“Addams Family” creatorDavid Levy

Briefly vice president in charge of programming at NBC, Levy brought Dr. Kildare, Bonanza, and the Movie of the Week to the network, but he is best known as the creator of the classic show The Addams Family, based on the ghoulish single-panel cartoons of New Yorker artist Charles Addams. The show ran on ABC from 1964 to 1966. Levy died in Los Angeles on January 25 at age 87.