# Movie TV Pairs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 21, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639 "2005-03-21T22:33:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/21 "2005-03-22T18:19:49Z")
Mary Tyler Moore’s career soared after the _Dick Van Dyke Show_ while Van Dyke’s, because of his drinking, never really was as big again. Rob Reiner came out of _All in the Family_ to become a successful director. Sally Struthers – let’s just say not so successful. Eddie Murphy vs. Joe Piscopo. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/22 "2005-03-22T18:30:08Z")
**Weird Science** was a nice springboard for the likes of Anthony Michael Hall, Bill Paxton, and Robert Downey Jr. Not so for co-star Ilan Mitchell-Smith (Wyatt). ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/23 "2005-03-22T18:34:27Z")
Harrison Ford had a great deal of success after Star Wars while Chewbacca found very few roles for a 7’ Wookie. Freddie Prinze Jr and Mathew Lilliard’s ( She’s All That, Wing Commander, Scooby Doo, Summer Catch) careers appear to suck equally. ---
**Author:** ![HeadNinja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@HeadNinja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeadNinja)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/24 "2005-03-22T18:45:16Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Harrison Ford had a great deal of success after Star Wars while Chewbacca found very few roles for a 7’ Wookie. Chewbacca’s stupid ass shouldn’t have turned down Indiana Jones for yet another remake of Hamlet. Spielberg doesn’t forget. ---
**Author:** ![dasgupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@dasgupta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasgupta)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/25 "2005-03-22T18:50:41Z")
Jane Curtin seems to have continued her career after **Kate & Allie** , while Susan Saint James disappeared. Likewise, from **Knight Rider** , I hear David Hasselhoff is quite popular in Germany, not to mention that **Baywatch** thing, but when was the last time you saw KITT? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/26 "2005-03-22T19:01:16Z")
He neede to pay the rent money, so last time I saw him, he was [modeling](http://screentalk.biz/moviescripts/CustomKitt.pdf) and [selling his body](http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/22/kitt_for_sale.html) ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/27 "2005-03-22T19:05:33Z")
Johnny Depp and Peter DeLuise enjoyed each other’s company as undercover police officers on _21 Jump Street_ back in the late 80s/early 90s (well, 1990). To date, Depp’s worked with an enviable list of directors, received two Best Actor Oscar nominations, and lives what by most accounts is a pretty sweet existence with his actress/singer girlfriend Vanessa Paradis and their two kids. Peter DeLuise’s last acting role, according to the IMDB, is Vondi The German Space Tourist in a TV movie called _Bloodsuckers_. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/28 "2005-03-22T19:17:26Z")
[David Duchovny](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000141/), of X-Files fame, has enjoyed (moderate) fame post-split while [Gillian Anderson](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000096/)’s career has been mostly dismal. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/29 "2005-03-22T20:47:15Z")
If you can count a TV show that’s still in production, Ashton Kutcher has gone on to numerous bad but very lucrative movies and silly but lucrative TV appearances and production deals, Topher Grace has at least gotten his foot in the door of big budget comedies, while Wilmer Valderrama is still lisping with an accent the increasingly unfunny and pathetic exchange student Fez. **Taxi** is an odd case in that the least attractive actor (Danny Devito) became by leaps and bounds the richest and most successful and powerful actor from the ensemble, Judd Hirsch and Tony Danza and Marilu Henner all had successful careers in television, and Andy Kaufmann became (for whatever reason) an icon, but poor Jeff Conaway just sort of stayed behind in Has Been land. (He appeared on the _Child Star_ video in _Dickie Roberts_ (the movie is an abomination but the video is worth renting the DVD], which was inexplicable as he was never a child star.) Roseanne (formerly Barr) is richer than most archduchesses I’m sure, but since her show folded she has gone from one disaster to another professionally while John Goodman (even though his post Roseanne sitcoms have flopped) has had a very successful career as a character actor and SNL staple. ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/30 "2005-03-22T21:08:23Z")
