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Courtesy photo Ernest Chambers, the writer and producer known for variety TV shows like “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” and “Click,” died on May 28 at home in Los Angeles following a brief illness. He was 97.
Chambers produced, wrote and executive produced over 1,000 hours of TV over the course of his 50-year career, earning 11 Emmy and 4 Writers Guild Award nominations. He got his start writing on TV hits of the 1960s including “The Bob Newhart Show,” “The Danny Kaye Show,” “My Three Sons” and “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”
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