American screenwriter and producer
His wife, Elaine Stewart , was the hostess on two of his game shows: "Gambit" and "High Rollers" .
Longtime partner of Bob Quigley.
Merrill Heatter is the nephew of famous news broadcaster Gabriel Heatter , for whom his daughter Gabrielle is named.
Father, with Elaine Stewart , of son Stewart Heatter and daughter Gabrielle Heatter.
Along with Bob Quigley Heater came up with a concept for a game show called "Wacky Races" in which contestants would bet on various race cars. However, when it was presented to Fred Silverman , who at the time was in charge of daytime programming for CBS, he instead had it retooled to become a Saturday morning animated series that was produced by Hanna-Barbera with Heater and Quigley given co-producer credit.
