Only two?
Over the last few years I’ve watched most of the Perry mason run on METV. I never watched the show before, so it was all new to me. I thought there were quite a few episodes where Burr didn’t appear, though he’d appear briefly on the phone talking to his replacement. Oh, and his replacement was Bette Davis!
I doubt he’s appeared in every episode - he must have taken a holiday now and then - but Bill Roach has been playing Ken Barlow in Coronation Street since its inception in 1960.
Star Trek: Voyager seems to have the highest index of any Star Trek series, if we trust the IMDb data:
Kate Mulgrew
Robert Beltran
Roxann Dawson
Robert Duncan McNeill
Ethan Phillips
Robert Picardo
Tim Russ
Garrett Wang
8 actors * 170 episodes = 1360.
Ed Sullivan deserves a mention. Assuming he hosted every single Sunday for nearly 2½ decades is good for 1068 according to Wikipedia.
Parenthood looks like 13 x 103 = 1339. One character was “only” in 102.
Every Always Sunny episode features every character, except that DeVito didn’t come in until S2E1, so 492.
I have no idea where you’re getting your data. While many have 103 “credits”, the first 10 actors I checked each has at least 2 “credit only” listings.
Another score of 0, it seems.
I did not realize that Frasier had more episodes than Friends, Cheers, or Seinfeld. For some reason I am shocked.
According to IMDB, The Office (US version) had Rainn Wilson (Dwight), John Krasinski (Jim), Jenna Fischer (Pam), Leslie David Baker (Stanley), Brian Baumgartner (Kevin), Angela Kinsey (Angela), and Phyllis Smith (Phylilis) in all 188 episodes for a total score of 1316.
I don’t know, I haven’t watched it really, but a quick scan of Netflix suggests that you’re right. And I see now that you have to click the actor, not merely trust the data on the show.
I think you know exactly where I got the numbers though, and was the snark really necessary?
Good old William Roache has clocked up over 4300 episodes of Coronation Street since 1960 playing the same character which qualifies him for all sorts of records. But there has not ever been even a single year he has appeared in every episode that year.
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Um. You really, really need to actually check each actor’s listings. Fischer and Smith both missed some episodes.
Actual score: 940 (at most).
There is a difference between getting a credit and actually appearing in an episode.
Per its Wikia site, if Scrubs had ended after NBC dropped it, it would have had an index of exactly 900 (6 x 150). It only took 9 episodes for ABC to zero the index.
But he didn’t. It’s noted that on one of Elvis Presley’s appearances, Charles Laughton was actually the guest host. I have no idea whether it ever happened before or since that time, but it did spoil the record.