# Disappearing TV stars **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 28, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286 "2005-06-28T22:52:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286/41 "2005-06-29T22:26:39Z")
> [@Push You Down](#): > > Markie Post also starred in a failed pilot for a remake of Electra Woman and Dyna Girl which was MESSED UP! It was closer to The Shield than to anything Sid and Marty had imagined. > > I think you were right to be called on it Dooku… Just saying. I have a copy olf that pilot. It’s _hysterical_! ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286/42 "2005-06-29T22:28:22Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > The hell? Oh, you got me, killer. > > Let it be known throughout the land from this point forward that Katherine Hellmond, Tim Reid, John Laroquette, Harry Anderson, Howard Hessman and every other cast member of every show I listed in my original post to this thread have had the careers beyond their wildest dreams, and I am eternally shamed for besmirching their good names. They truly are the stuff of Hollywood legend. I am unworthy! Boooo!!! Boooo!!! :rolleyes: So, you don’t do your homework, shoot your mouth off, and behave poorly when called on it. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286/43 "2005-06-29T23:34:06Z")
**Mockingbird** , your comments are uncalled for. In this forum, you may say what you want about the work of art/entertainment, but you may NOT say nasty things about other posters. “Not doing homework” is not, so far as I am aware, a cardinal sin. Nor is being factually in error. If you have some vendetta against **Dooku** , take it to the Pit. If you’re going to post here, then we maintain an air of politeness and civility. And you’ve been around long enough to know it. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286/44 "2005-06-29T23:58:53Z")
> [@choie](#): > > Blasphemer! It’s _Sports Night_, dammit! 🙂 Guillaume’s also done many voiceovers in animated films, most notably in _The Lion King_ and its myriad sequels. And actually, for a show that only ran two seasons, the actors have been pretty prolific since. Peter Krause has “Six Feet Under,” Felicity Huffman had “Desperate Housewives,” Joshua Malina went on to the “West Wing,” Sabrina Lloyd was in “Numb3rs,” and Guilliaume had Big Fish, as well as several voice jobs (including Half-Life 2). That’s all the main characters except Dan (Josh Charles), who hasn’t done a lot since. ---
**Author:** ![rexnervous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rexnervous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rexnervous)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286/45 "2005-06-30T00:13:31Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > **Quincy** That’s probably not fair to Jack Klugman, who played Oscar in **The Odd Couple** , probably far more famous than **Quincy** ever was. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286/46 "2005-06-30T00:31:15Z")
> [@C K Dexter Haven](#): > > **Mockingbird** , your comments are uncalled for. In this forum, you may say what you want about the work of art/entertainment, but you may NOT say nasty things about other posters. “Not doing homework” is not, so far as I am aware, a cardinal sin. Nor is being factually in error. > > If you have some vendetta against **Dooku** , take it to the Pit. If you’re going to post here, then we maintain an air of politeness and civility. And you’ve been around long enough to know it. This was far from nasty and not the only thread in this forum he’s made claims as if they were facts. If his responses are acceptable in their presentation, I can hardly see why you take mine as you are choosing to. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286/47 "2005-06-30T04:29:04Z")
> [@rexnervous](#): > > That’s probably not fair to Jack Klugman, who played Oscar in **The Odd Couple** , probably far more famous than **Quincy** ever was. Yeah, well I don’t care about being fair to Jack Klugman! JACK KLUGMAN KILLED MY DADDY! (Well, Jack Klugman and heart disease.) **Quincy** actually ran longer, but you’re right- he’s more Oscar than Quincy. (Did you ever learn Quincy’s first name on the show?) For that matter, **Diagnosis Murder** ran much longer than **The Dick Van Dyke** show but was forgotten long before it was cancelled. Did anybody from **Webster** do anything again? I don’t remember seeing Alex Karras or Susan Clark on anything, and Emmanuel Lewis only makes the rounds of reality shows. (Cathryn Damon died either during the run or soon after and Henry Polic II is a professor at FSU now.) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286/48 "2005-06-30T04:37:41Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Did anybody from **Webster** do anything again? I don’t remember seeing Alex Karras or Susan Clark on anything, and Emmanuel Lewis only makes the rounds of reality shows. (Cathryn Damon died either during the run or soon after and Henry Polic II is a professor at FSU now.) Ben Vereen, who played Webster’s uncle, had a run as the mayor on the children’s show _Zoobilee Zoo_, as well as playing the chief in _Silk Stalkings_ for two seasons. Corin Nemec went on to three seasons of the Ferris Bueller knockoff _Parker Lewis Can’t Lose_. Chad Allen was in _Webster_, before he became a teen idol in _Our House_ and then a heartthrob for both ladies AND gentlemen-of-a-certain-persuasion in _Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman_. