Clean-cut and preppy handsome, Parker Stevenson became a teen idol with his first TV series, "The Hardy Boys Mysteries" (ABC, 1977-79) but by the 1990s had switched images to entrepreneurial bad dudes on "Melrose Place" (Fox, 1993), and "Savannah" (The WB, 1996). Yet, he may never live down the remark made by his then-wife Kirstie Alley at the 1991 Emmy Awards who upon winning thanked Stevenson for "giving me the big one".From a "Social Register" family, Stevenson attended Princeton University, but was focused on pursuing an acting career. (His mother had appeared on Broadway and in TV
