John Astin
Television

John Astin

Section Title: Television
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Year	Title	Role	Notes	ref

1960	Maverick	Joe Lambert	Episode: "The Town That Wasn't There" (S 4:Ep 3)

1961	The Twilight Zone	Charlie	Episode: "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" (S 2:Ep 23)

1962	77 Sunset Strip (1958-1964 TV series)	Martin Grosch	Episode: "Dress Rehearsal" (S4:Ep36) air: 05/25/1962

1962	Ben Casey	Nat Morris	Episode: "Preferably, the Less-Used Arm" (S 1:Ep 29)

1962–63	I'm Dickens, He's Fenster	Harry Dickens	Main role

1964–66	The Addams Family	Gomez Addams	Main role

1967	The Pruitts of Southampton	Rudy Pruitt	Main role The show was based on the novel House Party (1954) by Patrick Dennis. It was ABC's futile attempt to turn female stand-up comic Phyllis Diller into a sitcom comedian very much in the style of Lucille Ball.

Batman	The Riddler	Episodes: "Batman's Anniversary" "A Riddling Controversy"

The Wild Wild West	Count Nikolai Sazanov	Episode: "The Night of the Tartar"

The Flying Nun	Father Lundigan	Episode: "Flight of the Dodo Bird"

Gunsmoke	Henry Haggen	Episode: "Hard Luck Henry" (S 13:Ep 7)

1968	Death Valley Days	Jesse Martin	Episode: "The Gold Mine on Main Street" (S 16: Ep 20)

1969	Bonanza	Abner Willoughby	Episode: "Abner Willoughby's return" (S 11:Ep 13)

1971	The Odd Couple	Beau Buffingham	Episode: "Oscar's New Life" (S 1:Ep 21)

Night Gallery	Jonathon	Episode: "Pamela's Voice" (S 1:Ep 13)

Randy Miller	Episode: "Hell's Bells" (S 2:Ep 29)

1972	Insight	Guest star	Episode: "Death of an Elephant" (S 12:Ep 23)

Night Gallery	Munsch	Episode: "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes" (S 3:Ep 2)

1972–73	McMillan & Wife	Sykes	Episodes: "The Night of the Wizard" (S 2:Ep 1) "Cop of the Year" (S 2:Ep 3) "Two Dollars on Trouble to Win" (S 2:Ep 7)

1973	The Partridge Family	Sydney Rose	Episode: "The Mad Millionaire"

Circle of Fear	Fred Colby	Episode: "The Graveyard Shift"

Insight	Guest Star	Episode: "Truck Stop" (S 13:23)

1974	Insight	Guest star	Episode: "The One-Armed Man" (S 15:Ep 20)

Only with Married Men	Dr. Harvey Osterman	Made-for-TV Movie

1975	The Dream Makers	Manny Wheeler	Made-for-TV Movie

1975– 1979	Welcome Back, Kotter	Museum curator	Recurring role

1976	Police Story	Dr. Milford	Episode: "Firebird" (S 3:Ep 18)

1977	Halloween with the New Addams Family	Gomez Addams	Made-for-TV Movie

1977–78	Operation Petticoat	Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Sherman	Main role

1978	Insight	Guest star	Episode: "Second Chorus" (S 18:Ep 31)

The Love Boat	Dave, The Hermit	Episode: "Marooned" (S 2:Ep 1)

Fantasy Island	Charles D. Preston	Episode: "The Beachcomber / The Last Whodunit" (S 2:Ep 3)

1984	The Facts of Life	Vito Miles	Episode: "The Summer of '84" (S 6:Ep 1)

Diff'rent Strokes	C.W.	Episode: "A Haunting We Will Go" (S 7:Ep 1)

Murder, She Wrote	Ross Hayley	Episode: "Hooray for Homicide" (S 1:Ep 4)

Night Court	Kenny	Episode:"Inside Harry Stone" (S 2:Ep 9)

Simon & Simon	Uncle Ray Simon	Episode: "Revolution #9 1/2" (S 4:Ep 12)

1985–86	Mary	Ed LaSalle	Main role

1985	Riptide	Baxter Bernard	Episode: "Baxter and Boz" (S 2:Ep 13)

Otherworld	Akin	Episode: "Mansion of the Beast" (S 1:Ep 7)

Murder, She Wrote	Harry Pierce	Episodes: "Joshua Peabody Died Here... Possibly" (S 2:Ep 2) "A Lady in the Lake" (S 2:Ep 7) "Sticks and Stones" (S 2:Ep 10)

