Avery Brooks starred in a spin-off series entitled A Man Called Hawk.

A Buffy spin-off series ( Angel ), featured two episodes in which she guest starred.

He appeared in his own comic, called simply Plug ( 1977 – 1979 ), which starred him and his two pets, Pug from Pup Parade and Chunkee the Monkey, making him the Beano first character to achieve a spin-off.

In 1985 Smiffy has appeared in two spin-off strips the first called Says Smiffy, which ran from 1971 – 1972, and the second called Simply Smiffy, which ran from 1985 – 1987, where he starred alongside his brother Normal Norman.

Since then he has starred in his own series of games, starting with 1994's Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and remains an important character in the spin-off games of the Mario series, having since been replaced by Bowser as Mario's arch nemesis.

* Bill Kirchenbauer as Coach Graham Lubbock ( 1987 – 1988 on Growing Pains, starred in spin-off Just the Ten of Us ); gym teacher.

This led to a spin-off, modern day series entitled Infinity, Inc. which starred the children and heirs of the JSA members.

Fonzie, Richie Cunningham and Ralph Malph starred in a Saturday morning cartoon spin-off, The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang, where the characters, with a female character named Cupcake and a " Fonz dog " ( an anthropomorphic dog named Mr. Cool that imitated the Fonz's thumbs-up " Aaay " catchphrase ), traveled through time.

Paul also starred in the spin-off film, Highlander: Endgame ( 2000 ), and the fifth Highlander film: Highlander: The Source, released as a made-for-TV film on the SCI-FI channel on 15 September 2007.

Boreanaz starred in a spin-off series, Angel, which gave the character a chance to evolve and concentrated on Angel's battle for redemption for the sins he committed before he regained his soul.

He also took a role in four episodes of a Coronation Street spin-off series, Pardon the Expression in which he starred opposite Arthur Lowe.

Morita also starred in a subsequent short lived Happy Days spin-off series entitled Blansky's Beauties ).

Jessica Walter guest starred in a spin-off episode for the series Amy Prentiss which aired as part of the NBC Mystery Movie from 1974-1975.

The spin-off strip Cicero's Cat starred Desdemona, a cat that Smith originally introduced in 1933 as a pet for Mutt's son, Cicero.

She starred in Fox's short-lived primetime soap opera Models Inc., a spin-off of Melrose Place, as a model.

At the age of 14, he also guest starred on Sanford and Son ( 1972 ) as Grady's grandson ; at 15, he was in the cast of a spin-off of Sanford and Son called Grady ( 1975 ).

Gleisner would go on to perform in the D-Gen ’ s late-eighties Triple M radio show ( and its spin-off album The Breakfast Tapes ), and then starred in, and wrote for, ABC ’ s The Late Show ( 1992 – 1993 ).

The Two Ronnies also starred in two spin-off silent films labelled The Two Ronnies Present ..., By the Sea and The Picnic, written by Barker, mainly silent comedies featuring a squabbling upper-class family with a 1920s feel about them.

They also starred in a short-lived spin-off, also called The Lone Gunmen.

Barbershop 2 also features what is billed as a " special appearance " by Queen Latifah, who starred in a spin-off, Beauty Shop which was released by MGM in early 2005.

It was a spin-off from Man About the House and starred Brian Murphy and Yootha Joyce as an ill-matched married couple, George and Mildred Roper.

In 2001 he returned as Don Beech in a one-off special episode titled Beech on the Run and later that year starred as Beech in a spin-off six-part mini-series entitled Beech is Back.

The character appeared regularly throughout the first two series, the second of which also starred her actor husband, John Alderton, with whom she later starred in a spin-off, Thomas & Sarah ( 1979 ), and the sitcom No, Honestly, as well as in a series of short story adaptations called Wodehouse Playhouse ( 1975 – 78 ).

The Love Bug ( 1968 ) is the first in a series of comedy films made by Walt Disney Productions that starred an anthropomorphic pearl-white, fabric-sunroofed 1963 Volkswagen racing Beetle named Herbie.

He starred as himself in a racing film titled The Blonde Comet, the story of a young woman trying to achieve success as a race car driver.

