Ha! I watched Leave it to Beaver and the guy who played Beaver and the guy who played his brother Wally are still alive and still best of friends!! Never mind just looked it up and Wally passed away a couple of years ago. Damn.
Do you ever watch old classic TV shows and realize that they are all dead
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Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 1 hour ago
Why not use a picture from a show where the actors are all actually dead?
Ininewcrow@piefed.ca 1 hour ago
You know things have gone to shit when dead old actors performing on the most basic stage set are better than living actors on a multi million dollar production with CGI and special effects.
Makeitstop@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Every few years I get someone into B5 and rewatch the series along with them. And every time there’s one or two more cast members gone.
kindenough@kbin.earth 1 hour ago
Well yeah, watching Kolchak The Night Stalker lately, aired around 1975 and looking up some of the actors…they've mostly passed away.
tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Realized with Animal House
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 3 hours ago
What's the oldest show with living actors in the main cast that's still in reruns? The Dick Van Dyke Show maybe?
Makeitstop@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Have to make a few assumptions to make this workable. Im assuming we’re only allowing things that were made as a TV series, so not counting specials or anything that jumped from another medium like radio or theatrical releases. And we’re only including fiction, so news and the like wouldn’t count. And we only include things that have ended and only count the original run of a series.
With all those caveats, my best guess is I Love Lucy. Started in 1951 and the actor that played their kid is still alive, though he didn’t join the cast until 1955.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Probably
otacon239@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I’ve watched Casablanca so that was sort of a given going into it.
AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Hal Lindon (Barnery Miller in The Barney Miller Show) is alive at 94.
Apollonius_Cone@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Max Gail is still alive too, he’s 82.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Dick Van Dyke is alive too, just turned 100
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 5 hours ago
No I exclusively watch media where the actors are still alive, I don’t want to see ghosts.
Same goes for voice actors, I don’t want to hear no ghost either.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 hours ago
Do you research everything you watch beforehand? That's a very interesting and restricting filter for yourself.
Mind blowing realization - any media you watch, even live stream, is from a past that's gone by the time you see it.
The next level is - how real is anything that you perceive? "What is... real?" - Morpheus
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I’m pretty sure they’re joking. If they were serious, there would be some very recent things they can’t watch. Rob Reiner is on recent episodes of The Bear. Malcom Jamal Warner was on an episode of Murder In A Small Town that premiered after he died.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
The Golden Girls are all dead now and that show isn’t really that old
ikidd@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I mean, it was a show about old retired women to start with…
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Hate to nitpick but the characters weren’t retired, three of them had jobs
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I wonder if anyone involved in The Wizard of Oz is alive?
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Dwarfs live longer then humans so probably
bizarroland@lemmy.world 35 seconds ago
Every once in a while, I run into the olden smut magazines here on Lemmy, and I’m like, “That’s somebody’s grandmother.”