RIP Markie Post

[bazodee]

NEW YORK -- Markie Post, who played the public defender in the 1980s sitcom “Night Court” and was a regular presence on television for four decades, has died. She was 70.

Post's manager, Ellen Lubin Sanitsky, said Post died Saturday in Los Angeles after a years-long battle with cancer.

Post was a longtime television regular who appeared in shows from “Cheers” to “Scrubs." But she was best known for her seven-season run on NBC's “Night Court," the Manhattan municipal court sitcom that ran from 1984 to 1992 and starred Harry Anderson as Judge Harry T. Stone.

Post became a full-time cast member of “Night Court” in season three as Christine Sullivan, a sincere and strong-willed woman who served as a constant foil to Dan Fielding, John Larroquette's womanizing, narcissistic prosecutor. With comic rebuttal, Post's Christine deflected Fielding's lechery throughout the series' run. Though an unrealized romance between Christine and Harry was often teased, “Night Court” ended with Fielding realizing the public defendant was the love of his life.

Several of Post’s “Night Court” co-stars have died in recent years. Harry Anderson died at age 65 in 2018. In July, Charles Robinson, who played the clerk Mac died at 75. NBC is currently developing a sequel to the series.

Post had two daughters with her second husband, TV producer and writer Michael A. Ross. In a statement, the family said "our pride is in who she was in addition to acting; a person who made elaborate cakes for friends, sewed curtains for first apartments and showed us how to be kind, loving and forgiving in an often harsh world.”

Post started in television behind the camera, working on the production crew of the game shows “Double Dare" and “Card Sharks.” Her first series regular role was in the Lee Majors action adventure series “The Fall Guy,” in which she played Terri Michaels from 1982 to 1985.

Post's other credits include playing Cameron Diaz’s mother in “There’s Something About Mary”; Elliot Reid's mother on “Scrubs"; and appearances in the shows “The Love Boat,” “The A-Team” and “Fantasy Island.” While receiving chemotherapy treatments, Post acted in the Lifetime movie “Christmas Reservations" and guest starred on the ABC series “The Kids Are Alright.”

[BackInTex]

She had a big crush on me back in the day.

It was a while back so I may be confused on the facts.

R.I.P.

[T_Bone0806]

She had a big crush on me back in the day.

It was a while back so I may be confused on the facts.

Obviously, as it was ME she had the crush on....

[Estonut]

She had a big crush on me back in the day.

It was a while back so I may be confused on the facts.

Obviously, as it was ME she had the crush on....

She told me it was only me...

I always like her, even in her later Hallmark movies. RIP

[tlynn78]

This made me sad - I always really liked her. She did not have a crush on me. I really, really enjoyed Night Court; the entire cast was fabulous. They just don't make tv like that anymore.

[Pastor Fireball]

This made me sad - I always really liked her. She did not have a crush on me. I really, really enjoyed Night Court; the entire cast was fabulous. They just don't make tv like that anymore.

NBC is trying to "make tv like that", though, if you go by the snippet of the obit that says they're developing a Night Court sequel (which, if it goes to air, will be a hard pass from me for the same reason that a colorized Casablanca is a hard pass--you don't f**k around with perfection).

[Ritterskoop]

Melissa Rauch, from Big Bang Theory, is playing Harry's daughter, a judge. John Larroquette returns as Dan Fielding, and I think it will be interesting to see how his raunchy ways have adapted.

I liked Markie Post OK, but my true love was for Ellen Foley as Billie Young, who was written out because her chemistry with Harry was more sibling-esque. She toured with Meatloaf and was the vocalist on the "Paradise By the Dashboard Light" duet. I got to see her a few years ago in New York, and she was astounding in person.

[mellytu74]

Right after I heard about Markie Post, I was watching the CNN series "History of the Sitcom."

One of the interviewees in that segment right after .... Marsha Warfield.

I felt very sad.