Stephen J. Cannell, producer of The Rockford Files, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Baretta, The Greatest American Hero, Hardcastle and McCormick, Wiseguy, The Commish, Tenspeed and Brownshoe, among others. Melanoma, age 69.
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