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Lila Garrett  Television Writer, Producer, Director

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Lila Garrett

SMI Interview, 2006

Lila Garrett on her career
 

Career Includes

Newswriter, Channel 13, New York (1960s); Interviewer, Who Do You Trust? (1960s); Writer, Bewitched, My Favorite Martian, The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, Get Smart, My World and Welcome to It, All in the Family, Maude, The Nanny, and others (1960s–1990s); Director, Archie Bunker’s Place, Spencer, and others; Writer, Producer, ABC Afternoon Playbreak: Mother of the Bride (1973), ABC Afternoon Playbreak: The Girl Who Couldn’t Lose (1975); Creator, Executive Producer, Writer, Baby, I’m Back (1978); Cowriter, The Other Woman (1983); Cowriter, Producer, Director, Who Gets the Friends? (1988); President, Southern California Americans for Democratic Action (1990s); Host, Lila Garrett’s Senior Class (1990s–2000s); Screenwriting Instructor, UCLA and USC (1990s–2000s); Radio Host, Connect the Dots (2003– )
 

Education

University of Wisconsin, BA; Graduate coursework at Columbia University and Yale University
 

Born

November 21, 1925

 

 

 

 

 


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