There are TV stars whose passing seems to catch us by surprise even when they die at 87. When the hell, we think upon hearing the sad news, did Loretta Swit turn 87? How can I still have a crush on somebody who is 87? Yet there it is. Swit, the coroner declared, died at
Female police characters have been arresting TV viewers for decades. Police Woman, starring Angie Dickinson, went off the air forty years ago. Cagney & Lacey, which starred Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly as “buddy cops” (and is soon to be re-booted), ended its seven-year run in 1988. In recent years, Canada’s Rookie Blue was a