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Which Dick Was Your Favorite? York Or Sargent
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Here's a fun topic for when you don't feel like talking about anything harsh: top 5 TV character recasts. This is not when a character gets killed off and replaced, this is when the character remains but the actor changes, whether the original actor died in real life (Gladys Kravitz on "Bewitched") or got fired or quit (Darrin on "Bewitched"). This list of "Top 5" by J. Mark Powell is missing the very best: Harry Morton on "The Burns and Allen Show," when Fred Clark left the show to go do Broadway; in the scene, Blanche is about to brain an off-screen Harry with a catalog during an argument, George walks in and freezes the action, Larry Keating walks in, George explains the casting change, everybody has a nice chat, and then the action resumes with the replacement Harry taking the blow. Now, THAT'S a recast. (JMarkPowell.com; thanks to Michael Graham at WYAY (News Radio 106.7)/Atlanta for the link)
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