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Question for TJohn MD fans: was Kate Mulgrew ever a guest on the show?

posted 11 years ago by Alfabeta
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A credit for her guest appearance in this show pops up on some less than professional websites now and then, always without the name of her supposed character or the title of the episode.

So, can any of you hard core Trapper John fans (or producers) confirm if she ever appeared in this show?

For the uninitiated, Mulgrew was the star of 70's Ryan's Hope soap opera about an Irish-American family and 80's Heartbeats medical show, but is better known as Mrs. Colombo and Star Trek Voyager's Captain Janeway and currently plays agent Kove on NTFS:SD:SUV parody show and Red on Orange is the new Black woman in prison show.

Thanks.

[–] crood 8 years ago

While I can't say for sure, it's certainly possible, even likely. TJMD was a guest star heavy show given its patient of the week format. Mulgrew would have been in her late 20's/early 30's during that period and was working in TV, but didn't have as series once Mrs. Columbo was cancelled (not sure what they were thinking casting someone so young as Columbo's wife).