Before there ever was a , the family sitcom was just another unaired pilot.
In the never-aired pilot, the character of Danny Tanner is introduced right after losing his wife in a car accident.
The entire cast for the pilot was the same as the eventual sitcom, except that playing Danny Tanner was not Bob Saget, but a little-known actor named John Posey.
In addition to the main cast, the pilot also featured an appearance by Danny Tanner’s mom, played by Alice Hirson.
Once the sitcom got green-lit, Saget got subbed in to star, and in the series premiere episode, they basically re-filmed the pilot with the new cast.
Although the actor playing Danny Tanner changed, in the sitcom premiere, the actor playing Danny’s mom Claire Tanner remained the same.
Hirson was an actor who had been on TV since the 1950s, but then things seemed to falter and she took on only a few roles in the 1960s.
In the Seventies, her career picked up steam again, including recurring roles on
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