The Writers
Sybil Adelman
Born 3/15/42
Writer: "Northern Exposure", "Anything But Love", "Growing Pains", "Magnum PI", "Alice".
Writing team with Barbara Gallagher for MTMS episodes
George Atkins
b. 1931, Sacramento.
Writer: "The High Chaparral" (TV series, 1967)
Gloria Banta
Writer: "Rhoda"
Writing team with Pat Nardo for MTMS and "Rhoda"
Character Tony Banta (played by Tony Danza) on "Taxi named after her.
Mike Barrie
Writer: "The Late Show with David Letterman" (plus video specials 1995, 1996), "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson",
"Late Night with Conan O'Brien",
and feature films Amazon Women on the Moon, Bad Boys, Public Enemy #2 (screenplay) and Oscar (screenplay)
Multiple Emmy awards and nominations for "Letterman" and "Conan O'Brien" shows (shared)
John D. F. Black
Won Edgar Award in 1971 for TV movie "Thief"
aka John Black, Geoffrey Dennis, Ralph Wills.
Writer: "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "Charlie's Angels", "Wonder Woman",
"Hawaii Five-O", "The Fugitive" and feature films Trouble Man (1972) and Shaft (1971).
Producer: TV movies "Wonder Woman", "The Clone Master", "A Shadow in The Streets", "Star Trek".
Charlotte Brown
Writer: "Letting Go", "Rhoda", "Needles and Pins", "The Bob Newhart Show".
Director: "The Good News", "The Tortellis", "Goodbye Charlie" (TV movie).
Les Charles
Writer: "Taxi", "Cheers", "M*A*S*H".
Producer: "Cheers", "Taxi", "The Bob Newhart Show".
Numerous Emmy awards and nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series (shared with others) for "Cheers" and "Taxi"
over the 1970's, '80's, and '90's.
Writing team with brother Glen Charles.
"Cheers" producership with Glen Charles and James Burrows.
Glen Charles
Writer: "Taxi", "Cheers", "M*A*S*H".
Producer: "Cheers", "Taxi", "The Bob Newhart Show".
Numerous Emmy awards and nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series (shared with others) for "Cheers" and "Taxi"
over the 1970's, '80's, and '90's.
Writing team with brother Les Charles.
"Cheers" producership with Les Charles and James Burrows.
Dick Clair
Birth name: Richard C. Jones. died in 1988 of HIV infection (body is cryogenically preserved).
Writer: "Flo", "The Carol Burnett Show", "Soap", "The Facts of Life", "The Bob Newhart Show", "Mama's Family" and
feature film "The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank"
Actor: "The Funny Side", "The Everly Brothers Show", "What's It All About, World?" plus guestings on "The Bob
Newhart Show", "Newhart", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show".
Co-producer of "Mama's Family".
Writing team with Jenna McMahon
Emmy nominations (shared with others) for "Soap" and "The Carol Burnett Show" (episode with Jim Nabors).
Martin Cohan
Writer: "Who's the Boss?", "The Bob Newhart Show", plus TV movies "The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins" and
"Flying High"
Producer: "Who's the Boss" (co-producer), "Diff'rent Strokes"
Director: "Rhoda", "The Bob Newhart Show", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
Valerie Curtin
Born March 31
Cousin of Jane Curtin (aka Allie of "Kate and Allie")
1980 Oscar nomination for "...And Justice For All", shared with then-husband Barry Levinson
Actress: (partial listing) Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Big Trouble, Mother,
Jugs and Speed, Silver Streak, All the President's Men.
Writer: Toys, Unfaithfully Yours, Best Friends, Inside Moves.
Wrote MTMS episode "Mary's Delinquent" with Mary Kay Place
Stan Daniels
(Stan is the guy on the far right)
Director: "The Good News", "High Society", "Almost Perfect", "Partners" , "Flying Blind",
"Dear John",
"Mr. Smith", "Best of the West",
"Taxi".
Producer:
"For Richer, for Poorer" (TV movie), "Glory! Glory!" (TV movie), and series'
"The Associates", "Taxi", "Cindy", "The Betty White Show", "Doc".
