By putting Julia Child and “This Old House” on the air, he helped create the TV genre that has inspired millions to don an apron or tool belt with D.I.Y. gusto.
James Underwood Crockett, left, and Russell Morash in 1975 on the set of the show that became “The Victory Garden.” Russell Morash, a behind-the-scenes presence in public television who made Julia Child a celebrity chef and created the fix-it show “This Old House,” prototypes of an enduringly popular TV genre that has inspired millions of viewers to don an apron or tool belt with do-it-yourself gusto, died June 19 at a hospital in Concord, Mass. He was 88.Mr.
Mr. Morash “pioneered the whole genre of do-it-yourself lifestyle television,” said Ron Simon, head curator at the Paley Center for Media in New York City. Mr. Morash, he added, had a special touch for drawing viewers to the screen — and then sending them out to try what they had learned. In his line of work in television, Mr. Morash correctly perceived that viewers would flock to TV experts much as his father’s colleagues had turned to him.
Working with a shoestring budget, he and his colleagues avoided stops and cuts whenever possible, watching, he said, as the show “just came together.”. “You just ask these craftsmen to tell us what they do and what they’re thinking about when they’re doing it.” Marian Morash, a cookbook author and James Beard Award-winning chef, was a close collaborator in her husband’s career, working with Child as her executive chef as well as appearing on “The Victory Garden” in segments teaching viewers how to cook what they had grown.
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