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Subject: Be Careful Out There… Taurean Blacque Has Left the Precinct

Written By: LyricBoy on 07/21/22 at 8:33 pm

Celebrated TV actor and adoption spokesperson Taurean Blacque (real name, Herbert Middleton Jr.), has passed away at the age of 82.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/taurean-blacque-dead-hill-street-blues-1235322566/

Blacque’s biggest role was his 7-year stint as Detective Neal Washington in Hill Street Blues.

Early in his acting career, Blacque began making guest appearances in sitcoms such as What's Happening!!, Sanford and Son, The Bob Newhart Show, The Tony Randall Show, Good Times, and Taxi, and auditioned for permanent roles on others, including Venus Flytrap on WKRP in Cincinnati, eventually played by Tim Reid.  8)

Subject: Re: Be Careful Out There… Taurean Blacque Has Left the Precinct

Written By: whistledog on 07/23/22 at 8:36 pm

Loved him as Neal Washington.  Hill Street Blues is one of those shows where each episode sort of bleeds into the next one, so it's quite easy to binge watch, and once it's over, you're left wanting more

R.I.P.

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