Glen CharlesFilmography

Cheers: One for the Road, Part 1

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Shelley Long

Synopsis: Originally telecast as a two-hour special (including a 25-minute retrospective of series highlights), the famous final episode of Cheers has since been re-edited as three separate half-hour installments for syndication. In part one, Sam (Ted Danson) is surprised to see his former fiancée Diane Read More

Cheers: One for the Road, Part 2

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Shelley Long, Tom Berenger

Synopsis: Originally telecast as a two-hour special (including a 25-minute retrospective of series highlights), the famous final episode of Cheers has since been re-edited as three separate half-hour installments for syndication. In part two, Sam (Ted Danson) persuades Rebecca (Kirstie Alley) to pose as his Read More

Cheers: One for the Road, Part 3

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Shelley Long, Tom Berenger

Synopsis: Originally telecast as a two-hour special (including a 25-minute retrospective of series highlights), the famous final episode of Cheers has since been re-edited as three separate half-hour installments for syndication. In the concluding 30 minutes of this fourth-highest-rated series finale in TV Read More

Cheers: Season 11

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: Although Cheers had dropped from first to eighth place in the ratings from 1990 to 1992, its 11th and final season still enjoyed a very healthy viewership; in fact, its closing episode ranks as the fourth highest-rated series finale in TV history. Highlighting the show's climactic season was the Read More

Oscar

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti, Peter Riegert, Tim Curry, Marisa Tomei, Don Ameche

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone gives comedy another try in this farce set in the 1930s. Angelo "Snaps" Provelone (Stallone) is the wealthy and powerful head of the Chicago mob, but his ailing father (Kirk Douglas) doesn't approve of his life in crime, and on his deathbed, Dad makes Snaps promise to go Read More

Cheers: Season 10

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: Picking up where season nine left off, the tenth season of Cheers began with Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley) reluctantly agreeing to be the mother of Sam Malone's (Ted Danson) child. Romance did not enter into the picture: Both Rebecca and Sam were responding to the incessant ticking of their Read More

Cheers: Season 09

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: Season nine of Cheers picked up where the eighth had left off, with Sam Malone (Ted Danson) and Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley) poised to consummate their newfound romance on the couch in Sam's office. "Interruptus" came in the form of Rebecca's billionaire boyfriend Robin Colcord (Roger Rees), now Read More

Cheers: Season 08

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: As Cheers entered its eighth season, viewers began to wonder if the long-awaited romance between Sam Malone (Ted Danson) and Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley) would ever blossom. Certainly Rebecca had not backed down from her determination to marry into wealth, as witnessed by her torrid relationship Read More

Cheers: Season 07

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: Although, at 22 episodes, the seventh season of Cheers' was the series' shortest since 1983, there was no lack of fascinating plot developments nor any shortage of colorful new characters. Having lost her job as manager of Cheers, Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley) swallowed her pride and went to work Read More

Cheers: Season 06

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: Fans of Cheers greeted the series' sixth season in a heightened state of anticipation and anxiety: Now that series regular Shelley Long (Diane Chambers) had left the show, would her replacement be on the same lofty, laugh-getting level? And how would Cheers owner Sam Malone (Ted Danson) respond to Read More

Cheers: Home is the Sailor

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: Season six of Cheers picks up some six months after the end of season five, when Sam Malone (Ted Danson) bade farewell to Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) a scant few hours before they were to have become man and wife. Having sold Cheers to a large corporation, Sam purchased a boat and headed off for Read More

Cheers: I Do and Adieu

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: After a tumultuous five-year relationship, Sam (Ted Danson) and Diane (Shelley Long) are ready to exchange marriage vows. But on the day of the wedding, who should show up but Sumner Sloane (Michael McGuire), the ex-beau who "deserted" Diane at Cheers five years earlier. Announcing that he's had Read More

Cheers: Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: Season five of Cheers opened with a resolution to the cliffhanger established at the end of season four, with Cheers' owner Sam Malone (Ted Danson) finally proposing to mercurial waitress Diane Chambers (Shelley Long). This proposal, and several more like it, would be rejected throughout the Read More

Cheers: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer

Synopsis: As in earlier years, the action in the first episode of Cheers' fourth season was driven by the plot lines left dangling during the previous one. Having ended their romance in Europe, Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) and Dr. Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) returned separately to Boston. Diane entered Read More

