United Kingdom, Feb. 13 -- Stan Zimmerman thinks axing the gay housekeeper from 'The Golden Girls' before it went to a full series was a "smart move."

The TV writer penned several episodes for the classic sitcom - which starred Betty White, Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty as four retired women living together in Florida - thinks bosses were right to let housekeeper Coco (Charles Levin) after the pilot episode because of logistics but still thinks it would have been fun to explore the "possibilities" of what the character may have got up to.

He told People: "As great as Coco was - and he was very funny, and I love that there was a gay character - it wasn't really needed, and they were smart to let that go. "I wish they had ...