LOS ANGELES – (INT) - Grant Tinker, who used "quality television" as the cornerstone to create the prolific production house MTM Enterprises with his then-wife Mary Tyler Moore and then reverse the fortunes of NBC in the 1980s, has died. He was 90.

Tinker had his fingerprints on such shows as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Family Ties, St. Elsewhere and Hill Street Blues. He died Monday at his home in Los Angeles, his son, TV producer-director-writer Mark Tinker said.

NBC's Today show remembered Tinker on Wednesday. (Source: Hollywood Reporter)

Story Date: December 5, 2016