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Just heard about that from Facebook a few seconds ago! What did he pass on from?

And I'm sure that he knows J! inside and out, having been there more than 30 years strong, just like Alex.

So indeed-- Bob did it for 35 on TPIR (1972-2007).

Does that mean that she was a Scientologist all her life?

A very well-written (at least so far, from what I've seen) indictment of FOX News Channel, based on the documentary film of the same name

The Silent Partner, the first of the Diagnosis: Murder books by Lee Goldberg (these, IINM, based on that 1993-2001 CBS medical/mystery series w/Dick Van Dyke)

That is true, at least for MacGyver-- the original-recipe one w/Richard Dean Anderson in the title role was on ABC from 1985-92.

I've been seeing it on DVD (through six discs [first season and half of the second], and soon to start on that seventh disc [I think this is where Wright King joins up as Jason Nichols for a time; Jason being Josh's sidekick]), and it's been really good (I think it's one of the best series on DVD I've been seeing in quite a while).

If that's the case, then why is the current Five-0 still going on CBS (itself a pale shell, at least IMO, of the original-recipe 1968-80 Jack Lord Five-O), while the TNT Dallas (also a shell of the longer-lasting original-recipe one on CBS under Lorimar from 1978-91) didn't last that long (only 2012-14)?

The very reason why I Love Lucy did not stand up for me too well on DVD-- a few funny shows in the two seasons' worth I saw, but the rest of it, to me, is just like you said it was.

He was on Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak on ABC when I was 5, and what saddens me about that is that he didn't last as long there as Richard Dawson did on Feud on that same network. Why did Richard last longer on Feud than Bruce did on Hot Streak?

The Gospel of Self by Terry Heaton

Growing Up Fundamentalist by Stefan Ulstein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Hardin Ty Hardin, known for being Bronco Layne on the 1958-62 ABC Western Bronco, has passed on at 87.

1962 book based on the hit 1957-60 NBC police series w/the late Lee Marvin

Ara Parseghian, former coach of Notre Dame who led them to national titles in 1966 and '73, has passed on at 94. Just thought I'd bring that up. New York Times obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/sports/football/notre-dame-coach-ara-parseghian-dead-at-94.html Also included are a couple of screencaps of him in New York for CBS Sports on The Prudential College Football Report in 1988 alongside Jim Nantz.

Indeed-- I recall it from when I was 6, and it was called CBS Summer Playhouse, IIRC.

Everyone is Jesus in Purgatory: basically, what this means (it would seem; I may be incorrect) is that you're to forget what the copyright disclaimers say on many shows and movies from Universal, Columbia, Paramount, et al. (that the people, places, and events, among other things, are fiction), and that you're to take everything that happens on every show and movie literally, as if every episode is trying to teach you a lesson about life. Why do I hate this? Because I want to enjoy a show for what it was and what it meant to television history, not to be taught lessons in every single episode (let alone the Very Special Episodes). Here's the main trope page about that: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory And here are some quotes illustrating it: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory

Absolutely! Everything you just described are the very reasons why (as with the "very special episodes" on Diff'rent Strokes, Facts of Life, et al.) ELR has ever been ineligible for my DVD collection. I didn't find it funny the first time, and certainly wouldn't now! It's probably just your opinion, but I think the heavy-handedness and earnestness you describe might lead to Quantum Leap being a waste of money for me if I ever got it on DVD (never mind that I've never seen it before). Based on that, I'm wondering, what made it get so preachy, heavy-handed, earnest?

I've just now started into another Western, Wanted: Dead or Alive (also on CBS, and, like Have Gun, Will Travel, also on Saturdays [at least for its first two seasons' worth, from 8:30-9; in its final season, 1960-61, it went to Wednesdays, but stayed in the 8:30-9 slot]). I purchased the all-in-one DVD of that Western (Mill Creek made the release) from Amazon, and I'm two episodes in; from what I've seen so far, it seems that Josh Randall (the late great Steve McQueen) is sort of like Paladin was on Have Gun (he used an 1892 Winchester sawed-off shotgun which, IINM, he called his "mare's leg"; like Paladin, he didn't use it unless he had to). From what I've read, he always tried to get his quarry either way (as befit the title), although it would seem that more were taken alive than dead. Anyway, 2 episodes in, it seems that this might be another one of those that I see all the way through; I never saw it on Encore Westerns, but I'm looking forward to really enjoying it with this all-in-one DVD.

Former legendary news anchor of KGO (ABC7 S.F.), Van Amburg, has passed on at 86-- what he has passed from is yet undetermined. http://abc7news.com/news/legendary-kgo-anchorman-van-amburg-passes-away-at-86/2169199/

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Gabe-Pressman-WNBC-Dead-430323423.html?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma Another obituary, this from WNBC's website

And he will always be remembered for that as well.

Stephen Furst, who was Dr. Elliot Axelrod on the NBC medical series St. Elsewhere from 1983-88, has passed on @ 63 from complications of diabetes. His obituary from TMZ: http://www.tmz.com/2017/06/17/stephen-furst-flounder-animal-house-dead/ And to remember, his title credit from the top of St. Elsewhere:

That's hilarious! I never thought that a fictional character would show up in a phone book, let alone the man who was known for playing him.