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Sam Strangis Dies: ‘CSI’ & ‘CSI: Miami’ Producer Who Worked On ‘Happy Days’, ‘Brady Bunch’, ‘Batman’ & More Was 95
Sam Strangis, an Emmy-nominated 'CSI' and' CSI: Miami' producer and Paramount exec who also worked on 'Happy Days', 'The Brady Bunch' and more has died at 95.
Strangis’ TV career spanned six decades, from directing NBC’s 1957-59 antebellum western The Restless Gun through the wildly successful first two seasons of CBS’ Crime Scene Investigation and spinoff CSI: Miami. Strangis then moved to Paramount Studios, where he was head of production and guided such memorable series as The Odd Couple; The Brady Bunch; Love, American Style; Mannix; Mission: Impossible; Happy Days and its spinoff Laverne & Shirley. With his then-producing partner Don Boyle, Strangis left Paramount to produce Universal’s ambitious new ABC action series The Six Million Dollar Man, starring Lee Majors.
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