TV Producer, TV Executive. Best remembered as the creator of the 1960s television series, "My Three Sons" and "Family Affair." His family moved to Kansas City, Missouri when he was a teenager. He attended Kansas City School of Law for 2 years. He began his career in the newspaper advertising business for both "The Wichita Eagle" and "Wichita Beacon" from 1935 to 1939. He moved to San Francisco and became general manager of radio station KYA. He created the nation's first disc jockey format and also won a Peabody Award in 1944 for "Calling Longshoremen," another new program he developed. Dorothy Schiff, owner of "The New York Post," purchased KYA radio, and the Los Angeles radio station KMTR (later, KLAC) was added under his management. In 1946, Dorothy Schiff purchased the Los Angeles television station, KLAC-TV, and he became her executive vice president and general manager, overseeing all her Los Angeles operations for the next five years. In 1952, he, along with writer George Tibbles, and actress Betty White, cofounded Bandy Productions. The trio worked to create new shows using existing characters from the show "Hollywood on Television" as sketches and created the television comedies "Life With Elizabeth" starring Betty White from 1953 to 1954, "The Millionaire" with Marvin Miller on CBS from 1955 to 1960, and "Date with the Angels" again with Betty White on ABC television from 1957 to 1958. Liberace was his first client, and he secured a contract that led to "The Liberace Show." The first episode aired on ABC on July 1, 1952. He worked as a television consultant for "The Lawrence Welk Show" in 1954, helping bring the local show to a nationwide audience. It was picked up by ABC in 1955 and ran until 1971. He produced the CBS primetime quiz show "Do You Trust Your Wife?" with Edgar Bergen from 1956 to 1957. In 1958, the show was moved to ABC as a daytime show and was renamed "Who Do You Trust?" and starred Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon. It aired until 1962. His biggest television hit was "My Three Sons," on which he was an executive producer. The show aired a total of 380 episodes over the course of 12 years on both ABC & CBS. From 1966 to 1971, he was the co-creator & executive producer of the CBS TV family sitcom, "Family Affair," "To Rome with Love," and "The Smith Family." In 1974, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the television industry. Father of actors Mike Minor and Gregg Fedderson.