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    Default Favorite follow up series

    When an actor/actress gets famous for playing a character in a series, then shows up later in another series (that’s not a spinoff w. him/her as the same character) and nails it again, getting to play someone else.

    I’ve been watching and enjoying Nash Bridges and i personally prefer Don Johnson’s character in that to Sonny Crockett. The show, while being dated, has def. aged better than Miami Vice, and the cast chemistry’s superior. I think Bridges actually outlasted Vice by one season but I’m not sure.

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    Bob Denver followed up Doby Gillis with Gilligan's Island.

    Fred Gwynne followed Car 54 with The Munsters.

    Mary Tyler Moore from The Dick Van Dyke Show to The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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    Lucille Ball. She played Lucy Riccardo in I Love Lucy and later as Lucy Carmichael in Here's Lucy!.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirby101 View Post
    Bob Denver followed up Doby Gillis with Gilligan's Island.
    So I’ve heard.
    As much tv as I watched growing up, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis never aired for me to even know about. I found out about the show decades after being a Gillian fan when the internet came along!

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    Ron Howard from Andy Griffith to Happy Days
    Andy Griffith from Andy Griffith to Matlock.
    Raymond Burr from Perry Mason to Ironside.
    Robert Culp from Trackdown to I Spy to Greatest American Hero
    Ted Dansing from Cheers to Becker to CSI to The Good Place
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    ^^^nicely done!

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    Here are a couple I thought of.

    Ed O Niel Married with Children, Modern Family.
    Richard Dean Anderson MacGyver and Stargate SG-1
    David Duchovny X-Files, Californication
    Danny Devito, Taxi, Its Always Sunny
    David Boreanaz Angel Bones
    Alyssa Milano Whos the Boss, Charmed
    Holly Marie Combs Picket Fences, Charmed.
    Katy Sagal Married with Children, Futurama.
    Michael Chiklis The Comish, Shield
    Walton Groggins The Shield, Justified, The Unicorn.
    Shemar Moore The Young and the Restless, Criminal Minds, SWAT
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    Lee Majors (3 shows): Big Valley, The six Million Dollar Man & Fall Guy

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    A fan favorite, Henry Simmons, NYPD Blue to Agents of Shield.
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    Anna Pacquin: Rogue in X-Men movies and Sookie in True Blood

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    Bob Newhart says hi. Ted Danson too.

    Also David Boreanaz (Angel --> Bones)
    Lee Majors (The Big Valley --> The Six Million Dollar Man)
    Michael Landon (Bonanza --> Little House On the Prairie --> Highway To Heaven)
    Nathan Fillion (Firefly --> Castle --> The Rookie)
    Alyson Hannigan (Buffy --> How I Met Your Mother)
    Larry Hagman (I Dream of Jeannie --> Dallas)
    Harry Morgan (Dragnet --> MASH)
    Jack Klugman (The Odd Couple --> Quincy ME)
    Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld --> New Adventures of Old Christine --> Veep)
    William Shatner (Star Trek --> TJ Hooker)
    Tony Danza (Taxi --> Who's the Boss?)
    Tony Shalhoub (Wings --> Monk)

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    Not sure if it should count, but Lorne Greene was on Bonanza for about 14 years, then moved on to play Adama on the original Battlestar Galactica a few years later.

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    Richard Dean Anderson, the lead in macgyver to the lead in stargate sg-1

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    Patricia Heaton - Everybody Loves Raymond then The Middle

    Tim Allen - Home Improvement then Last Man Standing

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    Man these are pretty great. I’d forgotten a lot of those!

    I thought of one last night.
    Betty White as Rose on The Golden Girls and Elka on Hot in Cleveland.
    That show was also a follow up for Valerie Bertinelli who was known for One Day at A Time, and Jane Leeves who was known for Frasier.

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