70’s icons pass away

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Two icons of 1970s television passed away.

Suzanne Pleshette played Bob Newhart’s confident and sexy wife, Emily Hartley, for six years on the popular 1970s sitcom “The Bob Newhart Show.” She gave geeky kids like me hope. If nerdy Bob Newhart could land a hot wife, just maybe I could too.

Read: Sexy star of ‘Bob Newhart Show’

Also Allan Melvin passed away. Melvin was a character actor best known for playing Sam the Butcher on “The Brady Bunch.” Sam “chased” after the Brady’s maid/cool/housekeeper Alice.

Read Sam the butcher — dies in Los Angeles at 84

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Author: Rick Outzen

Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”