History ActorAllusion / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/WhodunnitUK'': In "A Time to Dye", one of the suspects mentions that she won a trip to London to see ''Irene'' in the West End starring "him what's on the telly on Monday night". At the time, host Creator/JonPertwee was appearing in the West End run of ''Irene'' playing 'Madame Lucy'.
** the series one episode "A Knife in the Back" featured Jon Pertwee in his very first appearance on the show (as a panelist). He asked a suspect about the letters she posted, and the reply was 'Two bills... and a letter to the Doctor Who fanclub. I wanted to ask for your autograph." (Pertwee was playing the Third Series/DoctorWho at the time)

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Wishbone}}'', the eponymous dog stars in a commercial. The actor who provides the voice of Wishbone in the commercial (seen onscreen) is, in fact, the same actor who voices Wishbone on the show in general.

* In ''Series/TheSandman2022'', Lucifer Morningstar (played by Creator/GwendolineChristie) faces off against Dream in "The Oldest Game", with their first form being a dire wolf. Given Christie's star-making role as Brienne of Tarth from ''Series/GameOfThrones'', this hardly seems like a coincidence.

* One episode of ''Series/{{Tracker}}'' featured Cole using a katana to escape a museum vault. Creator/AdrianPaul, who played Cole, was well known for playing the katana-wielding Duncan [=MacLeod=] on ''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series''.

** In one episode, Michael sarcastically praises George Sr.'s lying ability, saying "Yeah, Dad, you're a real Creator/BradGarrett." This episode was originally preceded by the UsefulNotes/{{Emmy Award}}s, in which Jeffrey Tambor (who plays George Sr.) lost the Best Supporting Actor award to Brad Garrett.

* At the UsefulNotes/{{Emmy Award}}s one year, Alan Arkin and Adam Arkin (who was a regular on the ''ER'' competitor ''Chicago Hope'') presented together. The elder Arkin says to the younger one, "I loved you as Franchise/{{Batman}}."

* The [[Creator/{{Freeform}} ABC Family]] drama ''Series/SwitchedAtBirth'' has been called "the first mainstream television series to have multiple deaf and hard-of-hearing series regulars and scenes shot entirely in [[UsefulNotes/SignedLanguage American Sign Language]] (ASL)", and many of its cast members (including Katie Leclerc, Creator/MarleeMatlin and Creator/NyleDiMarco) are actually deaf or hard of heading.

* In the ''Series/EastEnders'' episode for 15th January 2023, Phil asks Sam if she arranged taxis for the funeral of Aunt Sal, who was played by the late Creator/AnnaKaren. Sam retorts "How else are we going to get there? [[Series/OnTheBuses On the buses]]?"

* In the 'Series/EastEnders'' episode for 15th January 2023, Phil asks Sam if she arranged taxis for the funeral of Aunt Sal, who was played by the late Creator/AnnaKaren. Sam retorts "How else are we going to get there? [[Series/OnTheBuses On the buses]]?"

** This was also done the other way around--in ''Series/GoodnightSweetheart'' Gary (played by Nicholas Lyndhurst) is about to lean back and fall through an open bar door like Del Boy famously did, but notices in time and gives an AsideGlance wink to the audience--accompanied by uproarious laughter that must seem inexplicable and random to anyone unfamiliar with the ''Only Fools'' scene in question.

* ''ActorAllusion/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017''

* ''ActorAllusion/{{A Series of Unfortunate Events|2017}}''
* ''ActorAllusion/{{Castle}}''

** Half of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E78OnceUponATime Once Upon a Time]]" is [[{{Retraux}} shot in the style]] of a SilentMovie as a tribute to Creator/BusterKeaton, who plays the protagonist Woodrow Mulligan. More specifically, the chase sequence after Mulligan arrives in 1962 recreates a scene from Keaton's 1920 short film ''Film/TheGarage'' co-starring Creator/FattyArbuckle. In both, Keaton's character's loses his trousers and is about to be arrested for public indecency. However, his heavyset partner prevents this when he walks behind him to hide him from a policeman. He then helps him to get a new pair, which Keaton puts on after being lifted up while they are walking.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E101CavenderIsComing Cavender is Coming]]", one of Agnes Grep's fellow usherettes is named Burnett. Agnes is played by Creator/CarolBurnett.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E125TheLastNightOfAJockey The Last Night Of A Jockey]]", Creator/MickeyRooney plays a man who used to be a jockey. Rooney had previously played ex-jockey Mi Taylor in ''Film/NationalVelvet''.

** In "Personal Demons", Rockne O'Bannon wrote for ''Series/WestinghouseDesiluPlayhouse''. O'Bannon is played by Martin Balsam, who played Dr. Gillespie in the ''Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse'' episode "The Time Element". That episode served as the unofficial pilot of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''.
** In "A Day in Beaumont", there are three:

** In another episode, a well-meaning white family tells Florida that they didn't know how bad Black people had it until they saw the struggles of Kunta Kinte on ''Series/{{Roots}}''. Her reply was "He's making more money than all of us now!" This was in reference to Creator/JohnAmos, who played James Evans for four seasons, left the show, and later starred as the older Kunta Kinte.

* ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'': "The Tale of the Curious Camera" and ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'': "Say Cheese and Die!" both cast Richard [=McMillan=] as the owner of the cursed camera and Christian Tessier as the school bully.

** For a little while (until the series revival), the canonical Ninth Doctor was Richard E. Grant, who played an InkSuitActor version of him in the animation "Scream of the Shalka". The Eighth Doctor had been played by Creator/PaulMcGann — basically, he had regenerated into the other half of ''Film/WithnailAndI''.