TV treasures who are still with us (and some now sadly saying goodbye since this thread began)

[Mass Haas]

I always heard stories that her and Gabe Kaplan did not exactly get along on the set of "Welcome Back Kotter"

 

Not so, this clip will help explain --

 

http://youtu.be/o0KjZ_OFaFQ

[TURBO]

RIP Mrs. Kotter...

 

That cast has suffered several losses, and none of them were that old...

 

One of my favorite shows of all time, now available on a boxed set dvd! You can only by season one separately, which is a bummer.

[JimH5]

My favorite part of Welcome Back Kotter was during the short segments, either leading in to the show or at the end, when Gabe was telling a story/joke to Mrs. K. It was just the two of them in the apartment together. Obviously it was written and rehearsed and they were actors, but when Kaplan delivered the punchline, and she would laugh, it seemed very sweet and charming. As a teenager, that's how I imagined a great marriage would be.

[Mass Haas]

TV Guide Q&A with Norman Lear, 92

[Mass Haas]

Donna Douglas, Elly May on 'Beverly Hillbillies,' dead at 81

 

Only Jethro remains...

 

Max Baer Jr. On Donna Douglas: ‘She Was Elly May Until The Day She Died’

[lcbj68c]

RIP Stuart Scott...a different kind of tv legend.

[JimH5]

I'm stunned that Donna Douglas was born in 1933. She was at least 10 years older than her Ellie May Clampett character.

 

I miss that kind of sitcom.

[JimH5]

Don Harron died today at age 90.

 

If his name isn't familiar, he was on Hee Haw as the KORN news reader, and basically rode that character, Charlie Farquharson, for his whole life. Not unlike the guy who played Foster Brooks or the guy who played Charlie Weaver.

 

I won't pretend that Hee Haw was great art, but it did deliver some country music greats...Hank Snow, Roy Acuff, Faron Young, Johnny Cash, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Stringbean, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, June Carter, Grandpa Jones, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, etc.

 

And if you catch it some nights on RFD TV, you might find episodes with Johnny Bench, Dizzy Dean or Mickey Mantle..

 

RIP, Don. You delivered pure, rural Canadian schtick.

[whizkid]

Not unlike the guy who played Foster Brooks or the guy who played Charlie Weaver.

 

Foster Brooks wasn't a character, that was his name. His shtick was portraying a drunk. Cliff Arquette portrayed Charlie Weaver.

[pete]

I wonder if Hee Haw was inspired by Laugh In. The hillbilly couple with the woman with the blacked out tooth, Roni Stoneman, makes me laugh. Sometimes I'll have it on while I surf the net. When I use the jokes on the little woman she just shakes her head.

[1992casey]

Leonard Nimoy passed away this morning at age 83.

[DatHoser]

The Miller High Life delivery guy, Windell D. Middlebrooks, from the commercials passed away at 36. No cause was released. Sad - seemed like a great guy from what I read during the time those commercials were aired.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/10/entertainment/feat-windell-middlebrooks-miller-high-life-dies/index.html

[Mass Haas]

Some of my best "being silly" TV teenage memories -- dancing to the Gong Show set with "Gene Gene the Dancing Machine", now gone at 82.

 

[hawing]

When I look at clips from The Gong Show nowadays, I wonder if anyone was ever sober on that set. I mean, like ever.

[BrewersSuperCollector]

RIP James Best. The sheriff of Hazard County. 88 years old.

[Mass Haas]

Eight Is Enough's Dick Van Patten, gone at 86.

 

One of the better comb-overs, even back in the day.

 

Eight Is Enough was right in our families' TV wheelhouse, Elizabeth was one of my several teenage TV crushes, but that's not the point, here.

 

The other "Dick Van", Van Dyke, still hanging in there at 89, although the trusted periodicals in my grocery store line indicate he may not be doing so well, understandably at that age. (Van Dyke did just guest-star on a recent episode of "The Middle", with 83-year-old brother Jerry.)

[Mass Haas]

‘Avengers’ TV Show Star Patrick Macnee Dies at 93

[1992casey]

Getting back to people who are living, Norman Lloyd, 100, appears in this year's film, [cite]Trainwreck[/cite]. His film and television career goes back to 1939. Notable parts include several episodes of [cite]Alfred Hitchcock Presents[/cite], the role of Headmaster Nolan in [cite]Dead Poets Society[/cite], and the role of Dr. Daniel Auschlander for six years on the series [cite]St. Elsewhere[/cite].

[WV Brew]

Yvonne Craig="Batgirl" dies

[Mass Haas]

What a tough week for this fan.

 

First Batgirl, and now Wrangler Jane from F Troop, Melody Patterson.

 

In January 2008, I did one of our "Google Won't Save You" mystery threads on Melody, but the image links didn't stay active.

 

Just 66, darn it.

[BrewersSuperCollector]

Jean Darling passed away at 93. She was in Our Gang.

[Mass Haas]

Also Martin Milner from Adam-12 at 83 and Judy Carne of Laugh-In, 76. Learned that Carne suffered from several of life's hardships, many of them brought upon via addiction.

[TURBO]

relating to this thread:

 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/emmys-gallery/in-memoriam-2015/ss-AAdOe9s?ocid=mailsignout

[1992casey]

Jack Larson, playwright and the actor who played Jimmy Olson on [cite]The Adventures of Superman[/cite], passed away at age 87 on September 20.

 

• Jack Larson, who played Jimmy Olsen in TV’s ‘Superman’ series, dies at 87
  
• Jack Larson, TV’s Jimmy Olsen and playwright, dies at 87

 

Still with us are Phyllis Coates (88) and Noel Neill (94), the two actors who played Lois Lane in the series.

[brewmann04]

yes he played that role