Albert "Al" Schwartz (29 November 1910 – 25 March 1988) wrote 14 episodes of The Brady Bunch TV series throughout the show's run on ABC-TV, beginning in Season 1 with the episode "Kitty Karry-All Is Missing"; his final episode was "Welcome Aboard" in Season 5. An Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, television producer, and director, Al was a writer for The Red Skelton Show, where he and other writers won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 1961 and were nominated for the same award in 1962. He also wrote scripts for The Jackie Gleason Show, The Milton Berle Show, Gilligan's Island, Petticoat Junction, and many other television shows and made-for-TV movies throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.