GARY BURGHOFF LEFT THE SET… BUT RADAR NEVER TRULY DEPARTED.
The air in the room was still, the kind of heavy quiet that only happens when two people who have known each other for fifty years finally stop…
THE DAY THE SURGERY FAILED BECAUSE OF A LOUD SNORING SOLDIER
I was sitting in a small, cramped theater in New York a few years ago for a retrospective on television history. There was a young actor in the…
THE TV DOCTOR WHO HAD EVERY ANSWER… BUT HE HID ONE TRUTH
The voice was unmistakable. It was a rich, resonant instrument that felt like it belonged in a cathedral rather than a dusty surgical tent in Korea. When David…
THE CHOPPERS STOPPED FLYING DECADES AGO… BUT HIS HANDS STILL TREMBLE.
The sun was beginning to dip behind the jagged peaks of the Santa Monica Mountains. It was a quiet afternoon in Malibu Creek State Park. Two men sat…
THE MESSAGE IN THE STONES HID A TRUTH ONLY THEY KNEW
The light in the room was soft, the kind of amber glow that makes everyone look a little younger than the calendar says they are. Loretta sat across…
MIKE FARRELL REMEMBERED THE SCRIPTS… BUT THE SILENCE FELT MORE REAL
The light in the room was soft, the kind of gold that only happens when the sun is tired of being bright. Mike Farrell leaned back in his…
HE WAS TELEVISION’S STEADY FATHER… UNTIL THE MASK FINALLY SLIPPED
William Christopher sat in his quiet study, the afternoon sun catching the dust motes dancing in the air. In his hand was a small, grainy photograph from 1979,…
THE WORLD HEARD A HELICOPTER… BUT THE CAST HEARD A HEARTBEAT
Jamie Farr adjusted his hat against the California sun, his eyes squinting at the ridge line. Beside him, Loretta Swit stood perfectly still, her hand resting on a…
THEY SAID GOODBYE TO MILLIONS… BUT THE ACTORS WERE ACTUALLY BREAKING
The sun was beginning to dip behind the hills of California, casting long, amber shadows across the patio. Two men sat in comfortable wicker chairs, the kind of…
ALAN ALDA RECALLS THE PRANK THAT STOPPED MASH SURGERY
Listen, you have to remember that those surgery scenes were a completely different animal than the rest of the show. They had to be. We were making a…