Sherwood Schwartz obituary

The creator of Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch

In the 1960s, no one nearest the finger at the pulse of the major American television viewing public Sherwood Schwartz, who died aged 94. Schwartz created two Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, two shows that have challenged the stigma to become critical hits, and through countless repetitions in syndication have become icons of their time.

looking back, you can find some cultural weight of each. Gilligan, which, as its main theme, co-written by Schwartz said, was the story of seven people in a "three hour cruise" that end up stranded on a desert island, was sold to CBS as "a microcosm, but a microcosm of fun, "which debuted in 1964.

Played by Bob Denver, Gilligan awkward first can be seen, when the show began in 1964 as a prototype hippie, interaction with a teacher and a millionaire nerd arrogant. Schwartz loved comic actors cast wide: billionaire Jim Backus, Gilligan and also had a strained relationship with Alan Hale as the captain of the ship

The Brady Bunch, which aired in 1969, reflects the social changes of the decade. Schwartz read a newspaper article saying that almost one third of American households included a child from a previous marriage. Since the splitting comedy where Robert Reed Florence Henderson married, each with three children with them. The man has played directly to children, while always loved Ann B. Davis broad strokes.

Comedy

was a field of Schwartz was an accident. Born in Passaic, New Jersey, grew up in Brooklyn and was a science student at DeWitt Clinton High. With a degree in pre-medicine at New York University, earned a master's degree in biological sciences at the University of Southern California. He lived with his brother Al, who was a writer on the Bob Hope radio show recently launched. You need money, started selling jokes to hope, that in 1938 offered a personal work. "I met an important decision," he said, "to write a comedy or starving while I cured of these diseases. I made a quick career change."

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• radio armed forces during World War II and returned to radio comedies after the war. In 1952, he moved to television, I married Joan of writing, with the judge so respectable wife Backus tormented by his erratic. The following year he joined his brother as a writer for Red Skelton, with whom he remained until 1962. Although Schwartz won an Emmy in 1961 as part of the editorial team, its relations with Skelton were so bad that your contract states that do not have to deal directly with the star. In Denver, Schwartz has found a more beautiful version of Skelton awkward comic character.
• In 1963, he wrote for My Favorite Martian, another series to understand the different types of people. Many retrospective analysis, Ray Walston March secret identity is sometimes seen as an allegory of homosexuality closet. Sherwood had a keen sense of satire: the SS Minnow, the wreckage of Gilligan was named after Newton Minow, head of the Federal Communications Commission that became known American television called a "vast wasteland"

In 1966, Schwartz Gilligan mining began with the release of It was time, in which two astronauts travel back to prehistoric times, looked exactly like the ideal set of Gilligan's Island. The cavemen included Imogene Coca, Joe E. Ross and Mike Mazurki, but despite a change in the middle of the series that took until the 20th century, the series lasted one season. In 1973, the final season of The Brady Bunch is Dusty Trail Schwartz has created a Gilligan's Island West covered wagons. Dusty Denver played with Forrest Tucker in the role of Alan Hale. Although Denver is considered his best work, but lasted only one season. Schwartz was a writer and producer of the short life of the Valley PTA Harper (1978), based on the country music hit, and development, but not to sell, two series with Denver, Scamps (1982) and The Invisible Woman, in time to make a TV movie in 1983.

Recycling

Gilligan and Brady has become an industry of a lifetime, often with co-wrote with members of his family. Gilligan's Island is often cited as the most repetition of the history of television. This resulted in three films for television. He may have felt the first rescue, Gilligan's Island (1978) put an end to the franchise, but the third, The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981), certainly did. After a successful TV movie, Brady Girls Marry (1981), the series The Brady Brides (also 1981) lasted only six episodes, and after a Christmas special in 1989, Brady (1990) lasted only five years. Schwartz did not work in the language Brady Bunch movie plays in the (1995) with Gary Cole and Shelley Long, but threatened to reject the film if the script updated the dialogue of the characters including the inauguration. It was a success and led to a suite and a TV movie, The Brady Bunch in the White House (2002).

Schwartz co-wrote a musical version of Gilligan's Island, and a 2006 work, Rockers, which was presented at Theatre West in Los Angeles. He was admired by fans of Brady for his efforts to stop harassing amateur theater at Paramount for breach of copyright when they stage productions based on the Brady Bunch.

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