Guess I forgot people who were in shows named after themselves. Another example is I Love Lucy, the Lucy Show, Here’s Lucy and Life with Lucy.
I’m pretty sure the UK cop series The Bill retired its last original actor this year (Graham Cole who played PC Tony Stamp). The show has been on the air since 1984.
I was thinking Sliders but I think Rembrandt ‘Crying Man’ Brown hung on to the end. If he did the he was the only one left.
A slight hijack, and I don’t want to derail this thread, but it made me imagine what a scifi show like Star Trek: Voyager would be like if, by season 8 or 9, the entire cast had rolled over. For that premise at least, it would have made some bit of sense.
My initial thought for the OP was Earth: Final Conflict, but then I remembered that there may or may not have been one or two cast members left, I’d just stopped watching by then. (See above for real answer on that one)
Babylon 5 might sort of qualify: Some of the characters stayed around as characters, but in different positions (for instance, Sheridan got replaced by Lochley as commander of the station, but he then became President of the Alliance). The penultimate episode has a scene where the last of the old guard are leaving the station, and look in the window at C&C, where all of the new guard are standing at attention watching them go.
How would that make sense in Voyager? How could you replace all the dead people when you’re that far away from home?
My first reaction was MAS*H, but of course that’s not quite correct; Hawkeye, Hot Lips, and Klinger were all in the first season, I believe.
As others have pointed out, Steven Hill wasn’t in the pilot episode, which makes Chris Noth’s departure the final rotation for the original cast in starring roles (though several cast members have returned in guest spots or spin-off series).
Airwolf had a complete cast turnover in Season 4 when it transitioned from CBS to USA.
My Three Sons had a complete cast change out except for Fred MacMurray and Stanley Livingston (Chip, the youngest and dumbest of the three brothers) leading Spy Magazine’s Bill Flanagan to speculate about the possibly murderous backstory in the Douglas household.
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Because you’ve got a much larger theoretical crew than you ever see on the show, so it’s not a big stretch to have Janeway die in Season 1 (please), be replaced by Chakotay, who dies in Season 2 and is replaced by Captain Paris, the last surviving line officer, who dies in Season 4 and is replaced by Captain Johnson, who was an unseen Engineering officer (ie, uncast) before being promoted after the Great Death of Season 2, and so on.
Also adding more crew like Nelix - Gamma Quadrant natives who join the crew, which ultimately begs the question of “Gee, why are we still heading for Earth when a significant portion of the crew didn’t come from there?”
Or like Seven of Nine, Humans rescued from the Borg.
Makes a lot more sense to me than the constant abuse that ship took without ever losing any of the top officers. :rolleyes:
NYPD Blue comes close, only Medavoy and Sipowicz lasted all 12 seasons.
Are any of the original cast of Sesame Street still on the show?
Actually, there is a (sort of) cast member whose has stayed virtually the entire time at Saturday Night Live - Don Pardo, the announcer (who is now 91 years old). He has done the announcing for every season except one. Of course, Lorne Michaels has also been the executive producer of the show for all except five years.
Toma, though it renamed itself Baretta
Of course. Bert, Ernie, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Kermit, Oscar…
No, it doesn’t, so long as Dann Florek remains on SVU, which he does at least for the upcoming season.
Scrubs is set to turn over a majority of the cast with this ill-advised upcoming season. It doesn’t seem destined for greatness.
Ellen Degeneres first sitcom, the one with the infamous coming out, “Ellen” changed names (It was originally “These Friends of Mine”) and lost most of the cast after the first season.
By the midway point of its 14 year run, MADtv had divested itself of the entirety of its original cast.
Would *Meet the Press *be considered a “series”? It’s been on the air since 1947, having turned over its people many times.
Bob Mcgrath (Bob) and Loretta Long (Susan) have been since the beginning.
Hawkeye and Hot Lips were characters from the movie, so, yes, they were in the series from the start. (Not sure if Hot Lips was from the book, as I only read the sequel, being unable to find the original.)
Klinger’s first appearance was the fourth episode.
However, if you consider ‘cast members’, rather than ‘characters’ and include the movie, the series lost its last original cast member when Radar left in season seven, Gary Burghoff being the only actor to appear in the movie and the series.
He was the only one left. This is lampshaded in the final scene.
OOOH!
Good thought.
As has been Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer for Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.