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* ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'' had an entire season of Temporary Substitutes when Bo and Luke went off to race in NASCAR (or, in reality, contract disputes) and their strangely identical cousins turned up instead, hanging around until the other two returned. Toes the line between [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] and Temporary Substitute.
** Sheriff Rosco Coltrane also got a couple of of these when actor James Best boycotted part of the second season, citing unsafe dressing-room conditions. One of the Temporary Substitutes was Dick Sargent, best known as the literal [[The Other Darrin|Other Darrin]].
*** Cooter also got a couple of different substitutes that same season, when Ben Jones boycotted the show after the producers asked him to shave off his beard.
* ''The Memoirs Of [[Sherlock Holmes]]'' dealt with the illness of its leading man, Jeremy Brett, by invoking both Watson and Mycroft as Temporary Substitutes. This gave Watson back some of the competence his traditional portrayals had lacked, and made Mycroft a lot more active than he ever was in the canon.
** To be clear, that was really only invoked in "The Mazarin Stone", as Jeremy Brett was (to put it bluntly) dying. In other episodes, Watson does have more of a role, and even some of Holmes' lines (such as the solitary cyclist) - this was not done for Brett's health, but to even the relationship and make it clear he wasn't the bumbling idiot that popular opinion holds so dear.
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* Connie Nielsen as Detective Dani Beck replaced Olivia Benson for eight episodes on ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' while her actress Mariska Hargitay was on maternity leave.
* With Jesse L. Martin committed to the filming of ''[[Rent]]'' in 2005, his character Ed Green on ''[[Law and Order]]'' was shot late in the season and spent the remaining four episodes recovering in the hospital. Michael Imperioli took over as Fontana's temporary partner Nick Falco for the duration. Unlike most other out-of-nowhere Temporary Substitute, Falco made an additional appearance the next season in a non-substitute capacity.
* A rather unique example, also from ''[[Law and Order]]'': When Jill Hennessey’s character Claire Kincaid made a crossover appearance on ''[[Homicide: Life On the Street]]'', conflicting and overlapping production schedules forced producers to [[Making Use of the Twin|recruit her identical twin sister Jacqueline]] (a host and occasional actress on Canadian TV) to double for her sister in a few courtroom scenes. This unusual substitution was not credited on-screen.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':
** ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S2 E2 The Dalek Invasion of Earth|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'': Star William Hartnell was injured in an action scene in this story. So in the next episode, the Doctor is knocked out in an injury (played by a double), and his lines (and technical skills) are given to a freedom-fighter character from the story. (Hartnell was back in the next episode).
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* On ''[[Angel]]'', Wesley was absent for one Season Five episode, because Alexis Denisof was on his honeymoon with Alyson Hannigan. He was replaced for the episode by another expert on occult lore.
** This one is unusual in that Joss probably knew about this months in advance, enough time to not only set up the reason for Wesley's absence, but write an episode that would not have worked if Wesley had been present - a major plot point was that the Substitute Expert was evil, and deliberately mistranslated a text, where Wesley would have given a faithful translation.
* In one episode of ''[[The Prisoner]]'', "Do Not Forget Me Oh My Darling," V had Number Six's mind swapped into another man (played by Nigel Stock), since Patrick McGoohan was off filming ''Ice Station Zebra'' at the time.
* During its early years, the Mexican sitcom ''[[El Chavo
* When Jason David Frank took time off to visit his family in Texas, the producers of the New Zealand-filmed ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]'' were forced to first trap his character, Tommy Oliver, in Ranger form, and later, render him invisible for two episodes. Since Tommy is a high school science teacher by this point in the franchise, they also had to grab several Substitute Teachers. To make things significantly more interesting, one of the substitutes was the [[Jekyll and Hyde|human form]] of the [[Big Bad]].
* ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'' had at various times temporary replacements for Carter and Newkirk. Kinchloe was replaced by a [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] in the last season.
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