It was a Tuesday afternoon under the heavy canvas of the Malibu ranch, and the California sun was beating down unmercifully on the tents. The actors were exhausted,…

To tens of millions of people around the world in the late 1970s and early 1980s, B.J. Hunnicutt was the ultimate moral compass. He was the mustache-wearing, devotion-personified…

We were sitting in this dimly lit studio doing a retrospective podcast for the show’s anniversary, and the host brought up an old production still. It was a…

The Malibu Creek state park was quiet on a Tuesday afternoon, save for the dry brush rustling against the rocks. Two men stood near a rusted piece of…

The Malibu Creek sun was beating down on the dry brush, baking the gravel until it smelled exactly like 1974. Two men stood near the edge of the…

We were sitting in this cramped radio studio in Manhattan, doing a podcast retrospective for the show’s fiftieth anniversary. The host was shuffling through a stack of old…

We were doing one of those endless cast reunion panels, the kind where we sit in comfortable chairs under bright stage lights and try to remember things that…

When you are the center of the television universe, the concept of home changes. It has to. By the mid-1970s, Alan Alda wasn’t just an actor; he was…

  It began as a reunion. They were all together again, the tall, soft-spoken actor who had played the moral, family-man surgeon, and the woman who had transformed…