David E. Kelley’s shows did that all the time, and many of his shows weren’t spinoffs - Picket Fences crossed with Chicago Hope a couple times, and Ally McBeal crossed with The Practice a few times. The Practice morphed into Boston Lega, which then crossed over with Boston Public a bunch.
Thanks, now you’ve made me remember all those dreadful shows my wife used to make me watch.
Ah, I had a vague idea he was in it. It was a show I’ve seen, I think, all of, but never actually really got into, if you know what I mean. I suppose in some ways it’s a spin-off, but I’d say it’s more accurate to consider it merely part of the Star Trek universe/franchise, which a little different.
O’Brien’s wife Keiko was also a crossover, even if she wasn’t a title-credit regular. And besides Picard’s appearance, Riker made a guest shot. Sort of…he turned out to be the duplicate Riker introduced in a TNG episode masquerading as the original. Oh, and there was Lwaxana Troi.
Q also showed up. (“You hit me! Picard never hit me!”)
Are we counting appearances “as himself”? What about archival footage?
OK, there definitely were crossover characters then! A few TNG characters turned up in Voyager, too, but I can’t remember any Voyager/DS9 crossovers apart from Q, who was very minor on DS9 (I should have remembered that he was on both).
Is Riker the only character to have been in all the post-OS series? Has anyone been in all five including the OS? I wouldn’t count Majel Barrett, since the computer voice isn’t really a character anyway, but if anyone wants to count her then I’ll rephrase that part of the question to ‘other than Majel Barrett.’
You mean other than the pilot episode of Voyager, which starts on the station?
I know it was on the station, but I can’t remember the DS9 characters crossing over except possibly, briefly, Quark.
More than an asterisk, it was a character with the same name but a completely different personality.
And that’s not even counting the DS9 episode that featured a bunch of other characters who’d shown up on TNG: Spock, McCoy, Scotty…
Andy Griffith was sheriff Andy Taylor on The Danny Thomas Show before he was spun off in his own series.
Just as Robin Williams was Mork from Ork in two episodes of Happy Days before Mork and Mindy came out.
I remember an episode of ER on which Sherry Stringfield’s character had to go to New York City in search of her junkie sister. While there, she was aided by police officer “Bosco” Boscorelli from Third Watch.
Mork’s second appearance on Happy Days (Mork Returns) came during Mork & Mindy’s first season, on March 6, 1979.
Henry Winkler (Fonzie) and Penny Williams (Laverne) appeared in the first episode of Mork & Mindy.
I don’t remember them being in the pilot, but there they are on IMDB. I do remember seeing where Mork retunred to Happy Days and had everyone frozen around the Cunnigham’s kitchen table. It really seemed to me at the time that those two shows just shouldn’t cross over.
Does Pee-Wee Herman count as a character? Paul Reubens appeared in a few episodes of a short-lived ABC series starring Michael Keaton and Jim Belushi called Working Stiffs. He also had a guest appearance in an episode of Mork & Mindy as an old classmate of Mindy’s. Both times he was credited under his own name, but he was clearly in character as Pee-Wee.
Charles Grey played Mycroft Holmes in the 1976 film The Seven Percent Solution.
He then played the same charactor in the 1990’s BBC’s Granada Sherlock Holmes TV series.
There was an episode of DS9 where Doctor Zimmerman, creator and lookalike of Voyager’s holographic Doctor, shows up at DS9 to create the next gen medical hologram, based on Dr. Bashir.
And Tuvok was in one of the mirrorverse episodes of DS9.
Sure these are alt. versions and stuff, but kinda hard to do a direct crossover when Voyager is set all the way across the galaxy.
Tuvok’s a good catch.
But once they had some sort of connection to the Alpha Quadrant, they had a few TNG characters show up. Barclay was in it a few times and Troi at least once. Most likely others that I’ve forgotten too, given that I seem to have banished all the TNG/DS9 crossovers from my head. So there was no practical reason for them not to have DS9 character in it at that stage.
Kinda odd that they didn’t have more DS9 crossovers, given they launched from the station. But I guess that was because they’d decided to keep Voyager so light in tone while DS9 got a little darker.
The character “Harriet Winslow” had an occasional appearance on Perfect Strangers, (with Balky and Larry) and her character was spun off into Family Matters (with Urkel!).
The Colonel Klink character (starring Werner Klemperer) originated on Hogan’s Heroes, a comedy about American prisoners in a German POW camp. Such fun!
~VOW
And I believe he also made an appearance as Sheriff Taylor in Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.