TV Squad http://www.tvsquad.com TV Squad http://www.tvsquad.com/media/feedlogo.gif TV Squad http://www.tvsquad.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/'Mission: Impossible' Star Peter Graves Dead at 83http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/03/14/mission-impossible-star-peter-graves-dead-at-83/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/03/14/mission-impossible-star-peter-graves-dead-at-83/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/03/14/mission-impossible-star-peter-graves-dead-at-83/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Peter GravesPeter Graves died of a heart attack at his Los Angeles home today. He was an actor who seemed to do a little bit of everything, and where you know him from might depend on your age.

He was team leader Jim Phelps on 'Mission: Impossible' in the '60s and also had a memorable role as the pilot Captain Oveur in the first two 'Airplane' movies in the '80s. He was also the host of A&E's 'Biography' for ten years and appeared in several commercials ("I'm Peter Graves..."). You might even know him from voice work he did on 'American Dad.' He had a recurring role on '7th Heaven' and guest roles on 'Cold Case,' 'House,' 'Diagnosis: Murder,' 'The Love Boat,' 'Fantasy Island,' and other shows.

Graves wasn't happy about Phelps being the bad guy in the big-screen 'Mission: Impossible' movie but was actually going to film a cameo in the fourth film in the franchise.

Graves was the brother of another TV icon, 'Gunsmoke's' James Arness. After the jump, the opening to 'Mission: Impossible.'

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]]>airplaneamerican dadbiographycaptain oveurhousejames arnessjim phelpsmission impossiblepeter gravesBob SassoneSun, 14 Mar 2010 23:04:00 ESTMerlin Olsen Dead at 69http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/03/11/merlin-olsen-dead-at-69/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/03/11/merlin-olsen-dead-at-69/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/03/11/merlin-olsen-dead-at-69/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Merlin OlsenOn January 1 we reported that former football star and actor Merlin Olsen was suing NBC Universal, NBC Studios, and 20th Century Fox for exposing him to asbestos over the years. Now comes word that Olsen has died of mesothelioma in California.

Olsen was someone who had successful careers in both sports and acting. TV drama fans will remember him from his roles in 'Little House on the Prairie' (he played Jonathan Garvey) and 'Father Murphy' (as the title character) and football fans will remember his long pro football career playing for The Los Angeles Rams. He was the 1962 Rookie of the Year and retired in 1976 after being named to the Pro Bowl fourteen times. He also had a career as a sports commentator and analyst.

Olsen had roles in other TV shows and movies as well, including 'Aaron's Way,' 'Fathers and Sons,' 'Kung Fu,' 'The Brian Keith Show,' and 'Petticoat Junction.'

 

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]]>asbestosfather murphyfootballlittle house on the prairiemerlin olsennbcnbc studiosnbc universalpro bowlBob SassoneThu, 11 Mar 2010 12:55:00 ESTCorey Haim Dead at 38http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/03/10/corey-haim-dead-at-38/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/03/10/corey-haim-dead-at-38/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/03/10/corey-haim-dead-at-38/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Haim'Lost Boys' star Corey Haim is dead.

Haim was found by his mother at his apartment near Burbank, CA. There's no word yet on cause of death, but TMZ is reporting that he died of an overdose.

While it's too bad that he might be remembered for all of his recent activities, including drug use, fights, and the unfortunate reality show 'The Two Coreys' that he did with frequent co-star Corey Feldman, he was actually in some good movies when he was younger. 'Lucas' and 'The Lost Boys' are great flicks. Haim also starred in two short-lived TV shows, 'The Edison Twins' in 1984 and 'Roomies' in 1987.

 

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]]>corey feldmancorey haimlucasroomiesthe lost boysthe two coreystmzBob SassoneWed, 10 Mar 2010 09:55:00 ESTPolice Have Found Andrew Koenig's Bodyhttp://www.tvsquad.com/2010/02/25/police-have-found-andrew-koenigs-body/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/02/25/police-have-found-andrew-koenigs-body/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/02/25/police-have-found-andrew-koenigs-body/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

TMZ has a sad and heartbreaking update on the ongoing saga of Andrew Koenig. Police have found the actor's body and his father, Walter Koenig, said it appears that his son took his own life.

