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* Also not a crew member, but every episode's special guest star on ''[[Police Squad!]]'' would only be in one scene, the opening titles. The announcer would voiceover, "And special guest star..." during the title sequence, and the special guest star would then be killed (often in a hilarious, over the top manner).

** For completeness' sake, the list is Episode 1: Lorne Green (stabbed and thrown from moving automobile), Episode 2: Georg Stanford Brown (police officer crushed by safe), Episode 3: Robert Goulet (shot by firing squad), Episode 4: William Shatner (restaurant patron, survives machine gun, attack to die via poisoned glass of wine), Episode 5: Florence Henderson (cooking show host, gunned down by machine gun on the set), Episode 6: William Conrad (stabbed and thrown from moving automobile, bookending the fate of Episode 1's special guest star Lorne Greene).

** ''Police Squad!'' also subverted this trope with the [[Once an Episode]] appearance in the credits of [[Rex Hamilton]] as [[Abraham Lincoln]], who instead of being fatally shot at Ford's Theatre ducks and fires back at his assailant.

* ''[[Burn Notice]]'' did this in the fourth season premiere, with Michael Ironside. He was on the show for all of two minutes before an unmanned drone fills him with bullets. This troper feels the potential for a Sam Fisher/Michael Westen crossover sadly been missed.

* Making a special appearance as the interviewer in the web-only production of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKYFNsnO-tc R. Tam Sessions], Joss Whedon is killed by a crazed River.