1980s TV Series with high rates of persons now deceased

[Satchmo Distel]

Muck and Brass (1982):

Mel Smith died in 2013
Darien Angadi committed suicide on 5/12/81
Jim Bowen died 2018
Dave Atkins died 2008

[EIM]

Cheerful thread.

[Pietro Paolo Virdis]

Morbid stuff

[Satchmo Distel]

Feel free to ignore it.

[Nefertiti2]

Coincidence, or was it filmed somewhere with health risks - like the Conqueror- filmed in the radioactive fallout from the Manhattan Project and rumoured to be the cause of John Wayne's cancer ?

[Stumpy Pepys]

With June Whitfield no longer with us, pretty much all the cast of Terry and June is now gone (including the folk you barely remember).

[Disco Child Ballads]

Rather tragically, most of the main cast of Diff'rent Strokes are now sadly no longer with us.

[Ginger Yellow]

Last of the Summer Wine seems an obvious nomination.

[G-Man]

The four leads of The Golden Girls are down to one. Dorothy's ex-husband Stanley is long dead, as is Rose's boyfriend Miles, Sophia's brother and sister, and the actor who played Dorothy's father in flashbacks,

[longeared]

Last of the Summer Wine seems an obvious nomination.

From the 1980s cast Glenda, Barry, Howard, Pearl and Marina are all still alive. Some of these were younger characters - Sarah Thomas who played Glenda is still only 66.

[Gerontophile]

For fuck sake? Really?

A thread utterly about how many dead people once appeared in a TV programme?

It's got to be Jasmine Bligh. Unfortunately. (Continuity announcer. Google her.)

So, that's 100%, over a LONG time.

*Oh, and fuck off, this thread. (Who's left in Blake's 7. and has anyone done that yet?)

[gavc23]

I imagine The Raccoons are probably all dead, regardless of whether their forest was destroyed or not.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Who's left in Blake's 7. and has anyone done that yet?

I think they're all alive, bar Jacqueline Pearce, David Jackson and Gareth Thomas.

[Snake Plissken]

I reckon that most of them in Threads will have carked it by now.

[adams house cat]

"Are You Being Served"
"Porridge"

Or are they seventies?

[Nocturnal Submission]

Seventies unfortunately.

A few of the Porridge cast are still going - McLaren, Lukewarm, Ingrid.

[treibeis]

Potter.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Is that another living member of the Porridge cast or an '80s TV series?

Back to Porridge, Blanco and Spraggon are also still going, of course.

Interesting factoid of the day, if only to me. John Dair, who played Crusher, was the Roman emperor character in the Relax video.

[treibeis]

"Potter" was the thing with Arthur Lowe in it.

Or were you joking?

[Nocturnal Submission]

No, I wasn't sure. Never heard of it, I'm afraid.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Interesting factoid of the day, if only to me. John Dair, who played Crusher, was the Roman emperor character in the Relax video.

Not sure I remember Crusher. Was he one of Harry Grout's two henchmen?

[Nocturnal Submission]

Yup.

If you remember the episode where Godber's forthcoming release is being threatened by a dispute with another prisioner, who, in a noble attempt to protect his cellmate, Fletcher then tries to initiate a fight with via a joke about his wife, which the other prisioner unexpectedly finds funny and then tell to another prisioner who doesn't, well, he, the last prisioner, is Crusher!

[Satchmo Distel]

Would that make him the only sitcom actor who has appeared naked in a pop video?

[Nocturnal Submission]

From memory I think he was wearing a toga, which alone might him unique, unless Frankie Howerd reprised Lurcio in a crisp advert or something.

[Disco Child Ballads]

Are You Being Served lasted into the 1980s so it sort of counts.