# TV actors given the most chances

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 23, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-actors-given-the-most-chances/482662 "2009-01-23T17:08:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-actors-given-the-most-chances/482662/21 "2009-01-24T16:30:24Z")

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> [@Auntbeast](#):
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> Tea Leoni
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> I can’t fathom why she keeps getting work. Certainly being married to Duchovny can’t have THAT much influence anymore, can it? (if it can, don’t tell me, I don’t wanna live in that world)

Yes, and she’s divorcing him now anyway. I’ve never seen her be good in anything, as far as I can remember.

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**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-actors-given-the-most-chances/482662/22 "2009-01-24T16:49:10Z")

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> [@Auntbeast](#):
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> Tea Leoni

Tea Leoni has had one TV show, The Naked Truth. I don’t think she qualifies for this thread.

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**Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-actors-given-the-most-chances/482662/23 "2009-01-24T17:52:01Z")

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> [@Justin\_Bailey](#):
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> Tea Leoni has had one TV show, The Naked Truth. I don’t think she qualifies for this thread.

Two actually. She had another one called “Flying Blind”. She’s still a piker compared to Tim Conway.

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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-actors-given-the-most-chances/482662/24 "2009-01-24T21:06:37Z")

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Andy Richter and Paget Brewster are both brilliant, but I wouldn’t want them headlining any show I had a stake in.

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**Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-actors-given-the-most-chances/482662/25 "2009-01-25T06:23:22Z")

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> [@Kat](#):
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> That actually sounds similar to a series starring Robert _Conrad_. [Jessie Hawkes](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096618/), about a mountain ranger who moved into the big city and became a bounty hunter.

No, definitely not Robert Conrad. The series I’m thinking of had, in its first episode, our hero finding a blue spruce needle at a crime scene and uttering the infamous line “this kind of thing is candy to a tracker.”

Now that I think of it, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Robert Urich, but he had the same energy (i.e., molasses in late autumn).

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