Writer: "The Substitute Wife" (TV movie), "For Richer, for Poorer" (TV movie),
Glory! Glory!" (TV movie), "Taxi", and feature film The Lonely Guy
Writing team with Ed. Weinberger for MTMS episodes
Multiple Emmy awards for MTMS and "Taxi" (shared)
David Davis
Writer: "Taxi", "Cindy", "Rhoda", "The Bob Newhart Show"
Writing team with Lorenzo Music for episodes of MTMS and "Bob Newhart Show"
Producer: "Taxi", "Cindy", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
Composer: music for feature films H.O.T.S. and Double Stop
Elias Davis
Writer: "Frazier", "Full House", "Growing Pains", "M*A*S*H", "Bridget Loves Bernie", "The Monkees", "The Carol Burnett Show"
Executive Story Consultant for "M*A*S*H"
Martin Donovan
Writer: "Who's the Boss"
Michael Elias
Writer: "No Laughing Matter", "Lush Life" and feature films Envoyes les Violons (1988), Young Doctors in Love, Serial, The Jerk, The Frisco Kid
Bob Ellison
Writer: Feature film Bucktown; story consultant for "Cheers", "The Steve Allen Show", "The Bar-Ump-Bump Show", "The Dean Martin Show", "Kraft Music Hall", "That's Life", "The Odd Couple".
Started career as publicity writer, then later as writer for standup comedians such as Dom DeLuise (a classmate from the High School
for the Performing Arts in Manhattan).
Barbara Gallagher
Writing team with Sybil Adelman for MTMS episodes
Karyl Geld Miller
Born Carol Miller, she writes under the name Karyl Miller
Supervising Producer and Writer: "My Sister Sam", "Kate and Allie", "The Cosby Show", Executive Story Consultant "Love Sydney" (starring Tony Randall),
"Diff'rent Strokes," and "Erma Bombeck's Maggie". Written as Karyl Geld: "Maude", "Sanford and Son" (co-written with
Richard Pryor), "Barney Miller", "Bob Newhart Show", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (episodes "Rhoda's Sister Gets Married"
and "WJM Tries Harder"), and many others.
Emmy award for best writing for Lily Tomlin, two Emmy nominations, Writer's Guild of America Award nomination, The American
Academy of Humor Award, and the Rolling Stone Magazine TV Show of the Year Award.
Runs website at Millerreport.com where you
can find her complete resume and listing of her current projects. She is the only MTMS writer with a spot on the internet.
Recently finished writing and executive-producing half-hour pilot TV series. More details on her site.
Robert Gerlach
Writing team with James MacDonald for MTMS episode.
Ann Gibbs
Writer: "The Facts of Life", "The Jeffersons", "Small Wonder", "Chico and the Man", "Welcome Back Kotter"
Writing team with Joel Kimmel.
Craig Allan Hafner
Writer: "The Defense Rests: A tribute to Raymond Burr" ; "Angels: The Mysterious
Messengers" ; "Eye on Hollywood ('84-'86)" ; "Szysznyk" ; "The Love Report".
Writing team with Shelly Nelbert for MTMS episode "What Do You Want To Do When You Produce?"
Gig Henry
TV movie "Joys" (1976) with Bob Hope
Writing team with Charles Lee for MTMS episodes.
Allan Katz
Writer: "Blossom", "Roseanne", "M*A*S*H"
Actor: feature films Martians Go Home, Big Man on Campus, Big Deal, Breaking All the Rules, Bedroom Eyes, Hard Feelings, Happy Birthday to Me
Producer: "Blossom", "M*A*S*H"
Writing team with Don Reo for many episodes of various TV series'
Joel Kimmel
Writer: "The Jeffersons", "Small Wonder", "Chico and the Man", "Welcome Back Kotter", executive story editor "The Munsters Today"
Writing team with Ann Gibbs.
George Kirgo
(1987-1991) President of the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW).
Founding member of the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress.
