Overview
- His family and Mihovk-Rosenacker Funeral Homes confirmed he died Sunday, June 28, 2026, in Cincinnati and they asked that donations be made to the Alzheimer’s Association; no cause of death has been disclosed.
- Baumes developed the pilots that led to The Love Boat, which became a multi-season ABC series produced by Aaron Spelling and a staple of late-1970s network television.
- He served as a producer and executive producer on the Wonder Woman TV series and worked on high-profile telefilms and miniseries during the 1970s.
- Much of his TV work was created in collaboration with producer-executive Douglas S. Cramer and included projects such as QB VII, Who Is the Black Dahlia?, and other telefilms.
- Born in 1939 in the Cincinnati area, he served in the U.S. Navy, earned a master’s in design from UC Berkeley, left show business in the early 1980s, and later designed homes featured in lifestyle publications.