Stephen J. Cannell Productions
This man was responsible for so many memories from my childhood. I’m very sad to hear of his passing.
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A last sheet flutters onto the pile: Stephen J. Cannell, the mystery novelist and television deity responsible for 21 Jump Street, The A-Team, Baa Baa Black Sheep (or Black Sheep Squadron), Baretta, Booker,Broken Badges, Chase, Cobra, The Commish, The D.A., The Duke, The Greatest American Hero, Hardcastle and McCormick, The Hat Squad, Hawkeye, Hunter, J.J. Starbuck, The Last Precinct, The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage, Palace Guard, Profit, The Quest, Renegade, Richie Brockelman: Private Eye, Riptide, The Rockford Files, The Rousters, Silk Stalkings, Sonny Spoon, Stingray, Stone, Street Justice, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, Toma, Top of the Hill, Unsub, and Wiseguy, has passed away. He was 69.