Shannon as Jack O'Hara in "Duke of the Valley" (Syndicated, 1962)

Laine Tavish runs an antique shop called Remember When, and spends her time trying to forget her father Jack O'Hara.

Samantha Gannon is the granddaughter of Laine and Max, and the great-granddaughter of Jack O'Hara.

Real name: Jack O'Hara (Jerry 'Tiny' McHale in some versions)

He asked Jack O'Hara, the precinct's crime prevention officer, to do a lighting survey, step one in the cumbersome process of getting a new street light.

Jack O'Hara discovers this and he single-handedly clears the area before boarding the train just as it passes.

"She's contemporary and she's knowledgeable, which helps because 'Wide World' is about everything," said Jack O'Hara, the executive producer of ABC Sports.

By achievement and temperament, Jack O'Hara is not someone you would expect to occupy the executive producer's chair at ABC Sports.

The O'Haras were flying to Paris where Jack O'Hara was overseeing production of the Tour de France, his last duty at the network.

Jack O'Hara was one of the genuinely decent and classy people in the business, a genial executive who rose through ABC Sports' programming ranks.