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Actors in two hit series

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    #62
    ckeng
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    David Caruso - NYPD Blue & CSI
    Jimmy Smits - NYPD Blue & West Wing
    Ricky Scroeder - Silver Spoons & NYPD Blue
    Sherry Stringfield - NYPD Blue & ER

    Fairly sure if you cast around NYPD Blue would throw up a few more names. David Schwimmer was in a few episodes in the first series and there's been an amount of one off appearances from other actors before they became famous. Pretty sure one of the other detectives ended up in CSI with Caruso as well. (In case you haven't noticed, I quite like NYPD Blue)


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    #63
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    Kim Raver was on Third Watch for years and now she's on Grey's Anatomy.

    Juliana Marguiles - ER and The Good Wife.


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    #64
    efb
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    Aidan Gillen QAF UK & The Wire
    Charlie Humman QAF UK & Sons of Anarchy
    Bea Arthur Maude & The Golden Girls


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    #65
    ziedth
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    Could you count Cortney Cox?

    Cougar town is pretty big outside of the obvious.


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    #66
    Cole
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    dooferoaks wrote: »
    Olden but golden:

    Robert Vaughn. Man from Uncle + Hustle

    Kate Jackson. Scarecrow and Mrs King + Charlies Angels

    Don Johnson. Miami Vice + Nash Bridges

    Ronnie Barker. Open All Hours + Porridge

    I think it's all youngsters on here.;)

    Another one for the more mature viewer. Robert Urich - Vega$ and Spencer for Hire.


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    #67
    pickarooney
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    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    I'd count Busy Phillips then too. She was in Freaks & Geeks (she wasn't in the opening credits but was in almost every episode), Dawson's Creek for 46 episodes, ER for 14 and now Cougar Town.

    I know F&G was cancelled after one season but it's one of those cult shows. And if we're counting F&G then count Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother), Linda Cardellini (ER) and John Francis Daley (Bones) too.
    Forget about Freaks and Geeks. Much as I loved it, it failed.
    Jane Krakowski - Ally McBeal and 30 Rock.
    That's more like it.
    Jared Padalecki maybe? Gilmore Girls and Supernatural.
    Probably not a household name, but borderline.
    Oh and the woman who played Sookie on Gilmore Girls is in that thing about the fat people now. I think it's only had one season but it's a big hit as far as I know.
    Come on! You don't know her name or the show she was in!
    Ron Rifkin - Alias and Brothers and Sisters.
    More of a 'that guy from'
    Greg Grunberg - Alias and Heroes.
    as above.
    Does Everwood count as a successful show? Emily van Camp was on that and Brothers and Sisters.
    Who?

    Much as I hated Spencer For Hire, I have to admit Robert Urich.


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    #68
    tony1kenobi
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    Danny DeVito. Taxi and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

    Jeffrey Tambor. Larry Sanders and Arrested Development.

    Cleveland Brown. Family Guy and The Cleveland Show.


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    #69
    Kevski
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    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Kim Raver was on Third Watch for years and now she's on Grey's Anatomy.

    She was in 24 too!


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    #70
    Rael
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    Sean Bean - Sharpe & Game of Thrones


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    #71
    itsallaboutheL
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    people in Band Of Brothers

    Friends
    ER
    Southland
    Life
    Mark Wahbergs brother
    The Practice
    What about Brian/Justified
    Jericho


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    #72
    pickarooney
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    Rael wrote: »
    Sean Bean - Sharpe & Game of Thrones

    Cool, now we have a series which hasn't even aired yet! :D


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    #73
    wayfarers
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    Has anyone mentioned yer man from Twin Peaks and Desperate Housewives? Kyle whatshisface


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    #74
    phasers
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    wayfarers wrote: »
    Has anyone mentioned yer man from Twin Peaks and Desperate Housewives? Kyle whatshisface
    I did, and he was in sex and the city too :cool:


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    #75
    pickarooney
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    Does the term 'guest star' not mean anything to you?


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    #76
    wayfarers
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    phasers wrote: »
    I did, and he was in sex and the city too :cool:
    Good call. He pulled off a 'three-way' successfully. Fair play to him.


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    #77
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    OK another one who's name I don't know and can't be bothered to look up, but, she's in Brothers and Sisters and was in 30 Something back in the day. I'm sure one of you older types knows her name....


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    #78
    iguana
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    Michael J Fox. Family Ties and Spin City.

    Milo Ventimiglia, Gilmore Girls and Heros.

    Tina Majorino, Veronica Mars and Big Love.

    Amanda Seyfried, also Veronica Mars and Big Love.

    Enrico Colantoni, Veronica Mars and Just Shoot Me (yes it sucked but it was popular).

    Johnny Galecki, Rosanne and The Big Bang Theory.


