Despite the character's long history, Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975) is his sole appearance in a live-action film.
Dankworth's brief alto solo on Duke Ellington's Tonight I Shall Sleep, his one-song, wheelchair-borne sole appearance on a gig devoted to him and Cleo Laine, resonated with an awareness of jazz history going all the way back to the romantic sax soloists of the 1930s and forward to the subtleties of the present era.
Ms. Applegate, above, has worked plenty since playing Kelly Bundy: she has been nominated for Emmy and Golden Globe awards for her role as the title character in the ABC comedy "Samantha Who?" and was nominated for a Tony in 2005 for her sole appearance so far on Broadway, as Charity Hope Valentine in "Sweet Charity".
Lee was briefly a neighbour of Niven in tax exile in Switzerland; and his sole appearance on the London stage was in a production for the Under 30 Group, of which Guinness was then president. Lee recalls that he was simultaneously making a film, and hopelessly under-rehearsed.
After a sole international appearance in 1984 against Australia, the selectors wouldn't trust him, preferring Robert Jones.
"But that is politics!" He is disappointed that the issue has surfaced so little in the US election campaign so far – its sole appearance at that point was in a Democratic candidates' debate.
The joint oldest man on tour – albeit even at 33 still perhaps the fastest in a foot race – Carberry has yet to play an Ashes Test, or indeed any Test outside his sole appearance in Bangladesh in 2010.
His sole appearance for his country came in August 2012, when he featured in a friendly against Italy.
As such, he would surely be the most palatable of conquerors for connections of the favourite – quite apart from the exceptional quality he suggested in his sole appearance last season, when having the Hennessy all but sewn up a mile out.
Secondary roles were capably managed; the chorus did well in its sole appearance.
