I liked Generations (I worked at night at the time, so I was home during the day to watch it), but it stumbled and bumbled and barely made it through two years on the air. The Marsall business became so successful that his ice creams got national distribution, making him and wife Vivian wealthy enough to buy the mansion she toiled in as a maid and nanny to the Whitmores - the other core family in the show. Blacque played Henry Marshall, who, like George Jefferson, parlayed a small business (in Jefferson's case, a dry cleaner in Marshall's case, an ice cream parlor), into a successful chain. It was heavily promoted by the network as being the first such show that gave equal weight to a Black family from its beginnings. I also remember him from a short-lived soap opera daytime drama on NBC, Generations. (Most times he didn't.) Neal Washington also had the bad luck to get shot not once, not twice, but three times during the series' run. Taurean Blacque is best remembered as cool Detective Neal Washington on Hill Street Blues, who was unfailingly loyal to his partner, sad sack drunk J.D. From Deadline: "Taurean Blacque Dies: Emmy-Nominated ‘Hill Street Blues’ Actor Was 82"
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