Glen and Les Charles
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Brothers Glen Gerald Charles (born February 18, 1943) and Les Charles (born March 25, 1948) are American screenwriters and television producers, best known for working on Taxi and co-creating Cheers.[1][2]
Early lives and careers
The Charles brothers attended University of Redlands. Glen graduated in 1965, and Les graduated in 1971.[3] Glen began his professional life as an advertising copywriter but moved into television. They began their television careers together as writers for M*A*S*H in 1975; all their work throughout their entire TV and film career was done jointly. They later wrote for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Phyllis and The Bob Newhart Show, and were head writers and producers on the TV series Taxi. They then formed the Charles-Burrows-Charles production company with James Burrows, and created and produced the television series Cheers, which ran from 1982 to 1993.
After Cheers ended, the brothers largely retired from the business. The screenplay for the 1999 film Pushing Tin became their final produced writing credit. They are credited in every episode of Frasier as the creators of the "Frasier Crane" character from Cheers, but had no other creative involvement in the original series or the revival.
Cheers
Cheers is a sitcom that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes for eleven seasons. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Network Television. The show is set in a bar named Cheers in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, and socialize. The Cheers finale aired on May 20, 1993, and was watched in an estimated 42.4 million households across the country.[4]
Filmography
Television
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| M*A*S*H | "The Late Captain Pierce" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| Doc | "Doc, Heal Thyself" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| Phyllis | "Paging Dr. Lindstrom" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| "Phyllis in Love" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Crazy Mama" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Sonny Boy" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "The Triangle" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Phyllis Cries Wolf" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Out of the Closet" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Mother Dexter Cohabitates" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Mother Dexter's Wedding" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Bess Airs Her Views" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Broken Hearted Bess" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Dan's Ex" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "And Baby Makes Six" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Mary and the Sexagenarian" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| The Bob Newhart Show | "Bob's Change of Life" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| "Who Was That Masked Man?" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Happy Trails to You" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| The Betty White Show | "Goodnight Sweet Fletch" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| Taxi | "Come As You Aren't" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| "Paper Marriage" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Sugar Mama" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Elaine and the Lame Duck" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Mama Gravas" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Hollywood Calling" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Honor Thy Father" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Reverend Jim: A Space Odyssey" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Latka's Revolting" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Art Work" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Going Home" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Latka's Cookies" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Zen and the Art of Cab Driving" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Latka the Playboy" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Of Mice and Tony" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "I Wanna Be Around" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Bobby Doesn't Live Here Anymore" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| Cheers | "Give Me a Ring Sometime" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| "Sam at Eleven" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Showdown": Part 1 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
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| "Power Play" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
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| "I Do, Adieu" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "Home Is the Sailor" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| "One for the Road" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| All Is Forgiven | "With Child" | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Film
- Pushing Tin (1999)
Personal lives
They were raised in Henderson, Nevada, as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[5][6]
References
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- Glen Charles at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Les Charles at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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- Living people
- American male television writers
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- Latter Day Saints from Nevada
- People from Henderson, Nevada
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