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1. She appeared first and last on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", but also had a significant role on the spin-off "Angel". Always the resident crazy chick, this vampire saw the future, killed a slayer and became the "mother" of her "grandmother". Who was this villain fans loved to hate and played by Juliet Landau?
2. What happened to a group of young women when their house mother left school? They all moved in with her over her new store! On "The Facts of Life", Blair, Jo, Natalie and Tootie all moved in with their house mother when she opened her own store. Edna up and left the girls once more, when she married and joined the Peace Corps in one of the later seasons. Who replaced Edna so that the girls wouldn't be totally left behind?
3. Maybe one of the earliest TV characters to not only get left behind, but to be erased from history was the eldest Cunningham child from "Happy Days". This eldest sibling to Richie and Joanie only appeared in the show's first two seasons. And, once he/she left, was never mentioned again. Who was this first born child of Marion and Howard?
4. When you've arrived in Los Angeles hell bent on 'helping the helpless', it's always nice to make friends. When you couple that mission with being a private investigator without a license, it's great to have a cop on your side. On the series "Angel", Angel met a detective in the second episode. And, after gaining her trust, lying to her repeatedly, telling her to get over herself when she couldn't handle the truth, and then finally saving her from a fatal overdose, your fans might expect to know what became of her. But, after having saved her life, and her thanking you for doing so, she was never seen again. Did she leave Los Angeles behind, or did the writers just leave her behind? We never found out. Who was this beautiful blonde police woman played by Elisabeth Rohm?
5. Though the hit series "Beverly Hills, 90210" managed to hang on for ten whole seasons, it threw in several interesting plot devices to keep fans coming back. One of those occurred in season five. After the exit of Brenda Walsh at the end of season four, the show brought in bad girl Valerie Malone. She aided Dylan Mckay in the search for his own long lost "sister" Erica Steele. Though Erica was found in season five, she may have been long lost to fans forever after, if not for the choice to use her in a season eight plot device. In what career did Brandon and Kelly find Erica working in season eight?
6. Awaking in a hospital bed to a post-apocalyptic world can be a bit disorienting. This character was the definition of left behind in the series premier of "The Walking Dead". He woke up after being comatose for about a month and the world was not how he left it. Desperate, exhausted, disgusted, and determined, who made his way past the walkers, into his neighborhood, and within a few episodes back to his wife and son?
7. On the sitcom "Roseanne", one of the characters kind of vanished without explanation. This person was in the series premier, was said to be Roseanne's best friend from high school, married Dan's father and had two kids with him. So, after over 80 episodes, which of the series regulars made their last appearance in these season eight premier?
8. Back in the 1980s he was the best friend of Theo Huxtable on "The Cosby Show". But, after a couple of seasons Walter Bradley just seemed to be left in the dust. Appearing last in the season four episode "Dance Mania", what was the commonly used nickname of Theo's pal Walter?
9. Sometimes our favorite TV people never get the chance to even hint at a goodbye to fans. TV goodbyes can come in more than traditional ways. Sometimes an on screen death is our goodbye, and sometimes a character makes a video reappearance and we get our goodbye. In earlier days, a letter may come to a current character and we get a goodbye. What fans of the drama "Dallas" never got was any official goodbye from a certain red head married to one of the Ewing men. She was thought to have burned to death in a fiery car crash, but she did live. In the TNT network reboot of the series, it was revealed she'd died many years after that car crash, but fans had no real closure with which Ewing woman?
10. Every time Mandy Patinkin would join a series, I worried if he would last, or at the very least if his character would last. If I could ever ask him one question it would be "why take those roles just to quit so quickly?" Which of these Mandy Patinkin characters was left behind on "Criminal Minds"?
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