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Thaddeus Quentin Mumford Jr. (February 8, 1951 – September 6, 2018) was an American television producer and writer. He wrote and produced for a number of television series spanning different genres, including The Cosby Show, A Different World, M*A*S*H, Maude, Good Times, Home Improvement, Roots: The Next Generations, and Judging Amy, among ...
Sep 18, 2018 · Thad Mumford, an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer for “M*A*S*H” and other hit television shows at a time when African-Americans were practically unheard-of in network writing rooms, died...
Sep 14, 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 ...
Sep 18, 2018 · Thad Mumford, a pioneering African-American writer and producer on series including M*A*S*H, The Cosby Show, Maude and ALF, has died. He was 67. Mumford died Sept. 6 in Silver Spring,...
- Katie Kilkenny
Sep 15, 2018 · Thad Mumford, an Emmy-winning TV writer and producer on such ’70s and ’80s hits as “The Electric Company,” “M*A*S*H,” “ALF” and “A Different World,” has died at age 67.
In the one-hour fifteen-minute solo portion of his interview, Thad Mumford (1951-2018) talks about his early years, and being a batboy for the New York Yankees. He describes becoming a page at NBC and going on to write jokes for Joan Rivers.
If you had asked a young Thad Mumford what he wanted to be when he grew up, he would not have predicted that he’d one day become the prolific writer of television shows like M*A*S*H and A Different World. As a kid, Mumford wanted nothing more than to be a New York Yankees’ player.
