Tom Selleck Has One Rule About Frank Reagan That He Never Broke — Not Once in 14 Seasons and Over 280 Episodes

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Tom Selleck Has One Rule About Frank Reagan That He Never Broke — Not Once in 14 Seasons and Over 280 Episodes

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Tom Selleck Has One Rule About Frank Reagan That He Never Broke — Not Once in 14 Seasons and Over 280 Episodes

Characters accumulate history across long runs. Fourteen seasons of a weekly drama means hundreds of episodes, thousands of scenes, and an enormous amount of accumulated decision-making about who a character is and how they respond to the situations the writers place them in.

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Across all of it — all 280-plus episodes, all fourteen seasons, every scene Frank Reagan appeared in — Tom Selleck maintained one absolute rule about the character that he had established before filming the pilot and never deviated from once.

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