Glen & Les Charles - Archive Interview Part 4 of 6

In this 6-part (each 30-minute segment is posted separately) oral history interview, writers Glen and Les Charles, writing-partner brothers, talk about growing up near Las Vegas, Nevada and their decision in the mid-70s to try their hand at writing for television. They discuss selling their first script (to M*A*S*H) and their break into staff writing at MTM Productions where they worked as writer-producers on "Phyllis" and the final season of "The Bob Newhart Show". They talk about other writing assignments on such series as "The Mary Tyler More Show" and "The Betty White Show". They detail working on the hit series "Taxi", for which they produced (and wrote for) the ABC run [the show would run a final season on NBC]. The two chronicle their creation (with James Burrows) of the series "Cheers" for which they served as producers and later executive producers during the 11 year run.

This is part of a multi-part oral history interview. To see if other segments of the interview are available, visit TVLEGENDS channel playlists or http://emmytvlegends.org

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