Also featured were two music videos (" Long Hard Road Out of Hell " by Marilyn Manson and " Criminal " by Fiona Apple ) not included in any of the show's regular episodes.

Upon the show's American debut in 1999, it was an instant hit and became a regular part of ABC's prime time lineup until 2002.

In the show, McGarrett oversaw State Police officers — a young officer, Danny Williams ( played by Tim O ' Kelly in the show's pilot but replaced in the regular series by James MacArthur ), Chin Ho Kelly ( played by Kam Fong Chun ) and Kono Kalakaua ( played by Zulu ) for seasons one through four.

As well as its regular car chases, jumps and stunts, the show relied on character familiarity, with Deputy Cletus replacing Deputy Enos in the third and fourth season, and Coy and Vance Duke temporarily replacing Bo and Luke ( due to a salary dispute ) in the fifth season, being the only major cast changes through the show's run ( Ben Jones and James Best both left temporarily during the second season due to different disputes with producers, but both returned within a couple of episodes ).

After appearing alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt in the 2010 television film The Client List, Shepherd became a regular on the series based on the film in 2012 and will continue this role in the show's second season in 2013.

In fact, the only character to appear as a regular during all five seasons was FBI Agent Ronald Sandoval ( Von Flores ), the show's main antagonist.

In addition to those departures, regular panelist Caroline Rhea also left the program in order to host her short-lived successor program to The Rosie O ' Donnell Show and Bruce Vilanch, who was also one of the show's writers, left with Goldberg ( who had hired him ) and made several infrequent appearances throughout the rest of the series.

* During the show's season as The American Radio Company of the Air, Bob Elliott was a regular cast member.

Throughout the show's entire two-year run, Dailey Pike was Roseanne's warm up guy and sidekick regular on the show.

Whenever Rukeyser was on vacation or otherwise absent, one of the show's regular panelists would fill in.

In the season finale, Kara becomes trapped in the Phantom Zone, and Vandervoort was no longer a regular in the show's eighth season ( 2008 – 2009 ).

The episode " The Creek " saw the introduction of the first new police character " Officer Randy Goode " ( 1988 – 1993 ) played by Randall Franks cast following the show's move to Georgia introducing the second prominent Georgia performer to claim a regular role on the series.

Stiles was a regular on the show until 1998, and the show's short production season allowed him to make numerous television and motion picture appearances in the United States.

Portrayed by Emma Caulfield, the character appears as a guest star in the third and fourth seasons of the show before becoming a series regular in the show's fifth season.

She appeared on the final regular weekly edition of Top of the Pops on 30 July 2006, the only member of any of the show's dance troupes to appear in person at the recording.

For example, Babylon 5: The Gathering launched the science fiction series Babylon 5 and is considered to be distinct from the show's regular run of one-hour episodes.

He was one of the show's most prolific writers and became a regular director in later years.

* Cast — a list of the show's regular cast members, with their roles and links to their information pages

* Crew — a list of the show's regular crewmembers, with their positions and links to their information pages

The film features nearly all the show's regular cast from that time and the story of the film features various interwoven story threads that occupy the characters to varying degrees.

Despite introducing a large number of new regular characters, the show's second season brought in only two new actors.

; Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Riley was introduced in the show's fourth season as a recurring character and became a regular in the episode " Doomed " and continued on as a regular until season five's " Into the Woods ", and appeared once afterward.

As Adams had chosen a low salary combined with a one-third ownership stake in Get Smart during the show's production, he received a regular income for many years due to the show's popularity in reruns.

The show's production team was tested when many core cast members left the programme in the early 1970s.

" Writers drew on the show's many archetypes, with previously established characters stepping into the roles left by the original cast.

This included the nation's and the writers ' favourite episodes plus a documentary of the cast and creators that revisited the show's locations.

Sheb Wooley, one of the original cast members, wrote the show's theme song.

Ancient members of the show's cast, like the Devil and Punch's mistress " Pretty Polly ," ceased to be included when they came to be seen as inappropriate for young audiences.

The series featured most of the original cast performing the voices for their characters, except for Pavel Chekov ( Walter Koenig ), who was omitted because the show's budget could not afford the complete cast.

The show's popularity by early 1998 was evident to the cast members, and Hannigan remarked on her surprise specifically.

U8TV: The Lofters combined the " special living environment " format with the " professional activity " format noted below ; in addition to living together in a loft, each member of the show's cast was hired to host a television program for a Canadian cable channel.

However, " Repo Men " would turn out to be the character's only appearance in the entire show's run, leading to a legal dispute in the following years over the rights to characters and concepts between Rushing and Warner Brothers, although he remained on good terms with cast and crew and in recent years has made appearances at several fan conventions.

Birch was cast and scheduled to make her American stage debut in the off Broadway revival of Dracula, but was fired for reasons apparently involving her father's interference four days before the show's first performance.

Many of the show's storylines were taken from the experiences of its writing staff, cast, and crew, most notably, the 1982 death of Will Lee — who played Mr. Hooper — and the marriage of Luis and Maria in 1988.

During the 1980s, the show incorporated the real-life experiences of the show's cast and crew, including the death of Will Lee ( Mr. Hooper ) and the pregnancy of Sonia Manzano ( Maria ) to address affective concerns.

Jon Stone, whose goal was to cast white actors in the minority, was responsible for hiring the show's first cast.

In April 2008, the Brooklyn Academy of Music celebrated Paul Simon's works, and dedicated a week to Songs From the Capeman with a good portion of the show's songs performed by a cast of singers and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra.

As was common in BBC radio at that time, Hatch served both as the show's announcer and as a cast member ( similar to Douglas Smith's role in Round the Horne ; Hatch however did give his roles some characterisation, in contrast to Smith's totally deadpan style ).

Veteran comedy actor Les Lye played numerous recurring characters and was initially the only adult to perform in the show's sketches, although actress Abby Hagyard later joined the show to become " the other grown-up " in the cast roster, and frequently played " Mom " opposite Lye's role as " Dad.

Right before this happened, one of the cast would generally be giving a monologue ( or several would be having a group conversation ) that was interrupted by another cast member with something that would ( generally ) be opposite what the monologue ( or dialogue ) was about, all present cast would say, " It must be the introduction to the opposites ", and then the inversion fade would happen ; several sketches would follow that were a tongue-in-cheek reversal of the show's subject of the day, and also in which the normal principles of daily life were reversed, often with children having authority over adults or with adults encouraging children to behave badly ( for example, eating sweets instead of vegetables, or wasting money on something frivolous rather than putting the money in the bank ).

A return to the show's daily subject was hallmarked by another of these inversion fades, and usually accompanied by one of the cast members saying, " Back to reality.

Neither actor's presence in the cast helped the show's flagging ratings and this series, too, was not renewed and was replaced permanently by Happy Days.