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* 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/E02 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).
** ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S10 E5/E05 The Green Death|The Green Death]]'' has a case with the guest cast, Tony Adams, the actor playing Elgin fell ill between recording sessions, so in episode 5 a Mr James appears instead. Which leads to a bizarre situation of a character being set up to betray the bad guys - then someone else turns up out of nowhere to do it instead.
*** Even weirder because they could have easily explained his replacement, but didn't. Elgin was subjected to a mind control technique, which had caused another character it was used on to commit suicide earlier in the story. So they could have justified Elgin's replacement by having it explained that he took his life, or by shooting a suicide scene with a stunt man.
* During filming of the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion", George Takei was busy filming the movie ''The Green Berets''. Chekov took his place in the script, with a barroom brawling style in the episode's fight scenes taking the place of the martial arts scenes planned for Sulu.
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