Mike Milligan Dies: ‘All In The Family,’ ‘The Jeffersons’ Writer-Producer Was 77

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Mike Milligan, the writer and producer of such award-winning television series including All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Maude and Dear John, died Friday, Dec.

20, 2024 at his home in West Hills, Calif., his representation told Deadline. The cause of death was acute respiratory failure.

He was 77. Milligan, who was a member of the Writers Guild of America for the better part of a century, and his writing partner of 18 years, Jay Moriarty, additionally wrote and produced Good Times, What’s Happening Now, Here and Now and Melba (which he said was “canceled by the network during the commercial break while the pilot aired on CBS”).

As writers and executive producers for Norman Lear’s groundbreaking sitcom The Jeffersons, Milligan and Moriarty received an NAACP IMAGE Award; the show was among the first to tackle such topics as suicide and white supremacy in American comedy programs and was the first-ever TV episode to feature a trans character.