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Hail to the Long Runner, the show that stands the test of time. But not all Long Runners pass that test unscathed. Actors die, or get fired, or lose a contract dispute, or retire, or simply don't want to play the same role for the rest of their foreseeable career, or are concerned about being Typecast, or don't want to deal with the coworkers of that series anymore. But creators and executives don't want to let their Cash-Cow Franchise or treasured premise go so easily. Therefore, simply bring up new blood and keep going. Sometimes you could argue that a show achieved Long Runner status because it was willing to adapt instead of rolling over and dying when somebody quits. But the point is, sometimes you get shows where the main cast later on is completely different from the original. That is the basis of this trope. There's also the numerous cases of animated series whose dubbing cast changes due to a Channel Hop or an export-stoppage being overturned. Nearly all of the above can apply to characters in Literature and other works without human actors if the series spans enough time In-Universe and/or has a high turnover. To qualify for this, a significant percentage of the work's main cast, including recurring, named supporting cast, has to change. Red Shirts, extras, and guest stars don't count. A one-man show only needs the one person to change, but that won't cut it for an Ensemble Cast. Essentially, either Suspiciously Similar Substitute or The Other Darrin, en masse. (Though it can be spread out over time; it's a Long Runner, after all.) Having a lot of turnover is by itself a neutral phenomenon, but for many people, it's a cause to believe a show has Jumped the Shark, is Ruined FOREVER or is a Franchise Zombie, especially if the departing cast were a main reason for the show's appeal to them. Conversely, the incoming cast may find themselves working for only one season anyway. Aversions of this Trope in music are covered under Long-Runner Line-up. In-universe (or in Real Life), it's High Turnover Rate. See Revolving Door Casting for shows that have a high turnover rate without running for a very long time. The Revolving Door Band is the music equivalent of this trope. |
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Happy Days: Of all the regular characters that were billed at one point or another during the series' 11-year-run, just four remained from the first through last seasons: Henry Winkler (Fonzie), Tom Bosley (Howard Cunningham), Marion Ross (Marion Cunningham) and Anson Williams (Potsie Weber). Two of the other original characters – Ron Howard (Richie Cunningham) and Don Most (Ralph Malph) – left after the seventh season, while Erin Moran (Joanie Cunningham) briefly left for the 1982-1983 season. Of the remaining characters, we all know what became of Chuck Cunningham, later addition Scott Baio (as Chachi Arcola) left along with Moran in 1982 but also returned, and various other characters came and went through the years. | |
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The Gungan Council: The only consistent character for 12 years is having a fat Gungan spamming the forums. | |
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Its spin-off Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has been renewed for a record-breaking 21st season, and almost completely overturned its original cast. Only Mariska Hargitay remains as a constant from season one until now; Ice-T from season two until now. Though unlike its parent program it actually maintained nearly the entirety of its original cast, with the exception of one departure in the second season, for its first twelve seasons. | |
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The Little Rascals film series' cast significantly changed at least every two years throughout its 20+ year span. This was almost always due to the actors quickly becoming too old to portray cute little kids. | |
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Late Night has gone through a similar situation but with only three hosts - four if you count its predecessor, Tomorrow with Tom Snyder. | |
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The eight-season run of Arrow only had Stephen Amell (Green Arrow) and David Ramsey (John Diggle) credited as leads through the entire run. Katie Cassidy (Laurel Lance) remained on the show for the majority of its run beginning to end despite only being in a recurring role during Season 5, but she was technically playing two different characters between the first four and last four seasons on the show. | |
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Bunk'd started out as Spin-Off of Jessie, with three characters from that show attending summer camp with several new characters. After the second season, most of these were replaced, and after the third season, all of the original Jessie cast members left. Season six saw the show change location to a dude ranch, including another cast shake-up. The only character present for all seven seasons was Lou, who went from head counselor to co-owner. | |
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Dallas: Larry Hagman (J.R.) and Ken Kercheval (Cliff) were the only actors to remain with the series for all 14 seasons. Hagman was the only actor to appear in all 357 episodes. Kercheval was not added to the opening credits until season 3. Taking the infamous shower scene into account, Patrick Duffy (Bobby) was the only other actor to appear in every season. | |
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While the professional partners on the American edition of Dancing with the Stars will come and go as they see fit and there's a sizeable stable to choose from, it's noticeable that as of Season 31 only 3 of the sixteen pros have been on the show since before its twelfth season. | |