Vancouver police released a statement earlier today that said a body was found in Stanley Park around noon that they believed was Koenig, the 41-year-old actor, activist and photographer who played Boner on the 80's sitcom 'Growing Pains'.

Andrew's mother, Judy, and father have just offered a public statement. Through the tears, they thanked the people who reached out to the family and urged people who think they are suffering from depression to seek help through their friends and family.



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]]>andrew koenigandrew koenig found deadAndrewKoenigAndrewKoenigFoundDeadgrowing painsGrowing Pains actorGrowing Pains actor missingGrowingPainsGrowingPainsActorGrowingPainsActorMissingNever Not FunnyNeverNotFunnyvancouver police departmentVancouverPoliceDepartmentwalter koenigWalterKoenigDanny GallagherThu, 25 Feb 2010 21:02:00 ESTPhil Harris, the Captain from 'Deadliest Catch,' Passes Awayhttp://www.tvsquad.com/2010/02/10/phil-harris-the-captain-from-deadliest-catch-passes-away/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/02/10/phil-harris-the-captain-from-deadliest-catch-passes-away/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/02/10/phil-harris-the-captain-from-deadliest-catch-passes-away/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

phil_harris_deadliest_catchThere's nothing more shocking than real reality. Death is real. Steve Irwin dying on the job, for instance, was a huge shock. Here's another dose of harsh reality. The star of Discovery Channel's 'Deadliest Catch,' Phil Harris, has died from a stroke. He had been at work on January 29, loading a catch like usual, when he suffered the stroke. After being flown to Anchorage for treatment, he succumbed despite having shown some improvement.

In a statement on the Discovery Channel web site, his grown children, Jake and Josh, explained, "It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our dad -- Captain Phil Harris. Dad has always been a fighter and continued to be until the end. For us and the crew, he was someone who never backed down."

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]]>AlaskaCaptain PhilCaptainPhilcrabsdeathDiscovery ChannelDiscoveryChannelfishermanPhil HarrisPhilHarrisstrokeThe Deadliest CatchTheDeadliestCatchAllison WaldmanWed, 10 Feb 2010 11:02:00 EST'Days of Our Lives' Matriarch, Frances Reid, Dies At 95http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/02/04/days-of-our-lives-matriarch-frances-reid-dies-at-95/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/02/04/days-of-our-lives-matriarch-frances-reid-dies-at-95/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/02/04/days-of-our-lives-matriarch-frances-reid-dies-at-95/#commentsFiled under: , , , , ,

days_of_our_lives_frances_reid_macdonald_careyIf you've been a soap watcher, you've probably seen the work of Frances Reid. Best known as Alice Horton on 'Days of Our Lives,' Frances Reid died yesterday at the age of 95.

For more than 40 years, Frances was the matriarch of the Horton family, Grandma Alice, one the wisest, wittiest and most charming oldster on daytime. She was 'Days of Our Lives' Rock of Gibralter, her character was the center of her family, the heart that kept it all together even when bizarre circumstances threatened to tear the Hortons apart.

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]]>40 years40YearsAlice HortonAliceHortonBo and HopeBoAndHopeChristmasDays of Our LivesDaysOfOurLivesdeathdonutsFrances ReidFrancesReidGrandma AliceGrandmaAliceHortonobituaryornamentsRoman and MarlenaRomanAndMarlenaAllison WaldmanThu, 04 Feb 2010 15:27:00 ESTNFL Pro and CBS Broadcaster Tom Brookshier Dead at 78http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/02/01/nfl-pro-and-cbs-broadcaster-tom-brookshier-dead-at-78/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/02/01/nfl-pro-and-cbs-broadcaster-tom-brookshier-dead-at-78/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/02/01/nfl-pro-and-cbs-broadcaster-tom-brookshier-dead-at-78/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

tom_brookshier_philadelphia_eaglesIf you're old enough to remember before the merger between the NFL and the AFL, or if you're a Philly football fan, the name Tom Brookshier is a familiar one for you. Philly fans will remember Tom as a hard-hitting defensive back and part of the 1960 Philadelphia Eagle championship team.

