Burke’s Law - List of Guest Stars
The Special Guest Stars of “Burke’s Law” read like a Who’s Who list of Hollywood of the era. Many of the appearances, however, were no more than one scene cameos. This is as complete a list ever compiled of all those who even made the briefest of appearances on the series.
Beverly Adams, Nick Adams, Stanley Adams, Eddie Albert, Mabel Albertson, Lola Albright, Elizabeth Allen, June Allyson, Don Ameche, Michael Ansara, Army Archerd, Phil Arnold, Mary Astor, Frankie Avalon, Hy Averback, Jim Backus, Betty Barry, Susan Bay, Ed Begley, William Bendix, Joan Bennett, Edgar Bergen, Shelley Berman, Herschel Bernardi, Ken Berry, Lyle Bettger, Robert Bice, Theodore Bikel, Janet Blair, Madge Blake, Joan Blondell, Ann Blyth, Carl Boehm, Peter Bourne, Rosemarie Bowe, Eddie Bracken, Steve Brodie, Jan Brooks, Dorian Brown, Bobby Buntrock, Edd Byrnes, Corinne Calvet, Rory Calhoun, Pepe Callahan, Rod Cameron, Macdonald Carey, Hoagy Carmichael, Richard Carlson, Jack Carter, Steve Carruthers, Marianna Case, Seymour Cassel, John Cassavetes, Tom Cassidy, Joan Caulfield, Barrie Chase, Eduardo Ciannelli, Dane Clark, Dick Clark, Steve Cochran, Hans Conried, Jackie Coogan, Gladys Cooper, Henry Corden, Wendell Corey, Hazel Court, Wally Cox, Jeanne Crain, Susanne Cramer, Les Crane, Broderick Crawford, Suzanne Cupito, Arlene Dahl, Vic Dana, Jane Darwell, Sammy Davis Jr., Linda Darnell, Dennis Day, Laraine Day, Yvonne DeCarlo, Gloria De Haven, William Demarest, Andy Devine, Richard Devon, Billy De Wolfe, Don Diamond, Diana Dors, Joanne Dru, Paul Dubov, Howard Duff, Dan Duryea, Robert Easton, Barbara Eden, John Ericson, Leif Erickson, Tom Ewell, Nanette Fabray, Felicia Farr, Sharon Farrell, Herbie Faye, Fritz Feld, Susan Flannery, James Flavin, Rhonda Fleming, Nina Foch, Steve Forrest, Linda Foster, Byron Foulger, Eddie Foy Jr., Anne Francis, David Fresco, Annette Funicello, Eva Gabor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Reginald Gardiner, Nancy Gates, Lisa Gaye, Sandra Giles, Mark Goddard, Thomas Gomez, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Sandra Gould, Wilton Graff, Gloria Grahame, Shelby Grant, Jane Greer, Virginia Grey, Tammy Grimes, Richard Hale, Jack Haley, George Hamilton, Ann Harding, Joy Harmon, Phil Harris, Stacy Harris, Dee Hartford, June Havoc, Jill Haworth, Richard Haydn, Louis Hayward, Hugh Hefner, Anne Helm, Percy Helton, Irene Hervey, Joe Higgins, Marianna Hill, Bern Hoffman, Jonathan Hole, Celeste Holm, Charlene Holt, Oscar Homolka, Barbara Horne, Edward Everett Horton, Breena Howard, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Arthur Hunnicutt, Tab Hunter, Joan Huntington, Josephine Hutchinson, Betty Hutton, Gunilla Hutton, Martha Hyer, Diana Hyland, Marty Ingels, John Ireland, Mako Iwamatsu, Joyce Jameson, Glynis Johns, I. Stanford Jolley, Carolyn Jones, Dean Jones, Spike Jones, Victor Jory, Jackie Joseph, Stubby Kaye, Monica Keating, Buster Keaton, Cecil Kellaway, Claire Kelly, Patsy Kelly, Kathy Kersh, Eartha Kitt, Nancy Kovack, Fred Krone, Lou Krugman, Frankie Laine, Fernando Lamas, Dorothy Lamour, Elsa Lanchester, Abbe Lane, Charles Lane, Lauren Lane, Harry Lauter, Norman Leavitt, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ruta Lee, Teri Lee, Peter Leeds, Margaret Leighton, Sheldon Leonard, Art Lewis, Buddy Lewis, Dave Loring, Joanne Ludden, Ida Lupino, Tina Louise, Paul Lynde, Diana Lynn, James MacArthur, Gisele MacKenzie, Diane McBain, Kevin