Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121227:05:58:00
The actor jack klugman died this week on christmas eve. he was 90 years old. by the late 1970s to early '80s, he was already very famous, starring in the sitcom "the odd couple" and later starring in "quincy." quincy episodes were often ripped right from the headlines, so when quincy's brother heard about a heading on why pharmaceutical companies were not spending money on diseases, diseases named orphan diseases for this reason, no profit motive to try to cure them. so klugman's brother wrote an episode about it in 1981. the disease was correct. the episode was called "seldom silent, seldom h...