Cheers: Rebound, Part 1

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: As season three of Cheers begins, Sam (Ted Danson) and Diane (Shelley Long) are still blaming each other for the breakup of their romance. Diane has herself committed to a mental institution, while Sam goes back to heavy drinking. At the behest of Coach (Nicholas Colasanto), Diane returns to the Read More

Cheers: Rebound, Part 2

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Cheers' two-part season three opener, Sam (Ted Danson), at long last, has accepted that it is all over between him and Diane (Shelley Long), and has stopped drinking with the help of psychiatrist Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer). Now the trick is to get Sam to accept the fact Read More

Cheers: I'll Be Seeing You, Part 2

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Diane (Shelley Long) defies Sam (Ted Danson) by agreeing to have her portrait painted by arrogant artist Semenko (Christopher Lloyd). Hoping to mend their differences, Diane wants Sam to accept the portrait as a work of art on its own terms. But Sam is so mad Read More

Cheers: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman, Nicholas Colasanto, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Kelsey Grammer

Synopsis: There was good news and bad news for Cheers during its third season. In the former category, the series continued to climb upward in the ratings (thanks largely to the goodwill engendered by NBC's most popular Thursday-night series The Cosby Show), sharing 12th place with ABC's Hotel. The sitcom Read More

Cheers: I'll Be Seeing You, Part 1

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: In episode one of Cheers' two-part season two finale, Diane (Shelley Long) is outraged that the public at large still regards Sam (Ted Danson) as being "available." To patch things up with Diane, Sam arranges to have her portrait painted. Unfortunately, the artist, an arrogant poseur named Phillip Read More

Cheers: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman, Nicholas Colasanto, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger

Synopsis: Just as everyone had anticipated throughout season one of Cheers, season two opened with Boston bar owner Sam Malone (Ted Danson) and waitress Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) declaring their mutual passion. But romance does not always translate into love, and, after a turbulent 22 episodes, Sam and Read More

Cheers: Showdown, Part 2

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Sam (Ted Danson) refuses to admit that he's jealous when his brother Derek (George Ball) sweeps Diane (Shelley Long) off her feet. Sam even feigns indifference when Derek begs Diane to accompany him to Paris. The situation intensifies when Diane shows up at Read More

Cheers: Power Play

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: Cheers kicks off its second season at the precise moment where season one left off -- with Sam (Ted Danson) and Diane (Shelley Long) inaugurating their torrid romance. No sooner has Diane declared her ardor for Sam, however, she ejects him from her apartment, insisting that their love is doomed Read More

Cheers: Showdown, Part 1

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: In the first episode of Cheers' two-part season one finale, Sam's brother Derek (George Ball), a natural-born charmer, pays a visit to the gang. It doesn't take long for Derek to win everyone over -- everyone but Sam, who jealously remains impervious to his brother's appeal. Sam reaches his limit Read More

Taxi: Season 05

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Although Taxi had earned scores of industry awards and the unflagging loyalty of its fans during its four-year lifespan on ABC, the series had never posted the sort of ratings that would qualify it as a hit. Thus, ABC dropped the show at the end of season four -- but the song wasn't quite over Read More

Taxi: I Wanna Be Around

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: One wonders where Louie (Danny DeVito) was during the great "nuclear scare" of the 1960s, since it is only now that his fears have been aroused by watching a Phil Donahue Show interview about the bomb. No matter -- Louie has determined to be a "survivalist" prepared to face any manner of Read More

Taxi: Bobby Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Former Taxi regular Jeff Conaway returns to the series as erstwhile actor Bobby Wheeler. Freshly arrived from Hollywood, Bobby uses the garage as his unofficial headquarters while he awaits news as to whether or not his TV pilot has been sold to a network. Certain that the show is a "go," Bobby Read More

Cheers: Give Me a Ring Sometime

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: The place where "everybody knows your name" officially opened its doors September 30, 1982, with its premiere episode. Into the convivial Boston pub known as Cheers flounces Diane Chambers (Shelley Long), teaching assistant to erudite college professor Sumner Sloane (Michael McGuire). On the verge Read More

