Glen A. Larson died this week. If you're in your forties, that name may seem slightly familiar, especially if you picture it on a TV screen prefaced by "executive producer." But once again, the media is confused as to why to memorialise him. I've seen different stories refer to him as "creator of Magnum P.I.," "creator of Knight Rider" or "creator of Battlestar Galactica." But none of them seemed to put those credits together with B.J. and the Bear, The Fall Guy, Buck Rogers and The Six-Million Dollar Man and remember him as the king of Eighties action shows.
(As an aside, did you know that he put a lot of references to his Mormon faith in Battlestar Galactica?)
Combine that with the recent death of R.A. Montgomery, publisher of the Choose Your Own Adventure books, and we've had a couple of instances of short shrift given to people who had a hand in the entertainment of my childhood. Both the Eighties and geekery are getting much more respect than they
ever have before, so you'd think the media would use this to give a fond
bit of nostalgia.
Instead, I'm just going to have to add them to my ongoing series of people who deserved better obituaries than the media gave them. Now I call on all of you Gen-X'ers out there to hum the Knight Rider theme, as you go to the web page of your choice.
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