#kojak

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Detective/Crime TV tie-in board games (1950s to 1970s)

#50s 60s 70s tv series #detective tv shows #crime tv shows #vintage board games #dragnet #perry mason #the untouchables #peter gunn #77 sunset strip #i spy #columbo #barney miller #baretta #kojak #noirvember #milton bradley #parker brothers #1950s #1960s #1970s

[seventyskid]

#richard gere #hbd #1976 #kojak

[hollywoodlady]

Telly Savalas for 'Kojak' (1973 - 1978).

#Telly Savalas #kojak #70's #tv show #by lady hollywood

[bandaidfingers]

more Kojak doodles from my sketchbook, but this time drawing him doggy :)

#telly savalas is so bully terrier shaped to me lol #kojak #theo kojak #bobby crocker

[oldshowbiz]

Telly Savalas is touching raw nerves.

#kojak #telly savalas #television

[oldmanpeace]

#Kojak

[mrbopst]

#Kojak #Doll #70s #telly savalas

[vintage1981]

Actress and Author, Lara Parker, of Dark Shadows, Passes at 84

Lara Parker, who found the role of a lifetime at just 28 years old when she was cast by Dark Shadows producer Dan Curtis as the beautiful, vengeful and altogether evil witch Angelique Bouchard Collins, died October 12 in her sleep in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer. She was 84.

Her death was announced by producer Jim Pierson of Dan Curtis Productions, on behalf of Parker’s family.

“I’m heartbroken, as all of us are who knew and loved her,” said her Dark Shadows co-star and longtime friend Kathryn Leigh Scott in a statement. “She graced our lives with her beauty, talent and friendship, and we are all richer for having had her in our lives.”

Parker was born Mary Lamar Rickey on Oct. 27, 1938, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her father, Albert, was an attorney, and her mother, Ann, was active in civic groups.

She graduated from Central High School in Memphis and attended Vassar — she roomed with Jane Fonda there — and Rhodes College in Memphis, where at 19 she served as Wink Martindale’s assistant on his WHBQ-TV show, Dance Party. She then earned a master’s degree from the University of Iowa.

Parker, who also authored four popular Dark Shadows-related novels from 1998-2016, arrived on the supernatural soap opera in 1967, not long after Canadian actor Jonathan Frid had been cast as vampire Barnabas Collins. Frid’s storyline changed the show from a moody, Gothic Jane Eyre-type serial into a flat-out horror show.

During breaks in production, Parker acted on Broadway in September 1968 in Woman Is My Idea, which lasted just five performances, and in the early Brian De Palma film Hi, Mom! (1970), starring Robert De Niro.

And toward the end of the daytime serial, she and fellow castmembers including John Karlen, Kate Jackson, David Selby and Grayson Hall appeared in the poorly received MGM film Night of Dark Shadows (1971).

In 1972, Parker relocated to Los Angeles and went on to appear on episodes of such shows as Medical Center, Kojak, The Rockford Files, Police Woman, Kolchak: The Night Stalker (as a witch) and The Incredible Hulk, where she played David Banner’s first wife in a flashback sequence in the pilot.

In her later years, Parker turned to writing and teaching — her novels include Angelique’s Descent (1998), The Salem Branch (2006), Wolf Moon Rising (2013) and Heiress of Collinwood (2016). The books proved popular among Dark Shadows‘ still-devoted, conventions-attending fan base, as well as devotees of romance and horror genre novels.

Parker kept in touch with her co-stars including Scott, Selby, Roger Davis, the late John Karlen and others throughout her life, particularly once the conventions became annual events in the late 1980s through the 1990s and up to the 50th anniversary celebration in 2017.

Many of the original cast, including Parker, recorded a series of Dark Shadows audio dramas in the 2000s released by Big Finish Productions. They also reunited for a “Smartphone Theatre” Zoom-style, Covid-era performance of A Christmas Carol in 2021 and, on Halloween night 2020, a YouTube/Zoom Dark Shadows cast reunion.

Parker is survived by second husband Jim Hawkins, daughter Caitlin, sons Rick and Andy, and their wives Miranda and Celia; and grandson Wesley.

#Lara Parker #Dark Shadows #Dan Curtis #Jonathan Frid #The Incredible Hulk #Kojak #Kathryn Leigh Scott #Big Finish Productions #David Selby #Grayson Hall #Angelique Bouchard #Angelique Bouchard Collins #Barnabas Collins

[stone-cold-groove]

Tonight on CBS! Telly Savalas is Kojak - 1973.

#kojak #telly savalas #classic television #classic tv #tv characters #detective shows #crime shows

[crumb]

#columbo #hercule poirot #murder she wrote #kojak #Nancy drew #shaft #im not assuming these characters are gay pls don't get it twisted #just a fun lil poll

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Telly Savalas - TV Star Parade magazine (1975)

#telly savalas #70s tv #70s magazines #kojak #sex secrets #70s actor #tv star parade #who loves ya baby #seventies #1975 #chronoscaph scans

[footnoteinhistory]

JOHN LARROQUETTE in an episode of KOJAK, 1975

#his big brown eyes wow…… #playing a sweet romantic little sailor in the christmas episode what more could we ask for #john larroquette #kojak #* #cute nose. pre-maiming incident #even tho I like the scar

[mumbojumbo84317]

Telly Savalas (as Lt. Theo Kojak). Image dated 1975.

(Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

#telly savalas #kojak #70s tv shows

[i-am-cactus]

Infatuated with Sly Stallone's early cinemas:

#sylvester stallone #sly stallone #kojak #telly savalas #cobra #marion cobretti #lords of flatbush #stanley rosiello #no place to hide #jerry savage #police story #elmore rocky cado #rocky cado #rocky #rocky balboa

[bandaidfingers]

Kojak doodles from my sketchbook >:) mostly screenshot redraws I did so I could play around with color palettes I wanted to try out— marker and colored pencil.

#I always feel like I put too many images on tumblr posts lol. it feels more natural on insta where I can show all 900 process pics and #crops and stuff. but it always looks so crowded here on tumblr. idk idk #ANYWAY I like the way the blue one turned out better than the red one. the green and tan on bobby kind of disrupted the other colors on #that one I think #also I kind of messed his face and proportions up lol but that wasnt my focus so #kojak #theo kojak #bobby crocker #telly savalas

[oldshowbiz]

1977.

The episode of Kojak that ripped off Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver.

#kojak #taxi #cabbie #martin scorsese #telly savalas