McCarthy, Bill McClean, Stephen McNally, Elizabeth MacRae, Jayne Mansfield, Hal March, Shary Marshall, Dewey Martin, Marlyn Mason, Hedley Mattingly, Marilyn Maxwell, Virginia Mayo, Patricia Medina, Troy Melton, Burgess Meredith, Una Merkel, Dina Merrill, Torben Meyer, Barbara Michaels, Robert Middleton, Vera Miles, Sal Mineo, Mary Ann Mobley, Alan Mowbray, Ricardo Montalbán, Elizabeth Montgomery, Ralph Moody, Alvy Moore, Terry Moore, Agnes Moorehead, Anne Morell, Rita Moreno, Byron Morrow, Jan Murray, Ken Murray, George Nader, J. Carrol Naish, Bek Nelson, Gene Nelson, David Niven, Chris Noel, Kathleen Nolan, Sheree North, Louis Nye, Arthur O'Connell, Quinn O'Hara, Susan Oliver, Debra Paget, Janis Paige, Nestor Paiva, Luciana Paluzzi, Julie Parrish, Fess Parker, Suzy Parker, Bert Parks, Harvey Parry, Hank Patterson, Joan Patrick, Nehemiah Persoff, Walter Pidgeon, Zasu Pitts, Edward Platt, Juliet Prowse, Eddie Quillan, Louis Quinn, Basil Rathbone, Aldo Ray, Martha Raye, Gene Raymond, Peggy Rea, Philip Reed, Carl Reiner, Stafford Repp, Paul Rhone, Paul Richards, Don Rickles, Will Rogers Jr., Ruth Roman, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Gena Rowlands, Charlie Ruggles, Janice Rule, Soupy Sales, Hugh Sanders, Tura Satana, Telly Savalas, John Saxon, Lizabeth Scott, Lisa Seagram, Pilar Seurat, William Shatner, Karen Sharpe, James Shigeta, Nina Shipman, Susan Silo, Johnny Silver, Nancy Sinatra, The Smothers Brothers, Joanie Sommers, Joan Staley, Jan Sterling, Elaine Stewart, Jill St. John, Dean Stockwell, Gale Storm, Susan Strasberg, Inger Stratton, Amzie Strickland, Gil Stuart, Grady Sutton, Kay Sutton, Gloria Swanson, Russ Tamblyn. Don Taylor, Dub Taylor, Vaughn Taylor, Irene Tedrow, Terry-Thomas, Ginny Tiu, Dan Tobin, Forrest Tucker, Tom Tully, Jim Turley, Lurene Tuttle, Ann Tyrrell, Miyoshi Umeki, Mamie van Doren, Deborah Walley, Sandra Warner, David Wayne, Ray Weaver, Lennie Weinrib, Dawn Wells, Delores Wells, Rebecca Welles, Jack Weston, David White, James Whitmore, Michael Wilding, Annazette Williams, Dave Willock, Chill Wills, Marie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Sandra Wirth, Ed Wynn, Keenan Wynn, Dana Wynter, Celeste Yarnall, Francine York.
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more headcanons but this time everything's in a 7/11 (convenience store au)
Jesse has chronic pain from a mixture of hypermobility and undiagnosed fibro. luckily it isn't too bad, but fuck if it doesn't make getting out of bed hurt. and walking, and standing, and sitting, and...everything. quite an unpleasant surprise to wake up to.
for some goddamn reason all the snakes in the town swarm to him like moths to a flame. he's happy about it because he loves them, but French freaks the first time he opens a cabinet behind the counter to see a tangle of snakes. (Jesse doesn't want them to freeze in the winter and also he wants to take care of them)
on that note, OA and Homer know exactly what to get him for his birthday: giant albino boa constrictor who Jesse absolutely dotes on. she's a sweetheart and is especially fond of wrapping around his arms and neck like a scarf. (this is slightly in exchange for less snake storage in the convenience store)
Jesse was still kind of a loner in this dimension but he was a bit more easy-going-- Ali stepped up a lot better to teach him how to take care of himself, and even though he still smokes, he never has quite as bad of a drug problem. good for him.
