"I have no complaints on any level. I'm pretty happy about the way everything has turned out. I'm married to the same girl for 40 years and we have some grandchildren now and I get to go fishing all I want. Life is pretty good."
All things considered, Milner says he would rather be fishing. As a result, the former star of TV's Route 66 (1960-64) and Adam 12 (1968-75) became the host of a fishing radio show in San Diego
Milner, 70, says hosting a two-hour weekend call-in show isn't really an unlikely follow-up to acting. "I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama. I even played Jack Webb's partner on the radio version of Dragnet for a while."
Milner does very little acting now because he doesn't want to take himself away from the radio show. He still travels a lot, but the trips are usually work-related fishing expeditions. "We host some trips all over the world. We go to Alaska. We go to Mexico. We're going to Venezuela in December. We've been to Russia, all in conjunction with the radio show."
He made an exception this fall to act in an episode of Diagnosis Murder that reunited him with former Adam 12 costar Kent McCord. And if anyone gets serious about doing a Route 66 reunion with George Maharis, he says he would be interested in that, too. "But we would have to do it as a comedy. You can't do a serious show about two guys in their 60s trying to find their route."
Milner and his wife, Judy, have four grown children and three grandchildren.
Biography Magazine, Feb. 1998