Re: Doctor Who spotting

On 2024-08-22 21:07:53 +0000, Blueshirt said:

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On 2024-08-22 20:15:22 +0000, Blueshirt said:

 Yeah, Alex Kingston was only in ER for a short time... I
think it was something like SEVEN YEARS!
 [Spoilers!!!]

 Nearly twice that long. She was in ER for 13 years, from 1997
to 2009, 160 episodes in total (according to IMDB.com anyway).
That's just three years short of the show's full run - it
started in 1994 and ended in 2009.

 IIRC she left and then returned before the show ended. She
definitely wasn't in the show for the full run... we used to
have it on here. (I think the missus wanted to be a nurse or
something.) Liz Corday leaving ER was BIG news at the time.

You're right - I'd forgotten that. She left in 2004 and then returned for the final two episodes in 2009. So that means it was 9 years, rather than the 13 I posted above.
It also wasn't quite 160 episodes. Looking through the IMBD.com list, there are a few that say "credit only", so probably didn't actually appear on-screen in thosee episodes.

Of course, ER was a copy-cat of the UK series "Casualty"
(started in 1986 and is still going), including copying many
of the storylines, but Alex Kingston never appeared in that
show.

 Unfortunately, the missus liked that as well. She absolutely
loved Charlie!

Yep. Charlie (played by Derek Thompson) was on the show from the start, but left earlier this year. The actor recently appeared in most of the season 2 episodes of the Irish police drama "Blue Lights".