You know, I hate when
show's add new characters. Most of the time they aren't needed and fail miserably. But then again, that is kind of fun, especially when they help a show off the air. Here's a few "classics."

Paul "Show Killer"
Falsone-
Homicide: Life on the Street. I'm from Maryland so I'm still pissed about this. Long story short, NBC did a surfeit of meddling on it's much-loved though low rated crime drama. Jon
Seda as Paul
Falsone is the mascot, the hood ornament, the weather vane of the
show's painful and steady decline. When
Falsone breezed into the squad room as a hotshot detective a season before becoming a regular, that was all she wrote. Show over.

Laura Ballard
-Homicide: Life on the Street- Yes, Ballard was
just what the show needed. A cutesy, so intelligent detective from Seattle. It makes you forget all about Melissa Leo as Kay Howard. Not really. In fact the Ballard character seemed to be another NBC machination to lure in viewers. I didn't work. What's worse? After dating an increasingly weird and zen Tim
Bayliss, Ballard was paired with
Falsone.
Thrillin'!
The Biggest Crime: Callie
Thorne is a really good actress--and she was stuck with one of the worst roles I've ever seen.

Reagan
Gilancy-
The Division-During the last season when Nancy
McKeon was on maternity leave or something,
Downey appeared in a few episodes. As a fan of
the show, Lisa Vidal, I had to suffer through full throttle
Taraji Henson, Jon
Hamm, an
insane turnover of the secondary cast
and Roma
Downey. It was just too much, Reagan
Gilancy was too much!

Robert
Downey JR.- Larry Paul-
Ally McBeal- Cast addition/subtraction causes
Colletral Damage- Everybody remembers Larry on A
lly McBeal as played by the talented Robert
Downey Jr. In fact people stop me on the street wanting to talk about Larry Paul. I tell them Larry's not real, pick their pockets and then run away.
Downey's travails during the 4
th season of the show are well-known. In his absence during the fifth and final season? A ton of new folks including Josh Hopkins, Regina Hall, James
Marsden, you know, folks I don't plan on talking about ever again?

John Sutton-
Chicago Hope- Now you see him, now you don't. A lot happened on
Chicago Hope. Mandy
Patinkin gave us our first dose of his patented crazy. During one of the later seasons, David E. Kelley sent a half-dozen fine folks out the exit door. The most weird thing happened a bit earlier. Dr. Jack Sutton as played by Jamey Sheridan. Sheridan was enlisted to in effect help replace the gone
Patinkin. It didn't work. Sutton was ill-defined and he was replaced by a better character,
Jack McNeil played by Mark Harmon.

In a shocking twist of fate Jethro Gibbs "did away" with John Sutton, Reagan
Gilancy and Beau from
Welcome Back Kotter. Job well done, Colonel.
2 comments:
Until Jethro Gibbs takes care of Scrappy Doo, his job is not complete.
LOL, I hated Scrappy Doo.
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