'Gilligan's Island' and 'The Brady Bunch' creator Sherwood Schwartz dies

Sherwood Schwartz, the television genius who created "The Brady Bunch" and "Gilligan's Island" and wrote the theme songs for both shows has died at 4 a.m. Tuesday. He was 94.

"Gilligan's Island" featured a hummable theme song telling how a boatload of seven characters, including a professor and a movie star, wound up stranded on an island. Bob Denver played Gilligan, the assistant skipper.

Schwartz is a TV legend back in 1961, he won an Emmy for his work as a writer on "The Red Skelton Show." He also served as a script supervisor on "My Favorite Martian" and a writer and producer of "Harper Valley PTA."

Sherwood worked in radio before transitioning over to television serving as a writer for Bob Hope's radio show. He also worked on the radio version of "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."

"The Brady Bunch" featured Florence Henderson as a widow with three daughters who marries a widower with three sons. A bigscreen version, "The Brady Bunch Movie," was a surprise box-office hit in 1995.

Schwartz died of natural causes in his sleep, surrounded by his family.