https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...ducer-director-news-game-shows-was-79-1286119
He was best known for his time at CBS in the 1960's
He made his name at Barry & Enright Productions before starting his own shingle, Kline & Friends, Inc.
Richard S. Kline, an Emmy-nominated producer and director of news and game shows, died Saturday in Connecticut following a long illness, his wife Annabelle tells The Hollywood Reporter. He was 79.
Born in New Haven, Kline served in the U.S. Army reserves in the Sixties before embarking on a career in television. He started at CBS in New York, working as a production supervisor on soap operas and CBS News broadcasts including coverage of Apollo 9 at Cape Canaveral with Walter Cronkite.
Kline left CBS to become associate producer on The Dick Cavett Show and Betty White's Pet Set, and then a director, producer and eventually partner at Barry & Enright Productions, which specialized in game shows. There, throughout the Seventies, he directed and/or produced a wide variety of programming, from The Joker's Wild and The New Tic Tac Dough to and a live international broadcast of the presidential inauguration in 1981.
He was best known for his time at CBS in the 1960's