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Obit: Sam Denoff, 83, writer for "The Dick Van Dyke Show"

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Sam Denoff, Emmy-winning writer most closely associated
with "The Dick Van Dyke Show," died Friday at his home in Brentwood, CA,
of Alzheimer's disease. He was 83.

Denoff and partner Bill Persky wrote for Steve Allen in the '50s before
joining the Van Dyke show in 1961. They also wrote scripts for "McHale's
Navy" and helped create "That Girl" in 1966 and the critically-acclaimed but
short-lived "Good Morning, World" in 1967 (a show which, IIRC, CBS hoped might
be the successor to the Van Dyke show with its show-business setting--a radio
station--and the Van Dyke link to its creators).
 
Denoff and Bill Persky also had a hand in some "Andy Griffith Show" scripts and handled the Gomer Pyle story line, including the spinoff into "Gomer Pyle, USMC" in 1964. Truly a great loss and a milestone in TV sitcom history...RIP, Sam.
 
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