Richard Baer (Writer)

Leave It to Beaver

Leave It to Beaver is an American television situation comedy about an inquisitive and often naïve boy named Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver's parents, June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver's brother Wally. The show has attained an iconic status in the US, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-20th century.

Release Date1957-10-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count76

M*A*S*H

The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.

Release Date1972-09-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count691

Have Gun, Will Travel

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.

Release Date1957-09-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count40

The Doris Day Show

The Doris Day Show is an American sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 1968 until March 1973, remaining on the air for five seasons and 128 episodes. In addition to showcasing Doris Day, the show is remembered for its many abrupt format changes over the course of its five-year run. It is also remembered for Day's statement, in her autobiography Doris Day: Her Own Story, that her husband Martin Melcher had signed her to do the TV series without her knowledge, a fact she only discovered when Melcher died of heart disease on April 20, 1968. The TV show premiered on Tuesday, September 24, 1968.

Release Date1968-09-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count9

Archie Bunker's Place

Archie Bunker's Place is an American sitcom originally broadcast on the CBS network, conceived in 1979 as a spin-off and continuation of All in the Family. While not as popular as its predecessor, the show maintained a large enough audience to last for four seasons, until its cancellation in 1983. In its first season, the show performed so well that it knocked Mork & Mindy out of its new Sunday night time slot.

Release Date1979-09-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count20

Barney Miller

Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.

Release Date1975-01-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count52

The Munsters

A family of friendly monsters that have misadventures all while never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely.

Release Date1964-09-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count432

Bewitched

Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.

Release Date1964-09-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count23

Vote Count698

Hennesey

Hennesey is an American military sitcom/drama television series with Jackie Cooper in the title role that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1962. Cooper played a United States Navy physician, Lt. Charles J. "Chick" Hennesey, with Abby Dalton as Navy nurse Lt. Martha Hale. In the story line, they are assigned to the hospital at the U.S. Naval Station in San Diego, California.

Release Date1959-09-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count96

Vote Count1

F Troop

F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom that originally aired for two seasons on ABC-TV. It debuted in the United States on September 14, 1965 and concluded its run on April 6, 1967 with a total of 65 episodes. The first season of 34 episodes was filmed in black-and-white, but the show switched to color for its second season.

Release Date1965-09-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count28

Love, Sidney

A middle-aged gay artist shares his New York apartment with a single mother and her little girl. Based on a short story written by Marilyn Cantor Baker, which was subsequently adapted into a TV movie entitled Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend. Love, Sidney was the first program on American television to feature a gay character as the central lead, although for the series, Sidney's homosexuality was almost entirely downplayed from its subtle yet unmistakable presence in the two-hour pilot.

Release Date1981-10-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Petticoat Junction

The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.

Release Date1963-09-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count37

Mister Roberts

Mister Roberts is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 17, 1965 to April 8, 1966. Based on the best selling novel, 1948 play, and the 1955 film of the same name, the series stars Roger Smith in the title role and Richard X. Slattery as the ship's captain.

Release Date1965-09-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

13 Queens Blvd.

13 Queens Boulevard is an American sitcom that aired from March 20 until July 24, 1979.

Release Date1979-03-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

That Girl

That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York to try to make it big in New York City. Ann has to take a number of offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts. Ted Bessell played her boyfriend Donald Hollinger, a writer for Newsview Magazine; Lew Parker and Rosemary DeCamp played Lew Marie and Helen Marie, her concerned parents. Bernie Kopell, Ruth Buzzi and Reva Rose played Ann and Donald's friends. That Girl was developed by writers Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, who had served as head writers on The Dick Van Dyke Show earlier in the 1960s.

Release Date1966-09-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Vote Count29

Occasional Wife

Release Date1966-09-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count2

Adam's Rib

Adam's Rib is an American situation comedy broadcast on ABC-TV from September 14 to December 28, 1973. It was produced by MGM Television and had 13 episodes. The series was a TV adaptation of the 1949 motion picture of the same name.

Release Date1973-09-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

What's Happening!!

What's Happening!! is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from August 5, 1976 to April 28, 1979. The show premiered as a summer series. With good ratings and reviews, and after the failure of several other shows on the network, What's Happening!! returned in November 1976 as a weekly series. It remained a regular show until 1979; ratings were modest. What's Happening!! was loosely based on the motion picture Cooley High, also written by Eric Monte.

Release Date1976-08-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count26

Turnabout

Turnabout is an American television situation comedy that first aired on NBC in 1979 and was based on a 1931 novel of the same title by Thorne Smith which had already been developed into the 1940 movie, Turnabout). The plot was about a married husband and wife who found themselves inhabiting each other's bodies similar to the plot of Freaky Friday. Turnabout only lasted 7 episodes, partly because it aired right after NBC's poorly watched Hello, Larry and competed with CBS's hugely successful series, Dallas.

Release Date1979-01-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Karen

Karen is an American sitcom starring Karen Valentine that aired on ABC from January to May 1975. A mid-season replacement, Karen was canceled due to low ratings.

Release Date1975-01-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Playmates

Two divorced men meet and become friends, but unbeknownst to each other, start dating each other's ex-wives.

Release Date1972-10-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

I Take These Men

Moments before being surprised at an anniversary garden party thrown by her husband and their family and friends, Carol Sherwood shocks him by saying she wants a divorce and during the course of the party, she has three separate fantasies of marriages to three different men. The first is with egotistical real estate magnate Craig Wyler. The second is with milquetoast English professor David Koenig. The third is with her best friend Elaine's husband, Phil.

Release Date1983-01-05

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count1

Poor Devil

A young, down-on-his-luck resident of hell is given a chance to redeem himself by signing up a down-on-his-luck retail accountant to sell his soul to Lucifer.

Release Date1973-02-14

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count8

Life Begins At 17

Rich college fraternity boy tries to get small-town beauty contest winner to fall for him by making a play for her 16-year-old sister.

Release Date1958-07-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1