Gordon T. Dawson, a costume designer-turned-screenwriter who worked on multiple movies with Sam Peckinpah and wrote on TV hits ‘The Rockford Files’ and ‘Walker,’ ‘Texas Ranger’ among other films and series, died March 6. He was 84
TV series, reviving Garner’s card-playing wiseacre. Dawson wrote all 18 episodes of its lone season in 1981-82 on NBC.the Chuck Norris-led neo-Western that bowed in April 1993 on CBS. Garner wrote more than 30 episodes starting with Season 2 and was named a producer in Season 4, later rising to supervising producer, co-EP and executive producer.
The action series was a slow-builder, missing the year-end primetime Top 30 during its first two seasons. But it would finish at No. 18 for its third full season in 1995-96 and made a TV star of martial arts legend Norris. The series aired nearly 200 episodes during its eight-season run that wrapped in 2001. The series rebootGarner’s other TV writing credits include episodes of
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