# Music artists guest starring on television **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402 "2012-07-26T00:58:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/61 "2012-07-27T21:42:40Z")
I don’t think anyone’s mentioned former Skid Row lead singer Sebastian Bach, yet, who was on _The Gilmore Girls_ from 2004 to 2007. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/62 "2012-07-27T22:32:51Z")
_Wiseguy_ did a story arc where Vinnie went undercover in the music business to look for mob connections. Mick Fleetwood, Glenn Frey, and Deborah Harry all played characters in the story. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/63 "2012-07-27T22:46:46Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > The old NBC Mystery Movie used to have a lot of musicians trying to act. John Denver played a Western deputy on an episode of _ **McCloud** _, Rick Nelson played a thinly disguised version of himself on _ **McCloud** _, and Johnny Cash played the killer on an episode of _ **Columbo.** _ Alleged recording artist Barbi Benton also appeared on an episode of “McCloud,” in which Mac masqueraded as her agent. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/64 "2012-07-27T22:52:03Z")
Do Frankie Valli and Frank Sinatra, Jr, on “The Sopranos” count? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/65 "2012-07-27T23:10:42Z")
I remember that KISS drummer Peter Criss appeared on a few episodes of _OZ_. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/66 "2012-07-27T23:10:52Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > How can we forget The Wellingtons (+1) as [The Mosquitoes](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onh2lNcbHE8) on Gilligan’s Island? > > Is there no love for Bingo, Bango, Bongo and Irving? Lowell George and The Factory played The Bed Bugs in the “F Troop” ripoff of that episode of “Gilligan’s Island.” Willie Nelson also played a corrupt cop on “Miami Vice.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/67 "2012-07-28T09:39:51Z")
Boy George was a guest star on [The A Team](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47puweMw9Wk) in 1986. (I didn’t even realize the show ran that long.) Milli Vanilli appeared as themselves in an episode of a sitcom called _Sister Kate_ (premise of the show: Stephanie Beauchamp was a nun/seminary professor who didn’t particularly like children but has to run an orphanage- mainly significant for being Jason Priestley’s last gig before 90210). They sang “Blame it on the Rain”. I remember it because the repeat of [the episode](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCsJE6RUps4) aired the week the big scandal broke. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/68 "2012-07-28T13:14:20Z")
Going back a ways, but Ed Ames, Jimmy Dean, and Roger Miller were all guest stars or semi-regulars on the old “Daniel Boone” TV series. ---
**Author:** ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/69 "2012-08-02T17:46:25Z")
How about Menudo on [Silver Spoons](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz1N3oQxAyw)? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/70 "2012-08-02T18:09:53Z")
Sheb Wooley played trail scout Pete Nolan the first few seasons of _Rawhide_. He was famous for the novelty song [“The Purple People Eater.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9H_cI_WCnE) ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/71 "2012-08-02T18:11:33Z")
Woohoo, I get to mention [Phil Collins](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7_TWjH0Ivw) as con-man “Phil the Shill” on Miami Vice. Also starred Emo Phillips. Phil appears at about 2:40 in the video. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/72 "2012-08-29T10:52:21Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > [Chad and Jeremy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUfaJ32Hp40) (as “The Redcoats” on **The Dick Van Dyck Show** I’ve been Netflixing **The Dick Van Dyck Show** and this episode came up on the disc that arrived last night. One of the lads looked surprisingly familiar for someone in a fairly obscure British Invasion group. I hadn’t realized until last night that Jeremy of Chad & Jeremy is actor [Jeremy Clyde](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167403/), who has had quite a career since that DVD Show appearance. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_X2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90db22/32.png) [@Karen\_X2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_X2)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/73 "2012-08-29T16:23:01Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Do Frankie Valli and Frank Sinatra, Jr, on “The Sopranos” count? I can’t believe this was posted, and NOBODY said Steven Van Zandt??? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/74 "2012-08-29T16:52:11Z")
He didn’t make a guest appearance. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/75 "2012-08-29T16:52:23Z")
> [@Karen\_X2](#): > > I can’t believe this was posted, and NOBODY said Steven Van Zandt??? Steven Van Zandt wasn’t a guest star. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/76 "2012-08-29T20:53:58Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > Mel Torme appeared several times on **Night Court**. And once on Seinfeld. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/77 "2012-08-29T21:01:08Z")
[Stevie Wonder on The Cosby Show.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuHRQC3gHmU) ---
**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:** [August 29, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/78 "2012-08-29T21:10:26Z")
Steven Tyler was Charlie Harper’s neighbor on 2 1/2 Men. Alice Cooper on Gene Wilder’s short lived series [Something Wilder](http://www.veoh.com/watch/e97982yMBm25YC?h1=Alice+Cooper+in+Something+Wilder). ---
**Author:** ![akrako1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@akrako1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akrako1)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/79 "2012-08-30T21:44:19Z")
60’s garage rockers The Seeds were in an episode on “Mother’s In Law” (?) - [rockin out ‘Pushin Too Hard’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKc4-NU9oP8) from the family’s living room! ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402/80 "2012-08-30T23:31:29Z")
Colin Hay sang “Overkill” on Scrubs. Not at all cheesy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-artists-guest-starring-on-television/629402.md?page=5)