Wilford Lloyd Baumis, writer and television producer who created… Love boat And it worked on Wonder Woman and the critically acclaimed Holocaust series QB VIIall in collaboration with acclaimed executive producer Douglas S. Kramer, Matt. He was 86 years old.
A Cincinnati resident died Sunday, his family announced.
Also with Kramer, Baums wrote and produced the 1974 ABC television movie Sorority murderdirected by Gloria Monti and featuring Anthony Geary (in his first notable television role) as a psychotic killer who detains people in a sorority house, was produced by the prison set Nightmare in Badam DistrictWhich starred Deborah Ruffin and became an unexpected sensation in China.
Kramer entered into a working relationship with producer Aaron Spelling with the rights Love boat After reading a newspaper review of a “tacky three-dollar paperback” written by Geraldine Saunders about “how easy it is to lie down on a cruise ship,” he said in a 2009 conversation for the Television Academy Foundation website. Interviews.
After two failures Love boat The pilots were burned as TV movies, Spelling wooed Gavin McLeod to play Captain Merrill Stubing in a third pilot, and ABC ordered the series. It ran for nine seasons, from 1977 to 1987 (all pilots were developed by Baumes).
While working for Cramer at Screen Gems, Baumes came up with a concept QB VIIa 1974 miniseries based on the 1970 novel by Leon Uris. The six-hour-plus “television novel” won seven Emmy Awards and generated huge ratings for ABC.
Baumes was also a producer on the 1975 ABC TV movie/pilot The new original Wonder Woman The first two seasons of the subsequent action series starred Lynda Carter as the DC Comics heroine.
One of the three sons of a Cincinnati-based doctor, Baums was born on November 24, 1939, and grew up in the Ohio village of Amberley (he and his father, Ogden, were nicknamed “Bud”). He graduated from Walnut Hills High School and Denison University, received a master’s degree in design from UC Berkeley and served in the U.S. Navy.
At Paramount Television, Baums served as assistant to executive producer Kramer on the 1971 ABC television movie. Dr. Cook’s Gardenstarring Bing Crosby as a sinister small-town doctor, and on Screen Gems in the 1972-1973 CBS sitcom Bridget loves BernieStarring David Birney and his future wife, Meredith Baxter.
Baumes also produced with Cramer for the 1975 NBC television movie Who is the Black Dahlia?starring Lucie Arnaz in the role of Elizabeth Short, and the film was released in 1976 Dawn: Portrait of a Runaway TeenagerDirected by Randall Kleiser and starring Eve Plumb.
Baumes left show business in the early 1980s and continued to create the homes in which she appeared Santa Barbara Magazine and Architectural abstract.
Survivors include his nephew Ross and niece Lee Ann. Donations in his memory may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.
