dennis weaver-related stories
Posted Aug 21st 2006 8:04AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: The Five, Web, Celebrities
When I'm bored, which is often, I like to poke around Google Video's selection of lengthy interviews from the Archive of American Television. The other day I found there's a lot of interviews of some really great television personalities who have since passed on to that great cathode ray tube in the sky. Here are five I think are worth checking out:
Fred Rogers: Several years ago, despite the fact that he hadn't really done anything besides what he had done most of his life, host a children's program, Esquire magazine named Fred Rogers their Man of the Year. It was one of the best profiles the mag had ever done, and it's because nobody on television was as kind and genuine as Fred.
Continue reading The Five: Five interviews with five cool dead guys
Posted Feb 27th 2006 5:25PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: TV Royalty, Talent, Celebrities, Obituaries

Wow, it's been a bad week for
TV veterans. First
Curt Gowdy passed away,
then
Don Knotts and
Darren McGavin. Now comes word that Dennis
Weaver, who acted in various roles on television for over fifty years,
passed
away Friday at the age of 81, apparently due to complications from cancer.
Weaver's best known roles were
as Chester Goode on the long-running Western
Gunsmoke and as a New Mexican cowboy lawman transplanted to New
York City in the Seventies mystery series
McCloud.