He also served as producer of only two short-lived sitcoms, Doc and Excuse My French.
All together with his writing partner George Burditt[3][4] and other writing crew, they earned Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Series: The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour in 1972[5] and 1974,[6] and Van Dyke and Company in 1977,[7] a variety show starring Dick Van Dyke.
Wayne and Burditt co-wrote mainly the first three seasons (1977–79) of the television series Three's Company,[4] Both together co-wrote one episode of All in the Family, "Archie Eats and Runs" (1974),[8] and another episode of Sanford and Son[9] (alongside Aaron Ruben), "The Way to Lamont's Heart" (1974).
Individually[4] or with other writers, Wayne wrote episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, Bewitched, The Flying Nun, That Girl, Welcome Back, Kotter, and Benson.
[4] He wrote "From Paradise Direct", a 1964 episode of the Canadian teleplay series Playdate about an angel mistaking a man as the leprechaun.