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Looney Tunes: By 1964, many of the mainstays like Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, Tweety Bird, Yosemite Sam and Pepe Le Pew were dropped. By 1966, Porky Pig, Sylvester and Granny were gone too, and would be joined by Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner before 1967. At this point, only Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales remained, making their final appearance in 1968, roughly one year before the end of the Golden Age series. In their place were characters like Cool Cat, Colonel Rimfire, Merlin the Magic Mouse and Second Banana. | |
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Australian prime time soap Home and Away is notable that while the cast has almost completely changed since the start, it still has one character, Alf Stewart, who was in the debut episode as part of the main cast. And while note in the series from the beginning, Irene Roberts has been in the series since 1991 with only a single early case of The Other Darrin and several characters from early in the series have left and returned multiple times. | |
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The eighth season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) did away with Irma, Casey Jones, Mondo Gecko, the Punk Frogs, the Neutrinos, Leatherhead, Baxter, Groundchuck, and Dirtbag, in favor of new characters like Titanus. The ninth season eliminated the newbies from season 8 as well as the Rat King, replaced Shredder and Krang with Dregg, and Bebop and Rocksteady with Hi-Tech. April was replaced with Carter (at least to an extent, as April was still on the show, but Demoted to Extra). In the tenth season, April came back to replace Carter while Hi-Tech was replaced with Mung. By the end, only the four Turtles, Splinter and April have stuck around for all 10 seasons. Shredder and Krang briefly returned for Season 10, but were absent from Season 9. | |
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Grey's Anatomy debuted in 2005 with 9 names on the starring cast. Of those, only two remain as of 2023 — and neither of them is the eponymous Meredith Grey. In the meanwhile, an additional 30 characters have been added to the opening credits, of which 13 currently remain. (And that's not counting Fake Guest Stars like Payton Silver, who's been here since Season 5; Debbie Allan, who joined in Season 8 but is now so deeply enmeshed in the show that she routinely directs a number of episodes every season; and Cathy C. An, an actual practicing nurse who has appeared in every season as an extra, though she's only had lines in a few episodes.) | |
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Lassie saw the cast regularly change every few years which resulted in Lassie changing from owner to owner in its 19-year run, from living on a farm to traveling with some park rangers to eventually winding up at a ranch. The "Timmy" era was the longest and most well known, lasting 7 years in total. | |
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Malhação: a Brazilian series that premiered in 1995... and it took the COVID-19 Pandemic to kill the show in 2020, a total of 25 years and 27 seasons! Until 2010, despite the changes in locations and the tradition of each season having a different protagonist couple, the series still tried to maintain a considerable amount of supporting characters each season. After that year, the producers finally decided to turn the series into an anthology with locations and different characters each season. Therefore, there is not a single character from the first seasons currently in the series. That being said, the two longest tenured actors were André Marques (first 5 years, plus a few chapters in 2012) and Sérgio Hondjakoff (2000-06), with the latter joking that both only remained that long because the writers made them unlucky in love as part of being the "cool loser". | |
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Spooks went through a very large number of cast changes in its run. Only one character, Harry Pearce, appears in all ten seasons and every other position in Section D had at least three different occupants over the show's run. | |
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Supernatural is notable for not only being the longest-running science fiction/fantasy live-action series on American television at fifteen seasons in as many years, but also for keeping its two original leads for the entirety of that run, averting this trope. | |
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Power Rangers had a few scattered cast changes its first few seasons; most notably Power Rangers Turbo (Season 5) overhauling the entire roster sans the Kid-Appeal Character newly introduced that season at the midpoint. After the show's "Zordon Era" concluded with Power Rangers in Space (Season 6), the show adopted a Sequel Series format ala its source material Super Sentai (which always changed casts every season since its inception in 1975); there would be occasional crossovers with prior Rangers but otherwise each season starts fresh with a new story and new cast. | |
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24 had only Jack Bauer as a main character in all seasons. The first 5 seasons had a pretty consistent cast but after that only Jack Bauer and Chloe (added in season 3) are constants in the remaining seasons. | |
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Sesame Street: The series first aired in 1969, and the longest-running human cast member is Alan Muraoka (Alan), who joined in 1998. Puppeteer Steve Whitmire joined the cast in 1990, following the death of Jim Henson. | |
