A comedy for Laugh-In (1967), one of his best one-liners was a simple sketch between the gruff-voiced dirty old man Tyrone (Arte Johnson), who asks the homely spinster Gladys Ormpby (Ruth Buzzi), "Do you believe in the hereafter?" "Yes," she says. To which he leeringly replies, "Then you know what I'm here after." Gladys then proceeds to bop Tyrone over the head with her handbag.
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Had recently been in the hospital for heart problems, but had a pacemaker implanted just a month before his death.
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Comedian Morey Amsterdam was Carlson's mentor and helped him get into the comedy business.
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Still actively working on TV at the time of his death, he was also to have been a faculty member at the Rock-Solid Writing writer's conference in Castle Rock, Colorado.
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Children: Kathy, Mark and Jeff.
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Spiral Zone
1987
TV Series executive story editor - 65 episodes
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
1985
TV Series story editor - 65 episodes
Kidd Video
1984
TV Series story editor - 1984
Battlestar Galactica
1978-1979
TV Series story editor - 10 episodes
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Exosquad
1993-1994
TV Series written by - 3 episodes
My Secret Friend: A Guardian Angel Story
1994
Video short
The Pink Panther
1993
TV Series writer - 1 episode
X-Men
1992
TV Series written by - 1 episode
Goof Troop
1992
TV Series 1 episode
The Odyssey: A Journey Back Home
1992
Video short story
Peter Pan and the Pirates
1991
TV Series story - 1 episode
James Bond Jr.
1991
TV Series written by - 1 episode
The New Adventures of He-Man
1990-1991
TV Series 3 episodes
Nick's Thanksgiving Fest
1989
TV Movie additional writer - segments "Thanksgiving Nightmare", "Thanksgiving Dreams", "Thanksgiving U.S.A. Spots"
Good Morning, Miss Bliss
TV Series story - 1 episode, 1989 teleplay - 1 episode, 1989
Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw
1988
writer
Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz
1987
Video short
ABC Weekend Specials
TV Series teleplay - 7 episodes, 1977 - 1984 screenplay - 1 episode, 1986 written by - 1 episode, 1979
Riptide
1985
TV Series written by - 1 episode
The Love Boat
TV Series writer - 1 episode, 1984 written by - 1 episode, 1984
Kidd Video
1984
TV Series written by - 1 episode
Magnum, P.I.
1981
TV Series story - 1 episode
Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack
1979
TV Movie screenplay
Battlestar Galactica
TV Series teleplay by - 3 episodes, 1978 - 1979 story by - 1 episode, 1979
The Bionic Woman
TV Series teleplay by - 1 episode, 1978 story by - 1 episode, 1976
CHiPs
1978
TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV Series 1 episode, 1978 written by - 3 episodes, 1975 - 1976
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
TV Series teleplay - 2 episodes, 1977 written by - 1 episode, 1977
Gemini Man
1976
TV Mini-Series written by - 1 episode
The Jeffersons
1975
TV Series story by - 1 episode
Emergency!
1975
TV Series written by - 1 episode
Police Surgeon
1971-1975
TV Series 5 episodes
Adam-12
1973-1974
TV Series written by - 2 episodes
Tennessee Ernie Ford's White Christmas
1972
TV Movie writer
Laugh-In
1968-1970
TV Series writer - 52 episodes
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1970
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy, Variety or Music
Laugh-In (1967)
1970
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy, Variety or Music
Laugh-In (1967)
1969
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy, Variety or Music
Laugh-In (1967)
Known for movies
Laugh-In (1968-1970) as Writer
Nick's Thanksgiving Fest (1989) as Writer
Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack (1979) as Writer
Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw (1988) as Writer
$1.6 Million
