The Resume

(May 18, 1935-January 30, 2021)
Born in Baltimore, Maryland
Producer and screenwriter
With Chris Hayward, created the shows The Munsters and My Mother the Car
With James L. Brooks, created The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, and Lou Grant
Also wrote for The Bullwinkle Show, ‘He and She,’ Get Smart, and Room 222
Directed and wrote the screenplay for the film ‘Just Between Friends’ (1986)
Created cereal mascot Cap’n Crunch

Why he might be annoying:

He dropped out of the University of Oregon.
He claimed he was hired as an NBC page because he fit the uniform of a page who had just quit: ‘The reason that I am in show business is because I'm a 42 long, that's the truth.’
He said about ‘My Mother the Car,’ ‘I probably have spent the rest of my life living that show down.’

Why he might not be annoying:

He was married to Joan Bailey for 56 years.
His and Hayward’s pitch for ‘The Munsters’ was stolen by an unscrupulous agent, requiring them to go the WGA to get their rightful credit.
He won six Emmys: three as a writer, three as a producer.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 80]
• College Drop Outs
• I Attended University of Oregon
• I Died in 2021 (Ranked: 95)
• Mary Tyler Moore Show
• N.B.C. Pages
• Profiles 50001-50056 (Ranked: 50039)
• We Celebrated Our Golden Anniversary
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 20210130)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 113 Votes: 51.33% Annoying