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Waterloo Road ran for 200 episodes over ten series for nine years. By the time the final episode aired in 2015, all of the cast who had begun the show in 2006 had left. In fact, Waterloo Road's cast turnover rate was so high that when the series ended the longest-serving current cast member - Melanie Hill - had only joined three years earlier. | |
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The game show Family Feud has gone through many hosts. Richard Dawson was the original host from 1976-85, and after a three-year gap, the show was revived from 1988-94 with Ray Combs. Dawson returned for the 1994-95 season. After another hiatus, the show came back in 1999, with the hosting duties going to Louie Anderson (1999-02), Richard Karn (2002-06), John O'Hurley (2006-10), and Steve Harvey (2010-present). | |
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The Price Is Right has not had a lot of hosting changes: on daytime (1972-present), the only hosting change was Bob Barker to Drew Carey in 2007, while various nighttime incarnations have had Dennis James (1972-77), Bob Barker (1977-80), Tom Kennedy (1985-86), and Doug Davidson (1994-95). However, the announcer post has changed three times (Johnny Olson from 1972-85, Rod Roddy from 1985-2003, Rich Fields from 2004-10, and George Gray from 2011 onward, plus Burton Richardson for the 1994 nighttime version), and countless numbers of models ("Barker's Beauties") have rotated in and out of the cast over time. | |
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The James Bond film series has four major recurring roles: Bond, M, Q, and Miss Moneypenny. Eighteen actorsnote Counting Peter Burton's Major Boothroyd as Q have played these roles over the twenty-five official movies. Two more intermittently recurring roles — Blofeld and Felix Leiter — have been played by seven actors apiece. | |
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Tsukipro, with 30+ stage plays in 5 series, has reached this level. 7 of the original 8 members of the SQS cast stayed together for 9 plays, if you count their guest appearance in Tsukino Empire: Unleash Your Mind, and Sho Higano (Shiki) only left before episode 8 because of a severe injury. Alivestage, on the other hand, has had a different Ryota in each of its 3 3-episode seasons. Arata, You, and Hina have also all had actors who left after three or fewer plays. As of the end of 2022, Haru, Arata, Iku, and Ryota have all been played by three different actors. On the other hand, Yuusaku Sato has played Rui in nineteen different plays over eight years. Like Tenimyu, lots of former cast members have gone on to become famous — the first Arata, Taiki Yamazaki, starred in a TV series and the original cast of a musical. The second Iku, Ryoki Miyama, became famous as a member of Be:First. | |
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As of the 13th series of Call the Midwife, only six characters remain from the large main cast that debuted in 2012 — Sister Julienne, Sister Monica Joan, Trixie Franklin, Patrick Turner, Shelagh Turner (previously Sister Bernadette), and Fred Buckle. And of these six, only one — Shelagh Turner, played by Laura Main — has appeared in every episode of the series. | |
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Science and technology show Tomorrow's World lasted for thirty-eight years and in that time went through over thirty regular and occasional presenters, helping launch the careers of presenters like James Burke and Carol Vorderman. | |
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New Tricks had no original cast members left by the end of the series. James Bolam (Jack Halford) left after the first episode of Series 9, while Alun Armstrong (Brian Lane) followed after four episodes of Series 10, and Amanda Redman (Sandra Pullman) left four episodes later, and finally Dennis Waterman (Gerry Standing) left two episodes into Series 12 (the final series). | |
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Of the 17 cast members to appear throughout Smallville's run, only Clark and Chloe remained series regulars in all ten seasons. It should be noted that Allison Mack (Chloe) was credited only when she appeared in the final season (less than half the episodes), and was also absent from the credits for the first two episodes of Season 4 to make it seem as though Chloe was dead, so technically Clark was the only character to be a series regular for the entire show. Season 3 was the only one to have the same credited regular cast (and opening credits) as the previous season. |
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Stargate SG-1, almost. Despite three members of the original Four Man Team making it to the series cancellation (one of them having spent a year dead for tax purposes), most of the surrounding cast and all of the big bads were gone two seasons earlier. Only Walter remained unchanged. | |
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The Prince of Tennis has had many, many cast changes over its several dozen shows spanning almost two decades. It's more sweet than bitter since so many of the former cast members have gone on to become very famous, particularly as voice actors. | |
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CBS' The Late Late Show has had four permanent hosts in its 20-plus seasons, starting with Tom Snyder, then Craig Kilborn, then Craig Ferguson, and currently James Corden. | |
