George Maharis RIP

[Rob S.]

'Buzz' from route 66. Riding shotgun isn't so bad if it's an early '60's Vette and the top is always off. RIP

[Buffalo Bill]

When there was any need for fisticuffs, Buzz would be involved.

[trent]

Good ole route 66. One night years ago I found a web site that had a bunch of old t.v shows, route 66 , adam 12 ,dragnet to name a few
I discovered it in the middle of winter when i didnt have a lot going on.

I went binge watching these three shows, I noticed right away when the guy from 66 and adam 12 died ,think his first name was Martin?
For some reason i really enjoyed watch route 66 and adam 12.
for some reason knowing these guys are not with us anymore makes it difficult for me to watch them.

I hope that feeling changes and i can watch them again someday.

best known for his role as the charismatic Buz Murdock in the 1960s CBS drama Route 66. He played the character for 82 episodes — from 1960 to 1963 —


until he contracted hepatitis. A doctor told him, “If you don’t get out now, you’re either going to be dead or you’re going to have permanent liver damage,

Lived to be 94....

[earlfor]

Good ole route 66. One night years ago I found a web site that had a bunch of old t.v shows, route 66 , adam 12 ,dragnet to name a few
I discovered it in the middle of winter when i didnt have a lot going on.

I went binge watching these three shows, I noticed right away when the guy from 66 and adam 12 died ,think his first name was Martin?
;

Martin Millner . .

[argonsagas]

Good ole route 66. One night years ago I found a web site that had a bunch of old t.v shows, route 66 , adam 12 ,dragnet to name a few
I discovered it in the middle of winter when i didnt have a lot going on.

I went binge watching these three shows, I noticed right away when the guy from 66 and adam 12 died ,think his first name was Martin?
For some reason i really enjoyed watch route 66 and adam 12.
for some reason knowing these guys are not with us anymore makes it difficult for me to watch them.

I hope that feeling changes and i can watch them again someday.

best known for his role as the charismatic Buz Murdock in the 1960s CBS drama Route 66. He played the character for 82 episodes — from 1960 to 1963 —


until he contracted hepatitis. A doctor told him, “If you don’t get out now, you’re either going to be dead or you’re going to have permanent liver damage,

Lived to be 94....

Maharis' biographer, Karen Blocher, says he left the show. because the producers lost all trust in him after discovering he was secretly gay..



"Maharis’ biographer, Karen Blocher, alleged that Maharis was secretly gay. Blocher claimed that Maharis left Route 66 after the producers discovered he was gay. She wrote:


“[Producer Herbert B. Leonard] thought he’d hired a young hunk for the show, a hip, sexy man and good actor that all the girls would go for. This was all true of Maharis, but not the whole story, as Leonard discovered to his anger and dismay. George was gay, it turned out.”

Blocher added that the producers felt ‘betrayed and duped’ when they learned Maharis was gay. “[They] never trusted him again,” Blocher continued. “Maharis, for his part, started to feel that he was carrying the show and going unappreciated.”