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 (film) Shadrach (film) Shadrach is a 1998 American film directed by Susanna Styron, based on a short story by her father William Styron, about a former slave's struggle to be buried where he chooses. Before the Civil War, the Dabney family of Virginia sold their slave, Shadrach (John Franklin Sawyer), to plantation owners in Alabama, separating him from his family. In 1935, during the Great Depression, Shadrach—at the age of 99—walks the 600 miles from his home in Alabama to the Dabney farm in Virginia. His one request is to be buried in the soil of the farm where he was