But for the mainstream NFL fan, Tom Brookshier was the sideman to Pat Summerall before John Madden. That was when the NFC was on CBS, and Summerall and Brookshier were the top broadcasting team.

On Friday night, January 29, Tom Brookshier succumbed to cancer at the age of 78. At his hospital bedside when he died were his wife, Barbara, and his partner for so many years, Pat Summerall.

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]]>1960sCBSdefensive backDefensiveBackinterceptionsJohn MaddenJohnMaddenNFLold schoolOldSchoolPat SummerallPatSummerallPhiladelphia EaglePhiladelphiaEagleTom BrookshierTomBrookshierAllison WaldmanMon, 01 Feb 2010 17:28:00 ESTBonanza star Pernell Roberts dies at 81http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/01/26/bonanza-star-pernell-roberts-dies-at-81/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/01/26/bonanza-star-pernell-roberts-dies-at-81/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/01/26/bonanza-star-pernell-roberts-dies-at-81/#commentsFiled under: , ,

pernell_roberts_bonanza_trapper_john_mdDepending on your age, Pernell Roberts was either western hero Adam Cartwright or grumpy surgeon Trapper John to you. Pernell Roberts starred in two long-running television series, Bonanza and Trapper John, M.D. But despite his success as a TV star and personality, he was never happy being a celebrity and had a reputation for being difficult and demanding. Pernell Roberts passed away on Sunday, January 24, succumbing to pancreatic cancer. He was 81.

Roberts was probably most famous as Adam, the eldest son of Ben Cartwright, brother of Hoss and Little Joe on NBC's mega-hit Bonanza. For six years, beginning in 1959, Roberts was Ben's smartest and most accomplished son. Roberts got the most serious story lines and carried a lot of the show. But Roberts chaffed under the formulaic structure of the western hit. He was frustrated that the quality of the writing wasn't better. He questioned why three grown men continued asking their father's permission to do anything.

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]]>Adam CartwrightAdamCartwrightBonanzacancerdeathdemandingdifficultMDPernell RobertsPernellRobertsTrapper JohnTrapperJohnAllison WaldmanTue, 26 Jan 2010 09:00:00 ESTAll My Children's James Mitchell passes awayhttp://www.tvsquad.com/2010/01/23/all-my-childrens-james-mitchell-passes-away/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/01/23/all-my-childrens-james-mitchell-passes-away/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/01/23/all-my-childrens-james-mitchell-passes-away/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

james_mitchell_all_my_childrenOne of the most famous stars of daytime, All My Children's James Mitchell, died Friday, January 22 in Los Angeles. He was 89 and suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, complicated by pneumonia. He hadn't been on the show much of the past couple of years, but he did make it back for the AMC 40th anniversary episode on January 5, and that turned out to be his last professional appearance.

James Mitchell was a man with two great careers. To soap fans, he was the indomitable Palmer Cortlandt, a brilliant tycoon and businessman, but also a man obsessed with his family and not above manipulation to get his way.

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]]>40th anniversary AMC40thAnniversaryAmcAll My ChildrenAllMyChildrendancerjames MitchellJamesMitchellobituaryoklahomaPalmer CortlandtPalmerCortlandtThe BandwagontheaterTheBandwagonvillainAllison WaldmanSat, 23 Jan 2010 10:09:00 ESTRobert B. Parker, author of the Spenser novels, dead at 77http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/01/19/robert-b-parker-author-of-the-spenser-novels-dead-at-77/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/01/19/robert-b-parker-author-of-the-spenser-novels-dead-at-77/http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/01/19/robert-b-parker-author-of-the-spenser-novels-dead-at-77/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Robert B. ParkerJust last week I posted one of my favorite episodes of the 80s ABC series Spenser: For Hire, and now comes word that the author of the novels, Robert B. Parker, has died at the age of 77.

No details yet, but Parker died at his desk in his Cambridge, MA home. When you're a writer that's probably the way to go.

If you only know Spenser from the TV series that starred Robert Urich (which was great), you should pick up the novels, too. He's been writing them since the 70s and they're quite good, very engaging first person mystery stories set in Boston. He started a new series of book based around the Jesse Stone character (who happens to live my neck of the woods), and while I've never read those novels I have seen the TV movies featuring Tom Selleck as Stone and they are very good. There's a new Jesse Stone novel coming out in May. Not sure if Parker had finished a new Spenser novel or not (his latest is The Professional).

