Posted on 06/23/2015 8:48:37 AM PDT by vladimir998
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Very sad. Seemed like a nice guy.
So...8 was too much?
Loved this guy.
OHHH RIP Dick
I wish METV or Antenna TV get the rights to Eight of enough that everybody wish list on thieir FB page
BTW my aunt used to see him at Santa Anita Park and Hollywood park back in da day
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That is sad.
Rip.
86 years old.
..or 86 was enough......
Did seem like one of the nice guys. RIP
A loss.
Such a shame. Even though I hated 8 Is Enough as a kid, I now watch the opening because it’s so nice to see a “sane” TV family.
He was also in the Weird Al send up of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” briefly.
I have a friend who have 8 boys.
RIP Mr. Van Patten.
Years ago he was on The Late Show With David Letterman presenting a top ten list;
http://www.mudslide.net/TopTen/lnwdxtra.html#extra90
I liked 8 is enough. Looking back reminds me of a time when TV families were not all bizarre, had a mom and dad, etc.
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I remember him from I Remember MAMA. One of my favorite shows as a kid.
So true. If memory serves, I believe the producers of 8 is Enough went out of their way to present a normal, yet large family with both parents, since the 70's saw a rise in single parent households on TV. Tragically, the woman who played the mother died of cancer and the show was too grief stricken to replace her, so it was now a single father raising his kids.
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