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07-12-2011, 07:20 PM
Sherwood Schwartz, the legendary producer who created "The Brady Bunch" and "Gilligan's Island" and also wrote their theme songs, has died at 94, his great-niece reports.
Robin Randall says Schwartz died at 4 a.m. Tuesday.
Schwartz won an Emmy in 1961 for his work on "The Red Skelton Show" and worked on numerous other programs, but will forever be best known for his two campy 1960s-1970s sitcoms.
“Gilligan’s Island” featured a hummable theme song telling how a boatload of seven characters, including a professor and a movie star, wound up stranded on an island. Bob Denver played Gilligan, the first mate.
“The Brady Bunch” featured Florence Henderson as a widow with three daughters who marries a widower with three sons. Fond memories of the show sparked a revival of interest in that show in the 1990s. A theater production, "The Real Life Brady Bunch," performed actual scripts from the show on stages around the country in the early part of that decade. A bigscreen version, “The Brady Bunch Movie,” was a surprise box-office hit in 1995.
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Robin Randall says Schwartz died at 4 a.m. Tuesday.
Schwartz won an Emmy in 1961 for his work on "The Red Skelton Show" and worked on numerous other programs, but will forever be best known for his two campy 1960s-1970s sitcoms.
“Gilligan’s Island” featured a hummable theme song telling how a boatload of seven characters, including a professor and a movie star, wound up stranded on an island. Bob Denver played Gilligan, the first mate.
“The Brady Bunch” featured Florence Henderson as a widow with three daughters who marries a widower with three sons. Fond memories of the show sparked a revival of interest in that show in the 1990s. A theater production, "The Real Life Brady Bunch," performed actual scripts from the show on stages around the country in the early part of that decade. A bigscreen version, “The Brady Bunch Movie,” was a surprise box-office hit in 1995.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43728174/ns/today-entertainment/