Earl Pomerantz [SEP] place of birth
Earl Pomerantz
Earl Pomerantz (born February 4, 1945 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is best known for his work as a television script writer. Pomerantz created the network television series "Major Dad", "Family Man" and "Best of the West", and wrote scripts for such shows as "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", "The Bob Newhart Show", "Taxi", "Cheers", "Newhart", "The Cosby Show" and "Major Dad". He has
Knight Pulliam as Rudith Lillian "Rudy" Huxtable
- Tempestt Bledsoe as Vanessa Huxtable
- Lisa Bonet as Denise Huxtable
Production.
Taping of the pilot took place in May 1984, prior to being green-lighted as a full series for the NBC fall schedule. Although this episode was written by Weinberger and Leeson, the headwriter for the series was Earl Pomerantz. The episode, which was filmed in two live performances, was based on Cosby's real life conversation with his son Ennis about "regular people"