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Writer/Producer/Director/"showrunner" of prime time television dramatic series, with oversight responsibilities for all phases of preproduction, development, writing, directing, cast performance, budget, edit-postproduction, etc. A native of Los Angeles best known as the creative force behind CBS’ “Falcon Crest” where he served as Supervising Producer showrunner, Bob got his start writing for TV and film at Universal, where he first broke in with script work on “Six Million Dollar Man,” “Bionic Woman”, “BJ & The Bear”, “Sheriff Lobo”, “Battlestar Gallactica”, “The Class of ‘65”, and “Quincy”. Over an extensive career of longform writing on “The Revenge of The Hulk” (NBC), “Dark Mansions” and “Murder in Paradise” (ABC), his adapations from book to screen include Barbara Taylor Bradford’s “The Women In His Life”, Jackie Collins’ “Hollywood Wives”, and Arthur Hailey’s “International Airport”. Bob has also created, written and produced “picked up” TV pilots that won series orders, including “Tagteam” (Disney/ABC), “Time Out for Dad” (NBC), as well as “Terry and The Pirates” for Paramount, “Atalanta” and “Euroforce” for NBC, and “Treasure Island” for The Family Channel. His foreign production experience includes a full year in New Zealand as Producer-writer on 22-episodes of “High Tide”, Canadian co-productions for Aaron Spelling (“Robin’s Hoods”), and 88 episodes of “The New Zorro” produced and shot in Madrid, Spain. In addition to Supervising Producer duties on “Falcon Crest”—from which he continues to receive volumes of fan mail—Bob served as Supervising Producer on Pat Morita’s “Ohara” and on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” for creator Gene Roddenberry. Bob's other credits include freelance work on NBC’s “JAG”, “Baywatch”, “Baywatch Nights”, “Pacific Blue”, and “Murder She Wrote” for CBS, as well as a stint as Executive Producer on Jerry Bruckheimer’s “Soldier of Fortune”.

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