Tina who? She’s less successful than Justine Bateman.
I did a doubletake as well and then realized it was Fox (most) and Yothers (least).
The West Wing: Nobody’s made a huge leap. Dule Hill and Mary McCormack have their own successful TV series. Least successful is hard to pin down - all of the cast has been working steadily (with the obvious exception).
Right. Even Skippy’s had an OK career as a producer.
From “Hill Street Blues” I’d say that Betty Thomas (for directing) and Dennis Frantz (for acting) have been the most successful. Least successful is a tough category with this group. I guess I’d say Veronica Hamel, who played beautiful public defender Joyce Davenport in the series and who hasn’t been seen since.
It might be an apples-and-oranges thing to compare shows that have children in the cast and those that don’t; longterm child-actor success is pretty random and many legitimately drop out of the business to go to college and whatnot.
For shows that have exclusively adult casting… The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Betty White is now famous for being Betty White, while Gavin McLeod is making a career out of living off Love Boat glory.
It’s easy to cover your rent when you’re dead.
Is that really true though? Nathan Fillion doesn’t seem to be notably more successful than the other main cast members- in particular Gina Torres, Morena Baccarin and Alan Tudyk seem to have been in an awful lot of stuff since Firefly.
And if you count pre-Firefly, Adam Baldwin blows them all away.
Nathan Fillion is far and away the most popular member of the Firefly cast. A starring role on a popular network drama trumps all the rest…
Gina Torres has been in the Matrix sequels, appeared as a guest star in a ton of TV shows, and as a regular on Suits.
Morena Baccarin was a regular on V and is currently a regular on Homeland. Oh, and she played the hot woman that Marshall dated for a single episode when he and Lily were broken up on How I Met Your Mother.
Alan Tudyk has been in a bunch of stuff as a guest star or supporting actor (including V alongside Morena Baccarin), but his biggest claim to fame is as a regular on Suburgatory (and he was just demoted to a recurring character for season 3).
Friends:
Most-successful: Jennifer Aniston, by a mile. She’s a bankable a box-office star as any actress in Hollywood these days.
Least-successful: I’d say David Schwimmer, who, apart from some voice work, doesn’t seem to be doing much these days.
Wings: Tony Shaloub has definitely had the best post-show career, while Roy Biggins and Helen Chapel probably had the worst. Steven Weber, Tim Daly, and of course Thomas Haden Church are still pretty active. Amy Yasbeck still pops up, but didn’t really need to do much, being married to John Ritter.
Boy did the post-career successes of the actors on that show totally not go in the direction I anticipated.
Everybody Loves Raymond:
Most-successful: I’m going to say Patricia Heaton. Her show (The Middle) is a huge success.
Least-successful: Difficult to say. Peter Boyle is dead, Doris Roberts seems to be getting by on bit parts (including a guest appearance or two on The Middle), and Brad Garrett’s TV show (How To Live With Your Parents For The Rest of Your Life) was a total dud. Ray Romano has done some big-time voice work (the Ice Age franchise), but as a live-action actor he doesn’t seem to be in demand. I’d say the nod has to go to Doris Roberts.
Also- the boys who played the twins on Raymond have both quit acting, according to IMDB.
Oh, come on now! :rolleyes:
Radar was on “Match Game”. It just doesn’t peak any higher than that.
He was the star in Til Death which apparently had an eighty-one episode, four year run.
Color me surprised – first I heard of the show was a week ago when our vacation home had no cable beyond the very basic networks and we wound up watching some (probably UHF) channel playing syndicated sitcoms when the weather was bad.
I’d say Christina Applegate has been pretty successful, too. She has steady work in movies, including the upcoming Anchorman sequel and she’s been in three sitcoms.
Going by IMDB entries, I’d have to say it’s a toss-up among Alan Alda and David Ogden Stiers and Harry Morgan with a slight edge to Alan Alda.
I thought we were going to name the shows that had the most successful alumni and least successful alumni.
i.e.
Most successful: SNL and it’s really not even fair to include them
Least successful: Gilligan’s Island
Hm. I’d say for Star Trek TNG: the most successful is probably Patrick Stewart and the least successful… Tasha Yar?
She played Jack’s mom on Lost.
I’d give Leonardo DiCaprio–who was a regular during the last season–the edge over Pitt.
Wasn’t Leonardo DiCaprio on that show? He’s done ok.
On edit I see I got scooped!
What’s Boner been up to?