Bob Carroll was a television writer and partner of Madelyn Pugh. With Pugh and Jess Oppenheimer Carroll is responsible for creating some of televisions most famous situations. They were the principal writers on Lucille Ball's pre-I Love Lucy radio series "My Favorite Husband." They moved with Ball to television and created "I Love Lucy." They followed Lucy to other sitcoms, writing for her periodically until the 1980's.