(1988) Received President's Award from P.E.N.
Writer: feature films Don't Make Waves, Spinout, Red Line 7000 plus
TV movies that aired in the early 1980's.
Won the Morgan Cox Award from the Writers Guild of America (2001).
Arnie Kogen
Writer: "All American Girl", "Newhart", "Lotsa Luck", and feature film Birds Do It
Charles Lee
TV movie "Joys" (1976) with Bob Hope
Writing team with Gig Henry for MTMS episodes.
Michael Leeson
1985 Emmy award for "Cosby Show" for premiere episode (shared with Ed. Weinberger)
1979 Humanitas Prize for "Taxi"
1991 BAFTA Film Award for War of the Roses
Writer: feature films I.Q. (screenplay), The Survivors, Jeckyll & Hyde...Together Again
David Lloyd
Writer: "Frazier", "Cheers", Taxi", "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice", "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson Show", "The Dick Cavett Show"
Creative consultant "Frazier" and "Cheers"
Wrote the most episodes of MTMS, many of which were the best in the entire series
Warmed up the studio audience before filmings during the later years of MTMS
Emmy award (1976) for MTMS episode "Chuckles Bites the Dust"
Emmy nominations (1977) for "Mary Midwife" and contribution to "The Last Show"
1983, 1984, 1985 Emmy nominations for single episodes of "Cheers"
2001 Laurel Award for Outstanding TV Writing Achievement
James MacDonald
Writing team with Robert Gerlach for MTMS episode.
Monica Magowan-Johnson
Born 2/21/56, El Centro, California
Writer: feature films Closers,
The Muse,
Mother (screenplay), The Scout,
Lost in America (screenplay), Jekyll & Hyde... Together Again, Modern Romance,
Americathon, Real Life
Creative Consultant: "It's Gary Shandling's Show"
NSFC Award for Lost In America and Mother. NYFCC Award for Mother (all shared with Albert Brooks).
Jerry Mayer
Writer: "The Facts of Life", "Anna and the King", "M*A*S*H", "The Bob Newhart Show", "Bridget Loves Bernie"
Producer: "The Facts of Life", "Brothers and Sisters", "Fay", "The Facts of Life Goes to Paris" (TV movie),
Marilyn Suzanne Miller
1990 Emmy nomination (shared) for Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program
"The Tracey Ullman Show" ; 1976 Emmy award (shared) for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series for "Saturday Night Live"; 2001 WGA TV Award (shared) for "Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary"
1998 Humanitas Prize (30 minute category) for "Murphy Brown"
Writer: "Gilda Live", "Saturday Night Live", "Rhoda", "The Paul Lynde Show"
Arnold Margolin
Writer: "Growing Pains", "Private Benjamin", "OK Crackerby", "The Andy Griffith Show" and TV movies "Between Love and Honor", "A Family for Joe", "A Good Sport", "He's Not Your Son".
Actor: Feature films Exit to Eden and Young Doctors in Love
Producer: TV movies "Between Love and Honor", "A Family for Joe", and
"Love, American Style" (co-executive producer with Jim Parker)
Director: "Private Benajmin" and "Love, American Style"
Jenna McMahon
Writer: "Flo", "The Carol Burnett Show", "Soap", "The Facts of Life", "The Bob Newhart Show", "Mama's Family" and
feature film "The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank"
Actor: "The Funny Side", "The Everly Brothers Show", "What's It All About, World?", plus guestings on
"The Bob Newhart Show" and "Twilight Zone".
Co-producer of "Mama's Family".
Writing team with Dick Clair
Emmy nominations (shared with others) for "Soap" and "The Carol Burnett Show" (episode with Jim Nabors).
Phil Mishkin
Writer: "Happy Days", "All in the Family" (scripts written with Rob Reiner), "Free Country", "The Super", "Gimme a Break!",
"Matlock".
