Glen Larsen, creator of everything from The Six Million Dollar Man and Magnum PI to Manimal, also died a couple days ago.
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“Coogan’s Bluff,” a 1968 Clint Eastwood actioner about an Arizona deputy who heads to New York to bring back a fugitive, proved a big hit. In 1970 Larson penned his first episode of “McCloud.”
The 1969 outlaw dramedy “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” proved a huge hit in cinemas. In 1971 Larson created outlaw dramedy “Alias Smith and Jones.”
In 1973, Redford and Newman reteamed for the blockbuster con-man drama “The Sting.” In 1975 Larson created the con-man hourlong “Switch.”
In 1973 crime drama “Cleopatra Jones” proved a huge hit in cinemas. In 1975 Larson created “Get Christy Love.”
In 1977 “Star Wars” hit cinemas. 1978 saw the premiere of the Larson-created “Battlestar Galactica.”
Burt Reynolds played a trucker outwitting a dim lawman in 1977 megahit “Smokey and the Bandit.” In 1978 Clint Eastwood played a trucker with a monkey in “Every Which Way But Loose.” In 1979 Larson created “B.J. and the Bear.”
In 1978 Reynolds scored another hit with the stunt-man comedy “Hooper.” In 1981 Larson created “The Fall Guy.”
In 1982 “Tron” hit cinemas. In 1983 Larson created “Automan,” about a computer-generated superhero.