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Michael Zinberg Biography ((?)-)

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Gender

Male

Occupation

Producer, director, writer

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Television Work
• Series
• Executive producer, The Bob Newhart Show, CBS, 1972-78
• Executive producer, The Yellow Rose, NBC, 1983-84
• Creator, producer, and executive producer, Fathers and Sons, NBC,1986
• Producer and executive producer, Heart of the City (also known asCold Steel and Neon), ABC, 1986
• Executive producer, Quantum Leap, NBC, 1989-90
• Executive producer, Tequila and Bonetti (also known as Tequilaand Boner), CBS, 1992
• Movies
• Executive producer and director, For the Very First Time (also known as Til I Kissed Ya), NBC, 1991
• Director, Accidental Meeting, USA Network, 1994
• Pilots
• Executive producer and director, Not until Today, NBC, 1979
• Executive producer and director, Mother & Me, M.D., NBC, 1979
• Director, Home Room, ABC, 1981
• Director, Whacked Out, NBC, 1981
• Executive producer and director, The James Boys, NBC, 1982
• Executive producer and director, A Girl's Life, NBC, 1983
• Executive producer and producer, W*A*L*T*E*R, CBS, 1984
• Director, Together We Stand (also known as Nothing Is Easy), 1986
• Also executive producer of The Chopped Liver Boys.
• Television Director
• Episodic
• We've Got Each Other, CBS, c. 1977
• The White Shadow, CBS, between 1977 and 1981
• WKRP in Cincinnati, CBS, between 1978 and 1982
• 9 to 5, ABC, c. 1983
• Fathers and Sons, NBC, 1986
• Coming of Age, CBS, c. 1988
• "A Tale of Two Cities," Cheers, 1988
• "The Leap Home," Quantum Leap, NBC, 1990
• "Dreams," Quantum Leap, NBC, 1991
• "Vietnam," Quantum Leap, NBC, c. 1991
• Tequila and Bonetti (also known as Tequila and Boner), CBS,1992
• Director of "The Coma Episode," Mr. & Mrs. Smith, CBS; also directed episodes of Any Day Now, Lifetime; Between Brothers, UPN; The Bob Newhart Show, CBS; Built to Last, NBC; Caroline inthe City (also known as Caroline), NBC; Charmed, The WB; Coach, ABC; The Commish; Everybody Loves Raymond (also known as Raymond), CBS; Family Ties, NBC; Goode Behavior,UPN; Holding the Baby, Fox; JAG, NBC; L.A. Law; Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, NBC; Leg Work; Lou Grant,CBS; Men Behaving Badly (also known as It's a Man's World), NBC; Midnight Caller; Newhart, CBS; Payne, CBS; The Practice, ABC; The Pretender, NBC; The Single Guy, NBC; Taxi; The Tony Randall Show; The Tortellis; and Who's the Boss?
• Television Appearances
• Episodic
• "Homefront," The Pretender, NBC, 1998
• WRITINGS
• Television Series
• The Bob Newhart Show, CBS, between 1972 and 1978
• The James Boys, NBC, 1982

Further Reference

Adaptations

• The television movie For the Very First Time was based on a shortstory by Zinberg.