Long-Haul TV Characters Who Were Never Supposed To Stick Around

Writing characters must be a frustrating job. Can you imagine spending months developing that one character that everyone is supposed to like... only for that character to be overshadowed by some throwaway role that fans latched onto? But that's just how TV works -- you can never be sure of what audiences will connect with.

Today we'll be looking at iconic long-lasting characters, that were originally supposed to have much smaller roles: