Rest in Peace Ryan O'Neal : Good Sports

News Update -
Ryan O'Neal, one of Hollywood's most popular actors, and one of the industry's most successful actors during the 1960s and 1970s, has died. He passed away yesterday, December 8th at the age of 82. He had battled chronic leukemia for years and had prostate cancer.

Born on April 20, 1941, O'Neal began his career in Hollywood in the late 1950s with roles on television. His film career reached epic proportions during the 1970s, with hit after hit movie including Love Story (Academy Award nomination), What's Up Doc?, Paper Moon (co-starring with daughter Tatum), Nickelodeon, Barry Lyndon, A Bridge Too Far, and The Main Event.

However, O'Neal had a fine television career as well, starring in the hit ABC series Peyton Place in the mid 1960s. He had started his career on television in guest roles on hit series including The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Untouchables, Leave it to Beaver and My Three Sons. Just prior to joining the series Peyton Place, he co-starred in the short lived NBC western series Empire.

More recently, he had recurring roles in the Fox series Bones, as well as the series Miss Match. This video clip is from his 1991 television series co-starring with long time love Farah Fawcett.

Rest in peace Ryan O'Neal.
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This summer, we are beginning our look back at, and discussion of, the history of television's '3rd Wave' - the rise and growth of the cable TV system during the 1980s and 1990s. Along that path, we'll not only be looking at the rise of cable television and its multitude of channels (57 channels and still, nothing on!), but the slow transformation of the broadcast television network programmed linear system that dominated the 1st and 2nd eras of television.

We won't just look at what happened during this 3rd era, but also, what we've lost along the way leading up to our current 'Peak TV' streaming era of the 2010s and 2020.

First up - the loss of star talent on broadcast television. One could argue, there may never have been known 'star talent' migrating to the multitude of cable channels, but once upon a time, if the stars of Hollywood wanted to work on television, they went with the broadcast networks. Today, they head straight to streaming, pay-television... that includes producers and writers as well. But back in the 1980s and 1990s, the stars were working on broadcast television.

Good Sports is a prime example. Farah Fawcett and her husband Ryan O'Neal were teaming up on their own television series. For Fawcett, it was a comeback of sorts to television, having made her name on the medium back in the 1970s on Charlies Angels, among others venues. She was well known prior to that series for her work on TV commercials, and in the 1980s, made her dramatic acting debut on the TV Movie, 'The Burning Bed.'

For Ryan O'Neal, he had been a Hollywood film star for a couple of decades, having gotten his start on television back in the 1960s with the hit ABC nighttime soap series Peyton Place. So, for O'Neal, it was also a return to television.

Good Sports would be Ms. Fawcett's only weekly television series after Charlie's Angels. Unfortunately, the series ran only for half a season, from January 1991 to July 1991. A shame... it would have been fun to see more of the couple together in this comedy. What might have been. It becomes 'a lost treasure' now in our memories, and here on YouTube.

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