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'Gilligan's Island' lasted on CBS from 1964 to 1967, and it was revived in later seasons with three high-rated TV movies. If you can't do that, the show will fail.' If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. 'When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. 'I think writers have become hypnotized by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character,' Schwartz said in a 2000 Associated Press interview. He argued that his sitcoms didn't rely on cheap laughs. Schwartz insisted that the show had social meaning along with the laughs: 'I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications.' TV critics hooted at 'Gilligan's Island' as gag-ridden corn. and Dawn Wells, sweet-natured farm girl Mary Ann Summers.Ĭalling 'Gilligan's Island' a 'family,' Tina Louise tweeted that 'Sherwood Schwartz brought laughter and comfort to millions of people.' In her Twitter post she added, 'He will be in our hearts forever.'

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The cast: Alan Hale Jr., as Skipper Jonas Grumby Bob Denver, as his klutzy assistant Gilligan Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer, the rich snobs Thurston and Lovey Howell Tina Louise, the bosomy movie star Ginger Grant Russell Johnson, egghead science professor Roy Hinkley Jr. It was a Robinson Crusoe story about seven disparate travelers who are marooned on a deserted Pacific Island after their small boat wrecks in a storm. He dreamed up 'Gilligan's Island' in 1964. He went on to write for other radio and TV shows, including 'The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.' Schwartz had given up a career in medical science to write jokes for Bob Hope's radio show.

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Neither 'Gilligan' nor 'Brady' pleased the critics, but both managed to reverberate in viewers' heads through the years as few such series did, lingering in the language and inspiring parodies, spinoffs and countless standup comedy jokes. Success was the hallmark of Sherwood Schwartz's own career. Douglas Schwartz, who created the hit series 'Baywatch,' called his uncle a longtime mentor and caring 'second father' who helped guide him successfully through show business. Sherwood Schwartz was working on a big-screen version of 'Gilligan's Island,' his nephew said. He continued to produce all the way up into his 90s.' 'Sherwood is an American classic, creating 'Brady Bunch' and 'Gilligan's Island,' iconic shows that are still popular today. 'They helped shape television in its early days,' Douglas Schwartz said. Sherwood Schwartz and his brother, Al, started as a writing team in TV's famed 1950s 'golden age,' said Douglas Schwartz, the late Al Schwartz's son. His wife, Mildred, and children had been at his side. Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was being treated for an intestinal infection and underwent several surgeries. Great niece Robin Randall said Schwartz died at 4 a.m. Sherwood Schwartz was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 2008.Sherwood Schwartz, writer-creator of two of the best-remembered TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, 'Gilligan's Island' and 'The Brady Bunch,' has died at age 94. On March 7, 2008, Schwartz, at the time still active in his 90s, was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

He went on to create and produce Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, and wrote the theme songs for both shows.

Schwartz was a writer on the Armed Forces Radio Network before he got his break in television. He went on to write for Ozzie Nelson's The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and other radio shows. I was faced with a major decision-writing comedy or starving to death while I cured those diseases. Then he asked me to join his writing staff. Schwartz recalled that Hope 'liked my jokes, used them on his show and got big laughs.

In need of employment, he began writing jokes for Bob Hope's radio program. He relocated from New York to Southern California to pursue a Master of Science degree in Biology. Schwartz's entertainment career came 'by accident'. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, and created the television series Gilligan's Island on CBS and The Brady Bunch on ABC. Sherwood Schwartz was an American television producer.

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