indiana territory

IN THREES

Maybe things do come in threes: Dennis Weaver just died today. And two days ago, the news first announced Don Knotts had passed away and then later came the news that Darren McGavin had died.

I remember Weaver in Gunsmoke as Chester, which my family watched every week. Then he was in that bear show, which we didn't watch at all and then in McCloud which I watched but preferred it when they had a Columbo episode.

Of course, Barney Fife was a legend, but I absolutley could not stand those movies where Knotts played characters that made fools out of themselves - such as that astronaut movie, and then there was the one where he was a fish. Just not my preference.

Darren McGavin was the father in "The Christmas Story" in which the kid wants a BB gun and the father somehow winds up with a lamp that looks like a lady's leg. He was also Kolchak: the Night Stalker - which is probably where I first learned of Underground Seattle - they raised the city one story just as was done in Atlanta.

To Chester, to Barney, to Kolchak: may you rest in peace.

posted by Jody @ 3:48 PM