Theodore Gerard Bergmann (September 12, 1920 – March 2, 2014) was an American television and radio producer, screenwriter, announcer, network and advertising executive.
The first advertising sale he ever made was to the Jay Day Dress Company who sponsored Birthday Party, a children's daytime show, for $200 an episode.
He was responsible for selling commercial advertising time to clients for such early Dumont TV shows such as The Original Amateur Hour, Captain Video and His Video Rangers, Cavalcade of Stars, and Life Is Worth Living.
Bergmann worked his way up through the company and finished as the managing director of the broadcast division until the network shut down.
[2] By 1976, Bergmann developed and was executive in charge of production for the ABC-TV sitcom Three's Company, serving in that capacity during the series' eight-season run.