Meshach Taylor "Hill Street Blues" (NBC), "ALF" (NBC), "Melba" (CBS), "The Golden Girls" (NBC), "Cagney & Lacey" (CBS), "Barney Miller" (ABC), "Lou Grant" (CBS), "The White Shadow" (CBS), "The Incredible Hulk" (CBS), and "Barnaby Jones" (CBS). In 1996, Taylor hosted his own series on HGTV, "The Urban Gardener with Meshach Taylor", and in 1998, he hosted "Meshach Taylor's Hidden Caribbean" on The Travel Channel. He was a regular panelist on the 2000 revival of the television game show "To Tell the Truth". He co-hosted "Living Live!" with Florence Henderson on Retirement Living TV; in 2008, the program was revamped as "The Florence
Shadrach Dingle Zak went to South America in search of the Dingle fortune, Shadrach begged Zak’s wife, Lisa, to take him in. Sticking to the Dingle code of loyalty, Lisa agreed and Shadrach spent the next few months trying to seduce her and order was restored when Zak returned but Shadrach’s behaviour continued to provoke disgust among his family and their neighbours alike. A life of heavy drinking took a toll on Shadrach and his daughter, Chastity, worried that her father would die of alcoholism-related illnesses. Attempting to wean him off alcohol, Chas bet Zak and Shadrach that they could not stay