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On the Hollywood Blacklist and Irma's pioneering efforts as a woman in the business 08:08
Interview: Rocky Kalish
On working on Gilligan's Island with Elroy Schwartz; on not getting credit for their work on the series; on the difficulties with Sherwood Schwartz his brother and producer on the series; on coming up with the names of all the characters 07:54
Interview: Rocky Kalish
Rocky Kalish on writing a song for Dan and Dick Martin that never was used 01:22
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Person: Dick Martin
Rocky Kalish on writing for Martin & Lewis on the radio 02:22
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Person: Jerry Lewis
Rocky Kalish on writing for Martin & Lewis on the radio 02:22
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Person: Dean Martin
Rocky Kalish on writing for Martin & Lewis in their early radio career, as a boost to his career with wife Irma 04:24
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Person: Dean Martin
Rocky Kalish on writing for Martin & Lewis in their early radio career, as a boost to his career with wife Irma 04:24
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Person: Jerry Lewis
Rocky Kalish on meeting Marilyn Monroe "when she walked, she left little puddles of sex" 02:12
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Person: Marilyn Monroe
Rocky and Irma Kalish on getting hired by Jackie Gleason then let go after Jackie found out a woman was to be in the writer's room 01:03
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Person: Jackie Gleason
Irma Kalish on the process of writing with her husband Rocky and how they divvied up responsibilities 11:06
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Profession: Writers
Rocky Kalish on writing for Martin & Lewis in their early radio career, as a boost to his career with wife Irma 01:26
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Profession: Writers
Rocky Kalish on writing for The Colgate Comedy Hour; the format of the show; on meeting Marilyn Monroe 02:12
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Show: Colgate Comedy Hour, The
Rocky and Irma Kalish on The Colgate Comedy Hour' s writers room 38:07
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Show: Colgate Comedy Hour, The
Irma Kalish on how they changed the writer's room dynamic on Family Affair by including women in the writer's room 36:27
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Show: Family Affair
Irma Kalish on the premise of Family Affair; on working on the show as the only staff writers 16:56
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Show: Family Affair
Rocky Kalish on writing the pilot for Gilligan's Island with writer Elroy Schwartz; on not getting credit for the show 01:53
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Show: Gilligan's Island
Rocky Kalish on coming up with the premise of Gilligan's Island and the characters, and the name of the S.S.Minow 02:33
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Show: Gilligan's Island
Rocky Kalish on the pilot he wrote for Gilligan's Island and the changes between that and the series; on coming up with the names of the characters 00:44
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Show: Gilligan's Island
Rocky Kalish on the success of Gilligan's Island "there's no accounting for what the success of a show is going to be"; on the tone of the show 02:36
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Show: Gilligan's Island
On working on I Dream of Jeannie; the writer's room 07:01
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Show: I Dream of Jeannie
Irma Kalish on the dearth of women in writer's rooms in any television show when they first began working in TV and how they helped change the dynamic 03:06
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Topic: Women
Rocky and Irma Kalish on the impact of the Hollywood Blacklist 04:04
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Topic: Hollywood Blacklist
Irma Kalish on her status as a woman writer in the early days of television and the pressure to be "twice as good as a man" and how Rocky supported her career 02:24
Interview: Rocky Kalish | Topic: Women
On the I Dream of Jeannie... 15 Years Later special; on The Flying Nun and how the premise of the character's being Jewish being rejected by network Standards & Practices 59:58
Interview: Rocky Kalish
On working on The Brian Keith Show (aka Little People); F-Troop and why it was cancelled, on My Three Sons and working with star Fred MacMurray 07:35
Interview: Rocky Kalish
On All in the Family; on writing the script about Edith's cancer scare and Gloria's attack; on doing shows with great social import 48:39
Interview: Rocky Kalish
On working between comedy and drama; on writing a controversial script for Maude (Maude's Dilemma); on the discrepancy over the writer's credits on that episode 40:06
Interview: Rocky Kalish
On working with Shelley Berman; on writing for Good Times with a mostly black-cast and alleviating tension on-set 34:34
Interview: Rocky Kalish