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In Degrassi: The Next Generation, the cast has changed once since the show started in 2001 (not including Archie "Snake" Simpson): Season 5 had the first block of characters graduate from the school but maintained most of the cast in college. Season 7 had the second half of the initial cast graduate, and they cut down a lot of the older cast leaving four. By Season 10 the entire original cast (save Snake) was gone, leaving Chantay as longest time on set (starting in Season 4). Clare (introduced in Season 6, made a regular in Season 8) has been on the show longest right now, her class graduated in season 14. Degrassi: Next Class marks the third time the cast turned over and barring Principal Simpson, no character has any link to the original 2001 cast. |
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Les Filles d'à côté only lasted three years in both its formats. But an insane production schedule meant this French sitcom (which verged on a comic Soap Opera) meant 336 episodes were created. It kept its full original cast for the first 130 episodes. But Cécile Auclert (Fanny) dropped out first, exhausted by the workload, and was followed very quickly by Hélène le Moignic (Magalie) for broadly the same reason. Later in the series, Thierry Redler (Marc) dropped out of the show. With half the original core cast gone, the producers experimented with new girls Next Door and a new flatmate for Daniel, but eventually conceded the best thing to do was to reboot it entirely with a pretty much brand new cast as Les Nouvelles Filles D'à Coté. In the second run, only Claire (Christianne Jean) and Gérard (Gérard Vives) remained from the original cast. note Thierry Redler eventually returned to reprise the fan favourite Marc. | |
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South Africa: Os du Randt was the only member of the 1995 squad, featured in Invictus (though he wasn't mentioned in either the film or the book it was based on), to play in the 2007 Cup. He retired as a player immediately after the 2007 final (in which he played the entire game). The youngest player on the 2007 team, François Steyn, was the only one present for the 2019 RWC (playing the entire 2007 final and coming on as a late sub in the 2019 final). Three of Steyn's 2019 teammates had yet to be born when the Springboks won the 1995 RWCnote on 24 June to be exact. Four others were older than Steyn, but had yet to debut with the Boks in 2007. However, the trope doesn't apply between 2019 and 2023. Including injury replacements, 23 players were present in both championship squads. |
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Only two cast members from Season 1 of The Walking Dead (2010) remain on the show as of Season 10 — neither of whom were part of the main cast to begin with but were promoted to regulars in Season 2. Though the turnover is partly due to the Anyone Can Die nature of the show, a few other longtime cast members, such as original lead Andrew Lincoln, have had their characters Put on a Bus with the door open to return in the future. | |
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M*A*S*H had a significant cast turnover during its eleven seasons. Alan Alda (Hawkeye), Loretta Swit (Margaret), and William Christopher (Father Mulcahy) were the only main cast present for the entire run (although only Alda and Swit were in both the first and last episodes as the role of Mulcahy was recast after the pilot and Alda was the only one to be in every single episode). Jamie Farr (Klinger) was also present for the entire run of the show, but he started off as an extra. The military hospital setting made it easy to write characters in and out with the excuse of them getting drafted, transferred, and discharged. While that served to justify the near-immediate replacement of most characters who left, most of the replacements occupied a suspiciously similar role story-wise in addition to job-wise (the main exception being Sherman Potter, who leaned heavily towards the "elder voice of reason" role, while Henry Blake had been only slightly more responsible than Pierce and McIntyre). The other main replacements were BJ Hunnicutt for "Trapper" John McIntyre in the "second wacky doctor" role, Charles Emerson Winchester III for Frank "Ferret Face" Burns in the "thorn in the side" role, and Max Klinger for Walter "Radar" O'Reilly in the "quirky comedic foil" role. | |
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As of the start of season 20, only one of the original six cast members of NCIS is still on the show, and he would be more accurately described being a recurring guest star who appears in the opening credits whether he appears in that episode or not due to inertia. The original cast was Mark Harmon (Gibbs), Michael Weatherly (DiNozzo), Sasha Alexander (Kate Todd), David McCallum (Ducky), Pauley Perrette (Abby), and Alan Dale (Director Morrow). At the beginning of season 2, Sean Murray (McGee) was promoted from repeat guest star to the main cast and Brian Dietzen (Palmer) was added as a secondary cast member (eventually getting promoted to main cast status). At the end of season 2, Alexander's character was killed off and Dale's character was written out (occasionally returning as a guest star), and they were replaced by Cote de Pablo (Ziva David) and Lauren Holly (Director Shepherd). Holly's character was killed off at the end of season 5 and was replaced by Rocky Carroll (Director Vance). This cast held steady until the beginning of season 11 when de Pablo left the show, being replaced by Emily Wickersham (Ellie Bishop). Then Weatherly left the show at the end of season 13, being replaced by Jennifer Esposito (Alex Quinn) and Wilmer Valderrama (Nick Torres); later that season, Duane Henry (Clayton Reeves) was promoted to the main cast. Esposito's character only lasted one season, being replaced at the start of season 15 by Maria Bello (Jacqueline "Jack" Sloane), and Perrette and Henry left at the end of that