Re: OT Jerry Orbach dead

A little L&O and cast replacement trivia

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.

WmB

in article 4FCAd.6404$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net, WmB at snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net wrote on 12/29/04 12:26 PM:

Don't know that but I know he was in the original Broadway cast of "Fantastics". The man had a lot of talent.

MB

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.

Nat

" WmB" wrote

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?

KL

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.

WmB

Good job!

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?).

WmB

" WmB" wrote

Have you tried Modafinil/Provigil?

KL

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.

Peter Graves ("Jim Phelps") on Mission Impossible

"jerry 47" wrote

How did you meet him?

KL

Mission Impossable

The news just said production had started. Curt

Maybe enough for a TV movie? I wish I had a list of all his wisecracks. Curt

I heard 6 episodes were finished and he stars in 3 of them

I watched L&O: CI last night. At the end of the episode was a black screen with "For Jerry". Very classy.