Read the entire obit by clicking here: From Bob Thomas, The Associated Press:
Pleshette underwent chemotherapy for lung cancer in 2006.
"The Bob Newhart Show, a hit throughout its six-year run, starred comedian Newhart as a Chicago psychiatrist surrounded by eccentric patients. Pleshette provided the voice of reason.
Four years after the show ended in 1978, Newhart went on to the equally successful "Newhart" series in which he was the proprietor of a New England inn populated by more eccentrics. When that show ended in 1990, Pleshette reprised her role — from the first show — in one of the most clever final episodes in TV history.
It had Newhart waking up in the bedroom of his "The Bob Newhart Show" home with Pleshette at his side. He went on to tell her of the crazy dream he'd just had of running an inn filled with eccentrics.
"If I'm in Timbuktu, I'll fly home to do that," Pleshette said of her reaction when Newhart told her how he was thinking of ending the show.
She met her future husband, Tom Poston, when they appeared together in the 1959 Broadway comedy "The Golden Fleecing," but didn't marry him until more than 40 years later.
Although the two had a brief fling, they went on to marry others. By 2000 both were widowed and they got back together, marrying the following year.
"He was such a wonderful man. He had fun every day of his life," Pleshette said after Poston died in April 2007.
Sweet dreams, darlin' . . .
Damn, I am really craving a cigarette right now. Time for a piece of nicotine gum . . .
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And another friendly, familiar face from TV Land has also left us . . . whether you knew him as Archie Bunker's partner in crime, Barney, or Alice's love interest, Sam the Butcher on The Brady Bunch, you had to have seen him in at least a dozen other roles. His name is Allan Melvin. He was 84.
Popular Character Actor Dead at 84
Also Brad Refro...
But I will miss Suzanne, Remember she was one of the 1st fatalities in the "The Birds".
And Jack's mother on Will & Grace...
Yes, she was a classy lady. I used to remember watching her on the old Bob Newhart Show as a kid in the 70s...funny, but watching that show all those years ago, Chicago only a distant reality, little did I ever guess that not only would I one day call this place home, but also work in the very same building whose facade they used as Bob's office building.
As for "Sam the Butcher," yes, that's sad too, but honestly, I'd heard so little from him over the past several years, I thought he'd already passed away years ago.
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