Like father, like son — that's the dynamic of the Lewis family. Decades before Parker breezed through Santo Domingo High, his father, Marty, filled a similar role. He's a provider of fun memories, parental support, and VHS tapes via his role as owner and operator of Mondo Video.
Timothy Stack played Marty, and he's still making TV just as arch and innovative as Parker Lewis. At the peak of the mid-'90s trashy talk show boom (thank you, Jenny Jones, Ricki Lake, and Jerry Springer), Stack co-created and hosted, in character as Dick Dietrick, the mock-talk show Night Stand. Adept at parody, Stack moved on to co-conceive and star on the FX Baywatch send-up Son of the Beach, in which he played overconfident but idiotic head lifeguard Notch Johnson.
Beach ran for three seasons, but Stack kept Notch Johnson alive after it ended. He wrote for the long-running sitcoms My Name is Earl and Raising Hope, both created by Greg Garcia and both set in sleepy small towns. On each show, Stack occasionally appeared as "TV's Tim Stack," a drunk, unemployed exaggeration of himself, still walking around in his lifeguard costume from Son of the Beach.
