The man who single-handedly kept KCOP on the air in the 80's with his syndicated programs has gone off the air. Sherwood Schwartz, writer-creator of both Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch died at age 94.Schwartz died at 4 a.m. this morning in the hospital where he was undergoing treatment for an intestinal infection. His wife Mildred, his children, and massive piles of money were at his side.
Staring in the 1950s with his brother Al as a partner, Schwartz left the medical field write jokes for Bob Hope's radio show and later The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. It was said Schwartz was working on a big-screen version of Gilligan's Island prior to his death, hoping to wring one last penny out of a hit from nearly 40 years ago. Still, to get to coast through the last half of your life on a ain't too shabby...even if people think you were already dead.
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