# Newest show with the most dead cast members **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 24, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newest-show-with-the-most-dead-cast-members/220753 "2003-12-24T00:00:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newest-show-with-the-most-dead-cast-members/220753/1 "2003-12-24T00:00:35Z")
The opposite of my [other thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=230396). I’m guessing _Bewitched_ (1964-72). Alive: Tabitha (both twins), Adam (both twins), Betty (Darrin’s secretary?), Mrs. Tate 2, Dr. Bombay, Esmerelda Dead: Samantha, Darrin 1 & 2, Larry, Mrs. Tate 1, Endora, Maurice, Uncle Arthur, Aunt Clara, Mr. Kravitz, Mrs. Kravitz 1 & 2, Darrins mom & dad 1 & 2. Alive: 8 Dead: 15 (65%) ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newest-show-with-the-most-dead-cast-members/220753/2 "2003-12-24T01:42:49Z")
_Bewitched_ ain’t exactly my definition of New. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newest-show-with-the-most-dead-cast-members/220753/3 "2003-12-24T01:46:53Z")
Again, highest percentage goes to _Wanted Dead or Alive_\* (1 cast member, Steve McQueen, deceased) and also to _Have Gun Will Travel_ (one cast member, Richard Boone, deceased), both with 100% of the cast dead. HGWT ran until 1963, so Boone is ahead. _Rod Serling’s Night Gallery_ also has a 100% death rate for the only recurring part – Rod Serling. The show ran in 1970. But the true champion has to be _Alfred Hitchcock Presents_. When it ran new episodes in 1985, the only regularly appearing character (Alfred Hitchcock) had been dead for five years. ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newest-show-with-the-most-dead-cast-members/220753/4 "2003-12-24T02:06:57Z")
Well if we can use the 70’s I nominate Chico and the Man '74-78 Credited cast\*: Dead: Freddie Prinz, Jack Albertson, Scatman Crothers, Bonnie Boland, Ronnie Graham Alive: Isaac Ruiz, Della Reese, Gabriel Melgar. Julie Hill & Charo Pretty hefty body count for a 10 person cast on a show only 25 years old ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newest-show-with-the-most-dead-cast-members/220753/5 "2003-12-24T04:35:17Z")
From the UK, Dad’s Army consisted of 7 men in the Home Guard in a show that ran from 1968 to 1977. By 1984, 5 of the 7 were dead, but the other 2 are still with us in 2003. There was an eighth character who was not in the “army” (he was an air raid warden), who is also still alive. [Cast list.](http://www.dadsarmy.cwc.net/themaincast.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newest-show-with-the-most-dead-cast-members/220753/6 "2003-12-24T17:43:43Z")
From the 80s,there was that spy show, COVER UP (iirc), which had three stars over its run: Jon-Erik Hexum–dead, prop gun wound Anthony Hamilton-dead, AIDS Jennifer ??–alive, but did once shoot herself in the stomach. 66 1/3 % dead. Didn’t Paladin hve a valet in the San Francisco hotel scenes who was (should have been) credited as a semi-regular? Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newest-show-with-the-most-dead-cast-members/220753/7 "2003-12-24T23:57:16Z")
How about **Bonanza**? Ran until 1973 Original Cast: Lorne Green (“Pa”): Dead Michael Landon (“Little Joe”): Dead Dan Blocker (“Hoss”): Dead Victor Sen Young (“Hop Sing”): Dead 100% deceased Most of the supporting cast is also dead. Oh, I forgot Pernell Roberts (“Adam Cartwright”) is still alive, but I don’t know if he counts as a main star or supporting cast. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newest-show-with-the-most-dead-cast-members/220753/8 "2003-12-25T00:02:33Z")
Pernell Roberts was billed as a lead for all six seasons he appeared in, so he was a “main star,” the sole survivng original one. David Canary was billed in later years after the burning map, thus he was one of the show’s stars; don’t remember if Mitch Vogel was or not. Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newest-show-with-the-most-dead-cast-members/220753/9 "2003-12-25T02:11:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sir Rhosis \* > \*\*From the 80s,there was that spy show, COVER UP (iirc), which had three stars over its run: > > Jon-Erik Hexum–dead, prop gun wound > Anthony Hamilton-dead, AIDS > Jennifer ??–alive, but did once shoot herself in the stomach. > \*\* Not only did [Jennifer O’Neill](http://www.nctc.net/~hazard/marx/jennifer/) shoot herself with a .38, she has survived being dropped to the floor by John Wayne, thrown from a horse, involved in an auto accident, and more.