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Article: Ex-cop helps untie `Drug Knot' // `Hot' Dave Toma at last delivers his message to TV
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 10, 1986
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LOS ANGELES Television supposedly is allergic to "hot" personalities
- people as intense as ex-cop Dave Toma, a crusader against drugs.
Yet Toma has been the model for two prime-time TV series, "Toma"
and "Baretta." And he now stars as himself in "The Drug Knot," a CBS
special airing from 7 to 8 tonight on WBBM-Channel 2. "The Drug
Knot" shows Toma visiting schools and telling teens that through
love and communication they can find alternatives to
self-destruction.
Toma uses his powerful personality to break through shells of
indifference or scorn and make his listeners admit their problems to
themselves and to people who can help them.
"I go to schools and talk to the kids and ...