Which TV shows had, on average, the tallest and shortest adult casts?
I believe that, at least at one point, Night Court held the record for the tallest cast. In its 4th to 9th seasons, the principal actors were as follows:
Richard Moll, 6’8"
Harry Anderson, 6’4"
John Larroquette, 6’4"
Charles Robinson, 6’2"
Marsha Warfield, 5’11"
Markie Post, 5’6"
That makes for an average height of just under 6’2".
Has any other show, before or since, managed to beat this?
And what about the shortest casts of all time? Since these are all likely to be shows with child actors, let’s restrict ourselves to adult cast members.
It might also be necessary to stipulate that the cast have some minimum number of members, as there are some scripted shows that have just one or two principals. (For example, the 5’6" Peter Falk was the only regular on Columbo, but seems wrong to include that show in the running for shortest cast.) Let’s consider shows with at least three adult cast members.
It was preceded by An Idiot Abroad, which also starred Warwick Davis and Stephen Merchant, and so had an equally wide range of heights. But it was more of a reality TV show than a scripted series, and so I’m happy to exclude it from this thread.
If you only count the season with Wendy Schaal in the main cast (for the purposes of this thread’s three-actor minimum), Fantasy Island had an average height of 5’1”:
But most of the cast of Facts of Life were supposed to be kids (though the actors were probably not) Time Bandits the movie certainly has a low average height – not sure about the TV series.
Splitting between men and women
Everybody Loves Raymond - Men has one of the tallest casts. I get an average of about 6’4’“.
Everybody Loves Raymond - Women has one of the shortest casts. For most of the time there were only two women, both barely over 5”. (excluding the daughter)