Canyon Band had success with the 1972 single, "Garden Party". Rick and the Band wrote the song in response to having been booed off the stage at a rock and roll revival concert at Madison Square Garden after having refused to play his old hits. Throughout the 1970s, Rick was riddled with debt. In 1981, he and wife Kristin Harmon divorced. While touring the United States, en route to a New Year's Eve concert in Dallas, Rick Nelson was killed in a plane accident on December 31, 1985, in DeKalb in Bowie County in northeast Texas. In 1987, Rick was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Harriet Following Ozzie's death in 1975, Harriet grew reclusive. In 1989, she made her last onscreen appearance in her granddaughter Tracy Nelson's TV series, Father Dowling Mysteries. Harriet never fully recovered from Rick's death and died of congestive heart failure and emphysema in 1994 at the age of 85. Ozzie, Harriet, and Rick are interred together at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery, in Los Angeles, California. David David Nelson continued to produce feature films and television commercials and owned his commercial production company. David died from colon cancer on January 11, 2011. Legacy The series attracted large audiences and became synonymous with the 1950s ideal American family life. Although it was never a top-ten hit, Nelson's long-term contract with ABC and the lower expectations that came with being on the lowest-rated of the Big Three television networks at the time ensured that the show accrued enough episodes to remain the longest-running live-action sitcom in United States television history, while also still maintaining the record for most number of episodes aired to the present day for any live-action American sitcom. References External links Adventures Of Ozzie & Harriet on Way Back When Encyclopedia of Television The Nelson Brothers 1940s American radio programs 1944 radio programme debuts 1950s American sitcoms 1950s American radio programs 1952 American television series debuts 1954 radio programme endings 1960s American sitcoms 1966 American television series endings ABC radio programs American Broadcasting Company original programming American comedy radio programs Black-and-white American television shows CBS Radio programs Cultural depictions of American men Cultural depictions of American women Cultural depictions of actors Cultural depictions of comedians English-language television shows NBC radio programs Radio characters introduced in 1944 Radio duos Radio programs about families Radio programs adapted into television shows Television