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How
I Escaped from Gilligan's Island "Bill Froug is a born storyteller with a rich treasury of stories to tell about a career that led him to the highest reaches of television production, where his sense of humor remained gloriously intact."—Roger Ebert In the early 1950s writers were leaving
radio en masse to try their hand at another promising medium—television.
William Froug was in the thick of that exodus, a young man full
of ideas in a Hollywood bursting with opportunities. In his forty-year
career Froug would write and/or produce many of the shows that
America has grown up with. From the drama of Playhouse 90
and the mind-bending premises of The Twilight Zone to
the escapist scenarios of Adventures in Paradise, Gilligan's
Island, Bewitched, and Charlie's Angels, Froug played
a role in shaping his trade. He crossed paths with some of the
memorable personalities in the industry, including Jack Benny,
Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Elizabeth Montgomery, Robert Blake,
Rod Serling, Gene Roddenberry, Aaron Spelling, and Sherwood Schwartz.
"If you really want to know what it's like behind the scenes of network television, this book is not to be missed. Bill Froug was there from the start. He was not a fly on the wall; he was at the head of the table when decisions were made and battles were fought. But what makes this book stand out among the other memoirs is Froug's honesty and lack of an agenda. He tells the true story even when he is hurt by it, and the story he tells is fascinating—not only for television fans and scholars but for anyone who has turned the dial on a television set or pressed that power button on the remote."—Stuart M. Kaminsky, Northwestern University, author of Writing for Television Emmy-winning William Froug is professor
emeritus and former chair of the School of Theater Arts, Film,
and Television at the University of California, Los Angeles.
He has written five popular books on screenwriting, including
The Screenwriter Looks at the Screenwriter, Screenwriting
Tricks of the Trade, and Zen and the Art of Screenwriting.
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