Actor Ubiquity Score (Work in Progress)

This silly idea came out of a conversation at the Everyman probably more than 10 years ago.  A simple score to measure just how ubiquitous an actor is on Television.  It came up in conversation with a friend last week and then I stumbled across my notes while doing some house keeping on my PC.  Its very much a Work in Progress (I’d love to hear suggestions for shows to go on the list).  We only ever started messing around with it for UK actors but there could easily be a version for US actors

An actor scores points for each of the following shows they have appeared in.

It pretty easy to check most of these at IMDB although CBeebies Bedtime Stories may require a bit of Googling.

So Helen Worth scores 12 for Coronation Street (2087 episodes), 3 for Doctor Who (6 episodes) and 1 for Z Cars for a total score of 16.

If a show has been rebooted, remade or several adaptations in the case of a novel each version is counted separately.

eg appearing in Poldark 2015 for four episodes and Poldark 2017 for one episode would score 3+1=4

Doctor who counts as a single show despite the gap because the 50^th anniversary episode features all the actors who had played the character.  Despite a title change The Likely Lads / Whaterver Became of the Likely Lads is also counted as a single show.

Bryan Blessed (total 25):

• Doctors (2 episodes) 2
• The Royal (1) 1
• Lovejoy (2) 2
• Boon (1) 1
• Doctor Who (4) 3
• Z Cars (115) 7
• Blakes 7 (1) 1
• Survivors (1) 1
• I Claudius (6) 3
• The Sweeney (1) 1
• Jackanory (5) 3

The UK List

1. A Touch of Frost
2. All Creatures Great and Small
3. Are You Being Served?
4. Benidorm
5. Bergerac
6. Blakes 7
7. Boon
8. Byker Grove
9. Call the Midwife
10. Casualty / Holby City / Doctors / Holby Blue
11. CBeebies Bedtime Stories
12. Coronation Street
13. Cracker
14. Crossroads
15. Dad’s Army
16. David Copperfield
17. Death in Paradise
18. Dixon of Dock Green
19. Doctor Who
20. Downton Abbey
21. East Enders
22. Emerdale / Emerdale Farm
23. Game of Thrones
24. Grange Hill
25. Jonathan Creek
26. Heartbeat
27. Hollyoaks
28. Hustle
29. Jackanory
30. Last of the Summer Wine
31. Lewis
32. Life on Mars / Ashes to Ashes
33. London’s Burning
34. Lovejoy
35. Mansfield Park
36. Merlin
37. Midsomer Murders
38. Miss Marple
39. Morse
40. Monarch of the Glenn
41. New Tricks
42. Only Fools and Horses
43. Play for Today
44. Red Dwarf
45. Robin Hood
46. Robin of Sherwood
47. Sherlock Holmes
48. Silent Witness
49. Soldier Soldier
50. Spooks
51. Survivors
52. Taggart
53. The Bill
54. The Likely Lads / Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
55. The Morecambe and Wise Show
56. The Musketeers
57. The Professionals
58. The Royal
59. The Sweeney
60. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy / Smily’s People
61. Upstairs Downstairs
62. Z-Cars