Roy Huggins (July 18, 1914 - April 3, 2002) was a novelist and an influential writer and producer of humorous, character-driven US television series. Shows he was involved in typically featured misfits and rascals rather than conventional heroes. Huggins' novels include "The Double Take" (1946), "Too Late For Tears" (1947) and "Lovely Lady, Pity Me" (1949). He is best known as the creator of long-running shows such as "Maverick", … Wikipedia
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"Roy was a giant in the television industry, He was brilliant. He had a very fertile mind and was a great storyteller. I think he had a sort of natural sense of popular art of the time." www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/huggins.html