It all started at a little television station in Fresno.

We were watching "Exposé," an episode of Highway Patrol that originally in January 1959. I said to LohMan, "That kind of looks like Ted Baxter. It doesn't sound like him, though."

I turned to Internet Movie DataBase and, sure enough, it was Ted Knight at age 35. His character was a newspaper reporter trying to bring down a protection racket. No smarm was necessary. Highway Patrol wasn't too big on that. 10-4.