| Pro | Mrs. | Nillson | Briarwood House's landlady. AKA: Doilies. |
| | Grace | March | One of Briarwood Boarding House's boarders. Aka: Galina Stepanova, Betty McDowell. |
| 1 | McCarthy | | The senator. |
| | Pete | Nillson | Mrs. Nillson's son. |
| | Arlene | Hupp | One of the boarders. |
| | Claire | Hallet | One of the boarders. AKA: Claire Halecki. |
| | Lina | Nillson | Pete's sister. |
| | Felicity | Orton | One of the boarders. A former nurse. AKA: Mrs. Fliss. |
| | Angela | Orton | Fliss' daughter. |
| | Reka | Muller | One of the boarders. AKA: Attila. |
| | Nora | Walsh | The youngest boarder. |
| | Truman | | Current US President. |
| | Dan | | Mrs. Fliss' husband. |
| | Joe | Reiss | One of Pete's neighbors. |
| 2 | Mr. | Harris | Executive Officer of the archives. |
| | Mr. | Rosenberg | Nillson's neighbor. |
| | Julius | Rosenberg | A Soviet Spy. |
| | Ethel | Rosenberg | Julius's wife. |
| | Timothy | Walsh | A sergeant. Nora's brother. AKA: Timmy. |
| | Xavier | Byrne | The Amber club owner. Nora's boyfriend. |
| | Duke | | Mr. Byrne's dog. |
| | George | Harding | The man that Mr. Byrne beat. Nora's ex-boyfriend. |
| | Father | Dominic | The priest. |
| | Siobhan | | Timmy's wife. |
| | Bea | Verretti | The new Briarwood house boarder. A teacher. |
| | Louise | | Mr. Byrne's housekeeper. |
| | Charlie | Ford | The Warring's defense lawyer. |
| | Mrs. | Halliwell | One of Nora's colleagues. |
| | Deirdre | | Tim's cousin. |
| | Joe | Friday | A police sergeant. |
| | Smith | | A police officer. |
| 3 | Leo | Casteli | Reka's student. |
| | Otto | | Reka's lover. |
| | Betty | Parsons | A gallerist. |
| | Helen | Frakenthaler | An artist. |
| | De Kooning | | Reka's co-artist. |
| | Peggy | Guggenheim | Reka's co-artist. |
| | Harland | Adams | FBI Agent. Arlene's boyfriend. |
| | Barrett | Sutherland | A senator. Claire's boss. |
| | Mrs. | Sutherland | Barrett's wife. |
| | Trudy | | Barrett's secretary. |
| | Red | | Grace's cat. |
| | Bea | | The Italian Girl. |
| 4 | Poolstock | | The reverend. |
| | John | Rock | A fertility specialist. Dan's uncle. |
| | Claude | Cormier | Joe Reiss's band mate. |
| | Beth | | Fliss's aunt. |
| | Kitty | | Grace's sister. AKA: Yekaterina. |
| 5 | Eugene | Royce | The principal at Bea's school. |
| | Miss | Ferguson | Bea's co-teacher. |
| | JD | | Grace's beau. |
| | Vika | | JD's ex-girlfriend. |
| | Clark Calvin | Griffith | Owner of the Washington Senators. |
| 6 | Miss | Wing | Claire's co-worker. |
| | Miss | Haskell | Claire's co-worker. |
| | Barrett Jr. | | Mr. Sutherland's son. Sydney's husband. |
| | Sydnet | Barclay-Jones | Sydney's father. |
| | Mr. | Morrow | The negro adviser at the commerce department. |
| | Mr. | X | Nora's lover. |
| | Margaret | Smith | A Senator. Claire's boss. |
| | Bear | Sutherland | Sydney's son. |
| 7 | Smoot | | The councilman. |
| | Kirill | Lensky | Grace's co-spy. AKA: Bob McDowell. |
| | Frederic | Morrow | Former writer of CBS. Current adviser to the Department of Commerce. |
| | Edward | Murrow | An American Broadcaster. |
| | Trotsky | | Kitty's cat. |
| | Zhenya | | Grace's aunt. |
| | Sofka | | Grace's aunt. |
| | Leonid | | Grace's uncle. |
| | Josef | | Grace's uncle. |
| | Tolya | | Grace's uncle. A KGB Agent. |
| | Bernard | Koteen | The Bake-Off Winner. |
| | John | Nillson | Lina and Pete's father. |
| | Helen | Beckman | The Bake-Off 2nd placer. |
| 8 | Lester | Gibbons | A paratrooper. Arlene's ex-lover. |
| Epi | Linda | Graves | Briarwood House's new boarder. |
