Hatch stormed off set during an especially heated line of questioning by Bonds.) In 1991, Bonds participated in the nationally-televised town hall meeting for Democratic presidential candidates Clinton, Jerry Brown and Paul Tsongas. Bonds joined rival WJBK-TV as host of an 11 p.m. talk show Bonds Tonight on WJBK-TV and also anchored newscasts. He returned to WXYZ for several months in 1999 to read editorials, but left to lend his voice to radio and TV commercials, including the Detroit furniture company Gardner-White. Commercials, radio work Bonds had become the voice of several Detroit-area radio stations, and was paired with one of his partners at WXYZ's anchor desk, Doris Biscoe, to pitch Better Made potato chips. Later life and death Bonds also had a bit part as a newscaster in a 1970 episode of It Takes a Thief and as himself in cameos in the 1971 film Escape from the Planet of the Apes and the 1987 film RoboCop. He died at his home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, on December 13, 2014, at age 82, from a heart attack. Filmography References 1932 births Television anchors from Detroit Television anchors from Los Angeles 2014 deaths Television anchors from New York City Television in Detroit University of Detroit Mercy alumni