I remember Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Burger King commercial from when she was a wee girl.
How about Courtney Cox in that Springsteen video?
The earliest I remember is her stint as Kendall, Erica’s bad-girl daughter in “All My Children”.
And as for Courtney Cox, wasn’t she in Springsteen’s “Dancing In The Dark” video before “Misfits of Science”? (Either way, I remember both).
Damn it! All the way down the thread and the last post is what I came in for. 
Remember when she did feminine hygiene product commercials too? I’ve read she was the first person to say “period” on TV when not referring to punctuation.
Alec Baldwin on Knots Landing? IIRC, died when his mother yelled him off a roof
A pre-Star Wars Mark Hamill as David Bradford in the pilot of Eight is Enough.
I remember as a kid watching the Dating Game when a contestant with a very distinct, high-pitched foreign accent stole the show by providing clueless and hilarious answers to the lady contestant’s dimwitted questions. Watching it with my younger brother, the episode seemed surreal.
Not long after when Andy Kaufman appeared as Latka Gravas on the premier of Taxi, my brother and I were both: “Hey, it’s that weird guy from the Dating Game!”
I remember Greg Kinnear as the original host of Talk Soup.
And Matt Lauer hosting HBO’s Holloywood Minute (or whatever it was called.)
I remembered seeing Jamie Lee Curtis guest-star on an episode of “Charlie’s Angels”. I guess she had already done “Halloween” by then, but not being old enough to see an R-rated movie, that was the first I saw her. She had a great scene with Cheryl Ladd in which they were dumped off a booby-trapped bridge into a moat full of alligators - and a wet T-shirt 'gator wrestling scene ensued. Priceless.
Scott Baio (was that his name?) appeared as a surly teenager on “Eight Is Enough” for a few episodes in it’s last year, before he hit it big as “the Karate Kid” (and then went back into obscurity once again.)
Superman, that would be Ralph Macchio or else not “Karate Kid”. And I remember Ralph as Chooch in Up the Acadamy.
And yes, I am ashamed I remember that, let alone saw it.
Oh, so you were the one who saw that film.
Good one!! I loved Knots Landing. [hj] Gary Ewing is now on Young and the Restless…I have no idea what his name is on Y&R, I just call him Gary.[/hj]
I remember Philip Seymour Hoffman (or as Alan Arkin would call him: “Seymour Philip Hoffman”) from when he played one of the goofy storm chasers in the movie Twister.
I remember her on MSNBC circa 1996, back when even fewer people watched MSNBC than do today. 
I remember a fresh-faced **Tim Robbins **guest-starring on *Hill Street Blues *back in the day as Officer Larry Swan. **Jonathan Frakes **and **Brent Spiner **also appeared on the show, although not at the same time as Robbins AFAIK. And of course Spiner also had that role on *Night Court *as a member of that family from the Ozarks or wherever it supposedly was.
Richard Pryor on an episode of “The Wild, Wild West”. I don’t think he was “famous” at that point in his career.
Also, does anyone else recall **Kathy Bates **playing a patient with Tourette’s Syndrome on St. Elsewhere?
When I was a kid, our local cable company must have had some kind of deal with NBC to test market new shows. They’d run a show before its premiere and call us the next day to ask us questions about it. I saw Misfits of Science that way, and recognized her at the time from the Dancing in the Dark video.
I vaguely remember Brent Spiner in the role that made him famous.
On preview: Bugger.
I remember Phil Hartman as Captain Carl and Laurence Fishburn as Cowboy Curtis on “Pee Wee’s Playhouse”.
Heck, I remember Morgan Freeman as Easy Reader on “The Electric Company”.
I was pretty suprised to see Richard Pryor show up in an episode of the Partridge Family. I saw it in a rerun so he would have been famous by that time.
Does Harrison Ford count for his supporting roll in “The Conversation?” He was a corporate go-between in the hiring of Gene Hackman and I remember not liking him at all. I guess that means he played the part right.