I think it's time for a Spenser: For Hire marathon.

 

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]]>avery brookscambridge majesse stonerobert b. parkerrobert urichspenser for hiretom selleckBob SassoneTue, 19 Jan 2010 14:00:00 ESTPioneering Sports Machine host George Michael dies at 70http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/25/pioneering-sports-machine-host-george-michael-dies-at-70/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/25/pioneering-sports-machine-host-george-michael-dies-at-70/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/25/pioneering-sports-machine-host-george-michael-dies-at-70/#commentsFiled under: , ,

One of television's biggest sports names long before people cared about the people who talked about sports on television has died.

George Michael, the sportscaster and longtime host of the nationally syndicated George Michael's Sports Machine, succumbed to a long battle with cancer on Thursday.

To call him ahead of his time would be an understatement. He basically invented the hyper clip style format of shows like ESPN's SportsCenter, brought a great deal of personality to TV sports reporting and sportscasting and even inspired and mentored the likes of Pardon the Interruption's Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon.

 

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]]>george michaelgeorge michaels sports machineGeorgeMichaelGeorgeMichaelsSportsMachinenbcnbc newsNBC Nightly Newsnbc universalNbcNewsNbcNightlyNewsNbcUniversalDanny GallagherFri, 25 Dec 2009 09:05:00 ESTTop TV Stories of 2009: TV coverage of Michael Jackson's deathhttp://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/24/top-tv-stories-of-2009-tv-coverage-of-michael-jacksons-death/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/24/top-tv-stories-of-2009-tv-coverage-of-michael-jacksons-death/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/24/top-tv-stories-of-2009-tv-coverage-of-michael-jacksons-death/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

Michael JacksonAs a fan of music from the 80's and the early 90's, I didn't believe it at first when one of my friends told me that Michael Jackson died. Since TVs were rare where I was at the time, my first instinct was to check CNN.com. As soon as I got confirmation, I found a TV and was glued to one of the news-only channels to get all the latest updates on the death of one of my music idols.

TV coverage of Michael Jackson's death was worldwide and every source of media. The news of his death, the coroner's investigation, the rumors that his death may have been faked (see the video after the jump), the news of where he would be buried, the details of the various tributes, as well as coverage of the special funeral ceremony, etc., made Michael Jackson's death one of the 2009 events that got the most air time around the world. Even as huge an MJ fan I am -- I do have about 30 of his hits on my MP3 -- I can admit that this event got too much air time.

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]]>bestof2009coveragedeathfuneraliconMicheal JacksonMichealJacksonMTVmusicThe SimpsonsTheSimpsonsThrillertributeTVvideo clipVideoClipIsabelle CarreauThu, 24 Dec 2009 15:18:00 ESTArnold Stang, voice of Top Cat, dead at 91http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/23/arnold-stang-voice-of-top-cat-dead-at-91/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/23/arnold-stang-voice-of-top-cat-dead-at-91/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/23/arnold-stang-voice-of-top-cat-dead-at-91/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

Arnold StangWhen I was a kid, I loved the cartoon Top Cat. I'm not sure why. Maybe it was the cool music or the fact it was set in New York City. I also really loved Top Cat's voice.

Arnold Stang, the voice of the clever feline, died earlier this week at the age of 91. Stang was in 75 gazillion TV shows and movies over the years (you'd know the face and/or the voice even if you couldn't place the name), including The Jonathan Winters Show, Broadside, Batman, Bonanza, The Red Skelton Show, December Bride, The Steve Allen Show, The Milton Berle Show, Emergency, and Mathnet.

He was also in several movies, including Hercules in New York, Dennis The Menace, and It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. He was also the original voice of Buzz Bee in Honey-Nut Cheerios commercials.

After the jump, an episode of Top Cat.

