He played a serial killer in Copycat in 1995, before being cast as jet fighter pilot in the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day.

In 2008 Richardson was cast in a leading role in original AMC pilot, Rubicon.

In the pilot episode of the series, Bryce is enlisted by evil network CEO Ned Grossberg ( Charles Rocket, another non-original cast member ) to investigate the mental patterns of unconscious reporter Edison Carter, to determine whether or not Carter has discovered the secrets of the " Blipverts " scandal.

The original backstory, and the only one acknowledged onscreen, cast Paris as a disgraced officer dishonorably discharged from Starfleet for covering up pilot error following a shuttle accident on Caldik Prime.

James Cromwell was cast as Zefram Cochrane, the pilot and creator of Earth's first warp capable vessel.

Landau was billed as a " special guest star " during the first season ; he had been cast as a guest star for the pilot with the understanding that he would be one of four or five rotating guest star agents.

After DeForest Kelley in 1964 stated his non-interest in playing the role, Roddenberry cast Nimoy because he knew him from a guest appearance in his pilot The Lieutenant ; after Roddenberry saw Nimoy's thin face and sharp features, no other actors were considered-Kelley, on the other hand, would later be cast as Dr. McCoy, the highly emotional human who became Spock's frequent foil.

Ruth Buzzi joined the cast and the 22 children from the first season were whittled down to seven: Christine " Moose " McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Jonothan Gebert, Kevin Somers, Kevin Schenk, Rodney Helal, and Marc Baillon ( another first-season cast member, Elizabeth Mitchell, only appeared in the pilot episode ).

In the meantime, some YCDTOTV cast members continued to hone their on-camera skills through appearances in Bear Rapids, a Price / Darby pilot film that was never picked up, and Something Else, a local game show on CJOH with a format somewhat similar to the live and local episodes of YCDTOTV.

Pre-production work started, with sets built, several television grade models made ( including the Enterprise itself and many of the pilot episode's models ), deals made to bring back most of the original series cast, and several actors cast.

Creator Jennifer Saunders revived the show as a fourth series in 2001 after having written and submitted a pilot to the BBC entitled Mirrorball, which recruited nearly all of the original " Absolutely Fabulous " cast in new roles.

After working on The Italian Job with Noël Coward, and a solid role as RAF fighter pilot Squadron Leader Canfield in the all-star cast of Battle of Britain ( both 1969 ), Caine played the lead in Get Carter ( 1971 ), a British gangster film.

In June 2010, Sarandon joined the cast of the HBO pilot The Miraculous Year, in the role of Patty Atwood, a Broadway director / choreographer.

Extras featured on the set include the pilot episode, the music video " Freakin ' Friends " by Mystik Spiral, " Daria Day " introductions as well as a top ten video countdown on MTV by Jane and Daria, cast and crew interviews, and ( as a DVD-ROM feature ) a script for an unproduced Mystik Spiral spin-off show.

In 2000, she starred with the rest of the Absolutely Fabulous cast in the pilot Mirrorball.

Schafer was 63 when the pilot was shot although, reportedly, no one on the set or in the cast knew her real age, and she refused to divulge it.

The following four of the original seven pilot characters were identical to those of the series ( including the actor / actress cast for each role ): Gilligan, the Captain, and the two Howells.

Three of the remaining original pilot characters differed from those of the series ( including the actor / actress cast ): In the pilot, the Professor was instead a high school teacher played by John Gabriel ; Ginger the movie star was instead Ginger, a practical secretary with red hair, played by Kit Smythe ; and Mary Ann the Kansas farm-girl was instead Bunny, a stereotypically cheerful " dumb blonde " secretary, played by Nancy McCarthy.

This pilot was a full-length episode featuring the original UK cast and young American actors that played the contestants.

McKean was cast in the pilot episode of a remake of the British series The Thick of It as the chief of staff.

In order to include cast member Rahsaan Patterson, who joined the show after the pilot was shot, a new storyline was edited into the film.

In their original contracts for the first season, cast members were paid $ 22, 500 per episode.

The cast members received different salaries in the second season, beginning from the $ 20, 000 range to $ 40, 000 per episode.

