Sam Bobrick (born July 24, 1932) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. He is best known for creating the television programs Good Morning, Miss Bliss and Saved By The Bell and for his numerous plays, many of which were co-authored with Ron Clark.

[edit] Biography

After an almost four year stint in the U.S. Air Force, Bobrick attended the University of Illinois where he graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree. He began his career writing for television with his first important job being writing for Captain Kangaroo. He went on to write for the television programs The Andy Griffith Show, Bewitched, The Flintstones, Get Smart, The Kraft Music Hall, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and The Tim Conway Comedy among others. He also wrote screenplays for several films, including The Last Remake of Beau Geste. For his work he has won three Writers Guild of America Awards and received nominations for the Emmy Award and the Ovation Award.

Bobrick began writing plays in the 1970s with fellow playwright Ron Clark. Their first play, Norman, Is That You?, premiered on Broadway at the Lyceum Theater on February 19, 1970. The two men went on to write several more Broadway plays together, including No Hard Feelings (1973), Murder at the Howard Johnson's (1979), and Wally's Cafe (1981).

Bobrick has written several more plays either by himself or with other writers besides Clark, including the plays Weekend Comedy, The Crazy Time, Getting Sara Married, Remember Me? and Hamlet II among many others. One of his collaborators is his wife, the writer Julie Stein, with whom he has penned the plays The Outrageous Adventures of Sheldon & Mrs. Levine and Lenny’s Back. The former play is an adaptation from a book by Bobrick and his wife entitled Sheldon & Mrs. Levine that was published in 1994.

[edit] External links

• Official Website of Sam Bobrick
• Sam Bobrick at the Internet Movie Database
• Sam Bobrick at the Internet Broadway Database