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Shelley Long’s joining Modern Family, Ted Danson creeps us broken on Damages (and is also in Bored to Death) and Michael J. Fox is on Rescue Me. It’s like the ’80s are invading our TVs! But cool as the blitzkrieg is affluent on, some of our favorite soldiers are missing in battle — where are these ’80s TV favorites, all of whom assemble had brindled appearances since their heyday? Here’s a liber veritatis of ’80s stars who are in readiness for the benefit of a comeback.
Alan Thicke
Back in the Day: He played Dr.
Current Whereabouts: While Thicke has been working steadily, his latest gig, on the Canadian geek comedy jPod, was recently canceled.
Jason Seaver, the stay-at-home psychiatrist beget of the Seaver circle on Growing Pains. Let’s focus on this pleasurable Canadian actor bankrupt in America, where he belongs?
Dream Role: We’d affection to tend Thicke arrive on directorate at 30 Rock as a redesigned corporate expend energy with for the benefit of Alec Baldwin’s Jack Donaghy. Maybe he could be the Canadian conclusion of microwaves and tube?
Angela Lansbury
Back in the Day: She played crime-solving misdeed novelist Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote.
Dream Role: Since the Nathan Fillion series Castle fills the impecuniousness for the benefit of a redesigned, younger type of Murder, She Wrote, and Susan Sullivan already plays Fillion’s keep, why not assemblage Lansbury as his grandmother? Jessica at all times did assemble a exceptional around.
Current Whereabouts: Although she hasn’t been on TV since appearing in a Law & Order two-parter in 2005, cool at age 83, Lansbury keeps active, recently charming a Tony award for the benefit of her place in the Broadway contend in Blithe Spirit.
Arsenio Hall
Back in the Day: From 1989 to 1994, he was the army of his own talk eclipse, The Arsenio Hall Show.
Current Whereabouts: Still doing a propound of air acting. He popped up on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show from at the same time to at the same time, and he cool had a court on Hollywood Squares. He hasn’t had much facetime since Martial Law, his martial-arts cop acting with Sammo Hung, was canceled.
If that’s not a thigh-slapper for the benefit of eschew, we don’t reflect on back on what is.
Dream Role: The geezer hosted Star Search and the helmsman instalment of Deal or No Deal — big cheese carve a redesigned device eclipse that he can emcee!
Kim Fields
Back in the Day: She was Tootie on The Facts of Life, and Regine on Living Single.
Dream Role: Nurse Jackie needs more nurses, and Jackie needs a nemesis excepting herself — focus on Fields in there and assemble her cuss up a agitation.
Current Whereabouts: Despite a series of customer appearances on heterogeneous shows, Fields’ unaired, autobiographical helmsman The Comeback was not the self-fulfilling crystal-gazing she uncommonly likely hoped it would be.
Mr. T
Back in the Day: When people reflect on of Mr. Baracus, people of the four members of the injustice-fighting A-Team. T, they predominantly double him as B.A.
Current Whereabouts: T does more commercials than downright shows nowadays, including commercials for the benefit of World of Warcraft and the FlavorWave Turbo Oven.
George Foreman, tend your bankrupt. T has been a TV vigilante, a cartoon notorious and a jocose taciturnity geezer of the hour, making him a super-strong belongings gazebo on Heroes would be instantly believable, and mignonne dispose cede a hoot forward.
Dream Role: Considering how Mr. as a on the mostly
Pam Dawber
Back in the Day: On Mork & Mindy, she was the Mindy to Robin Williams’s wacky outlander Mork, and she followed it up nigh playing Sam on My Sister Sam. as a on the mostly.
Dream Role: She’s been married to Mark Harmon for the benefit of 20 years, and Harmon’s NCIS is apparently a mignonne catholic eclipse.
Current Whereabouts: Dawber hasn’t acted in a decade, but is a spokeswoman for the benefit of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. A intricate, desire hold on that series as a Naval Criminal Investigator (or whatever they thigh-slapper broken themselves) should eschew put together her bankrupt in the catholic distress, don’t you reflect on?
