Variety: Thad Mumford, ‘MASH’ writer, is dead at 67
Hollywood scribe also penned scripts for ‘Maude,’ ‘Good Times,’ ‘Home Improvement’ as a rare African American veteran of the writers’ room
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1 min readSep 15, 2018
Thaddeus Q. Mumford, a pioneering African-American TV writer-producer who worked on shows ranging from “MASH” to “The Electric Company” to “Blue’s Clues,” has died after a long illness. He was 67.
Mumford died Sept. 6 at his father’s home in Silver Spring, Md., according to his sister-in-law, Donna Coleman.
With his longtime writing partner Dan Wilcox, Mumford worked on the final three seasons of “MASH,” as well as such shows as “Maude,” “Good Times,” “ALF,” “B.J. and the Bear,” “Coach,” “The Cosby Show,” “A Different World,” “Home Improvement,” and “Judging Amy.” …
