Malcolm-Jamal Warner will forever be associated with two fictional characters: Theo Huxtable and Gordon Gartrell. The first made Warner familiar to us. The second only exists by reputation. In the brand-conscious ‘80s,

“It’s like losing one of us,” said Harriet Cammock, a 58-year-old Detroit author and speaker. “This is the thing with television. When you’re watching people every week on television, you think you know them and you’re related to them.”