Gary Markowitz (Writer)

M*A*S*H: When Television Changed Forever

In M*A*S*H: When Television Changed Forever cast and crew reveal their battles with network executives to keep the show alive, their first days on set, favorite episodes, what they think made the show a mega hit and why it endures today.

Release Date: 2022-09-13

Character: Self

Help! I'm a Teenage Outlaw

Help! I'm A Teenage Outlaw is a British television programme filmed in the Czech Republic and first aired on CITV. The show follows three hapless outlaws during the English Civil War, who are trying to bring justice back to the land.

Release Date: 2004-10-22

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Eerie, Indiana

Teenage weirdness investigator Marshall Teller adventures through his new small-town home with his friends, geeky Simon Holmes and mysterious Dash X.

Release Date: 1991-09-15

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 77

Elvis

An account of the life of Elvis Presley in the early days of his fame in the 1950s.

Release Date: 1990-02-06

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 1

CBS Summer Playhouse

CBS anthology series airing unsold television pilots during the summer season.

Release Date: 1987-06-12

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

ALF

A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage.

Release Date: 1986-09-22

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1130

Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill is an American television situation comedy that featured the misadventures of an egotistical talk show host, played by Dabney Coleman, and his staff at WBFL-TV, a small TV station in Buffalo, New York. It premiered May 31, 1983 on NBC and ran for only part of two seasons. It was also shown on the then-new UK fourth TV channel Channel 4.

Release Date: 1983-05-31

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 9

United States

United States is a short-lived half-hour comedy-drama that NBC added to its Tuesday primetime schedule in March 1980. Larry Gelbart, the show's executive producer and chief writer, said the name United States was not a reference to the country but rather to "the state of being united in a relationship". Gelbart envisioned a series that would be "a situation comedy based on the real things that happen in my marriage and in the marriages of my friends". Episodes tackled such topics as marital infidelity, household debt, friends who drink too much, death within the family, and sexual misunderstandings. United States focused on Richard and Libby Chapin, an upwardly mobile couple who lived in a Los Angeles suburb. Beau Bridges played Richard, and Helen Shaver played Libby. Gelbart reverted to black-and-white script for the show's titles. He said that was to convey the mood of "a sophisticated '30s film." Gelbart also avoided use of background music and a laugh track. Scripts featured dialogue such as, "Just for once I'd like to be treated like a friend instead of a husband," and "Maybe you and Bob can go out and get yourselves one redhead with two straws." United States premiered at 10:30 p.m. on March 11, 1980. NBC pulled it from the schedule within two months, after only six of 13 episodes had aired. The remaining episodes were not broadcast until 1986, when the A&E cable channel aired United States.

Release Date: 1980-03-11

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 1

Alice

Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the episodes revolve around events at Mel's Diner.

Release Date: 1976-08-31

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 55

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 Date: 1972-09-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 681