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Originally Posted by Nelson Au
It's amazing that no other group of actors has had such a long association with a group of characters and made so many iterations of films as those characters in recent memory, at least that I am aware of.
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It's happened a few times in Japan, I think - the same guy played Zatoichi for decades before Takeshi Kitano's version. And there were an awful lot of people who felt Basil Rathbone was Sherlock Holmes, full-stop, before Jeremy Brett took the role.
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Originally Posted by Brian D H
It's one of the things that makes Dr. Who pretty cool - it probably has the longest continuity of any other series past, present or future. And all of it is canon. (I think it is, anyway. I'm pretty sure they even managed to work in the 1996 US TV movie, too.)
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Where's
Ultraman fit? I saw the latest movie a couple weeks ago and it works in stuff from forty years ago (with the original actors, no less). I don't think it's had the ten-year hiatus
Doctor Who did, although I think there were some soft reboots and attempted restarts in it.
(And then there's
Godzilla, continually in production for almost fifty years but gleefully throwing everything aside from the original film out with each new sequel)
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