* " Hee Haw Salutes ...": Two or three times in each episode, Hee Haw would salute a selected town ( or a guest star's hometown ) and announce its population, which was sometimes altered for levity, at which point the entire cast would then ' pop up ' from the cornfield, shouting " SAA-LUTE !!

To the surprise of the entire cast including Mary Tyler Moore herself, it was announced that they would soon be filming their final episode.

Evening soap operas and those that screen at a rate of one episode per week are more likely to feature the entire cast in each episode, and to represent all current storylines in each episode.

Gellar sang several of the songs during the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode " Once More, with Feeling ", which spawned an original cast album.

The entire cast first appeared in the third episode of the season, all playing themselves.

* On the Adult Swim show Robot Chicken, the episode " Sausage Fest " showed a parody of the X-Men being killed by a Sentinel, and Professor X then recruiting the cast of the Police Academy films to replace them.

Three years later, with Fox threatening to cancel the series unless production costs were cut, Kavner and the other cast members accepted a 30 percent pay cut, down to just over $ 300, 000 per episode.

Pileggi later realized he had been lucky that he had not been cast in one of the earlier roles, as he believed he would have appeared in only a single episode and would have missed the opportunity to play Walter Skinner's recurring role.

Along with the addition of Robert Patrick to the main cast, the sequence used new images and updated photos for Duchovny and Gillian Anderson ( although Duchovny only appears in the opening credits when he himself appears in an episode ).

Herzog also lent his voice to the animated television program The Boondocks in the third season premiere episode It's a Black President, Huey Freeman in which he played himself filming a documentary about the series ' cast of characters and their actions during the 2008 election of Barack Obama.

This includes a detailed episode guide for the first two seasons, a look behind the scenes, the story of the origin of the show, biographies of cast and crew, and trivia about the show.

Three years later, with Fox threatening to cancel the series unless production costs were cut, Smith and the other cast members accepted a 25 percent pay cut, down to just over $ 300, 000 per episode.

After completing production on the fifth episode, " High Octane ", the cast and crew broke for Christmas break, expecting to return in several weeks ' time to complete the ordered run of episodes.

** On the other hand, in the Crusade episode Visitors From Down the Street, Captain Matthew Gideon would launch a full spread of modified probes ( uploaded with considerable information about Earth and other Interstellar Alliance worlds, and about certain recent events which had transpired aboard the EAS Excalibur ) at a pre-hyperspace planet where Humans had been cast ( by the local government ) in a role reminiscent of the Grey Aliens in our culture, in order to expose the locals to the truth.

The cast was Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee and announcer Douglas Smith, with music by the Fraser Hayes Four and Paul Fenoulhet and the Hornblowers ( Edwin Braden replaced Fenoulhet from episode 7 of Series 1 ).

In each episode, a different cast of guest characters appears: the people whose lives Sam is there to " put right.

You Can't Do That on Television resumed production in 1989, but the only child cast members to make the transition from 1987 to 1989 were Amyas Godfrey and Andrea Byrne, although a few minor cast members seen in 1986, including Rekha Shah and James Tung, returned for an episode or two.

In 2004, Redgrave joined the second season cast of the hit FX series Nip / Tuck, portraying Dr. Erica Noughton, the mother of Julia McNamara, who is played by her real-life daughter Joely Richardson.

In 2006, DeVito joined the cast of the FX Networks television series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as Frank Reynolds.

He also starred as part of the main cast in season's 4-7 of FX Network's Rescue Me as Bart " Black Shawn " Johnston.

Van Peebles was first brought on to the FX series to direct a few Season 1 episodes, and was then cast in a small role as an agent.

In 2008, Perlman joined the cast of the TV show Sons of Anarchy on FX.

He plays a white separatist leader named Ethan Zobelle during the second season of the FX series Sons of Anarchy reuniting with former 8 Simple Rules cast mate Katey Sagal.

Glenn was cast in the FX drama Sons of Anarchy ( 2008 ) as the leader of an outlaw biker gang, but he was replaced after an early pilot episode by Ron Perlman.

After hosting Fox's music series Sound FX, in 1994, Jones became one of the original nine cast members of MADtv.