much doubt this. Though I can’t provide you with any episode titles of the top of my head, I’m fairly sure there have been episodes of TNG, DS9, or Voyager where the crew never interacted with the Federation computer (and thus heard Majel’s voice). And I’m almost completely certain that I didn’t hear her voice on the new Enterprise series. She’s not listed in the credits, in any case.
[dogbert]It’s not like anyone else would.[/dogbert]
Forgive me, I’m weak.
and Seinfield, Kramer is subletting Paul’s old appartment. If I remember correctly, it’s also set in the same universe as the Dick Van Dyke show, since Dick’s boss (Alan Brady?) was on the show once. Is that the record for chronological distance?
Yeah, that was pretty weak.
Shared universe – Guns of Paradise (I believe it was originally called Paradise): I believe there was an episode featuring The Rifleman, Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp (Connors, Barry and O’Brien reprising their old TV roles).
Furthermore, didn’t David Caradine’s Caine from Kung Fu: The Legend Continues go back in time and interact with Clint Walker’s Cheyenne Brody?
Then there was that Kenny Rogers Gambler movie that had every Western TV star in the history of television pop in to say a line then shove off.
Sir Rhosis
One to add to the list of Bill Bixby series – The Courtship of Eddie’s Father.
Marilu Henner - Taxi and Evening Shade. Judd Hirsch of Taxi has also been in several different shows, but my CRS disease is keeping from remembering which ones.
Also, wasn’t Linda Evans in both The Big Valley and Dynasty?
Wait, before we forget–Bob Denver.
He played (pffft) Gilligan on Gilligan’s Island.
But he had a much better role as Maynard G. Krebs in “The Many Loves of Dobie Gills”. That’s right, Daddy-O.
Did anybody mention Tony Randall?
As Felix in “The Odd Couple”
and
Sidney in “Sidney”
Don Johnson, “Miami Vice” and “Nash Bridges”
Bret Hart:
As “The Hitman” on “WWF Raw”
and
As Luther Root on “Lonesome Dove”
I was just going to finish you off here with the fact that Gerald McRaney also played Russell Greene on “Promised Land”.
Ernest Borgnine for “McHale’s Navy” and “The Single Guy”
How’s this one for the books: George Clooney achieved fame and notoriety as Dr. Doug Ross in the dramatic series, E/R…right? Well, what most people don’t know is that 10 yrs or so before, George got his start on a little known sit com called…
…E/R! That’s right. The same actor was in two TV shows with the same name at two different points in time.
Somewhere in there, he also had a stint of “The Facts of Life”. (-:
Somebody mentioned the Drew Carey Show actors would have a hard time going onto other roles or shows. Watch Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Drew and Ryan Stiles are both on that show. Ryan Stiles has been on there since 1990! Drew Carey has been on since 1998. Wayne Brady, from the same show, now has the Wayne Brady Show.
Bill Cosby in “Eye Spy” with Robert Culp. Later, the Cosby Show, and then some other Cosby show after that. Plus Fat Albert.
…and nobody came up with Timmy’s mom? And Will Robonson’s mom? June Lockhart, the quintessential actress, was both Ruth Martin (Lassie), and Maureen Robinson (Lost in Space). The imdb tells me that she spent several years in a recurring tole on General Hospital as well, but those weren’t the shows that made me associate her face and figure with Campbell’s Tomato Soup…
And let us not forget Sally “Gidget” Fields, who transmogrified herself into Sister Bertrille, the Flying Nun (She also played The Girl with Something Extra, but that was kind of an embarrassment, to watch , so I think I’ll leave it alone).
Dennis Weaver, the original sidekick to Marshall Dillon, spent nine seasons as Chester (Gunsmoke), then played a veterinarian in Kentucky Jones, a dad in Gentle Ben, and then the Marshall from Taos, NM, in McCloud.
Barbara Eden played, not only Jeannie in I Dream of Jeannie, but also the wild-livin Mama in Harper Valley PTA (although I don’t personally recall that being a successful show).
Rod Serling was successful as a host/set-up man in both The Twilight Zone and Rod Serling’s Night Gallery.
Walter Brennan as Grampa McCoy (Thr Real McCpys), and Will Sonnet the Elder in The Guns of Will Sonnet.
All in all, it’s not that difficult to find actors who have succeeded in more than one TV series.
I can either start previewin’ or I can go to bed.
G’night.
Nobody has mentioned ** Phil Hartman ** for Saturday Night Live, News Radio, and The Simpsons? How soon they forget.
** Steve Landesberg ** played a con artist minister in an episode of Barney Miller, than later returned as Lt. Dietrich.
Kirstie Alley on Cheers and Veronica’s Closet. Lisa Kudrow on Mad About You and Friends. Courtney Cox played Michael J. Fox’s girlfriend on Family Ties and is now also on Friends. Scott Baio on Happy Days and Charles in Charge. The older daughter on Charles in Charge was also on Baywatch. Alfonso (Ribiera(?) was on Silver Spoons and Fresh Prince.
The dad on Fresh Prince was on something else too, can’t think of it now. And wasn’t John Lithgow on another series besides Third Rock?
Someone I didn’t see mentioned: Brian Keith in both Hardcastle and McCormick and Family Affair, among others.