British Comedy Guide

Sitcoms with major cast changes Page 2

Leonard Rossiter "replaced" by Bruce Forsyth Tripper's Day->Slinger's Day

Rimmer was replaced with Kochanski when Chris Barrie left.

The old guy was replaced by Gunther in Central Perk.

Leslie Scofield replaced Tim Preece as Tom Patterson in The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin.

Daphne Reid replaced Janet Hubert as Vivian Banks in the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Slightly different but - Christopher Ryan replaced Keith Richardson for the part of Mike in The Young Ones.

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Moose was replaced by Enzo as Eddie in Frasier.

Quote: Afinkawan @ June 16 2008, 1:48 PM BST

Moose was replaced by Enzo as Eddie in Frasier.

Laughing out loud

They replaced Eddie?!?

Peter Bowles replaced Geoffrey Palmer in Executive Stress

Richard Wilson "replaced" Geoffrey Palmer in Hot Metal

Donald Churchill replaced Ronald Fraser in Spooner's Patch

Simon Cadell "replaced" Roger Rees in Singles

David Griffin "replaced" Simon Cadell in Hi-De-Hi

Ernest Clark replaced John Barron who returned to replace Ernest Clark in All Gas & Gaiters

Grham Bickley replaced Peter Howitt in Bread

Melanie Hill replaced Gilly Coman in Bread

Erika Hoffman replaced Kim Thomson in Brush Strokes

Gary Webster replaced Dennis Waterman in Minder

PS Christopher Ryan replaced Peter Richardson for the part of Mike in The Young Ones.

Tony Steedman replaced Peter Vaughan in Citizen Smith

Ian Saynor replaced Lewis Collins in The Cuckoo Waltz

Ingrid Lacey "replaced" Haydn Gwynne in Drop the Dead Donkey

Karl Howman replaced Robert Lindsay in Get Some In

Keith Drinkel replaced Stephen Rea in I Didn't Know You Cared

Liz Goulding replaced Anita Carey in I Didn't Know You Cared

Carmel McSharry "replaced" Dandy Nichols in In Sickness and In Health

Sabina Franklyn replaced Jenny Quayle in Keep it in the Family

Anita Carey "replaced" Frances de la Tour in A Kind of Living

Liz Estensen "replaced" Polly James in The Liver Birds

Lesley Dunlop replaced Eve Matheson in May to December

Neil Morrisey "replaced" Harry Enfield in Men Behaving Badly

Peter McEnery replaced Jack Galloway in The Mistress

Barbara Murray replaced Nyree Dawn Porter in Never a Cross Word

Andrew Charleson replaced Martin Clunes in No Place Like Home

Quote: Alan C @ June 16 2008, 2:16 PM BST

Tony Steedman replaced Peter Vaughan in Citizen Smith

Ian Saynor replaced Lewis Collins in The Cuckoo Waltz

Ingrid Lacey replaced Haydn Gwynne in Drop the Dead Donkey

Karl Howman replaced Robert Lindsay in Get Some In

Keith Drinkel replaced Stephen Rea in I Didn't Know You Cared

Liz Goulding replaced Anita Carey in I Didn't Know You Cared

Carmel McSharry "replaced" Dandy Nichols in In Sickness and In Health

Sabina Franklyn replaced Jenny Quayle in Keep it in the Family

Anita Carey replaced Frances de la Tour in A Kind of Living

Liz Estensen "replaced" Polly James in The Liver Birds

Lesley Dunlop replaced Eve Matheson in May to December

Neil Morrisey "replaced" Harry Enfield in Men Behaving Badly

Peter McEnery replaced Jack Galloway in The Mistress

Barbara Myrray replaced Nyree Dawn Porter in Never a Cross Word

Andrew Charleson replaced Martin Clunes in No Place Like Home

I was just about to post those ones, but you beat me to it
:D

Ronald Hines replaced Paul Daneman in Not in Front of the Children

Lynda Baron replaced Rosemary Martin in Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt

Donald Sinden "replaced" Leslie Phillips in Our Man from (at) St Marks

Terence Brady replaced Dinsdale Landen in Pig in the Middle

Jonathan Cecil & Gay Soper "replaced" James Beck & Jo Rowbottom in Romany Jones

Daniel Ryan replaced David Michaels as Harry in As Time Goes By.

Alfie Bass replaced Arthur Brough in Are You Being Served?

Larry Martyn and Graham Stark replaced James Beck as Private Walker in the radio version of Dad's Army.

John Quayle replaced Tim Barrett who had replace Terence Alexander in Terry and June

Wallas Eaton replaced Max Adrian in Up Pompeii

Henry McGee replaced Percy Herbert in The Worker

I've ran out of letters so I must be done :)

Quote: Greg @ June 16 2008, 2:21 PM BST

Alfie Bass replaced Arthur Brough in Are You Being Served?

And was in turn "replaced" by James Hayter, or was it the other way round?

John Alderton in the Upchat Line was "replaced" by Robin Nedwell in the Upchat Connection.

Was not Ronald Lacey’s Harris a replacement for Ken Jones’ Ives in Porridge? In the film version of Porridge Geoffrey Bayldon replaced Michael Venables as the Govenor.

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