By Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway Critic Earl Pomerantz, a prolific TV writer whose credits include episodes of such popular sitcoms as Sanford & Son, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers, The Bob Newhart Show and Taxi, and who developed and exec produced the 1990s Gerald McRaney comedy Major Dad, died Saturday, March 7.
He was 75. His death was announced by his friend, TV writer Ken Levine, who said Pomerantz died at UCLA Medical Center. No cause of death was announced, but Pomerantz’s health had been in serious decline for five weeks, according to Levine.
Pomerantz won two Emmy Awards, the first in 1976 as part of the writing team for The Lily Tomlin Special, and in 1985 for The Cosby Show.
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