| Glen Charles | |
| Birth Name: | Glen Gerald Charles |
| Birth Date: | February 18, 1943 |
| Education: | University of Redlands |
| Occupation: | Screenwriter and producer |
| Known For: | Cheers |
| Awards: | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series and (Cheers episode "Give Me a Ring Sometime") |
| Les Charles | |
| Birth Date: | March 25, 1948 |
| Education: | University of Redlands |
| Occupation: | Screenwriter, producer |
| Known For: | Cheers |
| Awards: | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series and Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Comedy (Cheers episode "Give Me a Ring Sometime") |
Brothers Glen Gerald Charles (born February 18, 1943) and Les Charles (born March 25, 1948) are American screenwriters and television producers, best known for working on Taxi and co-creating Cheers.
The Charles brothers attended University of Redlands. Glen graduated in 1965, and Les graduated in 1971. Glen began his professional life as an advertising copywriter but moved into television. They began their television careers together as writers for M*A*S*H in 1975; all their work throughout their entire TV and film career was done jointly. They later wrote for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Phyllis and The Bob Newhart Show, and were head writers and producers on the TV series Taxi. They then formed the Charles-Burrows-Charles production company with James Burrows, and created and produced the television series Cheers, which ran from 1982 to 1993.
After Cheers ended, the brothers largely retired from the business. The screenplay for the 1999 film Pushing Tin became their final produced writing credit. They are credited in every episode of Frasier as the creators of the "Frasier Crane" character from Cheers, but had no other creative involvement in the original series or the revival.
Cheers is a sitcom that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes for eleven seasons. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Network Television. The show is set in a bar named Cheers in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, and socialize. The Cheers finale aired on May 20, 1993, and was watched in an estimated 42.4 million households across the country.[1]
| Series | Episode | Air date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| M*A*S*H | "The Late Captain Pierce" | ||
| Doc | "Doc, Heal Thyself" | ||
| Phyllis | "Paging Dr. Lindstrom" | ||
| "Phyllis in Love" | |||
| "Crazy Mama" | |||
| "Sonny Boy" | |||
| "The Triangle" | |||
| "Phyllis Cries Wolf" | |||
| "Out of the Closet" | |||
| "Mother Dexter Cohabitates" | |||
| "Mother Dexter's Wedding" | |||
| "Bess Airs Her Views" | |||
| "Broken Hearted Bess" | |||
| "Dan's Ex" | |||
| "And Baby Makes Six" | |||
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Mary and the Sexagenarian" | ||
| The Bob Newhart Show | "Bob's Change of Life" | ||
| "Who Was That Masked Man?" | |||
| "Happy Trails to You" | |||
| The Betty White Show | "Goodnight Sweet Fletch" | ||
| Taxi | "Come As You Aren't" | ||
| "Paper Marriage" | |||
| "Sugar Mama" | |||
| "Elaine and the Lame Duck" | |||
| "Mama Gravas" | |||
| "Hollywood Calling" | |||
| "Honor Thy Father" | |||
| "Reverend Jim: A Space Odyssey" | |||
| "Latka's Revolting" | |||
| "Art Work" | |||
| "Going Home" | |||
| "Latka's Cookies" | |||
| "Zen and the Art of Cab Driving" | |||
| "Latka the Playboy" | |||
| "Of Mice and Tony" | |||
| "I Wanna Be Around" | |||
| "Bobby Doesn't Live Here Anymore" | |||
| Cheers | "Give Me a Ring Sometime" | ||
| "Sam at Eleven" | |||
| "Showdown": Part 1 | |||
| "Showdown": Part 2 | |||
| "Power Play" | |||
| "I'll Be Seeing You": Part 1 | |||
| "I'll Be Seeing You": Part 2 | |||
| "Rebound": Part 1 | |||
| "Rebound": Part 2 | |||
| "I Do, Adieu" | |||
| "Home Is the Sailor" | |||
| "One for the Road" | |||
| All Is Forgiven | "With Child" |
They were raised in Henderson, Nevada, as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.