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Seeing untold promise in new technology, he was a prime mover in the creation of the cable industry, helping to transform Time Warner Cable into a giant in the field.

Suzanne Somers, the effervescent blonde actor known for playing Chrissy Snow on ABC’s Three’s Company from 1977 to 1981 and who became an entrepreneur and New York Times best-selling author, died Oct 15. She was 76. She appeared in many television shows in the 1970s, including The Rockford Files, Magnum Force and The Six Million Dollar Man, but her most famous part came with Three’s Company.

Sumner Redstone’s first big hire after the Paramount acquisition, he enjoyed a fruitful decade-long partnership with Sherry Lansing.

McCallum’s work with The Man From U.N.C.L.E. brought him two Emmy nominations, and he got a third as an educator struggling with alcoholism in a 1969 Hallmark Hall of Fame drama called Teacher, Teacher. He was 90.

Bob Barker, a household name for a half-century as host of Truth or Consequences and The Price Is Right, died Saturday. He was 99. “I have grown old in your service,” the silver-haired, perennially tanned Barker joked on a primetime television retrospective in the mid-’90s. In all, he taped more than 5,000 shows in his career. Pictured: Bob Barker waves goodbye as he tapes his final episode of The Price Is Right in Los Angeles on June 6, 2007.