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* ''[[Coronation Street]]'' has had several characters live on off-screen following their actors' deaths.

* Ditto with the late Darlene Conley's Sally Spectra on ''The Bold and the Beautiful''.

** Ironically, this may have ensured that the Master would return. Delgado reportedly wanted to make one more story with the character, at the end of which he would have been [[Killed Off for Real]] in the [[Season Finale]].

* A 2010 episode of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures (TV)|The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' revealed that 60s ''Doctor Who'' companions Barbara Wright-Chesterton and Ben Jackson were both still alive, despite the actors who played them having died in the 1990s.

* ''[[Only Fools and Horses (TV)|Only Fools and Horses]]'' has two examples - Denzil's long suffering wife Corrine and Mike, manager of the Nag's Head. The former was written as having divorced Denzil following the actress's death (she'd been intended to be a recurring character) and the latter was considered jailed for embezzlement. This was at the request of the actor in his will, who did not want Mike to be killed off.

* ''[[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.

* Neither Dr Stephen Franklin nor G'Kar were ever [[Put On a Bus|put on a bus]] before their actors Richard Biggs and Andreas Katsulas passed away, but in ''[[Series/Babylon Five|Babylon Five]]'': The Lost Tales, the late actors' characters are stated to have gone exploring "beyond the rim," the in-universe euphemism for [[Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence|ascending to a higher plane of existence]].

** 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."

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