RIP Stephen J. Cannell

Last Thursday, Stephen J. Cannell went to that great award-filled, wood-panelled office in the sky. As the producer of television shows such as The Greatest American Hero, Hunter, Riptide, The A-Team, and 21 Jumpstreet, Cannell almost single-handedly kept me entertained throughout my early life and provided plenty of warm and fuzzy popular culture memories.

Of course Cannell’s most memorable piece of work is the promo that ran at the end of each show:

I’m sure heaven had an old IBM Selectric typewriter waiting for him.

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