Post by MCDemuth on Aug 17, 2018 4:43:57 GMT
TV shows with important, recurring characters who are dead... and were dead either as of the first episode or early in the series.
I sort of disagree with referencing LOST. Most of those "Ghostly" characters, such as "Jack's Dad", were really either Jacob or "The Man In Black"... However, as I recall, Hurley, had conversations with his dead friends.
This one is not an "early in the series" example, but... In the original Transformers "Generation One" cartoon series from the 1980s, Starscream was destroyed by Galvatron, and later his "Ghost" played an important role in a couple of stories. Later, Unicron would give him a new body... But he was shot again. I can't recall if he was killed. He appeared in an episode of a Sequel TV Series, and I think he was a ghost, once again.
Does Murdoc on the original MacGyver TV Show count?... He would appear on about one episode per season, and would try to kill MacGyver. But he would apparently "DIE" at the end of the episode. Somehow he would miraculously survive his DEATH, and then he would comeback to try to kill MacGyver again, and would "DIE" at the end of that episode... This continued through the entire series... No one was ever sure if he was really gone for good or not.