As with Combat! and The Untouchables, I think there were just too many guest stars on Batman to consider them all here. Some of the Guest Villains appeared often enough to consider them semi-regulars, though.
Three of the five Rat Patrol regulars are still alive: the abovementioned Eric Braeden (aka Hans Gudegast), Gary Raymond, and Lawrence Casey (ages 79, 85, and 80, respectively).
From Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner (91), Cloris Leachman (91), John Amos (81), Lisa Gerritsen (63), and of course Betty White and Gavin MacLeod are all still around.
Original IMF members Barbara Bain (89), Peter Lupus (88), Lynda Day George (76), Lesley Ann Warren (74), Sam Elliot (76), Barbara Anderson (75), and Lee Meriwether are all still with us.
Carol Burnett and Vicky Lawrence are the only two surviving cast members of The Carol Burnett Show, if memory serves.
Only if you don’t count the last year when Dick Van Dyke was a regular.
From The Andy Griffith Show, only Ron Howard (Opie) and Betty Lynn (Thelma Lou) are still alive of people in 14 or more episodes.
It was a plot device in one M * A * S * H episode:
There are two actors that I would consider regular cast members of The Andy Griffith Show who are still alive: Ron Howard (age 66) as Opie and Elinor Donahue (age 83) as Ellie Walker, a pharmacist who dated Andy. I think Donahue was featured prominently in the credits of the first season, but she appeared in only 12 episodes before leaving the show. She is probably better remembered for playing Betty, one of the daughters on Father Knows Best. A handful of actors who played recurring characters on Andy Griffith are still alive, notably Clint Howard (Ron’s younger brother) who played peanut-butter loving boy named Leon in a few episodes.
The nature of Have Gun, Will Travel is such that there were never many actors you could consider regular cast members. Richard Boone as Paladin and Kam Tong as Hey Boy are both dead. Lisa Lu (age nearly 94) as Hey Girl is the only other regular, and like Donahue she was only a regular for one season.
Mitch Vogel (age 64) as Jamie Hunter Cartwright is one of the last regular cast members of Bonanza. He appeared in 51 episodes over the last three seasons. Tim Matheson (73) was a semi-regular as Griff King, appearing in 15 episodes, all in the final season.
I missed this post while I was composing mine. I didn’t realize Betty Lynn was still living. Good for her. She’s 94 now.
There were only ever three regular cast members on The Incredible Hulk (1978). Bill Bixby and Jack Colvin are dead, but Lou Ferrigno (age 69) is alive.
A report from 2013 mentioned that nine of the 39 original (1955-59) “Mouseketeers” of the “Mickey Mouse Club” were still alive.
“Those still living include: Sharon Baird (now 70), Bobby Burgess (71), Lonnie Burr (69), Tommy Cole (71), Darlene Gillespie (71), Cubby O’Brien (66), Karen Pendleton (66) and Doreen Tracey (70)”. Missing from this list is Johnny Crawford , who would have been 67 at the time. Still alive in 2019.
A 2019 New York Times issue had an obit for Karen Pendleton. Doreen Tracey died in 2018.
That leaves seven. Have any others passed on during the intervening years?
Danny Cooksey is still alive too. He’s only 45.
Right! I completely forgot about Sam!
Looked up the cast of the 1966 “A Man for All Seasons”…one of the best historical dramas ever. Vanessa Redgrave who appears briefly as Anne Boleyn is alive. The, according to wiki , it’s way down to John Nettleton as the jailer and Matt Zimmerman as the messenger
The three member cast of My Favorite Martian, on the other hand, are all dead; Bixby in 1993, Pamela Britton in 1974, and Ray Walston in 2001. It’s notable that Walston, who was several years older than his castmates, outlived both of them.
Another show that has lost its entire cast is Green Acres, despite having a much larger cast. The last surviving cast member was Tom Lester who died last April.
Amazing, at least to me, is how many TOS folks are still alive: Kirk, Sulu, Chekov, and Uhuru
Brian
Fantasy Island is being discussed in another thread but it fits this one. Wendy Schaal is the only living cast member from that series (assuming we discount the reboot).
It’s also a little interesting that, despite premiering forty years ago and having a fairly large ensemble, the entire cast of Cheers is still kicking (with the exception of Nicholas Colasanto who passed while the series was still airing). I suppose it was a fairly young cast, but you’d think that over forty years one of them would have been in a tragic blimp accident or something. . .
Compare any Star Trek to Babylon 5. B5 aired in the early 90’s, starting a few years after Next Generation. It has lost:
Jerry Doyle
Andreas Katsulas
Richard Briggs
Tim Choate
Stephen Furst
Michael O’Hare
Jeff Conaway
It’s stunning how many actors on Babylon 5 have died compared to many recent shows. It still has living:
Patricia Talman
Claudia Christian
Andrea Thompson
Jason Carter
Bruce Boxleitner
Bill Mumy
Peter Jurasik
Mia Furlan