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    #79
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    Neil Patrick Harris - Dougie Houser MD and How I Met Your Mother

    Tiffani Thiessen (don't laugh, although I admit the quality of some of these is questionable they were still successful shows) - Saved By The Bell, Beverly Hills 90210 and most recently White Collar which I've never seen but appears to be quite successful.

    And on the subject of Beverly Hills 90210 Shannen Doherty did it and Charmed.


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    #80
    ziedth
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    Chris Noth, The good wife seems to be doing well and you have Law and order plus Sex and the City


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    #81
    pickarooney
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    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    OK another one who's name I don't know and can't be bothered to look up, but, she's in Brothers and Sisters and was in 30 Something back in the day. I'm sure one of you older types knows her name....

    Patricia Wettig? I've never seen Brothers and Sisters but it sounds like a good call. Is the show any good, while we're on the subject?

    Tiffany (Amber) Thiessen is a maybe. The quality of the shows is of absolutely no consequence.

    Milo Ventimiglia is a no, Lauren Graham is a likely yes, but I'm not quite convinced of its hit status. Peter Krause's admission depends on the same.

    Amanda Seyfried was in Veronica Mars for all of five minutes (hint:
    her character was dead before it started
    ). Mac wasn't really a main character either, only coming into the show later on. Enrico Colantoni is borderline. Fact is, Veronica Mars did not do as well as it should have both in terms of viewers and the dramatic dip in quality in season 3.

    I had to guess who Johnny Galecki was (I was right :D) and I remembered him only as a peripheral character in Roseanne, but I see he was in 92 episodes and both Roseanne and TBBT would count as hits. He probably deserves a point.

    Jeffrey Tambor is an interesting one. How many people have seen both Arrested Development and the Larry Sanders Show? If I remember correctly he played himself facing this exact problem in Entourage. Jeremy Piven, who would get halfway with Entourage, had a large number of appearances in the bizarely popular Ellen and a handful in TLSS but that's not enough to merit a credit.

    Chris Noth - over 40 appearances as Mr. Big as well... while technically not a starring role, he does have a huge "hey it's X!" quotient. I don't know enough about those Law and Order franchises and have never seen the Good Wife but he's a distinct possibility.


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    #82
    JP Liz V1
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    Tina Fey - Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock :p
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    #83
    phasers
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    Does the term 'guest star' not mean anything to you?
    No, but 'season regular' does.


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    #84
    pickarooney
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    phasers wrote: »
    No, but 'season regular' does.

    And that's all very well for the 'season regular' thread.


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    #85
    iguana
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    Debra Messing, Will and Grace and Ned and Stacey.

    Steve Schirripa, The Sopranos and The Secret Life of the American Teenager (the worst show in the entire world ever, yet the highest rated in the history of ABC Family).


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    #86
    pickarooney
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    iguana wrote: »
    Debra Messing, Will and Grace and Ned and Stacey.

    Steve Schirripa, The Sopranos and The Secret Life of the American Teenager (the worst show in the entire world ever, yet the highest rated in the history of ABC Family).

    Ned and Stacey doesn't sound like it went down too well. Bobby Baccala was a bit parter in The Sopranos for me. I know Schirrpa was in 40+ episodes but his name meant absolutely nothing to me.


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    #87
    JP Liz V1
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    Alison Brie - Community and Mad Men

    Rosemarie DeWitt - Mad Men and United States of Tara

    John Corbett - Northern Exposure and Sex and the City and United States of Tara

    Rob Morrow - Northern Exposure and Numbers
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    #88
    Morgans
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    Apologies if already done

    Christina Applegate - Samantha Who? and Married with Children.

    It really does depend on the hit series threshold.


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    JP Liz V1
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    Morgans wrote: »
    Apologies if already done

    Christina Applegate - Samantha Who? and Married with Children.

    It really does depend on the hit series threshold.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156196/

    Also in Jesse (another sitcom)
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    #90
    ziedth
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    pickarooney wrote: »

    Chris Noth - over 40 appearances as Mr. Big as well... while technically not a starring role, he does have a huge "hey it's X!" quotient. I don't know enough about those Law and Order franchises and have never seen the Good Wife but he's a distinct possibility.

    That was my theory about SATC too, I'm not a law and order fan either but
    I knew he was in over the 100 episodes of it. Good wife I think is very good and he'd be the the one of the male leads. Not sure would you call it a hit though.


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    #91
    sbsquarepants
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    Julia Dreyfus - Seinfeld / The New Adventures of Old Christine
    Charlie Sheen - Spin City / Two and a Half Men
    Michael J Fox - Spin City / Family Ties
    Ted Danson - Cheers / Becker (what a pile of shíte by the way!)
    Shannon Doherty - 90210 / Charmed
    Alyson Hannigan - Buffy / How I Met Your Mother
    Lee Majors - Bionic Man / Fall Guy


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