Glen & Les Charles - Archive Interview Part 1 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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[sugarkang]

These are the guys responsible for my infatuation with Diane type women.

[usetheluck]

i am a huge fan of cheers.i was not very happy with the last episode of cheers i thought that sam is gonna stay with Diane,i hope you do a movie or the series of cheers in 2009 sam and Diane are Married with Children There son or daughter works in cheers.

[dbcooper714]

A fascinating interview.They created some of my favorite TV characters,and made me laugh countless times.When listening to Glenn and Les Charles you are also getting to hear a little bit of Reverend Jim,you're hearing Sam Malone,Diane,Coach,Norm,Cliff,­Carla,Woody and Frazier,not to mention so many other characters they created and gave personality to by writing their story lines and the words they speak.I sincerely hope we haven't heard the last of these remarkable talents.