# Oldest show, all cast members still alive

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-show-all-cast-members-still-alive/826573>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\
**Created:** [December 23, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-show-all-cast-members-still-alive/826573 "2018-12-23T16:45:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-show-all-cast-members-still-alive/826573/21 "2018-12-26T03:12:07Z")

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Yeesh, sad to compare Star Trek TNG to Babylon 5. Everybody alive in TNG. Quite a few dead from Babylon 5. ☹

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-show-all-cast-members-still-alive/826573/22 "2021-05-29T20:16:08Z")

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**BUMP**

Love Boat is dethroned. Gavin MacLeod has died.

So now what is it if not Love Boat?

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-show-all-cast-members-still-alive/826573/23 "2021-05-29T20:30:27Z")

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Thread for Gavin here:

> [@RIP Gavin MacLeod](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-gavin-mccleod/943186):
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> [Betty need only outlast John Amos and Ed Asner to collect on that Sou-Sou](https://www.tmz.com/2021/05/29/love-boat-star-gavin-macleod-dead-dies-mary-tyler-moore-show/)

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**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:** [May 29, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-show-all-cast-members-still-alive/826573/24 "2021-05-29T20:37:05Z")

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Looks like Please Don’t Eat the Daisies is off the list as well, as [Kim Tyler, who played one of the kids, died in February.](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0878855/?ref_=tt_cl_t_3)

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