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Schwartz also had the distinction of being interviewed by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation’s Archive of American Television. Survivors include his wife, three sons and a daughter. Other credits included My Favorite Martian, It’s About Time and Dusty’s Trail.
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It also spawned a live stage show, which led to a pair of feature films, The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel. Like Gilligan’s Island, it featured a memorable theme song courtesy of Schwartz, and also lived on for decades thanks to three single-season spinoffs: The Brady Bunch Hour, The Brady Brides and The Bradys. The Brady Bunch, about a widow with three daughters who marries a widower with three sons, chronicled the escapades of the blended family. It also morphed into a children’s cartoon, The New Adventures of Gilligan and, more recently, a reality show called The Real Gilligan’s Island. In later years Gilligan’s Island was revived in three high-rated made-for-television movies.
Although the show ended in 1967, it remains a pop-culture touchstone to this day, thanks in part to the infectious theme song, written by Schwartz himself, which explained the premise and introduced the characters in a jaunty nautical tune. Gilligan’s Island, the saga of seven castaways marooned on an island, premiered in 1964. His early TV credits included I Married Joan and The Red Skelton Hour. Medicine’s loss was television’s gain once Schwartz moved from radio to the new medium, which at the time was still in its infancy. Hope liked the material and offered the younger Schwartz a job.
He originally intended to pursue a career in medicine, but switched to show business after sharing some jokes he had written with his older brother Al, who was working as a writer for Bob Hope’s radio show. He was 94.Īccording to news reports, Schwartz was being treated for an intestinal infection and had undergone several surgeries.īorn in Passaic, New Jersey, on November 14, 1916, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Sherwood Schwartz, writer and creator of two of television's most enduring comedies, Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch, died July 12, 2011, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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