I hope this sad post makes you happy:
"Comic actor Dave Madden, who was best known for his role as Reuben Kinkaid, who managed the Partridge family band and regularly clashed with its impish pre-teen bassist, played by Danny Bonaduce, died.
During his career, he also appeared on such series as ‘‘Bewitched,’’ “Barney Miller,’’ “Happy Days,’’ “The Love Boat,’’ and ‘‘Fantasy Island.’’
I remember him well.
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Same day, different channel:
"Russell Johnson — an actor who made a living as the Professor, the brains of a bunch of sweetly clueless, self-involved, hopelessly naïve island castaways, on the hit sitcom “Gilligan’s Island,” which was seen on CBS from 1964 to 1967 and still lives on in reruns — died.
Another crap comedy by Sherwood Shwartz.
He also appeared in two episodes of “The Twilight Zone” involving time travel. In one, he tries to prevent the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; in the other, about a time machine that accidentally rescues a 19th-century murderer from a hanging, he plays the inventor, a professor….
Those were great episodes, and he also starred in This Island Earth, as featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie.
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