Ann with Don Ameche on Quincy, M.E.

Ann Blyth with Don Ameche and Ron Masak in a publicity photo for a 1979 episode of Quincy, M.E.  From my book, Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer. Star.:

“The Death Challenge” brings together Ann and Don Ameche (with whom she appeared on TV in The Triumphant Hour in 1954) as a show-biz couple on whom the glare of the spotlight is focused after a long period of being ignored.  They also attract the attention of the police and our intrepid medical examiner, Quincy, played by Jack Klugman, when a stunt goes terribly wrong.

It’s the first of two episodes of the TV program Quincy, M.E. on which Ann appeared.  One of the sublime joys of episodic television in the 1970s and 1980s, for lovers of classic films at least, is that a huge roster of players from Hollywood’s heyday took their final curtain calls as guests on these shows...