Characters that have moved to a different show

degsyhufc · 22/04/16 - 21:04

I read in another thread that there was a character in Brookside that transferred to Hollyoaks.

Lewi26 wrote: »

Hollyoaks and brookside existed in the same universe though, they used to talk about the loft nightclub in brookside and the same character left brookside and joined hollyoaks

*** I don't mean a spin off show like Fraiser or Joey or guest appearances ***
It's about character who left one show to be on another.

Any other ones you can think of?

Brummie Girl · 22/04/16 - 21:25

Casualty and Holby City are set in the same hospital so there have been 3 characters off the top of my head who have left the one to appear in the other on a permanent (and not guest appearance) basis

Connie Beauchamp
Fletch
Nick Jordan

MK184 · 22/04/16 - 22:12

Well Anna Karen who played Olive in On the Buses transferred to a reboot of the sitcom The Rag Trade, still playing the Olive character.

Futurama-Fan · 23/04/16 - 13:29

Most of the main Futurama characters have appeared once or twice on the Simpsons.

Also back in the nineties a lot of characters use to go back and forth between the Hercules and Xena Warrior Princess shows.

ftv · 23/04/16 - 13:43

Boycie and his wife transferred from OFAH to Green Green Grass although perhaps not hugely successfully.

PC George Dixon (Jack Warner) was murdered in the film The Blue Lamp and then brought back to life by the BBC for Dixon of Dock Green.

Alfie and Kat from EE have moved from the soap to their own series Redwater on BBC1 later this year

Arthur Lowe played draper Leonard Swindley in Coronation Street and the character appeared in two successful spin-offs, Pardon the Expression and Turn Out the Lights for ITV.

Verence · 23/04/16 - 15:13

Futurama-Fan wrote: »

Most of the main Futurama characters have appeared once or twice on the Simpsons.

Also back in the nineties a lot of characters use to go back and forth between the Hercules and Xena Warrior Princess shows.

Xena was a spin-off of Hercules so I'm not sure if that counts.

Detective John Munch first appeared on Homicide: Life On The Streets before also becoming a leading character in Law and Order: SVU. In the SVU episode in which Munch retired several other characters from Homicide appeared at his leaving do

Michael_Eve · 23/04/16 - 15:32

Ed Asner played Lou Grant in the classic Mary Tyler Moore show, and went from comedy to drama in the brilliant Lou Grant. Suppose it's a bit Friends/Joey, but remarkable for me as they're both IMO brilliant shows, but different genres.

thengp12 · 23/04/16 - 15:41

Connie Beauchamp — Holby City and Casualty

Tanya Turner — Footballers Wives and Bad Girls

Markynotts · 23/04/16 - 16:06

Maggie Forbes moved from The Gentle Touch to C.A.T.S. Eyes - played by Gill Gascoine back in the 80's

cris182 · 23/04/16 - 16:27

Ursula Buffay Friends and Mad about you

codeblue · 23/04/16 - 16:37

Stephen Lewis played Blakey in every other tv show he was in.

degsyhufc · 23/04/16 - 20:16

Futurama-Fan wrote: »

Most of the main Futurama characters have appeared once or twice on the Simpsons.

Also back in the nineties a lot of characters use to go back and forth between the Hercules and Xena Warrior Princess shows.

ftv wrote: »

Boycie and his wife transferred from OFAH to Green Green Grass although perhaps not hugely successfully.

PC George Dixon (Jack Warner) was murdered in the film The Blue Lamp and then brought back to life by the BBC for Dixon of Dock Green.

Alfie and Kat from EE have moved from the soap to their own series Redwater on BBC1 later this year

Arthur Lowe played draper Leonard Swindley in Coronation Street and the character appeared in two successful spin-offs, Pardon the Expression and Turn Out the Lights for ITV.

Guest appearances and spin offs are not what this thread is about.

Charnham · 23/04/16 - 21:15

there are way more examples of this in the US, the UK does not have nearly as many spin-offs or crossovers, the Casualty examples have been given.

DC Eva Sharpe (Diane Parish) joined the second series of the The Bill spin-off MIT, and along a similar theme, Jack Meadows from the Bill would later appear in the German cop show it crossed over with, but only for one episode.

Some US examples can also include James Masters Spike moved to the final series of Angel, when Buffy finished, Detective Munch from H:LOTS would reprise his role for L&O:SVU but he is famous for his crossovers. Ted Danson finished CSI and joined CSI Cyber as DB Russel.

Sam Lloyd Ted, (the lawyer) in Scrubs did a couple of episodes of Cougar Town as his Scrubs character. Worf from Star Trek; TNG became a regular on DS9, as did Miles O Brian, but he was a recurring character on TNG.

I guess you could have John Barrowman, Doctor Who for Torchwood, but that was a spin-off.

