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== Film ==
* A variant occurs with [[The Three Stooges]] after Shemp died. Moe and Larry still did four shorts, referring to Shemp - and occasionally "meeting up" with him via archive footage filmed when he was still alive.
** They also did some new scenes where [[Fake Shemp|a stand-in was used for Shemp]], making sure (not always succesfully) to keep his back to the camera.
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* ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'' generally isn't shy about having characters die at the same time that their actors do. However, incidental character Eli will probably be left in limbo forever, even though he appeared in most episodes. Actor Danny O'Dea died several years ago, but since Eli was rarely crucial to the plot, and wasn't closely related to any other characters, his ultimate fate will most likely remain unmentioned.
* ''[[Dad's Army|Dads Army]]'' gave Walker a [[Written-In Absence]] when actor James Beck was suddenly taken into hospital; Walker leaves a note to explain that he is going up to London to conduct a "[[Honest John's Dealership|business]]" deal. Beck then died and so Walker never returned, but he was not mentioned again and presumably was still alive off-screen; by the time of later radio sequel ''It Sticks Out Half a Mile'' he had returned to Walmington-on-Sea.
* Neither Dr Stephen Franklin nor G'Kar were ever [[Put on a Bus]] before their actors Richard Biggs and Andreas Katsulas passed away, but in ''[[
** In the case of G'Kar, the character's death was actually seen on-screen before the actor died. {{spoiler|Londo shakes off his Drakh controller long enough to ask G'Kar to kill him to save him and the Centauri from having a mind-controlled Emperor any longer, but as G'Kar tries to oblige the symbiont wakes up and fights back, resulting in G'Kar and Londo killing each other.}} This was set years after the five-year plot, though, which ended with G'Kar and Lyta going adventuring in unknown parts, so he really could have been "beyond the rim."
* When Raymond Burr died in 1993, the writers of the [[Perry Mason]] TV movies offered a character played by Paul Sorvino as his replacement, claiming that Perry Mason had "gone on vacation." One snarky television critic offered this as a response: "Yeah, it must have been a permanent one."
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