Craig Kellem, a onetime agent for comic legends George Carlin and Lily Tomlin who served as a producer on the chaotic first season of Saturday Night Live and on syndicated reboots of The Munsters , Dragnet and Adam-12 , has died. He was 82.

Kellem died Nov. 24 at an assisted living facility in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, his daughter Judy Hammett told The Hollywood Reporter . She and her father were partners in Hollywoodscript.com, a boutique script-consultation company he founded in 1998.

After serving alongside Lorne Michaels as a producer and talent coordinator on SNL ’s inaugural 1975-76 season, he and Michaels produced The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash , a 1978 NBC mockumentary about a Beatles-like band that was written by, co-directed and starred Eric Idle.

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