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]]>arnold stangbonanzabroadsidedecember bridgeemergencyits a mad mad mad mad worldthe jonathan winters showthe milton berle showthe steve allen showtop catBob SassoneWed, 23 Dec 2009 19:01:00 ESTAlaina Reed Hall of Sesame Street and 227 dies at 63http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/21/alaina-reed-hall-of-sesame-street-and-227-dies-at-63/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/21/alaina-reed-hall-of-sesame-street-and-227-dies-at-63/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/21/alaina-reed-hall-of-sesame-street-and-227-dies-at-63/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Alaina Reed, Sesame StreetAnother celebrity death has hit the world of the small screen.

Actress Alaina Reed Hall, probably best remembered for playing Rose on the sitcom 227 and Olivia on Sesame Street from the late 70s to the late 80s, passed away last week after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 63

Of course, her career stretches far beyond those two shows with parts on just about every major show in the last few decades including Friends, ER and Ally McBeal, but she was always Olivia to me. She was on the show and even the big screen spinoff Follow That Bird during my formative years, so her sweet and endearing demeanor performance as Olivia pretty much stuck her with the role.

I'm sure if I met her in person, I would accidentally call her Olivia at least four times and something tells me she would not have minded a bit.

 

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]]>227alaina reed hallAlainaReedHallchildrens television workshopChildrensTelevisionWorkshopoliviarosesesame streetsesame street 40th anniversarysesame street classicssesame street workshopSesameStreetSesameStreet40thAnniversarySesameStreetClassicsSesameStreetWorkshopDanny GallagherMon, 21 Dec 2009 08:40:00 ESTRemembering Brittany Murphy as King of the Hill's Luannehttp://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/20/remembering-brittany-murphy-as-king-of-the-hills-luanne/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/20/remembering-brittany-murphy-as-king-of-the-hills-luanne/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/20/remembering-brittany-murphy-as-king-of-the-hills-luanne/#commentsFiled under: , ,

You may have heard that Brittany Murphy died suddenly today at the young age of 32. Some of you may not know how connected she was to TV, considering most of her best-known work was on the big screen. She had a few roles in some short-lived TV series, but she's probably best known to TV fans for her work as Luanne on King of the Hill.

The role always seemed to be a perfect fit for her and it seems in the wake of her tragic passing that to her, the role was more than just a job.

She once told USA Today that the character was a mix of "Juliette Lewis in Kalifornia and Jessica Lange in Blue Skies." She also said that despite Luanne's ditziness and naive ways, she served as a great source of inspiration for her.

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]]>brittany murphybrittany murphy deadBrittanyMurphyBrittanyMurphyDeadking of the hillKingOfTheHillluanneDanny GallagherSun, 20 Dec 2009 17:11:00 ESTRemember the great Edward Woodward with Callanhttp://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/14/remember-the-great-edward-woodward-with-callan/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/14/remember-the-great-edward-woodward-with-callan/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/14/remember-the-great-edward-woodward-with-callan/#commentsFiled under: , , , , ,

Edward Woodard kicked backside as Callan before he was The Equalizer.Most American TV viewers know Edward Woodward from his run as Robert McCall as The Equalizer. But, British TV aficionados know he trained in backside-kicking on the dark, gritty British spy series, Callan.

Written by James Mitchell, the show featured David Callan -- a spy working for an ultra-secret arm of the British Intelligence service specializing in assassinations. Unfortunately, the former soldier and convict was cursed with a conscience that led him to hate his job, his superiors and himself.

Woodward was perfect in the role -- blending haunted humor with genuine menace to create an intelligent, tortured man who you believed could kill anyone without having to look like Rambo while he did it.

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]]>britishdvdDVD RecommendationsDvdRecommendationsdvdsEdward WoodwardEdwardWoodwardspyspy thrillerSpyThrillerthe equalizerTheEqualizerJohn Scott LewinskiMon, 14 Dec 2009 13:02:00 ESTTop TV Stories of 2009: People we losthttp://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/13/top-tv-stories-of-2009-people-we-lost/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/13/top-tv-stories-of-2009-people-we-lost/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/13/top-tv-stories-of-2009-people-we-lost/#commentsFiled under: , ,

So we come to that time of year when we list all of the TV celebrities that have died over the past year. We hear about these people passing away at various points of the year (sometimes a few the same week), but it's really odd to see them all listed together at once like you'll see after the jump.

