Dontzig died Feb. 23 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of a rare and aggressive auto-immune syndrome, Steven Peterman, his writing partner of some 35 years, announced.
Dontzig and Peterman wrote 25 episodes and were involved in producing 150 installments during the first six seasons of the Candice Bergen-starring Murphy Brown.
After being elevated to executive producers by creator Diane English, they wrote (with Korby Siamis) the landmark two-part episode “You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato” that opened the series’ fifth season in 1992 and served as a response to Vice President Dan Quayle’s attack on Murphy’s decision to have a baby as a single woman.
The controversy put the show on the front page of The New York Times as a record 70 million viewers tuned in.
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