Michael G. Moye

Michael George Moye (born August 11, 1954) is an American photographer and a former television writer and producer.

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

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 as well as having a few cameo appearances on screen. The show ran for 11 seasons and was credited with keeping the fledgling Fox network "in the black for five or six years." The show has been the target of conservative political campaigns several times. 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.

Personal life Moye retired from television in 1995 and is now a photographer and an avid coral reef aquarium hobbyist. He has two children from two marriages.

Filmography Good Times (1978) Diff'rent Strokes (1979) The Jeffersons (1979) (Creative Consultant, Executive Story Editor) Sanford (1980) Checking In (1981) Silver Spoons (1982) It's Your Move (1984) (co-creator, with Ron Leavitt) 227 (1985–1990) (Credited as "C.J. Banks", co-creator, with Bill Boulware) Married... with Children (1987–1997) (Co-Creator, with Ron Leavitt) Women in Prison (1987) (Co-Creator with Ron Leavitt and Katherine Green)