# Supporting characters who deserve their own shows. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 30, 2019, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713 "2019-10-30T20:03:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/81 "2019-11-08T03:51:04Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Ewan MacGregor, maybe? But it’s stuck in my brain that he’ll look like Alec Guiness when he grows up. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/82 "2019-11-08T04:47:08Z")
> [@digs](#): > > But it’s stuck in my brain that he’ll look like Alec Guiness when he grows up. Well done. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2019, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/83 "2019-11-08T06:03:13Z")
> [@digs](#): > > But it’s stuck in my brain that he’ll look like Alec Guiness when he grows up. By the time he catches up to David McCallum, it won’t matter. Incidentally, wasn’t there an episode of NCIS a few years ago that kept flashing back to the sixties? Who played young Ducky in that one, before he shipped out to Vietnam?\* \*I know, this didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me either. :dubious: 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713.md?page=4)