When Your Lungs Go Bad, Get Glad

Or
Howard, Your Fez is Limp
(Kudos to Monty)

Or
Sunday, Monday, Happy Days, Tuesday... Maybe Not

Or
Father Knows Death

Or
Still on the search for Chuck Cunningham
(Props to Terry Walsh)
A rough week for classic TV families continues as Tom Bosley has died of lung cancer at the age of 83. Howard Cunningham goes down as TV’s most inattentive father until Cliff Huxtable, blithely overlooking the disappearance of his oldest, but least telegenic child, Chuck, much as Cliff spent his first season in denial of Sondra’s existence. Bosley’s death comes 5 weeks after the death of the man who originated the role of Howard Cunningham on Love, American Style, Harold Gould. Bosley’s other roles included a clergyman who solved crimes and a cop who couldn’t on the Father Dowling Mysteries and Murder, She Wrote, respectively. Bosley also won a Tony in the title role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Fiorello! and originated the role of Maurice in the Broadway version of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Bosley paid the bills shilling Shasta Cola, Glad Trash Bags, D-Con, the IQ Computer and Sonic Drive-Ins, and until recently had hosted a series of infomercials for crap no one needs.