Douglas S. Cramer

Douglas S. Cramer was an American television producer.

Cramer worked for Paramount Television and Spelling Television, producing series such as Mission: Impossible, The Brady Bunch, and Dynasty.

Cramer began his career in advertising, serving as a broadcast supervisor at Proctor & Gamble, and later on supervising Lever Brothers and General Foods programs at Ogilvy & Mather in New York City.

In 1962, he became Director of Program Planning at ABC Television, where he worked on the first primetime soap opera, Peyton Place.

In 1966, he became vice president of television program development at 20th Century Fox, where he worked on Irwin Allen's The Time Tunnel and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. He also produced the groundbreaking series Julia starring Diahann Carroll.

Cramer formed his own production company in 1971. One of the series his company produced was Wonder Woman.

Cramer joined Aaron Spelling's production company in 1976. Cramer was an executive producer on the 1980s series Dynasty, its spin-off series The Colbys, and the 1991 miniseries Dynasty: The Reunion.

Cramer produced 20 of the 22 miniseries adaptations of romance novels by author Danielle Steel.

Cramer was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special – Drama or Comedy in 1975 for QB VII, and again for Outstanding Drama Series in 1982 for Dynasty.

Cramer died June 7, 2021 in Vineyard Haven. Massachusetts. He was 89.