Dean Reeves

*"Acting is the easiest thing in the world. The trick is not getting caught doing it." - Dean Reeves*

**Dean Reeves** is an American actor, writer, director, producer and athlete. He was the creator, the director, and an actor on the children's television show "Forever Town" in the 1970s TV series, in which he played the eponymous character.

Born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1935, he attended the University of Kentucky on a football scholarship but an injury prevented him from playing football. He continued training athletically for several years as a surfer and a weight lifter before getting a job as a stuntman in Hollywood where he gradually got into acting, appearing in cowboy and detective flicks with random appearances in the horror movie genre. Among his movies were "Tongo The Ape Man," "The Surfer," "Hill Plains Deputy," "Wells Fargo," "The Many Loves of Frankenstein," "Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid" and more movies in the Tongo series.

During his role as an extensive public speaker in the Late Sixties, Reeves noticed an absence in healthy lifestyle role models for children. It was during this period that he began developing "Forever Town," a children's TV series that promoting healthy lifestyles for children through comedy, music and dance with the tips from super-hero Super-Guy, an optimistic acrobatic and extremely fit superhero role model. He was joined in the series by twelve year old Tricia Caldwell, chosen out of 500 hopeful child actress, and comedic actor Dylan Carvey as Ricky Rotten, the series ne'er-do-well.

Lasting three seasons on television, the series earned several awads and achievements with Reeves continuing to make appearances as Super-Guy in public after the show ended. It also spawned a series of books, a cartoon and marchandise, making Reeves wealthy beyond his means. He also became a philanthropist donating money to children's charities. During the series, he also romanced and eventually married his costume designer Kari Hyneman, the two of them having two daughters.

Through the 70s and 80s, Reeves worked as an producer creating and developing more positive children's TV shows and acting as an activist for both children and family rights. In 1985, he was traveling through the Northeast speaking out to get the government to support better nutritional lunches in schools when he traveled through Ashford Falls to re-unite with Tricia, who he had always treated as a daughter. This information must have somehow been relayed to businessman Carter Hedison laying comatose at the Duffy Medical Center in Albany through his son, Blake Hedison. Hedison ended up processing the information into the mental pseudo-reality in his dreams involving his daughter Rachel Hedison attempting to take over his company. In this so-called alternate reality, Rachel seeming vamped Reeves and convinced him to help finance genetic genome surgery developed by Geoffrey Overall, a medical researcher at Hedison Pharmaceuticals. Taking custody of the development would have weakened the company for Rachel to seize it, but her mental control over Dean caused him to act contrary to behavior. He started drinking and smoking and ignoring his wife and children. As Dean's charities started separating from him, Tricia tried breaking Rachel's control over him and started slipping back into his Super-Guy persona. Prowling around at night, he starting battling muggers and vandals, but when he tried saving local youth Jason Pryde in a fire at the Old Trout Mansion, he was killed when the burning roof caved in on him.

In the real world, Reeves became fond of Ashford Falls through Tricia and half-seriously debated moving his family from Los Angeles to the small town. He continued with his charities and his "Forever Town" legacy and even had a small cameo in the 1995 "Tongo The Ape Man" reboot.