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* 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 (TV)|Doctor Who]]'':
** ''[[Doctor Who (TV)/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).
** ''[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S10 E5 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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* When JJ Jareau (and her actress AJ Cook) took maternity leave on ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', she picked Jordan Todd (played by actress Meta Golding) to fill in for her.
** An interesting case, this one. Since everyone had lots and lots of prior notice about AJ Cook's leave (her pregnancy storyline started the season before), Todd's role is not just a re-writing of scripts written for JJ: she has her own character, arc, and thematics, all of which are very different from JJ's. At the same time, she fills the same role in the team bureaucracy that JJ does.
* One episode of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' involved a debate over whether it was justifiable to infect the Cylons with a deadly disease. The script called for someone to [[Idiot of the Week|push very strongly in favor of it]]. Normally this would be established Cylon-hater Colonel Tigh, but due to another storyline Tigh was currently [[Achilles in His Tent]]. So the writers pressed Lee Adama into service to clumsily understudy for him.
* At the end of the fifth season of ''[[Step By Step]]'', the actor who played Cody was unavailable to shoot the two-part Disney World episode--quite a loss, since the episode revolved largely around Cody's effort to go on every ride in the park in record time. Instead, a new character named Flash (apparently Uncle Frank's employee) shows up unannounced and proceeds to do everything Cody was intended to do, making him the effective star of the show for these two episodes. He made one last appearance in the season finale, before being scrapped in favor of Bronson Pinchot as zany Frenchman Jean-Luc. Cody never returned, having [[Put On a Bus|boarded a bus for Russia]].
** In fact, he returned in "We're in the money" the last but one episode of the show. And his absence was explained during the season six episode "Bonjour Jean-Luc".
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