1976 Emmy nomination 1976
Rick Mittleman
Writer: "Jake and the Fatman", "MacGyver", "Jennifer Slept Here", "Alice", "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice", "Thicker than Water",
"A Touch of Grace", "M*A*S*H", "Bridget Loves Bernie", "Get Smart", "I Spy", "Gomer Pyle, USMC"
1976 Emmy nomination (shared) for variety special "Van Dyke and Company" ; 1997 Morgan Cox Award from
Writers Guild of America (shared)
Script Consultant: "Remington Steele", "McHale's Navy"
Producer: "Arnie"
Gordon Mitchell
Writer: "Harper Valley PTA", "Love Thy Neighbor", "Thicker than Water", "The Odd Couple"
Producer: "Harper Valley PTA", "Good Times" (co-producer with Lloyd Turner)
Writing team with Lloyd Turner for MTMS episodes
Lorenzo Music
Born 5/2/37, Brooklyn
Producer: "Rhoda", "The Bob Newhart Show" (both co-producer with David Davis)
Writer: MTMS, "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"
Voice credits: "Garfield" productions, "The Gummi Bears", "The Real Ghostbusters",
and numerous cartoons
Co-creator: "The Bob Newhart Show"
Played the infamous Carlton the Doorman on "Rhoda" for five seasons
Composer of "Bob Newhart Show" theme music titled 'Home to Emily'.
Writing/creating/producing team with David Davis
Emmy award for outstanding writing on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"
Passed away in August, 2001 after a long struggle with lung and bone cancer.
Pat Nardo
Writer: "Rhoda", "Love Thy Neighbor" (1984 TV movie)
Writing team with Gloria Banta for MTMS and "Rhoda".
Character Elaine Nardo (played by Marilu Henner) on "Taxi" named after her.
Shelly Nelbert
Writing team with Craig Allan Hafner for MTMS episode "What Do You Want To Do When You Produce?"
Gail Parent
Writer: "Cross My Heart", "Amazing Stories", "The Golden Girls", "The Main Event", "Rhoda",
"Call Her Mom" (TV movie), "Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York" (novel)
Writing team with Kenny Solms for MTMS episodes.
Producer: "Tracey Takes On", "First Time Out", "The Golden Girls"
Emmy award (1997, shared) for "Tracey Takes On" (plus various other shared Emmys and other
awards for the same series)
Jim Parker
Writer: "Cheers" (one episode), "OK Crackerby", "The Andy Griffith Show" (five episodes) and features Snowball Express, and Star Spangled Girl.
Executive Producer/Director: "Love, American Style" (co-producer with Arnold Margolin)
Writing team with Arnold Margolin for MTMS, "OK Crackerby", "The Andy Griffith Show".
Mary Kay Place
Born 9/23/47 Port Arthur, Texas
Won Emmy award in 1977 for outstanding continued performance on "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"
Nominated for SAG award in 2000 for outstanding cast performance (shared) for Being John Malkovich
Worked with pop artist John Stewart on his 1979 album "Bombs Away Dream Baby"
featuring the hit song "Gold" She played bass and did vocals on this LP
Writer: "M*A*S*H" (three episodes), and MTMS episode "Mary's Delinquent" (with Valerie Curtin)
Recorded two music albums: Tonite! At the Capri Lounge Loretta Haggers (1976) and
Aimin' to Please (1977).
She wins the distinction of being the only person to have appeared in and written a story for MTMS
Ms. Place is a well-known actor, and has acted in dozens of features and TV series' since the early 1970's.
For a listing of her credits, View here.
For a fanpage on Mary Kay, View here.
David Pollock
Writer: "Frazier", "Full House", "Growing Pains", "M*A*S*H", "Bridget Loves Bernie", "The Monkees", "The Carol Burnett Show"
Executive Story Consultant for "M*A*S*H"
Writing team with Elias Davis
Earl Pomerantz
Writer: "Becker", "Major Dad", "Newhart", "Rhoda", "Cheers", "Taxi", "Rhoda"
Won Emmy award in 1985 for single episode of "Cosby Show" (outstanding writing); 1988 Emmy nomination "Cosby Show"
(shared; outstanding comedy series)
1977 Emmy nomination for MTMS episode "Ted's Change of Heart" ; Humanitas Prize
Actor: "The Bobbie Gentry Show" , Cannibal Girls,
The Merry Wives of Tobias Rouke
Producer: TV series' "Kristin", "The Fighting Fitzgeralds" , "Best of the West".
