was ted knights cartoonist based off a real life
cartoonist?
shareThe show was adapted from a British series called Keep It in the Family (1980-1983). That show's writer was Brian Cooke; this is what IMDb says about him:
Brian Cooke, who had once been a cartoonist, based the series partly on his own life and partly on the lifestyle of his director friend Mark Stuart, who had a tall, thin house in Highgate and had converted the ground floor into a self contained flat for his daughter.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080236/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cooke#Early_career
Another series written by Cooke was Man About the House (1973-1976). It was the basis for the American sitcom Three's Company (1976-1984).