Wilford Lloyd Baumes, the TV writer and producer who created The Love Boat and worked on Wonder Woman and the critically acclaimed Holocaust miniseries QB VII , all in collaboration with famed producer-executive Douglas S. Cramer , has died. He was 86.

A resident of Cincinnati, Baumes died Sunday, his family announced .

Also with Cramer, Baumes wrote and produced the 1974 ABC telefilm Sorority Kill , directed by Gloria Monty and featuring Anthony Geary (in his first prominent TV role) as a psychotic killer who holds people captive in a sorority house, and produced the prison-set Nightmare in Badham County , which starred Deborah Raffin and became an unexpected sensation in China.

Cramer entered a business relationship with producer Aaron Spelling with the rights to The Love Boat after reading a newspaper review of a “tacky three-dollar paperback” written by Jeraldine Saunders about “how easy it was to get laid aboard a cruise ship,” he said in a 2009 conversation for the Television Academy Foundation…