Of course, if Dr. Hoffman were unavailable to treat cable televison's most famous waste management disposal executive, perhaps the estimable Dr. Eric Lang, Dark Shadow's own absent-minded mad scientist extraordinaire, could have pinch-hit for his colleague?
Can you imagine the first time that Dr. Lang met his new patient? The good doctor would probably mess-up his last name by calling him "Mr. Castrato" instead of "Mr. Soprano." ( And, wouldn't that entirely innocent faux pas have scored points with Big Tony right off of the bat?)
No doubt , Dr. Lang would have offerred Tony the same possibility of an entirely "new life, in a new body" that he originally offerred to Barnabas. However, since the vapid and vacuous (yet, perfectly coiffed) Jeff Clark's head would no longer be "available," maybe Dr. Lang would offer Tony the vapid and and vacuous noggins of either the abstemious actor Colin Farrell or that of Farrell's fellow actor (?) Nick Lachey (perhaps, formerly, better known as "Mr. Jessica Simpson") ? Now, that's an offer that even Big Tony could not refuse!