TV Binge Watch (Part 2)

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Shows where a cast member dies

  1. Barney Miller - Det. Yemana (Jack Soo)
  2. Cheers - “Coach” Ernie Pantusso (Nicholas Colasanto)
  3. Avatar: The Last Airbender - Uncle Iroh (Mako)
  4. Chico and the Man - Freddie Prinze
  5. Training Day - Bill Paxton (Detective Frank Roarke)
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Shows where a cast member dies

  1. Barney Miller - Det. Yemana (Jack Soo)
  2. Cheers - “Coach” Ernie Pantusso (Nicholas Colasanto)
  3. Avatar: The Last Airbender - Uncle Iroh (Mako)
  4. Chico and the Man - Freddie Prinze
  5. Training Day - Bill Paxton (Detective Frank Roarke)
  6. The Waltons - Will Geer (Grandpa “Zeb” Walton)
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Shows where a cast member dies

  1. Barney Miller - Det. Yemana (Jack Soo)
  2. Cheers - “Coach” Ernie Pantusso (Nicholas Colasanto)
  3. Avatar: The Last Airbender - Uncle Iroh (Mako)
  4. Chico and the Man - Freddie Prinze
  5. Training Day - Bill Paxton (Detective Frank Roarke)
  6. The Waltons - Will Geer (Grandpa “Zeb” Walton)
  7. The Beast - Patrick Swayze (Charles Barker)
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Shows where a cast member dies

  1. Barney Miller - Det. Yemana (Jack Soo)
  2. Cheers - “Coach” Ernie Pantusso (Nicholas Colasanto)
  3. Avatar: The Last Airbender - Uncle Iroh (Mako)
  4. Chico and the Man - Freddie Prinze
  5. Training Day - Bill Paxton (Detective Frank Roarke)
  6. The Waltons - Will Geer (Grandpa “Zeb” Walton)
  7. The Beast - Patrick Swayze (Charles Barker)
  8. News Radio - Phil Hartman (Bill McNeal)
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  1. Barney Miller - Det. Yemana (Jack Soo)
  2. Cheers - “Coach” Ernie Pantusso (Nicholas Colasanto)
  3. Avatar: The Last Airbender - Uncle Iroh (Mako)
  4. Chico and the Man - Freddie Prinze
  5. Training Day - Bill Paxton (Detective Frank Roarke)
  6. The Waltons - Will Geer (Grandpa “Zeb” Walton)
  7. The Beast - Patrick Swayze (Charles Barker)
  8. News Radio - Phil Hartman (Bill McNeal)
  9. Rizzoli & Isles - Det. Barry Frost (Lee Thompson Young)
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  1. Barney Miller - Det. Yemana (Jack Soo)
  2. Cheers - “Coach” Ernie Pantusso (Nicholas Colasanto)
  3. Avatar: The Last Airbender - Uncle Iroh (Mako)
  4. Chico and the Man - Freddie Prinze
  5. Training Day - Bill Paxton (Detective Frank Roarke)
  6. The Waltons - Will Geer (Grandpa “Zeb” Walton)
  7. The Beast - Patrick Swayze (Charles Barker)
  8. News Radio - Phil Hartman (Bill McNeal)
  9. Rizzoli & Isles - Det. Barry Frost (Lee Thompson Young)
  10. Bones - Dr. Lance Sweets (John Francis Daley)

Shows Your Parents Wouldn’t Let You Watch

  1. The Outer Limits

We were freaking out after the opening monologue.

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Shows Your Parents Wouldn’t Let You Watch

  1. The Outer Limits
  2. Monty Python’s Flying Circus

I didn’t get to watch it until I was in high school.

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Shows Your Parents Wouldn’t Let You Watch

  1. The Outer Limits
  2. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
  3. Kolchak: The Night Stalker

I watched it once and had a nightmare. Forbidden after that, not that I needed the prohibition at that point.

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Shows Your Parents Wouldn’t Let You Watch

  1. The Outer Limits
  2. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
  3. Kolchak: The Night Stalker
  4. Saturday Night Live

Of course I sneaked into the TV room while they were asleep.

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I believe John Daley is still alive.

Weren’t all the other examples examples of the character being written out because the actor had died in real life?

If you need another example, David Strickland committed suicide during the run of Brooke Shields’ Suddenly Susan, and so his character, Todd, was written out.

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PP is probably thinking of Heath Freeman who played recurring character “Howard Epps” who did die in real life

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Sorry, I misread that. The character of Lance Sweets died, but not the actor.

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  1. The Outer Limits
  2. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
  3. Kolchak: The Night Stalker
  4. Saturday Night Live
  5. The Mod Squad
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  1. The Outer Limits
  2. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
  3. Kolchak: The Night Stalker
  4. Saturday Night Live
  5. The Mod Squad
  6. The Simpsons

We watched it anyway. Eventually we got our parents to watch it, and they realized it wasn’t as bad as the Moral Guardians of the day would have them believe.

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Shows Your Parents Wouldn’t Let You Watch

  1. The Outer Limits
  2. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
  3. Kolchak: The Night Stalker
  4. Saturday Night Live
  5. The Mod Squad
  6. The Simpsons
  7. The Night Gallery
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Shows Your Parents Wouldn’t Let You Watch

  1. The Outer Limits
  2. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
  3. Kolchak: The Night Stalker
  4. Saturday Night Live
  5. The Mod Squad
  6. The Simpsons
  7. The Night Gallery
  8. The Six-O’Clock News

Because of war footage from Vietnam.

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Shows Your Parents Wouldn’t Let You Watch

  1. The Outer Limits
  2. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
  3. Kolchak: The Night Stalker
  4. Saturday Night Live
  5. The Mod Squad
  6. The Simpsons
  7. The Night Gallery
  8. The Six-O’Clock News
  9. The Flintstones

Because Fred lied regularly to his wife and Wilma and Betty liked to blow up their husbands’ credit cards (Charrrrge Itt!)

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Shows Your Parents Wouldn’t Let You Watch

  1. The Outer Limits
  2. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
  3. Kolchak: The Night Stalker
  4. Saturday Night Live
  5. The Mod Squad
  6. The Simpsons
  7. The Night Gallery
  8. The Six-O’Clock News
  9. The Flintstones
  10. The Twilight Zone

Which was strange, because Mom and I loved “The Twilight Zone” on late-night syndication in later years.

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Shows mainly centered around a workplace:

  1. Lou Grant
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Shows mainly centered around a workplace:

  1. Lou Grant
  2. News Radio
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Shows mainly centered around a workplace

  1. Lou Grant
  2. News Radio
  3. Sports Night