I was running flat out yesterday from 7 AM to 8:30 PM, so I got a little behind in obits. My apologies.<\/p>\n
Mitchell Ryan<\/a>. THR<\/a>. Other credits<\/a> (besides those in the headline) include guest shots on a lot of cop shows (“O’Hara, U.S. Treasury”, “Cannon”, “Barnaby Jones”), “High Plains Drifter”, “Magnum Force”, “The Friends of Eddie Coyle”, and apparently he starred in a series called “Chase” that I’ve never heard of.<\/p>\n Tim Considine<\/a>. THR<\/a>. Other credits<\/a> include “Soldier Who Gets Slapped” in “Patton”, “The Shaggy Dog”, and a guest shot on “Ironside”.<\/p>\n …he made a career as a sports and automobile photographer, writer and author. His books included \u201cThe Language of Sport\u201d (1982) and \u201cAmerican Grand Prix Racing\u201d (1997).<\/a> “Great But Forgotten” did a nice tribute to “The Adventures of Spin and Marty” a while back<\/a>. The idea of a children’s show where the main characters actually grow and change kind of interests me.<\/p>\n (Shallow rabbit hole about “The Shaggy Dog”, because it came up over the weekend. Lawrence was wondering, and according to Wikipedia (the source of all slightly accurate information), “The Shaggy D.A.” was actually a sequel. There was also a two-part TV movie in 1987, “The Return of the Shaggy Dog”, set at some point between the two movies and starring Gary Kroeger<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Johnny Brown<\/a>. Other credits<\/a> include “The Lost Saucer”, “The Wiz”, “Get Christie Love!”, and he played a character called “Huggy Bear” in an episode of “The Rookies”. (I can’t tell if
\nMr. Considine even substituted a couple of times for William Safire, writing the \u201cOn Language\u201d column for The New York Times Magazine. He explained how \u201cthe first Olympic Games, in 776 B.C., in which a line scratched in the dirt served as the starting point\u201d for some events, led to the expression \u201cstart from scratch.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n“Streets of San Francisco”<\/del> [Edited: D’oh! “Starsky and Hutch”! I blame the fact that my parents wouldn’t let me watch any of these shows.] intended for this to be the same character, but they did use Antonio Fargas instead of Johnny Brown.)<\/p>\n