Gail Parent Biography (1940-)

Original name, Gail Kostner; born August 12, 1940, in New York, NY; daughterof Theodore (a Wall Street executive) and Ruth (maiden name, Goldberg) Kostner; married Lair Parent (a television producer), June 24, 1962 (divorced, 1979); children: two sons. Addresses: Agent: Innovative Artists, 1505 10thSt., Santa Monica, CA 90401.

Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupation: Writer, producer, television show creator
Birth Details: August 12, 1940; New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Television Work
Series
(With Kenny Solms) Producer, The Smothers Brothers Show, NBC, 1975
(With Ann Marcus, Jerry Adelman, and Daniel Gregory Browne) Creator, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, syndicated, 1975
(With Solms) Producer, Three Girls Three, NBC, 1977
Creator, Forever Fernwood, syndicated, 1977
Creator, Finder of Lost Loves, ABC, 1984
Producer, The Golden Girls, 1989-90
Creator, Babes, Fox, 1990
Supervising producer, The Golden Girls, NBC, 1990-91
Co-executive producer, The Golden Girls, NBC, 1991-92
Producer, First Time Out (also known as Jackie Guerra), 1995
Creative consultant, Something So Right, NBC, 1996-97, then ABC, 1998
Supervising producer, Tracey Takes On ... , HBO, 1997-98
Creative consultant, Payne, CBS, 1999
Specials
Producer, The Best of Tracey Takes On ... , HBO, 1996
Pilots
Executive producer, Sheila, CBS, 1977
(With Ann Elder) Executive producer, I'd Rather Be Calm, CBS, 1982
Television Appearances
Episodic
Herself, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, NBC, 1971, 1972
WRITINGS
Plays
(Contributor) Instant Replay (revue), produced at Upstairs at theDownstairs, New York City, 1968
(With Kenny Solms) Lorelei or "Gentlemen Still Prefer Blondes", pre-Broadway tour of U.S. cities, 1973, then Palace Theatre, New York City, 1974
Screenplays
(With Kenny Solms) Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (adapted from her novel of the same title), Paramount, 1975
(With Andrew Smith) The Main Event, Warner Bros., 1979
(With Armyan Bernstein) Cross My Heart, MCA/Universal, 1987
All I Want for Christmas, Paramount, 1991
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Buena Vista, 2004
Television Movies

(With Kenny Solms) Call Her Mom, ABC, 1972
Cadet Kelly, 2002
Television Specials
(With Kenny Solms, Bill Angelos, and Buz Kohan) Ann-Margret: From Hollywood with Love, CBS, 1969
(With Sheldon Keller and Solms) Bing Crosby and Carol Burnett--Together Again for the First Time, NBC, 1969
(With Solms, Pat McCormick, and Jack Riley) The Many Sides of Don Rickles, ABC, 1970
(With Solms, Gary Belkin, Martin Charnin, Bob Ellison, Thomas Meehan, andBob Randall) Annie and the Hoods, ABC, 1974
(With Solms) Sills and Burnett at the Met, CBS, 1976
Television Pilots
(With others) Hellzapoppin', ABC, 1972
(With Kenny Solms) Sheila, CBS, 1977
(With Ann Elder) I'd Rather Be Calm, CBS, 1982
Finder of Lost Loves, 1984
(With Tracey Jackson) Babes, 1990
Television Episodes
(With Kenny Solms) "We Closed in Minneapolis," The Mary Tyler Moore Show, CBS, 1971
Sons and Daughters, CBS, 1974
"The Lady in Red," Rhoda, CBS, 1974
"The Shower," Rhoda, CBS, 1974
(With others) The Smothers Brothers Show, NBC, 1975
(With Solms) Three Girls Three, NBC, 1977
(With Kevin Parent) "Guilt Trip," Amazing Stories (also known as Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories), NBC, 1985
(With Kevin Parent) "Hell Toupee," Amazing Stories (also known asSteven Spielberg's Amazing Stories), NBC, 1986
"The Accurate Conception," The Golden Girls, CBS, 1989
"Not Another Monday," The Golden Girls, CBS, 1989
"Triple Play," The Golden Girls, CBS, 1989
(With Marc Sotkin, Robert Bruce, and Martin Weiss) "The President's Coming! The President's Coming!: Part 1," The Golden Girls, CBS, 1990
(With Jim Vallely) "Blanche Delivers," The Golden Girls, CBS, 1990
(With Vallely) "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun ... Before They Die," The Golden Girls, CBS, 1990
(Story only; with Vallely and Mitchell Hurwitz) "There Goes the Bride: Part 1," The Golden Girls, CBS, 1990
(With Vallely) "There Goes the Bride: Part 2," The Golden Girls, CBS, 1990
(With Vallely) "Even Grandmas Get the Blues," The Golden Girls, CBS, 1991
(With Vallely) "Where's Charlie?," The Golden Girls, CBS, 1991
(Story only) "Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home: Part 1," The Golden Girls, CBS, 1991
(With Vallely) "From Here to the Pharmacy," The Golden Girls, CBS,1991
(With Vallely) "Goodbye, Mr. Gordon," The Golden Girls, CBS, 1992
"Home Again, Rose: Part 1," The Golden Girls, CBS, 1992
"Sweet Denial," Platypus Man, UPN, 1995
First Time Out, The WB, 1995
Tracey Takes On ... , HBO, 1996-98
"The J. Edgar Hoover Pin Story," Payne, 1999
Also wrote (with Solms and others) The Carol Burnett Show, CBS.
Fiction
Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York, Putnam, 1972
David Meyer Is a Mother, Harper, 1976
The Best Laid Plans, Putnam, 1980
A Sign of the Eighties, Putnam, 1987
Nonfiction
(With Connell Cowin) The Art of War for Lovers, Pocket, 1998
Also wrote A Little Bit Married. Wrote nightclub revue sketches with Kenny Solms; contributor to periodicals.

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