Creative Consultant: "Lateline" (TV series)
Richard M. Powell
Writer: "M*A*S*H", "The Governor and J.J.", "Hogan's Heroes", "Gomer Pyle, USMC", "The Farmer's Daughter", "The Andy Griffith Show"
and feature films My Gun is Quick, The Young Philadelphians
Burt Prelutsky
Writer: "M*A*S*H", "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman", "Newhart", "Rhoda", "The Governor and J.J."
Steve Pritzker
Writer: "Silver Spoons", "The Partridge Family", "Room 222"
Don Reo
Writer: "My Wife and Kids", "Action", "The John Larroquette Show", "Blossom", "The Golden Girls",
"Private Benjamin", "Rhoda", "Thicker than Water", "M*A*S*H"
Producer: "My Wife", "Action", "Pearl", "The John Larroquette Show", "Blossom", "Heartland", "Wizards and Warriors",
"M*A*S*H".
Writing team with Allan Katz for many episodes of various TV series'
Bob Rodgers
Writer: "The Odd Couple", "Batman"
Pamela Russell
No biographical information available.
Kenny Solms
Producer: "Neil Diamond: Greatest Hits Live", "Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz"
Writer: Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York, "Call Her Mom" (TV movie)
Actor: Day of the Locust
Writing team with Gail Parent for MTMS episodes.
Susan Silver
Writer: "Square Pegs", "The Bob Newhart Show", "The Couple Takes a Wife" (TV movie), "The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped" (TV Movie)
Treva Silverman
Writer: "Room 222", "The Monkees", Romancing the Stone (uncredited)
1974 Emmy awards for outstanding writing in comedy and series writer of the year for MTMS episode
"The Lou and Edie Story"
Ziggy Steinberg
Writer: feature films Another You, The Boss' Wife, Porky's Revenge, The Jerk
Director: The Boss' Wife
Lloyd Turner
8/14/24 - 11/30/92.
Cartoon writer for dozens of cartoons featuring Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny, Roadrunner, Porky Pig, et al)
Writer: "Alice", "Love Thy Neighbor", "Thicker than Water", "Temperatures Rising", "The Partridge Family",
"The Odd Couple", Get Smart"
Producer: "Good Times" (co-producer with Gordon Mitchell)
Writing team with Gordon Mitchell for MTMS episodes
Ed. Weinberger
(Ed. is the guy in the middle)
Edwin Weinberger is legal name
Producer: "The Good News", "Doc", "The Betty White Show", "Taxi", "The Associates", "Dear John", "Baby Talk"
Writer: "The Good News", "Taxi", "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson", The Lonely Guy (screenplay)
Director: "The Good News", "Taxi", "Mr. Smith"
1985 Emmy (shared with Michael Leeson) for premiere episode of "The Cosby Show"; Emmy awards in
1979, 1980, 1981 (shared) for "Taxi"; multiple Emmys and nominations for MTMS (shared).
Writing team with Stan Daniels for MTMS episodes.
Jack Winter
Writer: "Happy Days", "Getting Together", "The Monkees"
William Wood
Writer: "Ben Casey", "Kaz", and TV movies "Savages", "The Execution", "Outrage", "The Harpy"
Michael Zinberg
Director: (partial listing) "The Bob Newhart Show", "Lou Grant", "Taxi", "WKRP in Cincinatti", "9 to 5", "Family Ties",
"Cheers", "Who's the Boss?", "Coach", "The Commish", "Hooperman", "Everybody Loves Raymond", "Quantum Leap", "JAG", "Caroline in the City",
"The Yellow Rose"
Producer: "The Bob Newhart Show", "Quantum Leap", "The Yellow Rose"
Emmy nominations in 1990 and 1991 for "Quantum Leap" (shared)
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