[PJ-Comix]

Moral of the story: If you are in showbiz, STICK with your successful gig.

[A_perfect_lady]

1. Phillip Michael Thomas from Miami Vice
2. Both "Joey" and "Chandler" from Friends
3. Anyone from Facts of Life except George Clooney
4. The girl who shot JR

[Twinkie]

On “The Last of the Summer Wine”; the deal is that the actors have mostly just died off of that show. That’s how they leave. It went on for well over 30 years; they kept working well into their eighties for the most part.

[Revolting cat!]

An obscure English beat band, whose name escapes me for the moment, when they fired their drummer Pete Best.

[aomagrat]

Don Knotts leaving the Andy Griffith Show

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Whoever cast Ashton Krutcher to replace Charlie Sheen in Two and a Half Men has big time fail in their future.

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Pernell Roberts left Bonanza over creative differences when the show was still going strong.

After doing a lot of regional theater he managed to sneak back onto television years later with Trapper John, MD, so I guess it worked out for him after all.

[InvisibleChurch]

Finally there was Jeff Conaway who starred in my own favorite TV series "Taxi." After 3 seasons he left the show with a one-way ticket to obscurity.

if by obscurity you mean 'dead by massive drug use' then, yes, he lives in obscurity

[justme4now]

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