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Aw damn, his shows were all over my childhood. F**k cancer. Very sorry to hear this.
Stu Phillips is on this board fairly often; if you're lurking, my heart goes out to you for the loss of your friend and very frequent colleague. You guys made magic together.
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Nov 15, 2014 - 2:24 PM
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The successful producer of many, many TV series has died, age 77.
http://time.com/3587230/battlestar-galactica-knight-rider-glen-larson-obit/
I don't know exactly how much Glen Larson had to do with the creation of one of my favorite series, Magnum, P.I., because I think of the show as more of a Donald P. Bellasario production, but I will always be grateful to Larson as a TV producer. His shows, particularly Alias Smith and Jones, have brought me much joy in my lifetime. R.I.P.
He was a controversial producer, given the name Glen Larceny, (by Harlan Ellison) for creating TV knock-offs of popular feature films, but created and produced a lot of shows people are still fond of. R.I.P. Magnum P.I., Battlestar Galactica, Knight Rider, Buck Roger In The 25th Century, Quincy M.E., Alias Smith And Jones, Switch, The Fall Guy, among others. Less successful were Manimal, Automan, and The Highwayman.
Greg Espinoza
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Nov 16, 2014 - 6:50 AM
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He was a controversial producer, given the name Glen Larceny, for creating TV knock-offs of popular feature films
And TV shows (in his memoirs James Garner tells of how Glen A. Larson lifted plots from The Rockford Files and used them on his shows [getting fined by the Writers Guild for it], resulting in Garner punching out Larson in a parking lot).
but created and produced a lot of shows people are still fond of.
True dat. Alias Smith And Jones is showing on ITV4 as I write this, and Magnum, P.I. and Quincy, M.E. are also in reruns over here (the latter's a Universal Channel staple).
In his autobiography The Garner Files, James Garner stated that Larson stole a number of plots of The Rockford Files, which was jointly produced by Stephen J. Cannell's and Garner's production companies, then used them for his own shows, putting different characters in them. Garner's group complained to the Writer's Guild and Larson was fined, but Garner felt that the fine had taught Larson nothing when he persisted in plagiarism and later copied the theme music from The Rockford Files for one of his shows. Garner stated that when Larson subsequently showed up on the "Rockford" set, he put his arm around Garner and said "I hope there are no hard feelings, Jim." After Larson ignored a warning by Garner to take his arm off him, Garner claims that he punched Larson so hard that Larson "flew across the curb, into a motor home, and out the other side."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_A._Larson
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Nov 16, 2014 - 11:40 AM
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Jack Klugman, like Garner, couldn't stand Glen Larson (though he never decked him...), but the stories Klugman used to illustrate his reasons for disliking Larson always made Larson come across as rather roguishly charming. (Like the time Larson came over to him at someone's Christmas party sometime late in Quincy's run--
Klugman: You know I don't like you. Why do you always come say hello?
Larson: Because I want to thank you for those lovely Quincy checks I get every week. As long as they keep coming, I'm going to keep saying hello.)
Larson, in talking about Switch, once made the point that he was very well aware that some episodes were very intelligently written and some weren't. Rather than pleading lack of time or resources, Larson said it was intentional. He believed that audiences liked smart stories, but in limited quantities, and that they appreciated the variation. I don't know whether I agree or if that view is terribly cynical, but I thought it was interesting to hear that Larson was very conscious of what he was doing.
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He was a controversial producer, given the name Glen Larceny, for creating TV knock-offs of popular feature films
Battlestar Galactica was atrocious. And yeah, the guy was a major plagiarist.
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how many shows over the years took plots based on film scripts??!
i seem to recall part of the plot of dirty harry even in Starsky and hutch once!
Not the first producer to incorporate films scripts im sure and certainly not the last.
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