Michael G. Moye

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Michael G. Moye
Born
Michael George Moye

(1954-08-11) August 11, 1954 (age 70)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation(s)Television writer, producer, photographer
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(m. 1996)​
Children2

Michael George Moye (born August 11, 1954) is an American photographer and a former television writer and producer. [1] In his television career he has written for shows such as The Jeffersons , Diff'rent Strokes , Good Times , and 227 , and produced It's Your Move and The Jeffersons. His best-known work is likely the 1987 series Married... with Children , created with Ron Leavitt for the then-fledgling Fox network.

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Early career

Moye began his career in 1977 with a staff writing position on Good Times. Between 1979 and 1984, he wrote for The Jeffersons, and in 1982 he co-developed Silver Spoons , which ran for five seasons. He also co-developed both It's Your Move and 227 (with Bill Boulware), the latter under alias C.J. Banks. [1] [2]

Married... with Children

Married... with Children, created by Moye and Leavitt in 1987 for the Fox network, was called an "anti-family" series [3] or "the anti-Cosby", Moye and Leavitt being fed up with the idealized family of the sitcoms of the 1980s. [4] [5] They created the couple Al-Peggy by imagining a fictional union between Roseanne Barr and Sam Kinison. [6]

Moye was a producer and a writer on the show for most of its run, and had a hand in writing a series-leading 25 episodes [7] as well as having a few cameo appearances on screen. [8] The show ran for 11 seasons and was credited with keeping the fledgling Fox network "in the black for five or six years." [9] The show has been the target of conservative political campaigns several times. [10] In 1993, he refused to modify a two-episode show (the one where Al Bundy lobbies in Congress after his favorite show Psycho Dad was cancelled), accusing instead Fox to be too soft with censorship regulators. [11]

Personal life

Moye retired from television in 1995 and is now a photographer and an avid coral reef aquarium hobbyist. [1] [12] He has two children from two marriages. [1]

In 1992, Michael G. Moye acquired a 13,749-square-feet estate in Conyers Farm in Greenwich Connecticut, for $1.5 million. It was put up for sale for $8.595 million in November 2017. He also owned a house in Encino that he sold for $1.65 million in 2017, and bought a 2000-square-feet residence on sugar sand beaches in North Carolina in 2006. [13]

Filmography

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