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Sol Saks on how he wrote for I Married Joan for 7 weeks to pay for his swimming pool 01:59
Interview: Sol Saks
Sol Saks on coming up with episode premises with series star Ida Lupino for Mr. Adams and Eve 02:11
Interview: Sol Saks
Sol Saks on quitting My Favorite Husband, and how this led, years later, to getting an offer to write a pilot that became Bewitched 03:06
Interview: Sol Saks
Sol Saks on getting hired on the radio version of Duffy's Tavern 02:28
Interview: Sol Saks | Show: Duffy's Tavern
Sol Saks on working with Abe Burrows on the radio version of Duffy's Tavern 03:04
Interview: Sol Saks | Show: Duffy's Tavern
Sol Saks on the treatment of the writers while working on radio's "Duffy's Tavern" 01:15
Interview: Sol Saks | Show: Duffy's Tavern
Sol Saks on working on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet radio show and Ozzie Nelson's view on giving writers credit 02:07
Interview: Sol Saks | Show: Adventures Of Ozzie and Harriet, The
Sol Saks on writing the pilot for My Favorite Husband and his desire to do a sitcom with actors instead of comedians 01:11
Interview: Sol Saks | Show: My Favorite Husband
Sol Saks on noticing that on My Favorite Husband he was distracted from the set so he wouldn't interfere with production regarding changes in the script 01:58
Interview: Sol Saks | Show: My Favorite Husband
Sol Saks on how he wrote for I Married Joan for 7 weeks to pay for his swimming pool 01:59
Interview: Sol Saks | Show: I Married Joan
Sol Saks on coming up with episode premises with series star Ida Lupino for Mr. Adams and Eve 02:12
Interview: Sol Saks | Show: Mr. Adams and Eve
Sol Saks on the creation of Mr. Adams and Eve and working with co-star Howard Duff 02:14
Interview: Sol Saks | Show: Mr. Adams and Eve
Sol Saks on how the long hours on radio's "Duffy's Tavern" became too difficult for him (and his wife) 03:31
Interview: Sol Saks | Show: Duffy's Tavern
Sol Saks on quitting My Favorite Husband, and how this led, years later, to getting an offer to write a pilot that became Bewitched 03:06
Interview: Sol Saks | Show: My Favorite Husband
Sol Saks on how he wrote for I Married Joan for 7 weeks to pay for his pool 01:49
Interview: Sol Saks
On writing the pilot episode and creating Bewitched; on his philosophy of comedy writing and writing in general; on discovering the effectiveness of using simple language in (comedy) writing; on the Bewitched pilot's appeal 17:19
Interview: Sol Saks
On not believing in writer's block; on learning his first (amusing) lesson— in the 8th grade— on how writers are treated; on being offered to write the pilot for the Bewitched spin-off Tabitha, which he refused; on his suggestion that they play the real-lie pregnancy of Elizabeth Montgomery on the show in Bewitched; 12:17
Interview: Sol Saks
On his acceptance of Fred de Cordova as a producer of Mr. Adams and Eve, until de Cordova interfered with the scripts; serving as a CBS executive (in comedy programming); on how producer William Froug was considered to replace Sherwood Schwartz on Gilligan's Island, and how Saks himself didn't like the pilot script 11:32
Interview: Sol Saks
On "learning how to be an executive producer" while working on The Baileys of Balboa; on leaving Mr. Adams and Eve, but still thinking of premises for comedy shows 17:11
Interview: Sol Saks
Sol Saks on how producer William Froug was considered to replace Sherwood Schwartz on Gilligan's Island, and how Saks himself didn't like the pilot script 06:11
Interview: Sol Saks | Genre: Comedy Series
Sol Saks on Ozzie Nelson (on radio's The Adventues of Ozzie and Harriet) and Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll (on radio's Amos 'N' Andy) and their knowledge of what worked in a script 00:37
Interview: Sol Saks | Person: Ozzie Nelson