Random Greatest TV Characters Who Weren't in Season 1 (19 items)

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  (#13) Andy Bernard

  • The Office

  It's hard to believe that someone could appear in 147 episodes of a show and not be there from the beginning, but that's Andy Bernard. We met Ed Helms' "Nard Dog" in The Office's Season 3 opener, "Gay Witch Hunt," as part of the Stamford crew. He came to Scranton shortly after as part of the merger, and Dunder-Mifflin was never the same. 
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  (#8) Mike Ehrmantraut

  • Breaking Bad

  Just like Saul Goodman, Mike Ehrmantraut is an indispensable Breaking Bad character who did not appear in season one. Mike first appears as a "fixer" in the Season 2 finale, "ABQ." 
  
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  (#12) Jack McCoy

  • Law & Order

  It's hard to think of another actor so deeply connected to one show. Sam Waterson's Jack McCoy seemed to be the one constant on Law & Order amid an ever-changing roster of cops and lawyers. But even he was not there in the beginning. He debuted in the Season 5 opener, "Second Opinion," as the Executive Assistant District Attorney and there he stayed for the remaining 368 episodes, a monumental achievement.
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  (#17) Marlo Stanfield

  • The Wire

  Chilling. Ice cold. Ruthless. Jamie Hector brought all this and more to the role of Marlo Stanfield on HBO's The Wire. Marlo wasn't the first bad guy, but he was the last, and he was definitely the baddest. He shows up in the Season 3 opener "Time after Time" and slowly and confidently begins his reign of terror over the streets of Baltimore.
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  (#7) Woody Boyd

  • Cheers

  Cheers had a good thing going with Nicholas Colasanto as "Coach" Ernie Pantusso, the sweet old bartender of the Boston bar. But in 1984, Colasanto left the show. Cheers needed to find someone equally lovable and dim-witted to fill Coach's shoes. Luckily, they found Woody Harrelson. Relatively unknown at the time, Harrelson played Woody Boyd as a naive hayseed from Indiana and instantly fit in with the cast from his first appearance in the Season 4 opener, "Birth, Death, Love, and Rice."
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  (#1) Frank Reynolds

  • It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

  Wait, you mean Frank Reynolds wasn't always there? It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia existed without him?

  It's true. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia had a seven-episode first season where there was no Danny DeVito to be found. He joined the gang at the start of Season 2 in "Charlie Gets Crippled" and has been deplorable and hilarious ever since.

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