From: lmcca
...@cs.umass.edu (Lewis McCarthy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc,alt.romance.unhappy,alt.religion.kibology,misc.creat ivity,rec.arts.tv,alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: Bill Bixby (was Re: Marina Sirtis is immortal (was Re: God Vs Q (was Kirk Vs. Picard))
la
...@access.mbnet.mb.ca (Jill Lampi) writes:
: WHEN?! did Bill Bixby die?!
dubu
...@husc7.harvard.edu (Peter Dubuque) writes:
% He died of AIDS about a year ago. I was really upset by it, and to this
% day I can't watch a Brady Bunch episode without getting all choked up.
cstok
...@mason1.gmu.edu (CP Stokley) writes:
$ That's really odd because Bill Bixby was never on the Brady Bunch.
Much stranger is the indisputable fact that _The Brady Bunch_ was never on
television at all !! Originally the infomercial was created by the Dept.
of Health, Education & Welfare, in an attempt to legitimize marriage between
single parents of multiple children. At the time, slightly less than 50% of
all divorces were ending in marriage. Unfortunately, in the mid-1960s none of
the major networks was willing to carry a spot featuring an HIV+ Little
League coach. Years later, the show became a runaway cult hit under
syndication. Remarkably, few have noticed that the entire `series' run
consists of a single 30 minute episode !!
Source: Callan Jacobson, personal communication, April 1994.
-Lewis
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