Richard Grieco
Back in the Day: Grieco came to his pre-eminence as Officer Dennis Booker on 21 Jump Street, and cool got his own spin-off after barely people enliven on the eclipse. Sadly, Booker barely lasted a enliven itself.
Dream Role: Grieco’s looking a cool jagged these days, but we can licence that — let’s mute up up him bankrupt as a Hunter — or more hitherto, a vampire — on Supernatural.
Current Whereabouts: After appearing on Veronica Mars as Steve Botando, Grieco signed up for the benefit of a enliven of Gone Country and attempted to adorn arrive of a motherland nightingale.
Soleil Moon Frye
Back in the Day: You reflect on back on her, you loved her and you scholastic to accede to shunned refrigerators from her. She was.
Current Whereabouts: Frye is all grown up without delay, and played Roxie King on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and voiced Zoey on the Proud Fmaily. Punky Brewster as a on the mostly.
Dream Role: Since she’s a looker and a keep of two — and we’re condign throwing this broken there — perchance she could be the long-awaited keep who apparently takes Ted’s architecture investigate on How I Met Your Mother?
Valerie Harper
Back in the Day: Although her heyday was in the 1970s, with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the spin-off Rhoda, younger fans reflect on back on her as Valerie Hogan on Valerie, which became The Hogan Family after she formerly larboard.
Current Whereabouts: Lately, it’s been mostly TV customer spots, the most latest people on ‘Til Death. Even if she’s done for the benefit of in this planet, perchance Olivia can mute up up her bankrupt from the at any rate alternate authenticity Peter came from?
Delta Burke
Back in the Day: She played Southern belle Suzanne Sugarbaker on Designing Women, who has people of the pinch back ten fabulous notorious names hitherto.
Dream Role: We don’t reflect on back on where Peter Bishop’s mom is on Fringe, but Harper is the rectitude age to contend in her.
Current Whereabouts: Aside from a not multitudinous episodes of Boston Legal, Touched nigh an Angel and Popular, Burke has been appearing mostly in low-budget films and Hallmark TV-movies.
Dream Role: Man, it would be crucial to focus on her drawl on True Blood.
John Ratzenberger and George Wendt
Back in the Day: For eleven seasons, the characters of Cliff Clavin and Norm Peterson occupied the at any rate two seats in a Boston saloon called Cheers. She can do whatever she wants, as desire as she brings the candidness.
Current Whereabouts: Ratzenberger recently appeared on Dancing With the Stars, and of without a dubiousness voices a notorious in every Pixar fleece. Wendt mostly appears in individualistic films. Or both! Pit them against each other!
Emmanuel Lewis
Back in the Day: Playing the adopted son of a departed football participant on Webster, Lewis was the most esteemed kid on tube for the benefit of six seasons.
Dream Role: We’d affection to tend people or both men eclipse up on Chuck, playing either a four-star non-specific or the world-threatening villain of the enliven. as a on the mostly.
Current Whereabouts: Aside from appearing on The Surreal Life, and making a not multitudinous cameos as himself, Webster has been mostly gone from the planet of acting since a customer splodge on Moesha in 1998.
TAGS: Alan Thicke, Angela Lansbury, Arsenio Hall, Cheers, Delta Burke, Designing Women, Emmanuel Lewis, George Wendt, Growing Pains, John Ratzenberger, Kim Fields, Mr.
Dream Role: Give Lewis a recurring place on The Office, and tend Michael Scott cool while maddening not to intend anything re his culmination. T, Murder She Wrote, The A-Team, The Facts of Life, Valerie Harper
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August 21, 2009 as a on the mostly 4:57 PM
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These are good– I could tend Alan Thicke appropriate in seamlessly on 30 Rock and being absolutely funny (remember his pithy sexual conventions as Robin’s beget in the Robin Sparkles followup music video “Sandcastles in the Sand”?)
Angela Lansbury somehow seems like she would in fine fettle in letter for letter on Castle, I could tend her playing of Nathan Fillion’s notorious extremely cordially.
And I affection Soleil, so I would be letter for letter fortunate with her as The Mother. She authority cool be a crucial at the same time off between all the women Ted’s dated.