> [@HeadNinja](#): > > Two children find an Extra Terrestrial. One goes on to live the exciting life of Drew Barrymore. The other the slighty less exciting life of Henry Thomas. Actually, there were _three_ kids, the third being the older brother. Imagine being eclipsed by Henry Thomas! Lenny/Michael McKean is all over movies and television, but Squiggy/??? is not. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/31 "2005-03-23T00:51:38Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Mary Tyler Moore’s career soared after the _Dick Van Dyke Show_ while Van Dyke’s, because of his drinking, never really was as big again. I thought Dick had a successful show in the 80’s-90’s as some sort of detective(I’m too lazy to IMDB him). In fact I’m sure it ran more years than MTM’s show. OK I’m going to IMDB this… ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/32 "2005-03-23T00:54:38Z")
I was right. Dick Van Dyke’s Diagnosis Murder ran for 8 years - more than MTM’s acclaimed show. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/33 "2005-03-23T01:44:17Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > **Taxi** is an odd case in that the least attractive actor (Danny Devito) became by leaps and bounds the richest and most successful and powerful actor from the ensemble, Judd Hirsch and Tony Danza and Marilu Henner all had successful careers in television, and Andy Kaufmann became (for whatever reason) an icon, but poor Jeff Conaway just sort of stayed behind in Has Been land. (He appeared on the _Child Star_ video in _Dickie Roberts_ (the movie is an abomination but the video is worth renting the DVD], which was inexplicable as he was never a child star.) Don’t forget Christopher Loyd aka Reverend Jim Ignatowski, who scored a good gig in those “Back to the Future” movies. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/34 "2005-03-23T08:14:46Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > _Mork & Mindy_: Robin Williams is hugely famous, but I can’t recall the last time I saw Pam Dawber. That’s largely because Dawber intentionally stepped away from her acting career in the main in order to raise her family. She and Mark Harmon (Navy NCIS) have two children and helped raise Mark’s nephew. Susan Saint James likewise chose family over working regularly in TV and movies after _Kate & Allie_. She’s married to Dick Ebersol, an executive for NBC. You may recall that Ebersol and the couple’s two sons were in a plane crash a few months ago, and the younger son was killed. David Lander, who played Squiggy on _Laverne & Shirley_ has multiple sclerosis. While the disease has progressed slowly, he has focused on his health rather than his career. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/35 "2005-03-23T08:24:06Z")
> [@Judith Prietht](#): > > Johnny Depp and Peter DeLuise enjoyed each other’s company as undercover police officers on _21 Jump Street_ back in the late 80s/early 90s (well, 1990). To date, Depp’s worked with an enviable list of directors, received two Best Actor Oscar nominations, and lives what by most accounts is a pretty sweet existence with his actress/singer girlfriend Vanessa Paradis and their two kids. > > Peter DeLuise’s last acting role, according to the IMDB, is Vondi The German Space Tourist in a TV movie called _Bloodsuckers_. Peter’s been directing the Star Gate series on SCIFI. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/36 "2005-03-23T08:45:09Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > poor Jeff Conaway just sort of stayed behind in Has Been land. (He appeared on the _Child Star_ video in _Dickie Roberts_ (the movie is an abomination but the video is worth renting the DVD], which was inexplicable as he was never a child star.) He was in _Babylon 5_. That count for anything? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/37 "2005-03-23T14:47:30Z")
> [@BwanaBob](#): > > Dick Van Dyke’s Diagnosis Murder ran for 8 years - more than MTM’s acclaimed show. True, but DVD had a successful Broadway and movie career before his drinking got out of hand. While I don’t mean to say he starved, his career went downhill while MTM soared. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/38 "2005-03-23T15:00:24Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > **Weird Science** was a nice springboard for the likes of Anthony Michael Hall, Bill Paxton, and Robert Downey Jr. > > Not so for co-star Ilan Mitchell-Smith (Wyatt). Yeah, it was weird to run into him at college, I had a few classes with him. He was always on roller blades. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639/39 "2005-03-23T16:57:18Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Adam West has a good career as a distinctive voiced has been but I don’t remember the last time I saw Burt Ward. Ooh! Ooh! I kow this one! Burt Ward is now running Boy Wonder Visual Effects. They did the special effects for Bulletproof Monk and a couple other movies. (Thanks, VH1) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-pairs/295639.md?page=1)