1986	Mr. Boogedy	Neil Witherspoon	Made-for TV movie

1986–90	Night Court	Former Mental Patient Buddy Ryan	Recurring role

1987	St. Elsewhere	Kevin	Episode: "Visiting Daze" (S 5:Ep 14)

The Charmings	Jack/The Devil	Episode: "The Witch is of Van Oaks" (S 2:Ep 3)

Webster	Uncle Charles	Episode: "Simple Gifts" (S 5:Ep 12)

1988	Charles in Charge	Uncle Joe	Episode: "Pickle King of New York" (S 3:Ep 14)

Webster	Uncle Charles	Episode: "Rich Man, Poor Man" (S 6:Ep 13)

1989	The Saint: The Blue Dulac	George Lafosse	Made-for-TV Movie

1990	Attack of the Killer Tomatoes	Dr. Putrid T. Gangreen	Main role

1991	Eerie Indiana	Radford	Recurring role

Taz-Mania	Bull Gator	Recurring role

Father Dowling Mysteries	Manager of Gun Club	Episode: "The Priest Killer Mystery" (S 3:Ep 16)

They Came from Outer Space	Neville Nessen	Episode: "Sex, Lies and UFOs, part 2" (S 1:Ep 20)

Tales from the Crypt	Nelson Halliwell	Episode: "Top Billing" (S 3:Ep 5)

1992–93	The Addams Family	Gomez Addams	Main role Animated series based on the eponymous comic strip characters. Voice The series' development began in the wake of the successful 1991 Addams Family feature film.

1993	The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.	Professor Wickwire	7 episodes

1994–97	Duckman	Terry Duke Tetzloff	Recurring role

1994	Bonkers	The Mole	Episode: "Stressed to Kill" (S 3:Ep23)

Burke's Law	Guest Star	Episode: "Who Killed Alexander the Great?" (S 1:Ep 6)

Mad About You	Himself	Episode: "Up All Night" (S 2:Ep 23)

Step by Step	George Humphries	Episode: "The Ice Cream Man Cometh"

1995	The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat	Additional Voices	Recurring role

Murder, She Wrote	Fritz Randall	Episode: "Film Flam" (S 11:Ep 6)

Step by Step	George Humphries	Episode: "The Flight Before Christmas"(S 5:Ep 11)

1996	The Nanny	The Plastic Surgeon	Episodes: "Your Feets Too Big" (S 3:Ep 20) "Tattoo" (S 4:Ep 9)

1997	Homeboys in Outer Space	Rhymer	Episode: "The Adventures of Ratman and Gerbil or, Holy Homeboys in Outer Space" (S 1:Ep 21)

Johnny Bravo	Scientist 1/Blind Man	Episode: "Jumbo Johnny / The Perfect Gift / Bravo, James Bravo" (S 1:Ep 10)

Pinky and the Brain	Grover Whalen	Episode: "Mice Don't Dance" (S 3:Ep 11)

1998	The New Addams Family	Grampapa Addams	Episode: "Grandpapa Addams Comes to Visit" (S 1:Ep 16)

Recess	Supt. Skinner	Episode: "Kids in the Mist" (S 1:Ep 12)

1999	Recess	The Judge	Episode: "The Story of Whomps" (S 2:Ep 11)

The Hughleys	Guest star	Episode: "Storm o' the Century" (S 1:Ep 17)

The New Addams Family	Grampapa Addams	Episode: "Fester and Granny vs. Grandpapa Addams" (S 1:Ep 40)

The Wild Thornberrys	Bangaboo	Episode: "The Great Bangaboo" (S 1:Ep 17)

Recess	Supt. Skinner	Episodes: "The Spy Who Came in from the Playground" (S 4:Ep4) "Prickly is Leaving" (S 4:Ep 11)

2000	The Strip	Orson Bates	Episode: "I Wear My Sunglasses At Night" (S 1:Ep 9)

Becker	Richard Wilson	Episode: "All the Rage" (S 2:Ep 15)

2001	As Told By Ginger	Dave Bishop	Episodes: "Blizzard Conditions" (S 1:Ep 14) "Piece of My Heart" (S 2:Ep 3)

2004	Higglytown Heroes	Santa Claus	Episode: "Twinkle's Wish" (S 1:Ep 12)

2005	School of Life	Stormin' Norman Warner	Made-for-TV Movie

2006	My First Time	Himself	Episode: "Something About Mary" (S 1:Ep 1)

2007	Higglytown Heroes	Santa Claus	Episode: "'Tis the Season to Be Ducky / Bingo Bongos" (S 3:Ep 18)

2017	Justice League Action	Uncle Dudley	Episode: "Captain Bamboozle" (S 1:Ep 49)

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John Astin played the role of Ed LaSalle in Mary during the 1985–86 television season.

final_sentence: John Astin played the role of Ed LaSalle in Mary during the 1985–86 television season.