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19 TV MVPs Who 'Vanished'
Dennis Franz
When NYPD Blue ended in 2005, the veteran actor didn’t just hang up Det. Sipowicz’s badge, he hung up his TV career, too — he’s yet to add a single other credit to his IMDb page. Since that seems to us wronger than wrong, we’d have him recur on Brooklyn Nine-Nine as the retired cop who tends bar at the watering hole that Jake & Co. frequent.
Paula Devicq
Since we fell as hard for the Michelle Pfeiffer lookalike as Party of Five‘s Charlie did for her character Kirsten, we’re not — and sorry, simply can’t be — content to catch the actress in a guest-starring role here, a TV movie there. We want more, dammit, so we’d cast her on ABC’s The Middle as a psych professor who advises Axl on his pursuit of his about-to-be-introduced true love.
Delta Burke
With her TV appearances becoming ever more sporadic after a handful of Boston Legal episodes from 2006-07, the former Designing Woman hasn’t popped up on screen now since 2012. We’d return her to the limelight by casting her on NCIS: New Orleans as a Crescent City socialite accused of murder.
Jason Behr
Shiri Appleby’s Roswell leading man was so good in the sci-fi romance that we were sure that he was destined for great things. And make no mistake: He has worked since the series ended in 2002 — just not nearly enough to satisfy us. So we’d reteam him with Appleby by casting him on UnREAL as an exec from a rival network out to poach Rachel from Everlasting.
Mercedes McNab
No one who’s (even half) as funny as this beloved veteran of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel should ever have a five-year gap between roles, as she would if she were cast in something, like, this hour. We’d put her back in the spotlight by introducing her to The Real O’Neals as the high school chemistry teacher on whom both Jimmy and Pat develop crushes.
Rebecca Gayheart
Beverly Hills 90210‘s Dylan may have managed to get over Toni’s death. But us? Not so much. So it doesn’t make any sense to us that her beautiful portrayer hasn’t had a regular TV role since 2006 (on Vanished, which, after one season, did just that). We’d add Gayheart to the cast of Grey’s Anatomy as a potential new ortho chief — and love interest for Arizona.
Keith Hamilton Cobb
An overnight sensation after being cast as Noah on All My Children in 1995, the soap hunk hasn’t had a regular TV gig since a mid-2000s run on The Young and the Restless. That being wholly unacceptable, we’d remedy the situation by having him scrub in on CBS’ Code Black. If anybody can make a lab coat look sexy, it’s him.
Nancy McKeon
After The Division wrapped in 2004, TV appearances by the former Facts of Life tomboy have been (too) few and (way too) far between. We’d flip that sitch on its head by having the actress join the cast of one of Dick Wolf’s Chicago series. Really, any one of them will do — so long as we get a regular dose of McKeon.
Juliet Landau
Though this Buffyverse fave still occasionally appears in indies, she mostly does voiceovers for videogames and animated series. (Her last Angel episode aired more than a decade ago!) This may be all well and good for her, but we need a fix of her wonderful weirdness way more often. So we’d cast her on Supergirl as a villainess who makes Astra seem sweet by comparison.
Ana Alicia
The Falcon Crest alumna should’ve had a career to rival Heather Locklear’s. No one who watched CBS’ Dallas companion in the ’80s could say that Alicia didn’t play bad girl Melissa with (at least!) as much bitchy glee as her blonde counterpart did Dynasty‘s Sammy Jo. So we’d revive her long-dormant career by letting her terrorize Lifetime’s Devious Maids as a former housekeeper who married her way out of her uniform.
Maureen McCormick
You know who we want to see more of on screen? That’s right, Jan — Marcia! Marcia! Marcia! Having created the iconic role of the oldest of the Brady Bunch girls, McCormick has paid her dues. She shouldn’t have play parts like “receptionist” (The Guardian, 2004) and “saleslady” (Moesha, 1999). Instead, we’d give her her own detective show on TV Land.
Matthew Fox
After Lost, the ABC hit’s leading man sensibly embarked on a career in features. But since, six years later, he hasn’t become the Tom Cruise that we’d have bet he would be — and has only appeared in a handful of movies — we’d bring him back to the small screen, in the best case scenario, reteaming him with Damon Lindelof once he’s wrapped HBO’s The Leftovers.
Bitty Schram
Since being dumped by Monk in 2004, Schram — also known as the right-fielder who has to be told in A League of Their Own that there’s no crying in baseball — has added a total of one credit to her IMDb page. Not cool. We’d enlist Sharona’s portrayer to join 2 Broke Girls as Max and Caroline’s nouveau-riche dessert-bar partner.
Tammy Lynn Michaels
So indelible was the impression Michaels made as high school glamazon Nicole on Ryan Murphy’s Popular that we wouldn’t be surprised if she inspired Tina Fey’s Mean Girls a few years later. What does shock us, on the other hand, is the fact that Michaels hasn’t been on TV in 11 years. We’d change that at once by adding her to the Wallace U faculty on Murphy’s Scream Queens.
Lara Flynn Boyle
Nobody with a track record as stellar as Boyle’s should have to kill time in B-movies with titles like Hansel & Gretel Get Baked and Life Is Hot in Cracktown. Since she’s not doing the Twin Peaks revival, we’d bring the actress back to the small screen in the next best thing, A&E’s moody Bates Motel, as a lawyer — shades of The Practice! — helping Norman with his late mother’s estate.
Marcy Walker
Eleven years ago, the Daytime Emmy Award winner left her long-running role of All My Children‘s Liza and never looked back. We, however, still can’t stop reflecting on how brilliant she was, especially when paired with A Martinez on Santa Barbara. So, since he’s now playing Eduardo on Days of Our Lives, that’s the show that we’d have her join.
Kellie Martin
Call us greedy, but the TV movies and guest appearances that the actress has done since finishing her last series-regular gig (ER — 16 years ago!) just haven’t been enough. No, if it were up to us, we’d give the Life Goes On grad a recurring role on a show like Freeform’s The Fosters that could readily absorb the warmth she radiates.
Susan Dey
Maybe a 30-plus-year career was simply enough for the L.A. Law leading lady, who last appeared on the tube in a Third Watch two-parter back in 2004. The thing is, we hadn’t gotten enough of Dey — and still haven’t. Therefore, we’d cast the onetime Patridge Family songbird on ABC’s CMT’s Nashville as a stage mom who misses the limelight as much as we do the actress.
Victoria Principal
OK, so she didn’t want to do TNT’s (pretty-good) Dallas reboot. The erstwhile Pamela Ewing can’t want 2001’s (not-so-good) Titans to go down in history as her last series. Might we suggest a season-long arc on CBS’ Blue Bloods as a Big Apple politician at odds with Frank and the NYPD?
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