Many of the new television scripts in the 70s went to the pilot stage long before they were ready for primetime and proved to be real stinkers. I worked on a couple of these—the one that should have worked was NBC’s Highcliffe Manor from Alan Landsburg Productions. Featuring Stephen McHattie, Eugenie Ross-Leming, Gerald Gordon, Jenny O’Hara, Chris Marlowe,… Continue reading The 1970s: A prolific decade for television writers and new network shows.