‘Jeffersons,’ ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ producer Al Burton dies

SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) — Veteran television producer Al Burton has died.
Family friend Damon Schwartz says Burton died Tuesday at his home in San Mateo, California. He was 91. The cause was not disclosed.
Burton’s six-decade career included the groundbreaking comedies “The Jeffersons” and “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.”
He produced those shows during his 1972 to 1983 tenure with Tandem Productions, co-founded by Norman Lear, where he also helped produce “O