French is a nerd ass loser I make the rules now and I say he gets 1 worse glasses 2 cystic acne scars and 3 more social anxiety
he is not a loser because of these things he simply never joined teams and never really fit in as well so he just was that one nerdy kid in class who always answered questions correctly but had like maybe 5 friends by osmosis and stared at cute boys in the hallway on accident
Steve used to bully him but Jesse started actually passive aggressively getting him to be nicer in like junior year so while he never really Apologized to French he mainly avoided him so he wouldn't have to confront his mistakes
so when French gets hired at the weird convenience store and he's abruptly greeted by both his 3 year crush and his former bully who seems to be acting very nice all of the sudden he is. como se dice. Unsettled
Buck was one of French's only friends in high school and they grew fairly close over time. Buck works at Homer's bakery with Angie and always tries to bring a muffin for French when they hang out.
Buck's already very intuitive, so he Knows something funky is up when Homer disappears for like 2 days then comes back refusing to take off the gloves he wears while baking and acting very odd but he likes his job and he cares about Homer so he doesn't pry, just offers to help more hours until he's back on his feet.
he also is close with Rachel already-- she taught choir at the high school for a little while before retiring at the end of his junior year, and they bonded through those years. when he got to reconnect with her at the bakery he was thrilled (though even more suspicious when she started acting odd).
Angie in this dimension has a slightly different background-- her parents aren't as well off so she chose to work at the bakery to raise college money independently. shes still a spitfire though, and Steve fell hard for her senior year after she managed to (accidentally) burn the school's sin couch during an assembly
shes really passionate about baking but also things like leatherwork and sewing. she binds books, makes leather jackets (when she can afford the material), studs clothing, etc. a lot more punk than grunge here.
she gets together with Buck fairly often and helps him get around tough familial stuff. at this point, whenever something rough happens, he goes to her place and just stays the night.
Angie also surprisingly made a really good impression on Renata the first time they met, and much to her surprise, Renata started bringing her things from tours. don't tell anyone, but Renata's writing a song about the punk girl down the block who feels like a niece.
BBA in this dimension is still a teacher at the school, though she's planning on retiring soon. since the fabric of this reality is thinner than normal, her psychic abilities are more prevalent-- she's quick to pick up when things change, quick to notice when people seem to become completely different.
she always liked Jesse as a student, and worried about him; now, she gets to see him because he works the night shift at the convenience store. now, they're friends, and she picks up very quickly when Jesse jumps to this dimension.
OA is set on becoming her friend again, and BBA's more than happy about it; even though she works while OA is on shift, she's always pleased when she stops by the bakery and sees OA with Homer saying hello. some part of her knows they were friends even though she has no memory of meeting her before OA jumped, and she trusts that instinct.
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How OA Changes the Five
I’ve heard people talk about how the Crestwood Five are divided at the end of the last episode, almost as if they are in separate cages, reminiscent of the cages from Hap’s basement. But I don’t think the Crestwood Five were trapped. I think OA healed them. I think she set them free.
Think about Buck. One of his biggest struggles is not fitting in because he doesn’t feel like he has a place. His dad misgenders him at home and he often doesn’t know where to sit at school. But when his dad is standing at the open doorway, shouting out into the night, looking for him, he says “Michelle, Michelle...” but before he closes the door he finally says, “Buck.” He recognizes Buck’s real name for the first time in the entire show...maybe for the first time in Buck’s entire life. And then, at the school, Buck is at a table just surrounded by friends, surrounded by other boys. I don’t think he was crushing on the boy next to him. I think he was just feeling like he belonged and appreciating the normalcy of the moment.
The scene in the cafeteria starts with French. We get a good look at his face. He seems unburdened, less stressed. His eyes and skin are clear, like someone who is no longer on drugs. I believe that is what we are supposed to see about him in this scene, that he has found ballance and that he is no longer using drugs.
Steve has Angie. She means so much to him: someone to laugh with, someone who gets him, accepts him, likes him for who he is. She gives him what Jaye never would: companionship.
Jesse is trickier. We don’t really get many windows into his aches and needs throughout the show. He misses his mom. He wishes she was an angel. In a way, one could say that Jesse’s friend who pulls him to the floor is kind of like a guardian angel. I dunno though...it seems like a stretch.
At first I didn’t think BBA gained anything either, but then I realized: the thing she lost was Theo. That was what had made her so sad. And in the last scene, when she drops everything to run to the cafeteria, she says, “My boys.” She may have lost Theo, but she gained four new boys, and they gave her a sense of companionship and purpose even if she was no longer able to be with them.
Actually...now that I think about it...
Maybe that’s the point. Maybe the real thing that they all received was a new family, and having that core need met freed them all to branch out and accept and enjoy who they are. To accept themselves. And shine. And be happy.
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