Sideswipe

Comeback kids: 20 television characters played by more than one actor:

Darrin (Bewitched) - Dick Sargent / Dick York.

Peggy Mitchell (EastEnders*) - Jo Warne / Barbara Windsor.

John Boy Walton (The Waltons) - Richard Thomas / Robert Wightman.

Becky (Roseanne) - Lecy Goranson / Sarah Chalke.

Morty Seinfeld (Seinfeld) - Barney Martin / Phil Bruns.

Scott Robinson (Neighbours*) - Darius Perkins / Jason Donovan.

Colleen Cooper (Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman) - Erika Flores / Jessica Bowman.

Quentin Kelly (Grace Under Fire) - Jon Paul Steuer / Sam Horrigan.

Pigsy (Monkey) - Toshiyuki Nishida / Tonpei Hidari.

Marilyn (The Munsters) - Beverly Owen / Pat Priest.

Number 2 (The Prisoner) - played by a different actor in most episodes.

Vivian Banks (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) - Janet Hubert-Whitten / Daphne Reid.

(Miss) Ellie Ewing (Dallas) - Barbara BelGeddes / Donna Reed.

Jack Sugden (Emmerdale Farm) - Andrew Burt / Clive Hornby.

Blanche Hunt (Coronation Street) - PatriciaCutts / Maggie Jones.

The Doctor (Doctor Who) - played by several actors over the years.

Fallon Colby (Dynasty) - Pamela Sue Martin / Emma Samms.

Kochanski (Red Dwarf) - Clare Grogan / Chloe Annett.

Neely Capshaw (Baywatch) - Jennifer Campbell / Gena Lee Nolin.

Mildred (One Foot in the Grave) - Jean Challis / Barbara Ashcroft.

*Many characters in soaps have been played by two actors, or more if they begin as child characters - Lucy Robinson (Neighbours) was played by three different young actresses, as was Janine Butcher in EastEnders and Coronation Street's Tracy Barlow.

(Source: Roddy Doyle's Trivia site vitaminqblogspot.com) 

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A reader writes: "Fifty years ago, when my friend and I skirted around Curries Milk Bar in Queen St trying to be seen but not seen, we often heard or hoped to hear the chant: 'Hubba Hubba Ding Ding, Sister You've Got Everything!'." PIP van Duyn writes: "In the mid-late 1940s I came home from primary school singing the latest ditty: 'Hubba Hubba Reidrubber ... Stops a Girl From Having a Bubba'. I was probably all of 10 years old and no doubt had no idea what it was about. My father thought it was funny but mother (blaming it all on the Yanks during the war) was not amused. For those old enough to remember, Reidrubber was a big manufacturing concern which I think closed in the early 1960s." 

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Clever Cameron Patterson has a different twist on the theme - Hubbard, Hucker NO Burnin' Rubba ...

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Overheard in a cafe in Kingsland, a renter perusing the Property Press and deriding it as "house porn".