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Unhappily, word has come that Sam Bean died on August 20, 2018, which I’ve been able to confirm with Maricopa County, AZ. Early on the personnel director of companies in the Washington suburban area, in the late 1970s he got involved in television production. Sam—or Frank, as he had become known professionally—rose to the position of executive producer of collegiate sports programming, and eventually he left that company to become the director of marketing for the Osmonds (yes, Donny and Marie). He soon found himself commuting frequently across country while residing in Gaithersburg, then Annapolis, so he decided to start his own east coast company, Baruch Television, and became involved in producing and distributing television shows. Sam retired to Sun City West, AZ, where he lived for nearly 14 years.

Nelson