Stunning gardens. Amazing vibe
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She had one of the very best raspy voices. May she rest in peace.
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She also have a lesser known claim to fame, she was the 2013 representative for the UK at the Eurovision song contest in Malmo Sweden. That was the last prominent thing I ever saw her do
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Well that depends on how you frame it. The original incarnation, the original franchise or chain of ownership is in fact gone. There was definitely a period of it being shut down for some period of time, all tied around all the ownership and management shenanigans and of course the infamous ties to a murder case.
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“Murder and a meal” might be entertaining to some, I guess.
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Randolph Mantooth, John Gage from Emergency! passed away today.
I really enjoyed that show as a kid and watched the reruns for years. You always knew the show would end with a five alarm oil refinery disaster or equivalent.
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Wait - Mantooth is a real last name? I always thought the whole “Dorothy Mantooth is a saint!” joke on Anchorman was just giving some anchor a ridiculous last name that didn’t exist and then combining it with some old saintly lady.
Mind blown.
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I have such vivid memories of growing up watching that show in the mid '70s tree with my foster parents from the deep south. I ended up going into the Navy and became a hospital corpman, and when I served in the emergency room over in Naples Italy, there was one or two other people who were old enough to have seen it, I will always joked about the fact that GR radio conversations didn’t sound anything like that one with rampart general. 
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It will be interesting to see what history and short term reactions will say about Graham. I suspect they’re going to be quite variable, like he was.
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I’ll say it. He was a coward just like Lee and Cruz. Initially was opposed to DIC, but once he saw how the political winds were blowing, immediately changed course. He was morally bankrupt.
Edit to add something that is a good summation of my thoughts:
Lindsey Graham is dead at 71. In 2016, he dared America on camera: “Use my words against me.” This is his obituary. These are his words.
The facts first, plainly. Graham died Saturday night at his Washington home of what his office calls a brief and sudden illness. He served four terms, chaired the Judiciary and Budget committees, and spent decades as one of the loudest voices in American foreign policy.
By sunrise the whitewash had begun. Trump declared him a “true American Patriot.” Netanyahu called him a beloved friend. The eulogies will tell you about his service.
They will not tell you about the ledger. So we will.
In December 2015, Graham looked into a camera and called Donald Trump a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.” By February 2016: “I think he’s a kook. I think he’s crazy.” That May he wrote: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed… and we will deserve it.” He refused to vote for him.
Then Trump won, and Lindsey Graham discovered golf.
By late 2017 he was scolding the media for calling the president, yes, really, a kook.
His best friend was John McCain, a man Trump mocked for being captured in Vietnam and kept mocking after he was dead. Graham wept for McCain on the Senate floor, then deepened his devotion to the man who spat on his grave.
The words he wanted used came in 2016, when he swore that if a Supreme Court seat opened in an election year, the next president should fill it. In 2018 he repeated the promise and added: “hold the tape.”
In October 2020, as Judiciary chairman, he rammed Amy Coney Barrett onto the Court eight days before the election.
In November 2020, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state said Graham had called him asking about tossing legally cast mail ballots. Graham denied it, fought the grand jury subpoena all the way to the Supreme Court, and lost.
On January 6th, with the glass still on the Capitol floor, he announced: “Count me out. Enough is enough.” He was back at Mar-a-Lago within months
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He always had a loud and certain opinion… but no rudder.
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wow, I didn’t see that one coming.
Mitch McConnell on the other hand. They should have a priest parked in a car outside just in case.
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Huge inspiration for me to join my local fire dept and become an EMT/Firefighter.
I love how that tiny little firehouse basically responded to every part of the state. They were always first on the scene in the mountains, valleys, city etc… And Nurse Dixie! Oh how my teenage heart would go into A-Fib.
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She was married in real life to Bobby Troup, who played Dr Early on that show.
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I believe she was also the ex-wife of Jack Webb. I’d say he married up on that one.
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Cop fetish?
“I’ll make you put down your notebook, detective! Stop with the questions and kiss me!”
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Actually there’s some major breaking news. CNN’s Scott Jennings says he just spoke with Senator Lindsey Graham for 20 minutes and he sounds fine. 
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sam neil --first officer in my favorite movie.
“i would have liked to have seen Montana”
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I honestly view this man, a massively closeted homosexual, who of course had no problem voting against the rights and standard of living of other homosexuals, as little more than a quizzling. Considering the way he caved to this dictator, he absolutely would be the kind of man who did exactly what quizling did in Norway
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