Sherwood Schwartz created "Gilligan's Island" and "The Brady Bunch," wacky television shows that drew generations of loyal viewers and heaps of critical derision.
Mr. Schwartz, who died Tuesday at age 94, wrote and produced both shows, which have gone on to be broadcast world-wide.
Surprisingly for shows that have performed so well in syndication, neither "The Brady Bunch" nor "Gilligan's Island" was a blockbuster on first run. But audiences grew as repeats multiplied, and the shows' introductory theme songs have become cultural tropes. Each laid out the set-ups and characters-because, Mr. Schwartz told the writer Merrill Markoe, "Puzzled people cannot laugh."
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