season, with Perrette being replaced by Diona Reasonover (Kasie Hines). Bello and Wickersham left at different points in season 18, with Wikersham being replaced by Katrina Law (Jessica Knight). Harmon left in season 19, replaced by Gary Cole (Alden Parker). And that's not counting the turnover in important recurring characters who have not appeared in the opening credits (Joe Spano's Tobias Fornell has literally been around since episode 1, but a lot of other characters have disappeared or been killed off over the years). Ducky, the last member of the original cast, spent much of season 15 and at least part of season 16 on sabbatical teaching and writing his memoirs, followed by retiring from his original position to take a part-time job that didn't require him to appear in every episode, though David McCallum remained a credited cast member until his death in September 2023 before the start of season 21, with his character officially dying at the start of the second episode. | |
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Law & Order ended with a completely different cast than when it started. The first major cast departure happened at the end of season one. The series lost its last original cast member at the end of its tenth season when Steven Hill's Adam Schiff retirednote Hill was not in the pilot episode, however, with Roy Thinnes playing the DA role, at which point he'd been the only remaining original for 5 years. So half of its run was done with no one from the first season cast. The Other Wiki has an entire section dedicated to the cast/character changes and overlaps. Similarly to Doctor Who, Law & Order's frequent cast changes is credited for its longevity. Its spin-off Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has been renewed for a record-breaking 21st season, and almost completely overturned its original cast. Only Mariska Hargitay remains as a constant from season one until now; Ice-T from season two until now. Though unlike its parent program it actually maintained nearly the entirety of its original cast, with the exception of one departure in the second season, for its first twelve seasons. Law & Order: UK has them all beat with all bar Bradley Walsh having left by the end of the eighth season. When he quit, ITV cancelled the show. |
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Boy Meets World started out with eight regulars: lead Cory, his family (father Alan, mother Amy, brother Eric, sister Morgan), his teacher Mr. Feeny, best friend Shawn, and classmate Minkus. While the latter was the only one to be outright dropped (at the beginning of season 2), the show greatly reduced the roles of Cory's family (except for Eric) in later seasons. Meanwhile, new cast members were added over the course of the series (Cory's girlfriend Topanga, Shawn's girlfriend Angela, Shawn's half-brother Jack, Eric and Jack's roommate Rachel), while two more teacher characters (Mr. Turner and Mr. Williams) were introduced at some point and left again, for a total of fourteen different main characters in seven seasons. | |
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Though the series it's a part of changes cast with every installment, the cast of Persona 4 had a pretty long time in the spotlight, lasting nearly a decade before the next installment came out in 2016. From 2008 to 2015, the Investigation Team had appeared in their original game, an anime adaptation of said game, a Play Station Vita remake of said game, two fighting game sequels, a crossover game with the cast of Persona 3, and a dancing game spinoff. By the end of that time frame, however, only three of the eight members of the Investigation Team's English cast still had their original voice actors note those being Johnny Yong Bosch as Yu/The Protagonist, Yuri Lowenthal as Yosuke, and Amanda Winn-Lee as Yukiko, the rest had been replaced for one reason or another at least once in the intervening time. | |
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Diff'rent Strokes had original cast members Mrs. Garrett (midway through season two, to star in her own spin-off and Kimberly (after season six) leave, while lead character Phillip gained a new housekeeper, a new wife, and a stepson in later seasons. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 lasted long enough to see every actor walk away for personal reasons. It began as a Mad Scientist and his assistant tormenting a janitor and his robots, but eventually ended as a megalomaniacal woman, a Doctor Zaius expy, and a brain guy tormenting an erstwhile temp worker and... well, the same robots, but with different voices. Joel, the creator and main host character, left the show to Mike in the middle of season five, neatly dividing the series (and fans) into two eras. Both hosts went on to start their own movie-mocking franchises in Cinematic Titanic and RiffTrax. Both of those shows feature a mutually exclusive subset of MST3K's cast (except for Mary Jo Pehl and Trace Beaulieu, who have appeared in both series). Then the revival on Netflix came out, with an entirely new main cast (The bots are still there, but are again played by different people). Some of the cast from the original show do show up in bit roles or as guest stars, however. | |
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Ben 10 had a Time Skip aging up the main and recurring kid characters. In addition, it was decided that Dee Bradley Baker should voice all of Ben's aliens, then later the crew decided "nah, give the guy a break." The result is many characters (and alternate forms of characters) having three actors, even when actor availability isn't an issue. | |
