up until his retirement in 2022.<\/a> Buck Busfield lives in Sacramento and declined to talk to a reporter who visited his home.<\/p>\nIn an interview with Sacramento News and Review, Buck Busfield spoke about creating a successful regional theater that has managed to stay in operation for more than 30 years and to gain a national profile. He gave some credit to his TV star brother, who helped him develop the initial children\u2019s company and open up the original theatre on Sacramento\u2019s B Street in 1991.<\/p>\n
Buck Busfield told the Sacramento News and Review that the brothers chose to launch a theater company in California\u2019s state capital for a couple of reasons, including that it was an hour\u2019s flight from Hollywood where Tim Busfield had his acting career. Sacramento also had a dearth of live theater at the time, he said.<\/p>\n
They found an\u00a0an empty warehouse on B Street and equipped it with a stage, risers, bathrooms, dressing rooms and a lobby. \u201cThe community was ready for us,\u201d Busfield told the publication, though he acknowledged that the theater community was \u201ca bit hesitant thinking we were too Hollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a video released to the media Tuesday, Timothy Busfield proclaimed his innocence as he spoke from his lawyer\u2019s office in New Mexico. He said that he drove 2,000 miles from his home in New York to New Mexico, after learning about the warrant for his arrest.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re all lies,\u201d Busfield said about the abuse allegations. \u201cI did not do anything to those little boys, and I\u2019m going to fight it. I\u2019m going to fight it with a great team, and I\u2019m going to be exonerated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Busfield\u2019s civil attorney, Larry Stein,\u00a0told TMZ that there was \u201ca revenge factor at work\u201d in the abuse allegations. According to the criminal complaint filed with the arrest warrant, Stein said, an actress on the set claimed that the mother of the boys told her she vowed to get revenge on Busfield after her sons were cut from the final season of the show.<\/p>\n
The New Mexico charges against Busfield stem from an investigation that opened in November 2024 when staff at the University of New Mexico Hospital called police and reported that two boys potentially were being groomed on the set of \u201cThe Cleaning Lady.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the time the boys did not disclose any sexual contact, though they said that Busfield asked them to call him \u201cUncle Tim\u201d and said he would \u201ctickle them on their stomach and legs,\u201d even though they didn\u2019t like being tickled, KTLA and the Daily Mail reported, citing the affidavit filed with the arrest warrant. Police determined that the evidence did not yet meet the threshold for charges.<\/p>\n
Nearly a year later, in October 2025, one of the parents reported to Child Protective Services that her sons disclosed sexual abuse by Busfield from November 2022 to spring 2024, KTLA reported. One of the boys said that Busfield touched both his \u201cgenitalia\u201d and \u201cbottom\u201d on several occasions while on the set of the show, the affidavit said. One of the boys also said the touching of his \u201cprivate areas\u201d first occurred when he was 7, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n
During a Nov. 3 phone interview with an Albuquerque police detective, with Melissa Gilbert listening in, Busfield said he had \u201cplayful\u201d contact with the children on his set, but denied any wrongdoing, the affidavit said, according to affidavit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To make the case that TV actor Timothy Busfield should remain in custody pending his trial in New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2523,31831,12577,138,967,181,1399,100,121,123,122,1058,420,14258],"class_list":["post-133813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-alert","tag-coffee-break","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-entertainment","tag-latest-headlines","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-theater","tag-things-to-do","tag-tv-streaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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A booking photo of actor Timothy Busfield (Bernalillo County District Attorney’s Office.)\u00a0<\/p>\n