It's like 40% of pop culture dies every year.

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]]>bea arthurbestof2009billy mayscelebrity deathsdavid carradinedavid lloyddon hewitted mcmahonedward woodwardfarrah fawcettharve presnellhenry gibsonjames whitmoreken oberlarry gelbartlou albanomichael jacksonpatrick mcgoohanpatrick swayzepaul burkericardo montalbanrobert gintyron silversoupy salestop tv stories of 2009tv deathswalter cronkiteBob SassoneSun, 13 Dec 2009 16:03:00 ESTTV star Gene Barry passes away at 90http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/11/tv-star-gene-barry-passes-away-at-90/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/11/tv-star-gene-barry-passes-away-at-90/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/11/tv-star-gene-barry-passes-away-at-90/#commentsFiled under: , ,

bat_masterson_gene_barry"It's Burke's Law." That was the opening tag for one of three successful TV series that starred Gene Barry, one of the classiest actors to appear on screen. On Wednesday, TV star Gene Barry died at at 90 of undetermined causes. He was living in an L.A. rest home, but I will remember Gene Barry as the man who made Burke's Law, Bat Masterson and The Name of the Game memorable TV entertainment.

Barry was also well-known as the original star of the 1953 version of The War of the Worlds, and when Steven Spielberg remade the film in 2005 with Tom Cruise, he gave Gene a quick cameo. In addition to being a versatile leading man -- capable of playing a bad guy, a bon vivant, cops, spies, gentlemen, gunslingers, and magazine publishers -- Gene Barry also was a song and dance man. In 1984, he was one of the toasts of Broadway in La Cage aux Folles. Currently Kelsey Grammer is about to play Gene's role in a 2010 spring revival.

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]]>Amos Burke Secret AgentAmosBurkeSecretAgentBat MastersonBatMastersonBurkes LawBurkesLawColumboGene BarryGeneBarryGolden GlobeGoldenGlobeLa Cage aux FollesLaCageAuxFollesMillerobituarty 2009Obituarty2009The Name of the GameTheNameOfTheGameAllison WaldmanFri, 11 Dec 2009 14:29:00 ESTColin Quinn remembers Ken Ober in his special wayhttp://www.tvsquad.com/2009/11/17/colin-quinn-remembers-ken-ober-in-his-special-way/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/11/17/colin-quinn-remembers-ken-ober-in-his-special-way/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/11/17/colin-quinn-remembers-ken-ober-in-his-special-way/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

The sudden and shocking of passing of TV writer, producer and host Ken Ober turned a lot of heads. Here's one of Ober's head (ahem) getting turned, for a change.

Collin Quinn, Ober's longtime friend and Remote Control co-host, posted a hilarious picture on his Twitter page of himself, Ober and the uber-cute Kari Wuhrer on the set of their equally hilarious game show.

I'm tempted to let Bob use this for our weekly Subtle Subtitles post, but am worried the funniest of the comments will get us banned from every library in the country assuming, of course, that reading is still going on in America's libraries.

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]]>collin quinnCollinQuinnkari wuhrerKariWuhrermtvs remote controlMtvsRemoteControlremote controlRemoteControltwitterDanny GallagherTue, 17 Nov 2009 14:28:00 ESTRemote Control host Ken Ober dead at 52http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/11/16/remote-control-host-ken-ober-dead-at-52/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/11/16/remote-control-host-ken-ober-dead-at-52/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/11/16/remote-control-host-ken-ober-dead-at-52/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Ken OberWow, it's one thing to write about the death of someone like Edward Woodward, someone who was older and not in good health, but it's another thing to write about the death of someone only 52. Ken Ober, who hosted the classic (well, in my mind it's a classic) MTV game show Remote Control in the late 80s, died yesterday of unknown causes.

If you've never seen Remote Control, it was a wacky pop culture trivia game show that supposedly was filmed in Ober's basement. Besides being a really fun game show (especially for someone raised on television), it costarred a lot of people who later became household names, such as Adam Sandler, Denis Leary, and Colin Quinn.

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]]>adam sandlergame showken obermtvremote controlstar searchBob SassoneMon, 16 Nov 2009 17:27:00 EST