Aaron Spelling's Spell

A floral tribute stands at producer Aaron Spelling's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on June 24, 2006 in Hollywood, Calif. Spelling, who created vintage TV series such as "Dynasty," "Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island" as well as "Beverly Hills 90210," died June 23, 2006 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 83.

Spelling's friendship with such actor-producers as Dick Powell, Jack Webb and Alan Ladd led to his rapid rise as a prolific writer and later producer of TV series. In 1960, Powell, head of Four Star Productions, hired him to produce shows. "Burke's Law" became the first hit series Spelling created.

Aaron Spelling's face was less well known than the images he created for TV. Anne Francis, signing autographs in 2001 at a collectors' show, had the title role in "Honey West" (1965). She played a sexy private eye who worked with a handsome assistant and a pet ocelot named Bruce. Honey was the cultural grandma of "Charlie's Angels," which Spelling was to produce a little more than a decade later.

"Melrose Place" (1992 - 1999) captured a young TV audience that could not get enough of the love affairs and corporate machinations among a cast that included, from left, Daphne Zuniga, Grant Show, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Andrew Shue, Heather Locklear, Thomas Calabro, Josie Bissett and Doug Savant.

"Dynasty" (1981 - 1989) dripped with glamour and perfidy, and the one who designed the outfits was Nolan Miller, seen here surrounded by series stars Catherine Oxenberg, Joan Collins, Diahann Carroll, Heather Locklear and Linda Evans on Sept. 1, 1985.

Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton and Clarence Williams III made up "The Mod Squad" (1968 - 1973), as three young crime fighters who work undercover for the police. Lipton went on to have an affair with Paul McCartney and, later, marry and divorce music producer Quincy Jones.

The red and white Ford Torino sometimes stole the show for many guys who watched the show but most of the girls only had eyes for David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser as Ken Hutchinson and Dave Starsky, also known as "Starsky and Hutch" (1975 - 1979).

Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Cheryl Ladd, Jaclyn Smith and David Doyle get together for a picnic in this scene from "Charlie's Angels" (1976 - 1981). Fawcett actually hung in fulltime on the series for one season, and Cheryl Ladd took over as her sister. After that, Fawcett dropped in now and then for a special guest appearance.

Ricardo Montalban ("Smiles, everyone!") and Herve Villechaize ("De plane, de plane!") played Mr. Roarke and Tattoo on the TV series "Fantasy Island" (1978 - 1984). Each week, it cost a different assortment of people $50,000 each to live out their fantasies. Many valuable lessons were learned.

Aaron Spelling helped produce the final regular TV series that starred Lucille Ball, "Life With Lucy," seen here in 1986. During the 1954-55 season of the original "I Love Lucy" series, Spelling played the role of a hillbilly gas station attendant who the Ricardos and Mertzes on the road to California.

"Beverly Hills, 90210" (1990 - 2000) presented high school as you could only dream it. Members of the original cast were, from left, Brian Austin Green, Jennie Garth, Luke Perry, Shannen Doherty, Jason Priestley, Tori Spelling (daughter of Aaron), Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris and Douglas Emerson.

Here is the original trio from another Spelling production, "Charmed," a television show that's still in production. It started with Alyssa Milano, Shannen Doherty and Holly Marie Combs as Phoebe, Prue and Piper Halliwell. Since then, Doherty's character has been killed off and replaced with Rose McGowan (as Paige).

Here is Spelling's most publicized extravagance: his 6,500-square-foot French chateau in Holmby Hills, Calif. He and wife Candy bought the former Bing Crosby estate for $10 million and leveled it and two other houses to the ground. Construction was estimated at $12 million. It has 210 bedrooms and 120 parking spots.

Here is Tori Spelling, posing with her father on Jan. 24, 1995. She had not been in touch with her family for the past nine to ten months. (No reason has been made public.) "I am grateful that I recently had the opportunity to reconcile with my father, and most grateful we had the chance to tell each other we loved one another before he passed away," she said in a statement. "He was a great man and even better father."

Aaron Spelling and his wife, Candy, pose with his award in the press room at the 2005 TV Land Awards at Barker Hangar on March 13, 2005, in Santa Monica, Calif. Spelling was honored with the Pioneer Award for his contribution to great television.

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Candy and Tori Spelling are a mother-daughter team that has become more famous, thanks to Tori's semi-reality TV show, "So NoTORIous." But Loni Anderson plays Candy in the show. Here are the actual mother and daughter at the Carousel of Hope Ball 2002 in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Oct. 15, 2002.

Aaron and Candy Spelling also had a son together. He's actor Randy Spelling, one of the stars of a new reality show on A&E Television called (appropriately) "Sons of Hollywood."

But way before Candy and Randy and Tori, Aaron Spelling was married to actress Carolyn Jones for 11 years. (They are shown here having a laugh at a party in 1960.) They parted amicably in 1964, the same year Jones started her spectacular two-year stint as Morticia in the TV series "The Addams Family" (which was one show Spelling did not produce).