Despite the time spent racing automobiles and producing the 1932 film Lac-aux-Dames, the first French " talkie " to gain international recognition ( adapted from a novel by Vicki Baum and directed by Marc Allegret, it had a script by Colette and starred Jean-Pierre Aumont and Simone Simon ), the energetic Philippe de Rothschild still devoted his energies and innovation to Château Mouton Rothschild in Pauillac.

In 1968, Lund appeared as one of the race drivers in the racing scene of the MGM movie ' Speedway ' which starred Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra.

As a fan of cars and racing, he starred in a comedic short as a street racer / drifter ,.< ref >

It was set in a ' virtual ' computer-generated world created by young computer game designers, and starred Jack Ryder ( from EastEnders ) as Titus, with Terry Jones ( Monty Python's Flying Circus ) narrating.

Similarly, the ace of the 1986 team, Dwight Gooden, threw his no-hitter for the Yankees ( in 1996 ), and David Cone, who starred for the Mets from 1987 – 1992, threw a perfect game later in his career, also as a Yankee.

The game was planned as a departure from the main Space Quest series, rumors it starred a new character named " Wilger ", although Roger Wilco was playable ( as seen in a production video ).

It was turned into a game for the Sega Saturn in 1994, which starred Jones's voice.

He sometimes skipped class in order to play baseball, a game in which he starred as catcher, although he was also greatly interested in the school's military training program.

The network also programmed Burt Luddin's Love Buffet, a combination of scripted scenes and a Newlywed Game-esque " game show-within-a-show " that starred famous Groundlings alum, John Cervenka as Burt Luddin.

* Strider Hiryu, a video game character who has starred in the following titles

Peach also holds a very special title that no other female video game character has: she has starred in the most video games, appearing in over 70 games.

It was set in a ' virtual ' computer-generated world created by young computer game designers, and starred Jack Ryder ( from EastEnders ) as " The Boy " ( a teen-aged Titus Groan ), with Terry Jones ( Monty Python's Flying Circus ) narrating.

In the same year, she portrayed Rose in The Promised Land ( a film about Israel ), and starred as scientist Samantha Grimm in the cinematic adaptation of the computer game Doom.

In 2002, she starred in the video game adaptation Resident Evil, which spawned four sequels: Resident Evil: Apocalypse ( 2004 ), Resident Evil: Extinction ( 2007 ), Resident Evil: Afterlife ( 2010 ) and Resident Evil: Retribution ( 2012 ).

In 2004, Dafoe lent his likeness and voice for the James Bond video game Everything or Nothing as the villain Nikolai Diavolo, and starred as NYPD detective Stan Aubray in the thriller Anamorph ( 2006 ).

She starred in Open Graves, a 2008 horror-thriller about a satanic game co-starring Mike Vogel.

In 1993, Haim starred in a full motion video game called Double Switch, which was released for the Sega CD and later for the Sega Saturn, as well as for the home computer.

She starred as the leading character in the 2006 film version of the video game BloodRayne, and appeared in director Uwe Boll's film version of the video game Dungeon Siege, called In the Name of the King.

Dream was originally suggested as an adventure game that starred a boy named Edison, who owned a wooden sword and got into trouble with a group of pirates led by a captain named Blackeye.

Some time later, he moved to WAPA-TV where he starred hosting a game show called Parejo, doble, y triple with his brother, Luisito.

Shortly before his move to the U. S. version of Whose Line in 1998, Mochrie starred in Supertown Challenge as the host of game shows, which the show spoofed.

It starred Paul Reubens ( the actor and comedian best known for his character Pee-wee Herman ) as over-the-top game show host Troy Stevens, with Tom Gottlieb's ' Cookie ' as the announcer.

Yoshi's Safari is also the first and only dedicated shooting game that Mario has starred in.

In 1991, Orbach starred in the Academy Award-winning animated musical Beauty and the Beast, as the voice ( both singing and speaking ) of the candelabrum Lumière, a role he would reprise in the film's direct-to-video sequels and some of its video game spin-offs.

Lampard started England's first game in qualification and starred as England thrashed Moldova 5 – 0, with Lampard netting his 24th and 25th England goals.

Mario first appeared in the Nintendo arcade game Donkey Kong, and subsequently starred in a sequel called Mario Bros ..