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Of the original eight Winslow family members on Family Matters, only four (Carl, Harriet — albeit with an actress switch in the last season — Eddie, Laura) were regulars in all nine seasons. Judy disappeared, Rachel and Estelle moved out, Richie was barely around by the end. Meanwhile, first-season guest star Steve Urkel took over the show, and new cast members added (and, except for the last one, eventually dropped again) over the course of the series were Eddie's friend Waldo, Steve's girlfriend Myra, and new foster kid 3J. | |
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The original UK version of Shameless had this in spades. Originally, it centered around the Gallagher family and a few neighbors and friends, but as various cast members left, the show shifted focus towards the Maguire family starting around Seasons 4-5. The two shared the central role for a few seasons before focus shifted away from a central family and more towards the ensemble cast that had gathered over time. For the final season, only two Gallaghers remained (one of whom wasn't even born until Season 5) and only three of the original Maguire family. The US version has almost completely averted this, in part because of its much more serialized approach to storytelling. That is, until lead star Emmy Rossum departed at the end of its ninth season. | |
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Raven's Home was retooled after season four and replaced most of its main cast except for Raven and Booker. | |
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The American version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? has gone through this. The ABC version was helmed by Regis Philbin (1999-2002) and Jimmy Kimmel (2020-), while the syndicated version went to Meredith Vieira (2002-13), Cedric the Entertainer (2013-14), Terry Crews (2014-15), and Chris Harrison (2015-19). | |
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Para Pencari Tuhan: After 10+ seasons, the only stable cast is Jack, Jalal, Udin, Asrul, and Jalal's wife. The original lead trio stops appearing after season 10 and many characters doesn't come back after the hiatus after season 11. Then, many of the load of the new characters introduced in season 12 onwards only last one season or is gone after season 14. | |
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Wheel of Fortune has gone through four hosts since it first hit the airwaves in 1975. The show had a daytime version from 1975-91, hosted by Chuck Woolery (1975-81), Pat Sajak (1981-89), Rolf Benirschke (1989), and Bob Goen (1989-91), with Susan Stafford as hostess until Vanna White replaced her in 1982. Averted with the 1983-present nighttime syndicated version, which has been hosted by Pat and Vanna on all but a handful of special occasions, though Sajak has announced he will retire at the end of the show's 2023–24 season. However, the announcer post has changed a few times: Charlie O'Donnell (1975-80), Jack Clark (1980-88), M.G. Kelly (1988-89), O'Donnell again (1989-2010), and Jim Thornton (2011-). | |
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Saturday Night Live's cast and crew turnover is as legendary as its peak-and-valley history. In fact, the near-constant changing of cast members and writers is the reason why this show's quality shifts, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. (for what's worth, the longest tenured cast members are Kenan Thompson, since 2003, and Darrell Hammond, who along with 14 years on the show has been the announcer since 2014 - replacing Don Pardo, who lasted an incredible 38 non-consecutive years until he died) | |
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Barney & Friends: None of the child actors lasted the whole run of the series. | |
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The X Factor has had Louis Walsh being a judge for every season except series 12 (in which he was replaced by Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw for said season) and 15 (as he was replaced by Louis Tomlinson for said season) with Dermot O'Leary being the host of the show for every season since season 4 excluding series 12 (in which he was replaced by Olly Murs and Caroline Flack for that season). | |
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Doctor Who of course invented The Nth Doctor in order to survive 50 years and counting but also rotates through a long list of the Doctor's companions; the show's time travel premise makes it fairly easy to write old companions out and new ones in. The longest-lasting regular cast members have been Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor (six years, two months), Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor (four years, six months), and Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka (three years). In terms of screen longevity, Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor is the longest-serving at seven seasons, with three seasons now considered the usual length for the lead actor. In terms of companions, Fielding's Tegan and Elisabeth Sladen's Sarah Jane are the only companions to appear in four consecutive seasons, though Sarah Jane completed three while Tegan only completed two complete seasons and portions of two others. In terms of number of episodes, no companion has surpassed Frazer Hines's record of 113 episodes as Jamie McCrimmon. Mandip Gill is notable as being the only companion to last the exact same amount of time as her Doctor, Jodie Whittakernote Billie Piper also lasted throughout Christopher Eccleston's tenure, but continued for the first year with David Tennant, and Frazer Hines missed Patrick Troughton's first serial, joining in his second — they both stayed on the show for three seasons plus three specials over five years, 2018-2022. A special mention for Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. Although he was only a regular cast member during the Jon Pertwee era, he first appeared in Season 5 and made occasional return appearances for years afterwards in Doctor Who, having one last appearance in the Spin-Off The Sarah Jane Adventures before Courtney's death (as well as reprising the character for audio dramas). Meaning he started his role in 1968, and last played the character on TV in 2008, 40 years after he was first cast. Not only that, one of the Cybermen in the penultimate episode of 2014 was implied to have been made from the Brigadier's body, meaning that his role kept on going for several years after his death. Not only that, senior production staff rotate on a regular basis; the end of 2009, when Russell T. Davies and David Tennant both left, saw the entire creative team and regular cast replaced, as did the end of 2017, which saw the departure of Steven Moffat and Peter Capaldi. |
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Mythbusters is inevitably getting this as the outcome of the show becoming Un-Cancelled but none of the original cast wants to return to the series. | |
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The Bill lasted for 26 years, starting in 1984. Nearly the entire original cast were still present as of the 1992 season, but there was a gradual erosion from that point onwards. A fair portion of the original cast were still in the show in 2000, but a massive cast clean-out saw the removal of some of these characters (notably Peter Ellis as the Chief Super, who had been a regular since 1984), after which nobody seemed to have contractual immortality anymore. At least one original cast member (Jeff Stewart as PC Reg Hollis) still managed to stick around until the 24th season in 2008 however, while one cast member from the original 1983 pilot episode (Trudie Goodwin as Sergeant June Ackland) was there until the 23rd season in 2007. | |
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Since the original CSI premiered in 2000, its later seasons have seen the departure of three of its leads (Grissom, retired, and Catherine, new job, and Ray Langston (who replaced Grissom), forcibly resigned), two of its secondary leads (Sara, quit from PTSD but now back as effective regular, and Warrick, Killed Off for Real) and a number of its recurring supporting roles (Wendy, Sofia, and the very short tenure of Riley, meant to replace Sara). Most of the departures were of the "actor wanting to move on" variety, but contract disputes and in Warrick's case, personal problems, also factored. As of the series' conclusion in 2015, the only actor to be a part of the regular cast for all fifteen seasons was George Eads as Nick Stokes, and this was only because of the show's abrupt cancellation, he was Put on a Bus in the finale and would no longer have been with the cast had the show continued. Because of this, he did not appear in the 2-hour Grand Finale, even though Grissom, Catherine, and Brass all did make return appearances. Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders) also deserves a mention. Although he only had a recurring role as a lab tech in the first two seasons, he became a regular cast member in season 3 and remained as such throughout the finale. | |
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Out of the original cast of Criminal Minds, only Matthew Gray Gubler (Spencer Reid) and Kirsten Vangsness (Penelope Garcia) have appeared in every season as series regulars, even if the latter was credited as a guest star in season 1 despite the fact that she appeared in every episode of the season bar one, while A.J. Cook (Jennifer Jareau) has appeared in every season though her character only appears in four episodes of season 6 due to her being Put on a Bus. Shemar Moore (Derek Morgan) is the only character to have appeared in every episode without being absent for one episode prior to his departure during season 11 and has made guest appearances in season 12 and 13. In fact, Garcia is now the longest-serving character of the show by episodes, after Thomas Gibson's departure during season 12, having equalised the record with Gibson due to him missing an episode during season 6. |
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Knots Landing: Michele Lee (Karen) and Ted Shackelford (Gary) were the only actors who were regular cast members for all fourteen seasons, though Joan Van Ark (Valene) was a regular for the first thirteen and returned for the Series Finale. Lee was the only actor to appear in all 344 episodes. | |
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ER transplanted most of its original cast over the fifteen seasons; while some (Susan Lewis) came back and then went away again, and some of the characters came back in the final season, the final cast was composed of none of the members of the original cast. This even gets lampshaded in the final season. One of the new characters meets one of the original characters and they realize that the staff of the hospital changed so much over the years that they have no common acquaintances. All the people who worked in the hospital when the original character left already stopped working there by the time the new character arrived. | |
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The Trails Series has, as of 2021, been running for 16 years and ten games (with an eleventh on the way), so far covering three major story arcs. As each arc takes place in a different region, the cast changes each time, though major characters from one arc sometimes appear briefly in later arcs. As of game 10, the only people to show up in every game is a bit character who exists for comic relief and to give the occasional sidequest, and one secondary villain (who only appears in disguise in some of them, so you still don't knowingly encounter him). Out of the playable cast from the first game, the closest anyone gets to appearing in every game is Olivert/Olivier, who is in nine of the ten (missing the fourth), though he is dropped from the list of playable characters outside brief cameos after the third game. | |
