He produced many of television's longest-running shows with business partner Mark Goodson, with whom he created Goodson-Todman Productions.

Frederick S. Todman lectured in post-World War II Japan as part of that country's economic reconstruction, and wrote several quintessential books on Wall Street Accounting.

Their many shows included Beat the Clock, Card Sharks, Family Feud, Match Game, Password, Tattletales, The Price Is Right, To Tell the Truth, and What's My Line?

Goodson-Todman likely would never have survived the roller coaster of the television business, including the slow period for game shows in the late 1960s, had Todman not been aggressive in expanding the company into other ventures.

[citation needed] Todman died on July 29, 1979, two days before his 63rd birthday, in New York City as a result of a heart condition.