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\n\tDavid Jacobs<\/a>, the creator of the CBS primetime sequence \u201cKnots Landing<\/a>,\u201d \u201cDallas<\/a>\u201d and \u201cParadise,\u201d has died. He was 84. <\/p>\n \n\tJacobs, who battled Alzheimer\u2019s for a number of years, died Sunday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. His son Aaron confirmed to Variety <\/em>the information of his demise.<\/p>\n \n\tJacobs created the unique cleaning soap opera \u201cDallas,\u201d which aired for 14 seasons from 1978 to 1991, and its reboot sequence of the identical identify that aired between 2012 and 2014. He was additionally the creator of the \u201cDallas\u201d spinoff sequence \u201cKnots Landing,\u201d which debuted in 1979 and ran for 14 seasons till 1993. <\/p>\n \n\tAlong with \u201cDallas\u201d and \u201cKnots Landing,\u201d Jacobs co-created the Western sequence \u201cParadise\u201d (1988-1991) with Robert Porter. His different writing credit embrace \u201cFour Corners,\u201d \u201cFamily,\u201d \u201cDallas: The Early Years,\u201d \u201cKingston: Confidential\u201d and \u201cBodies of Evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tJacobs government produced ABC\u2019s \u201cLois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman\u201d and \u201cHomefront,\u201d for which he scored two Emmy nominations. <\/p>\n \n\tBorn on Aug. 12, 1939, in Baltimore, Md, Jacobs acquired a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and earned his grasp\u2019s in artwork historical past at Hunter College in New York. He wrote a number of books, together with 1968\u2019s \u201cMaster Painters of the Renaissance\u201d and 1975\u2019s \u201cChaplin, the Movies & Charlie,\u201d and wrote for such publications as \u201cEsquire,\u201d \u201cNewsweek,\u201d \u201cHoliday\u201d and \u201cNew York Times Magazine.\u201d He additionally labored as a narrative editor for \u201cAmerican Heritage.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tJacobs is survived by his youngsters Aaron and Molly; his spouse Diana; Albyn Hall, his daughter from a earlier marriage to Lynne Oliansky; and grandchildren Riley and Georgia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] David Jacobs, the creator of the CBS primetime sequence \u201cKnots Landing,\u201d \u201cDallas\u201d and \u201cParadise,\u201d has died. He was 84. Jacobs, who battled Alzheimer\u2019s for a number of years, died Sunday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. His son Aaron confirmed to Variety the information of his demise. Jacobs created the unique cleaning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-110311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}