The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series. The killer for me was the response of some of the producers that the suggestion that racism might have anything to do with it was absolutely ridiculous. The show resulted in a big name star being born. Your character is standing too close to her.. In the fourth season, Christine entered into a relationship with Sgt. They separated soon after Christine and her brother Brian (David Ackroyd) were born. The quartet of TV movies entitled The Menopause Years was released in 2009 by S'more Entertainment. He remembers higher-ups telling him: We cant have you in the scene because they wouldnt like it in the South. Vonetta McGee, Film and TV Actress, Dies at 65 - New York Times Also in 2000, Lumbly guest starred in the season one The West Wing episode "Six Meetings Before Lunch" as Jeff Breckenridge, a nominee for U.S. Assistant Attorney General who supports reparations for slavery. Carl recently appeared in the film Just a Dream (2002) directed by Glover. In this case, he was playing a character who was decidedly human, since he was still getting his start in the entertainment industry through guest stints in hit 80s shows like Taxi, Emergency! and L.A. You've got them!". Lumbly is married to actress Vonetta McGee, whom he met on "Cagney & Lacey" (1982) when she was cast as his wife. Lacey had a very complex and involving marriage, while Cagney was a career-driven woman with no desire to settle down. When he ended up dead, Bates became one of the possible suspects. I felt just like my father had died. See production, box office & company info. It is fair to note that the contrast between Swit and Daly was a lot different than the contrast between Foster and Daly. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. In past TV Legends Revealed, we've spotlighted odd re-casts like the time a TV movie replaced the actor playing John Lennon because it turned out his real name was too similar to the man who assassinated Lennon, the, the time that Star Trek had John Barrymore suspended by the Screen Actors Guild after being forced to replace him in an episode and the time a TV show chose to not even halt production to re-cast its lead character mid-season after their original lead killed himself.