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Let's not forget, perhaps, the most famous unseen character of all, the pookah rabbit Harvey in, of course, Harvey. (and another fine Jimmy Stewart performance) 
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The Darrin Stephens character on Bewitched, played by Dick York and Dick Sargent, did not change names when the actors changed.
As for Becky Conner on Rosanne: Lecy Goranson played her from 1988-1992, Sarah Chalke played her 1993-1995, Goranson and Chalke alternated (!?!) 1995-1996, and Chalke played her 1996-1997.
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Another show that drew attention to the switching of actors to play the same character is "Due South". It's about a Mountie working in Chicago. At one point, the actor playing his Chicago Police Dept partner switched from a somewhat frumpy dark-haired man to a (in my opinion) very handsome but somewhat ragged blond guy. I forget exactly how they dealt with it -- the new guy went undercover as the old guy or something. But I think he was reluctant to do so, and couldn't figure out why everyone was calling him by the old character's name. I wish I could recall more -- I do remember laughing a LOT when I saw it.
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I remember that show. Rather liked it; stereotypical Dudley Do Right mountie in the cold cruel big city. Don't remember the actor shift, seems like they could've handled it just by assigning a new character to the role of being the mountie's baby-sitter.
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Faldage, in the case of Godot, couldn't he be a Mcguffin?
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I knew there was a neat recognition of the fact that Ray was played by a new actor:
"At the beginning of the second season, however, Fraser took a vacation in Canada, and came back to find that someone was impersonating his partner. In fact, Stanley Raymond Kowalski (played by Callum Keith Rennie) was taking Ray Vecchio's place while Ray was under cover, as was learned later that episode, from Lieutenant Welsh (portrayed by Beau Starr)."
from IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0194607/plotsummary
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Is there a word to refer to a character in a play ... who is talked about but never actually shows up on stage or screen?
Yes, such a character is known as a "stage sprite".
Some stage sprites are too scared to show up in which case they are said to have "stage fright".
But, a stage sprite with stage fright is not the norm. Usually they are just written out of the script.
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