Rita Lakin, Pioneering Screenwriter and Creator of ‘The Rookies’ and ‘Flamingo Road,’ Dies at 93

Rita Lakin, the boundary-pushing TV writer and showrunner who worked on Peyton Place, The Doctors and Mod Squad and created series including The Rookies and Flamingo Road, has died. She was 93. Lakin died March 23 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Novato, California, her son,…

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