Sol Saks

LOS ANGELES – Screenwriter and playwright Sol Saks, the creator of the classic television sitcom, “Bewitched,” died April 16 of respiratory failure due to complications from pneumonia in Los Angeles. He was 100.
Born in New York City, he was two years old when his family moved to Chicago where they operated a paint store. Saks attended high school in Chicago and received a journalism degree from Northwestern University. He worked in radio in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles in 1943. Saks also wrote for television shows like “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,” “Beulah,” “My Favorite Husband” and “I Married Joan.” He wrote only the pilot episode of “Bewitched.”
In the mid-1960s Mr. Saks was an executive producer with CBS in Hollywood, where he oversaw comedy programming.
His first wife, Anne, died 1972. He is survived by his second wife, Sandra Wagner, a son Dan Saks; daughter, Mary Spivey; grandchildren, Erin Krenzien and Laura Spivey; and great-grandsons, Logan and Devin Krenzien.