Imagine, if you will, a time of wild economic inequality, global conflict, and Donald Trump every freakin' time you turn on your TV. But all of that in neon, and with a way cooler soundtrack.

Sian Barbara Allen, who became one of the most popular television actresses in the 1970s and 1980s died Monday. She was 78. Allen died of Alzheimer’s Disease in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, her ...