Memories of Tom Bosley

R.I.P. Ken Tucker has a warm remembrance.

I have to admit that my memory of Bosley is dominated by two things:

• Video doesn’t seem available online, but he used to star in an infomercial for a particularly dodgy scam, which he would start out by gravely intoning that he was very selective about the products he endorsed.   I believe the standard was that the check had to clear.
• Our household has a lot of Murder, She Wrote screenings, and I always like the episodes where Bosley played the sheriff.    He had some kind of omniregional accent (it’s a little bit Southern!  It’s a little bit New England!   Is that a soupcon of Brooklyn?)  that would change from scene to scene and sometimes from line to line.   Awesome.