Sol Saks, the screenwriter and TV executive who became a millionaire for writing the pilot for the TV series Bewitched (1964), was born on December 13, 1910 n New York City, though he was raised Chicago from the time he was two-years-old. A radio actor as a child, Saks started out his professional life as an adult as a journalist, serving a stint ...
Writer's block is when you think your ideas aren't good and you get stumped. And I figured out... that you write it the way you would write badly, the way you wouldn't turn it in. And as soon as you start, your writing becomes better. Because you've tackled the subject.
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Fact
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Sol was cremated. His ashes were given to his family.
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Asserted, that his inspiration for "Bewitched" came from the motion pictures I Married a Witch (1942) and Bell Book and Candle (1958). He only wrote the script for one episode of the series, the pilot.
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Acted on radio as a child, and later wrote scripts for radio comedies before working in television.
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Profiled in "The Laugh Crafters: Comedy Writing in Radio and TV's Golden Age" by Jordan Young (BearManor Media).
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bewitched
2005
television series
Okusama wa majo
2004
TV Mini-Series characters
Bewitched
TV Series created by - 254 episodes, 1964 - 1972 written by - 1 episode, 1964
Norman Corwin Presents
1972
TV Series written by - 1 episode
Premiere
1968
TV Series 1 episode
Vacation Playhouse
1967
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Walk Don't Run
1966
screenplay
Summer Playhouse
1964
TV Series 1 episode
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1960
TV Series adaptation - 1 episode
Startime
1959
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Alcoa Theatre
1959
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Mr. Adams and Eve
TV Series writer - 4 episodes, 1957 - 1958 written by - 3 episodes, 1957 teleplay - 1 episode, 1957
$1.6 Million
