Happy Birthday to Kent McCord!

He was a lot of people’s first crush – including mine – and today the still very handsome Kent McCord turns 67 years old.

Best known for his seven-year run as officer Jim Reed on Adam 12, McCord starred in 175 episodes of the police drama opposite Martin Milner. He was also one of the leads in the ABC sci-fi series Galactica 1980, had a recurring role on seaQuest DSV in the mid-’90s. His semi-regular role of Jack Crichton on Farscape, a sci-fi TV cult hit that ran from 1999-2003, gained him lots of younger fans. There’s also been plenty of voiceover work, scores of television guest spots and some movies (Airplane II-The Sequel, Predator II, and Megiddo-The Omega Code 2).

“Make-believe is a wonderful way to make a living,” Kent told me a few years ago. “When you get into my age range — and for women it happens quite younger — you are being excluded from this American scene if you watch the programming that is going on. But there are people who revel in the fact that mature people can have interesting lives.”