I couldn't find the right photo of Carl Kleinschmitt, a fine writer who passed away last Thursday night at the age of 85…so there's his screen credit from one of the best episodes of M*A*S*H. It was called "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet" and it was the one in which a friend of Hawkeye's visits the 4077th and it had Ron Howard in it and I won't spoil the story if you've never seen it…but see it.
It was a real good one and it was far from the only great TV show that had Carl's name on it. Among his many other credits were episodes of Hey, Landlord and Good Morning, World and The Joey Bishop Show and The Doris Day Show and That Girl and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. and The Courtship of Eddie's Father and Love, American Style and My World and Welcome to It and Karen and Welcome Back, Kotter and The Love Boat and quite a few episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show. Some of those were written with a partner, Dale McRaven, and some were just Carl.
He also created the show Funny Face and The Sandy Duncan Show and 1st and Ten and he wrote a couple of movies…and this is by no means a complete list of his credits. Go take a look at them on his IMDB page. There are shows on there that you watched.
And I have to mention Pryor's Place, which was a one-season Saturday morning show on CBS produced in 1984. Carl was the Supervising Producer and I wrote a couple of episodes and it was a very good experience because of Carl. If you freelance in this business, you occasionally work with people who don't know what they're doing and/or aren't very nice. Carl was the direct opposite on both counts. A real good guy. You can read more about him in this obit.