The actor appeared in 14 episodes of HSB. 3 as other characters then 11 as “Fabian”. Fabian appeared in the final season in S07E13. And was otherwise mentioned around that time.
(Man I miss Renko and Belker and Phil and Bobby and …)
^^That’s just good writing then. They maybe knew they were wrapping the series and wanted to tie up a loose end, unlike so many others we’ve seen in this thread. What a well-produced show.
Pity you don’t get CHCH (Channel 11) on Rogers. They’ve just started stripping ***HSB ***five afternoons a week, along with St Elsewhere. And yes, they’re every bit as good as they were 40 years ago. (My God, has it really been **that **long?!? :smack:)
Both are on Hulu. In the States anyway.
Grace Under Fire was interesting. She initially had three kids, played by six different actors (The baby was Dylan and Cole Sprouse, because infants should be played by twins whenever possible. The troubled older son Quentin was played by one kid (Noah Segan) in the pilot, another, Jon Paul Steuer, for most of the run, and a final, much older kid, Sam Horrigan, when Jon Paul Steuer’s parents wisely yanked him off the show; and Kaitlin Cullum as Libby). In the second-to-last season, we meet Michael, a much older college-age son introduced as the baby she had as a teenager and had to give up for adoption, played by Tom Everett Scott, the star of That Thing You Do. Interesting late addition to the family, and Scott was/is an amazing actor.
If you get H&I, they run a couple of episodes on weekends. Unfortunately, that’s all they show at this time.
Little House on the Prairie was constantly adding new kids to the show in later seasons. I always wondered if the girl (twins really) who played the youngest Ingalls daughter Carrie was hurt they kept casting new characters rather than give her more to do on the show.
And then there was the time they added Gary Coleman to Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (as kind of a proto Wesly Crusher genius - and yes Gary Coleman playing a Wesly Crusher was as obnoxious as it sounds).
And of course, The Opposite–Chuck Cunningham, from “Happy Days”.
He went upstairs…and was never seen again !
He was in two episodes, as I recall, during those dark days when Gary Coleman guest appearances and TV movies were everywhere (“The Kid with the 200 IQ”, the kid who could pick winning teams in baseball (I think), the kid who could get high ratings for the worst script, etc.).
I think My Three Sons should have followed Norman Lear and had something really drastic happen to Dodie.
Glenn Christopher Scarpelli was added to One Day at a Time, playing Alex Handris from 1980 to 1983 on the sitcom One Day at a Time.
This was at the start of the story line about getting Max and Fran together, so the producers used the old idea of having C.C. binge eat to explain her weight gain.
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Family Ties both added babies because the actor was pregnant.
Meredith Baxter Birney was pregnant with twins when Andrew was added to the show.
Janet Hubert-Whitten was pregnant when Nicky was added to the show, but did not return after she gave birth. She was replaced by Daphne Maxwell Reid, leading to Jazz’s best line: I don’t what it is Mrs. Banks, but you seem to have totally changed since Nicky was born.
And yes, both shows pulled the Kid Trick, and the babies were five years old in the second season. Go figure.
In this age of cutting-edge CGI, there is no reason to not cast toddlers in TV and movie families. They simply need to use older actors CGI’d to *appear *~18 months old.
C’mon, who’s heart wouldn’t melt seeing this little tyke romp around on screen?!?
I’ve been watching Taxi in the afternoon for a while, and right in the middle of the second season (!) they’ve introduced sickeningly cute little “Brian Sims” for Tony Danza to adopt. **Why? **The kid adds **nothing **to the show!
“Brian” is played by Danza’s real-life son, Mark Anthony Danza. An extra paycheck, sweet! I wonder who was behind this steaming heap of horse dung?
Somebody, please tell me “Brian” was written out of the show almost immediately afterward!
How does this thread go this long without the All Time, Grand Champion, Worst Kid Added Ever?
Rusty on The Closer/Major Crimes.
A face that is just asking to be punched, a whiny attitude to back it up and a story line that just wobbles around season after season.
The final season of, “New Girl,” added a three year old girl to the mix (Schmidt and Cece’s baby) and–SURPRISE!–she was great!
Yup - super annoying.