Rocky & Bullwinkle writer/Munsters co-creator dead at 81

Emmy-winning television writer Chris Hayward died of cancer Nov. 20 at his Beverly Hills home. Hayward moved to Los Angeles from Bayonne, New Jersey, at age 17 and took night classes to learn script writing. He went into television and in 1959 got a job writing for ABC's Rocky and Friends, featuring shorts starring Rocky and Bullwinkle, Sherman and Mr. Peabody, and Dudley Do-Right. The program moved to NBC in 1961 and was retitled The Bullwinkle Show. With writing partner Allan Burns, Hayward also created 1960s sitcoms The Munsters and My Mother the Car. Hayward won an Emmy for the short-lived CBS sitcom entitled He & She, and also wrote for Get Smart, Alice, and Barney Miller. He was 81.

Sources: IMDB, Associated Press, Don Markstein's Toonopedia