Obit: Tom Moore, President of ABC Television in ’60s, at 88

[CrankyYankee]

Tom Moore, who as president of the ABC Television Network in the 1960s ...and who later won five Emmys as head of his own production company, died Saturday near his home in Palm Springs, Calif.
Among the popular shows that ABC broadcast while he was head of programming were: “The Real McCoys,” “77 Sunset Strip,” “My Three Sons,” “The Flintstones,” “Ben Casey” and “The Untouchables.” While he was network president, the network added, among other shows, “McHale’s Navy,” “The Fugitive, “Peyton Place,” “The Addams Family” and “Batman.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/business/media/04moore.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

 

[Al Timiter]

Just looking at those shows Crankyankee mentioned, it would suit me fine if someone brought all those shows back to the forefront in syndication.

 

[Ultimajock]

...Moore had the chance to grab a version of "The Twilight Zone" after CBS' cancellation of that series in 1964. Rod Serling had approached ABC with the idea; since CBS owned the "Twilight Zone" name, they'd have to come up with a new title (Serling suggested "Rod Serling's Wax Museum"), but he also intended for the same content as on the CBS original. Moore apparently preferred a monster horror approach, not unlike the extraterrestrial-laden "Outer Limits" (which Moore was looking to replace by Spring '65). Serling was disgusted with Moore's idea and said as much to Variety, killing the prospects of a deal. Serling wound up going back to CBS and producing "The Loner" in 1965. Ironically, a lot of what Moore wanted to do did pop up in "Rod Serling's Night Gallery" on NBC six seasons later...