iate to exec producer Cramer on the 1971 ABC telefilm Dr. Cook's Garden, starring Bing Crosby as a sinister small-town doctor, and at Screen Gems on the 1972-73 CBS sitcom Bridget Loves Bernie, starring David Birney and his future wife Meredith Baxter.

Baumes also produced with Cramer for NBC the 1975 telefilm Who Is the Black Dahlia?, starring Lucie Arnaz as Elizabeth Short, and the 1976 movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, directed by Randal Kleiser and starring Eve Plumb.

Baumes left show business in the early 1980s and went on to create homesteads that were featured in Santa Barbara Magazine and Architectural Digest.

Survivors include his nephew, Ross, and niece, Lee Ann. Donations in his memory can be made to the Alzheimer's Association.