Watching an episode of The FBI from the 1960s:
Peter Graves, Jessica Walter, Captain Merrick from that Roman planet, the Romulan captain from "The Enterprise Incident". I know these people.
Starring Burt Reynolds. Dr. Corby, Mr. Stiles, and Diana Muldaur... I recognize these actors from 5 different roles just on Star Trek shows.
Watching anything made after 2010:
Who the frick are these people?
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I think in the past there was an understanding that TV was a stepping stone to a feature film career but now it's more segregated with people jumping straight to film or staying on TV their whole career. In fact now going from film to television seems more common. I think it's to do with television gaining prestige and becoming relatively more lucrative.
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There's quite a bit of this in boomer TV too, but it's when they've aged out of being a leading man/lady. A lot of these episodes there's someone who later becomes a movie star and someone who used to be a movie star but has aged out of it.
Yeah, back then TV was definitely considered a big step down. Like the guy who played Captain Pike in the pilot had his wife tell him to quit because he was a movie star and he was too good for TV.
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It used to be a huge deal when a movie actor did TV, like George Clooney on ER.
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CLOONEY WAS A TV ACTOR FIRST YOU FRICKING R-SLUR. "ER" WAS HIS BREAKTHROUGH ROLE THAT GOT HIM THE FILM ROLES!
FRICKING NUMBSKULL, FRICK YOU!
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