10 TV Characters They Couldn't Stop Recasting
8. Bobby Draper - Mad Men
While not nearly as extreme as The Walking Dead's ceaseless recasting of Judith, Mad Men nevertheless burned through four separate actors for Don Draper's (Jon Hamm) young son Bobby over the course of its seven seasons.
In the show's first season Bobby was played by Maxwell Huckabee for seven episodes, before Aaron Hart took over for the remainder of season one and the entirety of season two, making 15 appearances in total.
Jared S. Gilmore then played Bobby for 19 episodes across seasons three and four, before Mason Vale Cotton finally portrayed Don's son for 33 episodes between seasons five, six, and seven.
Cotton's version of Bobby is really the only one most fans remember much of, honestly, in large because Bobby as written isn't a particularly memorable or compelling character for most of the show's run.
Compared to his far more intriguing sister Sally (Kiernan Shipka), Bobby's basically an afterthought, so they got away with the repeated recasting easily enough.
While it remains a mystery why Huckabee and Hart were replaced, we know that Gilmore departed the role due to winning the much juicier part of Henry Mills on Once Upon a Time.
It gets even better, though: Kiernan Shipka confirmed that, when you count the actor who played Bobby in the pilot and the various doubles who have played Bobby in single scenes, a total of eight different people portrayed him throughout the series.