Who Really Played Danny Tanner In The Full House Pilot?

As "Full House" was reaching the latter stages of development in 1987 (via Yahoo! TV), a representative from ABC happened to be in the audience of a comedy show called Comedia in Atlanta (per David Grey Studios). There, they saw John Posey perform with the group he co-founded and decided he was the perfect fit for Danny Tanner. So, after a brief conversation, Posey went to Los Angeles to film the pilot with the already established "Full House" cast. But little did Posey know that he wasn't the first choice.

According to Posey, he was told ABC was "looking all over the country for people and couldn't find a guy." But the actor later found out "that Bob Saget and Paul Reiser were the two guys there were after first, and they were both unavailable," he explained to Yahoo! TV.

A month after filming the pilot, and as he was moving his life from Atlanta to Los Angeles, Posey received a call from his agent. They said ABC had changed their minds and had given the role to Saget. "I didn't know at the time that he was the guy they originally wanted," Posey said. "I guess something opened up for him . . . And I guess the executive producer talked to ABC into allowing him to re-shoot. So that was the end of that."