{"id":48136,"date":"2014-11-16T19:06:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T19:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/16\/rip-glen-larson.html"},"modified":"2014-11-16T19:06:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T19:06:23","slug":"rip-glen-larson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/16\/rip-glen-larson.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP Glen Larson"},"content":{"rendered":"

This man was<\/i> TV for me in the 70s-80s. "Quincy, ME," "Magnum, PI," "Battlestar Galactica," "Knight Rider," "Six Million Dollar Man" and tons of others, not to mention stuff he "just" wrote in his tenure in Hollywood. A run-down of his amazing career here: http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0488991\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(Oddly enough, I have an indirect connection to Larson; he was a founding member of the singing group "The Four Preps"; my high school choir director, Don Clarke, was in that group for a time.)<\/p>\n

Larson's work isn's Shakespeare in terms of its eternal appeal (or, at least, I doubt it), but it gave me many, many<\/i> hours of entertainment in that era. Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +Keith Wilson<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you watched TV during the 70s and 80s you likely watched one of his shows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nGlen A. Larson Dead: ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ ‘Quincy M.E.,’ ‘Magnum, P.I.’ Creator Was 77 – Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/span>
\nGlen A. Larson, the wildly successful television writer-producer whose enviable track record includes Quincy M.E., Magnum, P.I., Battlestar Galactica, Knig…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This man was TV for me in the 70s-80s. "Quincy, ME," "Magnum, PI," "Battlestar Galactica," "Knight Rider," "Six Million Dollar Man" and tons of others, not to mention stuff he "just" wrote in his tenure in Hollywood. A run-down of his amazing career here: http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0488991\/ (Oddly enough, I have an indirect connection to Larson; he … Continue reading “RIP Glen Larson”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132048,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/15\/then-and-now.html","url_meta":{"origin":48136,"position":0},"title":"Then and Now","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Nov-16 11:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A British photographer who took various photos of folk around Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in the 70s and 80s in recent years went back around to find the original subjects and re-shoot the same photo.Funny, sad, and interesting, all rolled into one. 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