Shaw worked as a writer and producer on multiple television programs from the late 1950s into the mid-1980s. He won an Edgar Award, shared with Tony Lawrence, for the Quincy, M.E. episode "The Thighbone Is Connected To The Knee Bone".[4] Shaw wrote the play Worse Than Murder about the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.[5] He had a daughter affected with Down syndrome, wrote a novel featuring a man with Down syndrome titled Honor Thy Son in 1994, and often included people with disabilities in storylines and casting.[6][7] Shaw was married for a time to Peggy O'Shea, a screenwriter for soap operas, with whom he had a son,[8] Chris, born circa 1953.[9]
