Producer Larson Made Countless TV Hits

 

Producer Glen A. Larson passed at 77. This dynamo of TV action dramas helped create some of the best loved shows of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s including It Takes a Thief, McCloud, The Six Million Dollar Man, the original Battlestar Galactica, the first Magnum PI, Quincy ME, Knight Rider, The Fall Guy, and many others. He never won an Emmy and a few of his shows had more than a passing resemblance to earlier hit films, but no one can deny the appeal and multi-year longevity of his shows. He even started as one of the Four Preps and helped write the theme songs to some of his shows like The Six Million Dollar Man. No matter the medium, he knew how to make hits.