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286/49 "2005-06-30T12:48:52Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > The Facts of Life, no survivors (with the possible exception of Nancy McKeon, and excluding recurring George Clooney). Welcome Back Kotter, no survivors except John Travolta. The Facts of Life had a very young McKenzie Astin; Welcome Back Kotter had Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, who was in Alien Nation. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286/50 "2005-06-30T14:31:02Z")
The middle sister Vanessa on The Cosby Show (Tempestt Bledsoe) had a talk show which only lasted a season. Little sister Rudy seems to have taken a decade off (no IMDB listings for the 1990s) & has been doing some movies over the past five years. There are people I wonder “whatever happened to”, only to find out they have thriving careers on shows I’ve never seen or on stage. Northern Exposure- Janine Turner was a doctor in the first season of a Lifetime medical show, does some commercial work, is a single mother, has a no-kill cattle ranch, and is a conservative Republican Christian (marry me, Janine! Btw- she’d also be killer as Dagny Taggart in an ATLAS SHRUGGED movie) John Corbett- MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING, SEX & THE CITY, RAISING HELEN ---
**Author:** ![35340](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/8baadc/32.png) [@35340](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/35340)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286/51 "2005-06-30T14:47:01Z")
> [@yosemite](#): > > Robert Pastorelli had a pretty good career after “Murphy Brown,” but he died (I think from an overdose) a few years ago. So that was his digital double in the recent Elmore Leonard movie, Be Cool? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286/52 "2005-06-30T15:33:29Z")
> [@Mynn](#): > > So that was his digital double in the recent Elmore Leonard movie, Be Cool? Well, [he did die](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0665123/) over a year ago from a heroin overdose, so **yosemite** was correct on both his death and mode of dying. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286/53 "2005-06-30T16:38:05Z")
> [@yosemite](#): > > Just adding a few tidbits about various actors, in no particular order:John Laroquette is now working on some detective show (I think it’s a detective show) for the Hallmark Channel. And he won an Emmy for his guest roll on _The Practice_ a few seasons back. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286/54 "2005-06-30T18:21:08Z")
> [@Mockingbird](#): > > This was far from nasty and not the only thread in this forum he’s made claims as if they were facts. > > If his responses are acceptable in their presentation, I can hardly see why you take mine as you are choosing to. Yes, there was my other horrible transgression where I incorrectly stated that the Paula Poundstone Show was cancelled after one episode. It was cancelled after two episodes. **Clearly** I deserved the venom you directed at me. :rolleyes: Two posts with erroneous information (and as far as errors go, they’re what I’d call the very definition of underwhelming) and you jump my shit. Seriously now, you don’t think you were overreacting just a _tad_ by insulting me about it? If I had the energy or cared in the slightest, I’d check to see if you’ve made two errors or more in your posting history. Although, if you can’t see your insult even when a Mod tells you you’re being insulting, I doubt anything more I can say will sway you. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286/55 "2005-06-30T19:52:57Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > John Corbett- MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING, SEX & THE CITY, RAISING HELEN As well as two TV shows… Wasn’t he the star of Nowhere Man? Also a show called Luck or Lucky I can’t remember. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286/56 "2005-06-30T20:15:30Z")
As far as Raven Symone is concerned, I think she took off some time to transform from a five year old to a twenty year old, though she worked irregularly until the past couple years, when her career started taking off. Another thing she did was to take some acting lessons and perfect what she learned at Cosby’s knee because she has really developed some comedy chops. Maybe we didn’t see her much when we weren’t watching kids shows but we will be seeing more of her. The kid breaks me up. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286/57 "2005-06-30T20:23:40Z")
Robert Guillaume also did a turn in the lead of a little known [musical](http://www.theatre-musical.com/phantom/guillaume.html)😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappearing-tv-stars/310286.md?page=2)