> With the recent deaths of such TV Icons such as Don Knotts,
> Dennis Weaver, Al Lewis, Bob Denver and Buck Owens, to name
> a few, I was wondering what is the oldest classic television
> show in which all the major cast members are still alive.
> The two oldest I could think of were "Happy Days" until the
> recent death of Pat Morita (Arnold) just a few months ago,
> and "WKRP in Cincinnati" until Gordon Jump (Mr. Carlson)
> died a year or so ago. The only other series I can think of
> is possibly "The Bob Newhart Show", but were his patients
> such as Mr. Carlson and Mr. Petersen considered major cast
> members?
...depends on how you define "classic." If by that you mean a TV series that was widely syndicated in reruns after the first-run network screenings, off the top of my head I'd have to think "I Spy" would be it, with Robert Culp and Bill Cosby still active today (I haven't checked the other responses yet). If you mean a series that could arguably be a landmark of sorts in TV history, it would be the first of two series under the title "Studs' Place," which ran on NBC in 1949; it was a comic monologue series set in a Chicago tavern and the only regular was Studs Terkel, still chuggin' along in his 90s...<P ID="signature">______________
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