Jerry Golod, producer of Tales From the Darkside, dies at 87

Mixed · 2Jerry Golod, an executive producer of Tales From the Darkside and Return to Green Acres, has died at 87. 1 2 Mixed · 2His daughter, Dori Golod Howell, said he died on Wednesday at his home in Rancho Mirage after a brief battle with cancer; she gave the news to The Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline cites that outlet. 1 2 Mixed · 2Born in the Bronx on Dec. 26, 1938, Golod began his career at the advertising agency Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, where he rose to vice president and associate director of programming and spent three years heading an affiliated TV production company. 1 2

Left · 1He joined CBS in 1975 as vice president of children’s programs, overseeing a slate that included Captain Kangaroo and CBS Children’s Film Festival, and in 1979 moved to NBC Entertainment as vice president and national program director, staying through 1980. He later launched JayGee Productions in the early 1980s. 1 Mixed · 2After Creepshow, the 1982 horror anthology written by Stephen King and directed by George A. Romero, became a hit, Golod approached Romero and producer Richard P. Rubinstein about bringing its sensibility to television. Rights issues prevented a Creepshow series, and the idea became Tales From the Darkside, a syndicated show that The Hollywood Reporter says ran four seasons from 1983 to 1989 and became a cult favourite; Deadline gives the run as 1983–88. 1 2 Mixed · 2Golod was also behind Adderly, a Canadian-made adventure series starring Winston Rekert that ran from 1986 to 1988 and was based on a secondary character in Elliott Baker’s 1971 novel Pocock and Pitt. 1 2

Mixed · 2His other credits include the 1985 TV movies Brass and, per Deadline, Condor; the 1990 CBS TV movie Return to Green Acres, which reunited Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor; and the 1991 revival of Land of the Lost, which Deadline identifies as an ABC series and The Hollywood Reporter says ran two seasons. 1 2 Mixed · 2In the 1990s he was involved with the proposed Pet Television Network, and in 2013 he was among the producers developing a new Tales From the Darkside for CBS Television Studios and The CW; a pilot was made in 2015 but the revival did not become a series. 1 2 Left · 1Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Ruth; children Dori and Jason; and grandchildren and great-grandsons. 1