Celebrity Death Running Thread.

More hints - one of the cast members had already won, the other two would go on to wins later. The show was not a cable show and not a reality show.

 

No Oscar for the Fonz.

Besides, this show, according to the clues on the other thread, already had an Oscar winner in the cast while it was on the air.

Gotta be something obscure like "The Rogues," starring Oscar winner David Niven, future Oscar winner Gig Young, Oscar-nominated Charles Boyer, Oscar-nominated Gladys Cooper.....

 

Seems you are correct. I withdraw the nomination.

Baywatch??

 

Maybe I noticed this because I'm heading there very quickly, but Michael Jackson and Billy Mays were 50. So was Bernie Mac. I'm probably forgetting a lot of people who took a dirt nap when they were 50, or just past it. Anyone else?

 

Speaking of Oscar ... RIP the third Oscar Mayer:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/50179432.html

 

As far as characters who appeared more than once, Batman from the mid-1960s boasts the Oscar winners Cliff Robertson, George Sanders, Shelley Winters and Anne Baxter.

 

RIP - wiener man.

 

One last hint - the show ran for 780 episodes over six seasons.

 

Holy crap, a series nowadays might have 24 eps at most.

 

OK, I totally cheated. Then again, I thought we were thinking prime time

 

Dools, when I heard Malden died I spent long stretches of a recent road trip trying to figure out if a show had three Oscar winners, until I finally figured it out. In the process, I discovered that Bill Cosby won three straight Emmys for best actor in a drama for I Spy. Zero for his acting work on The Cosby Show (he never nominated himself).

 

Not prime time? Like a cartoon?? Kids show??