Allan Manings (March 28, 1924 – May 12, 2010) was an American television producer and comedy writer. He was active in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and was best known for his work in co-creating with his wife, actress Whitney Blake, One Day at a Time, as well as serving as producer (and later executive producer) of the Bud Yorkin-Norman Lear Tandem show, Good Times.Manings was born on March 28, 1924, in Newark, New Jersey and was raised on Staten Island. He served in the United States Army during World War II in the Pacific theater. After completing his military service, he went to college on the GI Bill as one of the first men to attend the newly coeducational Sarah Lawrence College. Manings felt uneasy during the McCarthyist period, during which time several friends were blacklisted, and moved to Canada until the early 1960s.He worked as a writer and script supervisor on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the 1960s, for which he received an Emmy. He also wrote episodes of McHale's Navy and Leave It to Beaver.
He was a former board member and Vice President of the Writers Guild of America.
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He moved to Canada in the early 1960s to sympathize with his Hollywood friends who were blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
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He was raised in Staten Island Borough of New York City. He served the United States Armed Forces in the Pacific during World War II.
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He was one of the first men to enroll at Sarah Lawrence College in New York in 1946 under the G.I. Bill.
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He was survived by his stepdaughter, Meredith Baxter; his two stepsons, Richard Baxter and Brian Baxter; his sister Muriel Manings; nine grandchildren; and at least three great-grandchildren.
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Before his death in 2010, he acquired an online ministry certificate to officiate at the wedding of Meredith Baxter and her female partner.
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