"Julian 'Penny for the guy' Hales" wrote in message news:c9BAd.83141$ snipped-for-privacy@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
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Yep. Prostate cancer. L&O is the poster child for cast rotation; Orbach himself being a season 2 or 3 replacement. But losing this one is going to hurt them.
Steven Hill played the original DA on L&O until he was replaced by Fred Thompson. He played on another show in the 60s for the first season before quitting and being replaced by that show's most prolific star. Without Googling or checking IMDB ;-) - name the show/star.
quitting and being replaced by that show's most prolific star. >>
Steven Hill was the original lead in Mission Impossible - as head of the Impossible Mission Force...he was there only a season or two before being replaced by Peter Graves as "Mr. Phelps".
Actually, in L&O Steven Hill was replaced by Diane Wiest was was replaced by Fred Thompson.
He quit last year and was replaced by Dennis Farina. This may gum up the fourth show which was supposed to be "all-DA" and feature/star Orbach as his old character, as alluded to in his final L&O episode.
Did you notice that on L&O: CI when Eames/Erbe went on pregnancy leave her replacement was not included in the credits or opening sequence?
I missed that, haven't seen a single show this year. I'm not what you'd call a faithful viewer of any show - except for maybe "24". And even that one I've had to pickup an episode or two online to fill in the blanks.
I've watched only a handful of CI episodes. All the ones I saw were good but they're just not enough hours in the day to get in all the TV I'd like. That and model kits that need building. If I could just do without this sleep thing eating up my nights I'd get a lot more done. ;-)
What's the other L&O, Special Victims Unit? I watched that once and just couldn't get into it.
Yep, forgot about her. My first inclination was to post that Orbach was the last original cast member - it's been so long I almost forgot about his predecessors, Paul Sorvino and George Dzundza (spelling?).
Doubt it will hurt the original L&O, since Orbach's character departed at the end of last season. On the other hand, he was part of the cast of the franchise's newest series and they are going to have to look fast and hard for a replacement.
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