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The cast of Kids Incorporated, which ran from 1984-1993, changed almost every season, and had at least one member drop out with new replacements every season. | |
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The Wake: There's been so much turnover in the cast over three years that there are only a few characters left who remember pivotal characters and events from early in the game. | |
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Out of the original American Idol line-up, only Ryan Seacrest has appeared in every season. | |
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Legends of Tomorrow lasted 7 seasons and of the 10 original cast members, only two (Caity Lotz & Amy Louise Pemberton) remained by the final season (Amy had only done voice work until the last season where her character got a body). The third longest tenure being Nick Zano (s2-s7). Season 1 - Stein, Ray, Rip, Sara, Jax, Kendra (departs in finale), Carter (dies in second episode), Gideon (voice only), Mick, Snart (dies in penultimate episode) Season 2 - Stein, Ray, Rip, Sara, Jax, Gideon (voice only), Mick, Amaya, Nate, Thawne (captured by Black Flash) Season 3 - Stein (dies in the crossover), Ray, Sara, Jax (goes home), Amaya (goes home), Gideon (voice only), Flannel!Zari, Wally (leaves in between seasons), Nate, Mick Rip dies this season and Nora, Gary, & Ava are introduced plus Constantine starts showing up Season 4 - Ray, Sara, Charlie (same actress as Amaya), Flannel!Zari (erased from existence), Ava, Nora, Gideon (voice only), Mona, Nate, Mick, Constantine Season 5 - Sara, Ray (leaves with Nora), Charlie (goes to do Fate stuff), Flannel!Zari, Fancy!Zari, Ava, Nora (leaves with Ray), Astra, Gideon (voice only), Nate, Mick, Constantine, the Monitor (crossover stuff) Mona leaves, Behrad is introduced Season 6 - Sara, Flannel!Zari, Fancy!Zari, Ava, Astra, Gary, Behrad, Spooner, Gideon (voice only), Nate, Mick (leaves to be a dad), Constantine (turns into a mushroom, then gets resurrected, then leaves) Season 7 - Sara, Flannel!Zari (leaves with Nate), Fancy!Zari, Ava, Astra, Gary, Behrad, Spooner, Gideon (becomes human), Nate (leaves with Flannel!Zari), Gwyn (same actor as Constantine) |
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In the first season of Mission: Impossible, the core cast consisted of Steven Hill (Dan Briggs), Barbara Bain (Cinnamon Carter), Greg Morris (Barney Collier), Peter Lupus (Willy Armitage) and Martin Landau (Rollin Hand, who technically wasn't a permanent cast member until season two, but was in just about every season one episode as a special guest star). In season two, Hill was replaced by Peter Graves as Jim Phelps. This cast lasted two seasons, after which Landau left and was replaced by Leonard Nimoy as The Great Paris, and Bain left without getting a permanent replacement until season five, which introduced Lesley Warren as Dana, and also had Lupus' character occasionally replaced by Dr. Doug Robert, played by Sam Elliot. Warren, Nimoy and Elliot were gone in season six, with Lynda Day George taking over the role of the team's female member, and Lupus cementing his place on the team. In the seventh and final season, George missed out most of the first half of the season due to being pregnant and was temporarily replaced by Barbara Anderson as Mimi. Thus only two members of the cast - Morris and Lupus - lasted the entire seven-season run of the show, and one of them (Lupus) was intermittently written out of half the episodes of one season due to an aborted attempt at phasing out his character. Number of cast members to appear in every episode: zero. | |
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The Tonight Show has gone through at least five different hosts, all of whom brought in their own people to run the show in a new direction. The only exception may be when Jay Leno was brought back to the show in 2010. | |
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You Can't Do That on Television, whose premise required that most of its cast be kids, would retire its regulars as they got too old, or at least came to look to old. Hostess Christine McGlade got to stay into her twenties because she still looked convincingly like a youngish teenager. By its end, the show had a completely new cast except for the two adult regulars (Les Lye and Abby Hagyard). | |
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Law & Order: UK has them all beat with all bar Bradley Walsh having left by the end of the eighth season. When he quit, ITV cancelled the show. | |
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Only three regulars of Night Court made it all the way through the show's nine-year run: Harry Anderson as Judge Harry Stone, Richard Moll as Bull the bailiff, and John Larroquette as prosecutor Dan Fielding. Three different actresses filled the role of the second bailiffnote Selma Diamond, Florence Halop and Marsha Warfield (as different characters). Karen Austin, who played the court clerk and was Judge Stone's original love interest, left before the first season was over and was eventually replaced by Charles Robinson as Mac. Four different actresses played public defenders—Gail Strickland in the pilot, Paula Kelly for the rest of Season 1, Ellen Foley for Season 2, and Markie Post for the rest of the series' run. | |
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