{"id":9503,"date":"2006-06-23T22:50:12","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T05:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/06\/23\/rip-aaron-spelling.html"},"modified":"2006-06-23T22:50:12","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T05:50:12","slug":"rip_aaron_spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/23\/rip_aaron_spell.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP Aaron Spelling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love him or hate him, Aaron Spelling<\/a> was one of the seminal influences on 70s-80s TV, with at least one show on the air consistently from 1960 to 1989. Among Spelling’s productions (most of which were for ABC) were “Burke’s Law,” “The Mod Squad,” “Love Boat,” “Fantasy Island,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “Starsky and Hutch,” “T.J. Hooker,” “Matt Houston,” “Hart to Hart” “Hotel,” “Beverly Hills 90210,” “Melrose Place,” “7th Heaven,” and about eleventy-zillion other movies, shows, etc<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Love him or hate him, Aaron Spelling was one of the seminal influences on 70s-80s TV, with at least one show on the air consistently from 1960 to 1989. 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