Norman Lear: we pick the famed TV writer and producer's best shows

Norman Lear, the celebrated American TV writer who wrote, produced, or developed over 100 shows, has died aged 101.

Best-known for creating and producing popular Seventies sitcoms All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time and The Jeffersons, Lear won numerous awards including six Emmys, two Peabody awards and the National Medal of Arts in 1999, over the course of his seven-decade career.

Outside of TV, he also had a remarkable life. As well as flying 52 missions as an Air Force gunner and radio operator during WW2 and founding the progressive advocacy organisation, People for the American Way in 1981, he survived prostate cancer in 1988