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William P. D'Angelo

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TV producer William D'Angelo dies

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Television series producer William P. D'Angelo, whose credits include Love American Style, Room 222 and Alice, has died. He was 70.

D'Angelo died June 8 in Los Angeles of pancreatic cancer, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. No other details were given.

D'Angelo was raised in New York, graduated from Fordham University and he was drafted into an Army film unit as a cameraman.

After he was discharged, he worked briefly as an NBC page, then moved to Los Angeles, where he was hired at Warner Bros. as a story analyst. By 1966, he was helping produce the television series Batman.

In the late 1960s, D'Angelo was producing episodes of Room 222, Love, American Style and The Young Lawyers. He went on to produce the series Barefoot in the Park, Alice, Big John, Little John and Turnabout and the special The Nativity in the 1970s. Along the way, he worked for every major studio and helped produce episodes of Maverick, Cheyenne, Lawman and Hawaiian Eye.

His dream of starting his own production company was fulfilled in the mid-1970s when he was asked to head children's programming for NBC. His first program was Run, Joe Run, starring his pet German shepherd Heinrich as a military-trained dog named Joe fleeing a former trainer.

D'Angelo followed that with Westwind, filmed in Hawaii, about an underwater photographer who lived on a boat with his marine biologist wife and their two teen-age children.

He also produced NBC Special Treat, an afternoon drama for young people, and in 1976, Papa and Me, based on D'Angelo's New York barber grandfather.

Under what became D'Angelo-Bullock-Allen Productions, the producer also created the children's series The Monster Squad.