That’s also true for young widows, and definitely young widowers too.
They were supposed to be creepy, right? Like, that was intentional? Because if that was not planned, someone done screwed up bad.
No. Please Don’t Eat the Daisies came out a year before. There may have been something even earlier.
While soaps often have identical twins played by one person, Days of Our Lives had Marlene and Samantha Evans, played by actor Deidra Hall and her real life, identical twin Andrea Hall (who is a speech pathologist).
How about identical grandfather/grandson?
Monte Markham played duel roles as a son and his identical looking grandfather in the 60s TV series The Second Hundred Years. Grandpa has been frozen in Alaska during the gold rush and revived somehow.
The great Arthur O’Connell played the son/father inbetween them.
Monte, BTW, is still alive and acting. He has a small cameo in the newly released Life Partners.
I remember that show.
“By golly, there’s a midget in that box!”
- Blasts hole in TV with shotgun.
Of course it was intentional. Twins are creepy, so they wrote them creepy. If anything the issue should be with shows featuring non-creepy twins.
Not to mention that even when the actors get older you’re stuck trying to find a set of identical twins every time you want to swamp them out for another performer.
Er…or you could have the boy/boy or girl/girl twins be fraternal instead of identical, and therefore use two sets of unrelated twins rather than identical quadruplets. Or cast children over the age of 5 as the twins and avoid the need to cast real twins for each fictional twin because kids 6 and older can legally work more hours.
But the OP did ask for examples of people having twins, so they’d pretty much have to be babies. (Unless they do that thing where they age the kid up after a season, inexplicably.)