okay, holy living crap?

[fox]

Okay, so, 1776.  (It turns out that the flickering is, thank god, not due to the tape wearing out -- how could it be -- but to the video input cable being loose.  Much easier to fix! ... not that I don't have the DVD on the ol' wishlist.)  Of course John Adams is played by William Daniels, who is, you know, William Daniels; and Martha Jefferson is played by Blythe Danner, whose daughter Gwyneth looks a lot like her but not as pretty; and she gets higher billing than the unfortunately-named Virginia Vestoff as Abigail Adams, which is a much  more important role, because being married to Bruce Paltrow brings a girl some clout.

And now more than half the cast is dead, which, granted, it's been thirty-five years, but still, a lot of them died young.  Damn shame.

But the reason I bring it up at all is the following:

John Cullum, who was brilliant as Edward Rutledge, was also Mark Greene's recurring father on "ER".  (Which, now of course I can see that it's the same face.)  Ken Howard, everybody's favorite Thomas Jefferson, was Judge Peyton Cabot Harrison III (Jewish fella?) on "The West Wing".  (And now, naturally, I can hear it in "I like cream as well.")

Am I the only one [likely to give a damn] who still didn't know that?

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[jgesteve.livejournal.com]

The only ones from that cast I knew about were William Daniels, Blythe Danner, and Howard Da Silva.

Now whether I fall into the give-a-damn category or not is for you to decide ;-)

This does however remind me of the time I wrote in to TV Guide to ask them (in the pre-Internet days) whether the Charles Kimbrough and Brent Spiner that were in the Original Broadway cast of Sunday in the Park with George were the same CK and BS that were on Murphy Brown and Star Trek: TNG respectively...

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

John Cullum also played Holling on Northern Exposure for five years, and Ken Howard played The White Shadow on The White Shadow. :)

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

But I still don't know either of those shows (I know, in the case of NE at least, that this is shameful, but there it is), so that means v. little to me. :-)