Charnham · 23/04/16 - 21:19

Patrick Macnee was in both The Avengers and The New Avengers, but obviously didnt leave one for the other.

Jaycee Dove · 23/04/16 - 21:20

Don Henderson (real life husband of Edna from Emmerdale and also in Star Wars) played DI Bulman in three separate ITV shows in the 1970s and 1980s,

The XYY Man based on the original novels about a crook turned detective in London

Strangers - where he moved to the North West with another character (easier to film for Granada making the series)

Bulman - where the character left the police and became a private eye coupled with Siobhan Redmond as his Scottish sidekick who got involved in spy work cases.

swingaleg · 23/04/16 - 21:26

I think the two main Detectives in Softly, Softly had played the same characters in Z Cars a few years earlier

was that a spin off ? or a different show ?

Charnham · 23/04/16 - 21:30

over to the US again, Danny Crane and Alan Shore both appeared in many episodes of the Practice before they spun-off Boston Legal, I know its a spin-off, but its not like they were only in one episode of the show, Alan Shore was in the entire last season of the Practice.

Alot of the cast of Legends of Tomorrow were on either Arrow or The Flash before hand.

Sarah Lance played by Caity Lotz, seems to be your best example

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0399389/filmoseries#tt2193021

platelet · 23/04/16 - 21:41

Charnham wrote: »

over to the US again, Danny Crane and Alan Shore both appeared in many episodes of the Practice before they spun-off Boston Legal, I know its a spin-off, but its not like they were only in one episode of the show, Alan Shore was in the entire last season of the Practice.

David E Kelley was forever crossing over characters. Alley Mcbeal appeared on the Practice, and Bobby Donnell on Alley McBeal. Ellenor Frutt turned up on Boston Public. When Douglas Wambaugh became sick on picket fences he was admitted to and appeared on Chicago Hope. Mulder and Scully almost made it onto Picket Fences but the rival networks blocked it so though the stories where linked the agents themselves were never seen

Charnham · 23/04/16 - 21:45

Looking on wikipeida "Following the cancellation of the ABC soap opera One Life to Live and its high rated finale, several characters crossed over into the network's remaining soap opera General Hospital, remaining in the same timeline as their former show." I think the US soaps share characters alot,.

It looks like alot of the Chicago franchise has seen characters move from one show to a spin-off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_%28franchise%29

Charnham · 23/04/16 - 21:52

research has turned up this. "Sam and Cat"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_%26_Cat

Sam & Cat is an American teen sitcom that originally aired from June 8, 2013 to July 17, 2014, on Nickelodeon. It is a crossover spin-off/sequel of both iCarly and Victorious.

Looks like two characters from different Nick sitcoms, getting a sitcom together.

Charnham · 23/04/16 - 21:57

platelet wrote: »

David E Kelley was forever crossing over characters. Alley Mcbeal appeared on the Practice, and Bobby Donnell on Alley McBeal. Ellenor Frutt turned up on Boston Public. When Douglas Wambaugh became sick on picket fences he was admitted to and appeared on Chicago Hope. Mulder and Scully almost made it onto Picket Fences but the rival networks blocked it so though the stories where linked the agents themselves were never seen

US TV has hundreds of crossovers, but few characters leave one show to join another, unless its for a spin-off, or because the show they are ending is leaving.

dodrade · 24/04/16 - 01:23

degsyhufc wrote: »

Guest appearances and spin offs are not what this thread is about.

Except they account for almost all the examples you appear to be looking for.

ftv · 24/04/16 - 09:08

swingaleg wrote: »

I think the two main Detectives in Softly, Softly had played the same characters in Z Cars a few years earlier

was that a spin off ? or a different show ?

Stratford Johns (Barlow) and Frank Windsor (Watt) appeared in the original BBC1 Z Cars series 1962-65, The characters then transferred to Softly, Softly 1966-69, Softly,Softly: Taskforce 1969-72 and Barlow at Large 1971-73.

platelet · 24/04/16 - 09:15

degsyhufc wrote: »

Guest appearances and spin offs are not what this thread is about.

they maybe not what you intended it to be about...

Kromm · 24/04/16 - 09:23

Charnham wrote: »

research has turned up this. "Sam and Cat"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_%26_Cat

Sam & Cat is an American teen sitcom that originally aired from June 8, 2013 to July 17, 2014, on Nickelodeon. It is a crossover spin-off/sequel of both iCarly and Victorious.

Looks like two characters from different Nick sitcoms, getting a sitcom together.

Its still a spinoff. Just a spinoff of two different shows at once.

Eagle9a · 24/04/16 - 09:24

The late great Robin Williams appeared in Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley as Mork, as well as the show called Mork and Mindy. Henry Winkler as the Fonz made appearances in all 3. Probably not actual "new shows" with same character(s) but perhaps slightly more than guest appearances on spin offs.

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