Developed and performed in a local-cable TV program called "A Playful Dose of Prairie Wisdom", based on his character Doc Baker from Little House on the Prairie (1974).
He performed and toured in a one-man show he wrote based on the Doc
Baker character called, "A Playful Dose of Prairie Wisdom." While
performing that show he met his fourth wife, Jan. They were married in
1993.
When asked in an interview by an Oregonian newspaper if he liked
playing heavies roles in films and TV: "It was fun, you could be as
mean as you wanted to be. There's a heavy in all of us."
