David Ackroyd is an American actor, who first came to prominence in soap operas such as The Secret Storm and Another World. The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... The Secret Storm title card from 1960. ... Another World is a book by Pat Barker. ...

He is also notable for being the first actor to play Gary Ewing, the "black sheep" of the central family in the drama series Dallas. When the spin-off series, Knots Landing was being developed, he was unable to reprise the role and the part was taken over by Ted Shackleford. Dallas was a long-running primetime television soap opera about the Ewings, a wealthy Texas oil family. ... Knots Landing was a primetime television soap opera that aired from December 27, 1979 to May 13, 1993 on CBS and was at that time the second longest-running primetime drama on U.S. TV, after Gunsmoke. Set in the fictional Knots Landing, a small community on the California coast... Categories: Pages needing attention | Actor stubs | American actors ...

He subsequently appeared in Knots Landing as Bill Medford. Other TV credits include: Kojak, Lou Grant, Trapper John M.D., AfterMASH, Dynasty, Hunter, Riptide, Hotel, The A Team, Cagney and Lacey, St. Elsewhere, Highway to Heaven, MacGyver, Murder She Wrote and Xena: Warrior Princess. Telly Savalas as Theo Kojak Kojak was a US detective TV series which ran between 1973 and 1978 on CBS, starring Telly Savalas as bald New York City policeman Lt. ... Lou Grant is a fictional character played by Ed Asner in two shows on CBS. The first was Mary Tyler Moore in which the character was the producer of the fictional WJM-TV news. ... Trapper John, M.D. was a television series spinoff of the show M*A*S*H that ran on CBS from September 23, 1979 to September 4, 1986. ... AfterMASH was a situation comedy that ran for two seasons (1983-1985) on CBS. A spin-off of the long-running hit series M*A*S*H, AfterMASH took place immediately following the end of the Korean War and chronicled the adventures of three characters from the original series: Colonel... Dynasty was an American primetime television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 10, 1989. ... Hunter was a police drama television series starring Fred Dryer which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. ... Riptide redirects here. ... The television drama Hotel aired on ABC from 1983 to 1988. ... The A-Team (1983 - 1987) was a television show about a group of fictional ex-US Army commandos on the run from the military. ... Cagney and Lacey was an American television series, which aired on CBS for six seasons from 1982 to 1988. ... St. ... Highway to Heaven was a television drama which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1989. ... MacGyver was an American adventure television series about a laid-back, extremely resourceful ex-special forces secret agent named Angus Mac MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson. ... Categories: Television stubs | Crime television series ... Xena. ...

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• IMDB entry