CREDITS - TELEVISION SERIES

Harry and the Hendersons - Consulting Producer, Amblin/MCA Fox- Syndicated

It’s Garry Shandling’s Show - Executive Supervision Producer, Showtime

The Sid Caesar Show, created and produced pilot, CBS

The Lucie Arnaz Show - Creator and Executive Producer, CBS

Turnabout - Executive Producer

On our Own - Executive Producer, CBS

The Montefuscos - Co-Creator and Executive Producer, NBC

Big Eddie - Co-Creator and Executive Producer, CBS

Lotsa Luck - Co-Creator and Executive producer, NBC

The Funny Side (Variety Series) - Co-Creator and Executive Producer, NBC

Don Rickles Show - Creator and Executive Producer, CBS

Good Morning World - Co-Creator and Co-Executive Producer, CBS

That Girl - Co-Creator and Co-Executive Producer, ABC

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Writer (3 years), Story Ediotr (2 years), Producer (5^th year), CBS

Andy Williams Show - Writer, NBC

Steve Allen Show - Writer, ABC.

VARIETY SPECIALS

Jerry Lewis/MDA Telethon - Consultant 1994-1997

Fifty Years of Funny Females - Producer, writer (1995), ABC

9^th Annual American Comedy Awards - Writer (1995), ABC

10^th Annual American Comedy Awards - Writer (1996), ABC

11^th Annual Comedy Awards - Writer (1997), ABC

Laverne & Shirely Reunion Special - Writer (1995), ABC

People’s Choice Awards - Writer (1993, 1994), CBS

The Best of the Hollywood Palace - Writer/Producer, ABC

More of the Best of the Hollywood Palace - Writer, ABC

Happy Days Reunion Special - Writer, ABC

Marineland Carnival - Writer, ABC

Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman (starring Mary Tyler Moore) - Writer and Producer, CBS

The First Bill Cosby Special - Writer and Producer, NBC

Sid Caesar and Friends - Writer, CBS

Pure Goldie (starring Goldie Hawn) - Writer and Producer, NBC

The First Julie Andrews Special - Writer and Producer, NBC

The Americans - Writer and Producer, NBC

The First Nine Months are the Hardest - Writer and Producer, NBC

 

TELEVISION MOVIES

Run Freddie Run (starring Tim Conway) - Co-wrote and Produced, ABC-TV

Clich‚ - Co-wrote with Nick Arnold, CBS

The Man Who Came To Dinner (starring Orson Welles) - Co-adapted and Co-produced, Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC

 

COMMERCIALS AND INFOMERCIALS

Directed series of commercials for FIRST INDIANA BANK

The Ringers - Co-wrote/produced and directed the first ever half-hour situation of comedy infomerical, Bell Atlantic

FEATURE FILMS

The Nose Job - written with Bill Persky, Columbia

The First Annual Trop #197 Father-Daughter Campout - Writer, Warner Bros.

Sleigh Ride - Writer with Robert Hanley

Dream Lover - Writer with Rosemary Edelman, Columbia

If She Dies, She Dies - Written with Marc Sheffler and George Schlatter

 

AWARDS

EMMY AWARDS (4)

Dick Van Dyke Show - 2 Emmys

The First Bill Cosby Special

Seven EMMY AWARDS Nominations

Writers Guild Award for Sid Caesar Special

Writers Guild Award Nominations (3)

Environmental Media Award - Nomination

UNIONS/ORGANIZATIONS

Writers Guild of America - West

Director’s Guild of America

Screen Actors Guild

American Federation of Television & Radio Artists. AFTRA

Songwriters Guild of America

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, ASCAP

The Caucus for Writers, Producers & Directors

 

EDUCATION

Faculty Member - University of Southern California - School of Cinema/Television. Teach courses in comedy writing and television production - to 1994 to present.