# The Stars are Still Alive, Let's Make a Sequel! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** actor-characters\ **Created:** [September 10, 2019, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975 "2019-09-10T11:31:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/61 "2019-09-21T04:47:13Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Happy Days - Tom Bosley is gone. Otherwise Mrs. C., Ritchie and his friends could do a reunion show. It would be interesting to see what Fonzie is doing these days. Richie is probably a CEO at a company. Tom Bosley would be a big miss. He and Fonzie were the only actors in every single episode. Mrs. C only missed 3. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > Just remembered another for-real example. When Hanna-Barbera started making new episodes of _The Jetsons_ in the 1980s, over twenty years after the original run of the series, they were able to use the entire original voice cast. Voice artist Daws Butler\* commented proudly about this, claiming that they were the only TV show able to reunite the original cast after such a long hiatus. Found this. “O’Hanlon had suffered a stroke and was blind and suffering from limited mobility. He recorded his dialogue in a separate session from the other cast members by having all lines read to him by the recording director Gordon Hunt and then recited one at a time.” They also pitched his voice up. I seem to remember it sounding pretty close to his original. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > **Rocky II – The Bride of Rocky Horror** > > C’mon, you can fill this one in by yourself. The whole cast’s still around except for Charles Gray and Jon Adams. You gather them all together for The Bride of Rocky Horror. > > It’s gotta be better than **Shock Treatment**. Tim Curry missed Shock Treatment (he was supposed to play Brad Majors in that one!), as well, but he’s also had a stroke and is wheelchair bound. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/62 "2019-09-22T23:46:36Z")
> [@caligulathegod](#): > > Tom Bosley would be a big miss. He and Fonzie were the only actors in every single episode. Mrs. C only missed 3. > > Found this. “O’Hanlon had suffered a stroke and was blind and suffering from limited mobility. He recorded his dialogue in a separate session from the other cast members by having all lines read to him by the recording director Gordon Hunt and then recited one at a time.” They also pitched his voice up. I seem to remember it sounding pretty close to his original. > > Tim Curry missed Shock Treatment (he was supposed to play Brad Majors in that one!), as well, but he’s also had a stroke and is wheelchair bound. Yes, but he was in the TV movie version of RHPS (2016), in his wheelchair, as the criminologist. > **[The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (TV Movie 2016) ⭐...](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1267299/)** > > 1h 28m | TV-14 ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/63 "2019-09-23T00:40:21Z")
> [@TCMF-2L](#): > > It’s a TV show but they could definitely do _ **American Gothic** _ (1995) and the world would be a better place if they did. (Says I.) > > The premise was the demonic _Sheriff Buck_ (played by **Gary Cole** : Still alive and working) battling for the soul of young boy _Caleb_ (played by **Lucas Black** : Still alive and working.) Having _Buck_ directly battling the now adult _Caleb_ would be very doable. **Black** could even be the character he plays in _ **NCIS: New Orleans** _ - A law enforcement officer. Leaves NCIS and returns home to Trinity and resumes clashing with _Sheriff Buck…_ > > In the original \*\*Buck mainly battled with the Doctor played by **Jake Weber** who is still alive and working. The newspaper reporter played by **Paige** **Turco** who is still alive and working. Plus the ghost of _Caleb’s_ sister played by **Sarah Paulson** who is still alive and working. If her character, _Merlyn_, having aged is a problem - what with her being a ghost - then digitally de-age her and disguise any limitations in an eerie blue ‘ghost’ special effect. No problem. Although I would portray her at her natural age. TV ghosts have their own rules! > > Buck’s evil schoolteacher ally was played by **Brenda Bakke** and his incompetent deputy was played by **Nick Searcy**. Both are still alive and working. > > The series was created by **Shaun Cassidy** and produced by **Sam Raimi**. Both alive and working… > > Why isn’t this happening? > > TCMF-2L You and I might be the only two people in the world who remember and miss this show. “Someone’s at the door…” (Last word pronounced _doe-uh_) ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/64 "2019-09-24T17:45:21Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > What about Rene Auberjonois, Robert Duvall, Carl Gottlieb, Jo Ann Pflug, John Schuck, Tom Skerritt, and Fred Williamson? I got to the end of this list and said, “Wait a minute… Fred Williamson’s not dead, is he?” I even started to look it up. Then I read your post more closely and thought “But…” and had to look up Auberjonois, Duvall, and Skerritt on Wikipedia. I could have _sworn_ they were all dead. It’s like I’m suddenly in a parallel universe where they didn’t die. I didn’t recognize Gottlieb, Pflug or Schuck by name so they were not as jarring. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/65 "2022-10-04T02:10:48Z")
Bumping this old thread because I just learned that the entire cast of the TV series _Police Woman_ are still alive; Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman, Ed Bernard, and Charles Dierkop. We’re only two years from the fiftieth anniversary of the show’s premiere. So let’s start working on that reunion series: _Police Woman: I’m Too Old For This Shit_. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975/66 "2022-10-08T15:58:08Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Charles Dierkop I’ve never actually seen this show, but from pictures I always thought this guy was Larry Storch from _F Troop_. Too late to use him as backup now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stars-are-still-alive-lets-make-a-sequel/839975.md?page=3)