Cheers [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Synopsis: The famous Boston bar "Where everybody knows your name" first opened its doors September 30, 1982, on NBC. The original cast of the classic sitcom Cheers included Ted Danson as Sam Malone, the womanizing ex-ballplayer and recovering alcoholic who owned the titular Beacon Street watering hole; Shelley Long Read More

Cheers: Sam at Eleven

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: Dave Richards (Fred Dryer), an old baseball buddy of Sam Malone's (Ted Danson), is now a local TV newscaster. When Dave asks Sam for an interview, Sam suddenly realizes how much he misses being a sports celebrity. When the interview falls through, however, it looks like Diane (Shelley Long) may Read More

Cheers: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman, Nicholas Colasanto, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger

Synopsis: Seldom has a television sitcom opened with such assurance as Cheers. Within the very first episode, the basic setting was firmly established, the characters clearly drawn, and the interrelationships fully defined. Although there would be plenty of "fleshing out" over the next 11 seasons, Cheers Read More

Taxi: Of Mice and Tony

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Having endured one too many hard knocks in the boxing ring, eTony Banta (Tony Danza) has elected to hang up his gloves and become a trainer. Spotting a young fighter named Terry Carver (Ernie Hudson), Tony immediately senses that the kid has potential. He then offers to become Terry's Read More

Taxi: Zen and the Art of Cab Driving

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The cabbies are astonished when Jim (Christopher Lloyd), a burned-out relic of the 1960s whose appearance and lifestyle can be charitably described as "unkempt" abruptly turns over a new leaf. Virtually overnight, Jim has brought perfection, order, and expensive creature comforts into his Read More

Taxi: Season 04

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Taxi remained a succès d'estime for ABC as it entered its fourth season, gathering scores of industry awards and garnering the love of its most loyal fans and the respect of Hollywood insiders, while still continuing to post lukewarm ratings. The series hadn't cracked the "Top 25" shows Read More

Taxi: Latka the Playboy

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Mild-mannered immigrant mechanic Latka Gravas (Andy Kaufman) is frustrated by his lack of success with women. Hoping to improve his social life, Latka locks himself up for several weeks of intense "study," using as his study guides a collection of English-language tapes and several back issues of Read More

Taxi: Latka's Cookies

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Cookie entrepreneur Wally "Famous" Amos appears as himself in this episode, wherein immigrant mechanic Latka Gravas (Andy Kaufman) learns a few hard lessons about the American capitalist system. Using a special recipe handed down by his dear departed grandmother, Latka hopes to market his family's Read More

Taxi: Art Work

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Marvin Newman, Richard Derr, Peggy Stewart

Synopsis: Elaine (Marilu Henner) has come up with a seemingly foolproof plan to solve her fellow cabbies' financial woes. She has received inside informatioin about an art auction involving the paintings of an artist who is not long for this world. Once the artist dies, the paintings' value will skyrocket. Read More

Taxi: Going Home

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A private detective (played by Dick Yarmy, brother of comedian Don Adams) shows up at the garage in search of one of the cabbies: burned-out hippie minister Jim Ignatowski (Christopher Lloyd). It seems that the detective has been dispatched by Jim's wealthy father (Victor Buono) -- whose name, by Read More

Taxi: Season 03

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Although Taxi had built up a loyal band of followers and accumulated several industry awards during its first two seasons on ABC, the ratings had steadily declined, prompting the network to mark the series' third season by moving the show from Tuesdays at 9:30 to Wednesdays at 9:00, opposite NBC's Diff'rent Strokes Read More

Taxi: Reverend Jim: A Space Odyssey

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Thomas Castranova

Synopsis: With this episode, Christopher Lloyd becomes a regular in the role of zonked-out hippie minister Reverend Jim. Running into Jim for the first time since he presided over Latka's faux, first-season wedding, the cabbies compassionately decide to pull the dusty derelict off the street and install him Read More

Taxi: Latka's Revolting

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lenny Baker, Thomas Castranova

Synopsis: The cabbies are shocked to learn that mild-mannered Latka (Andy Kaufman) was a rebel general in his own country -- and Latka is even more shocked to learn that the long-awaited rebellion has broken out, and he is expected to return to his homeland. During a farewell party for Latka, Elaine (Marilu Henner Read More

Taxi: Honor Thy Father

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Gilford, Joan Hackett, Ian Wolfe, Richard Beauchamp, Margaret Ladd

Synopsis: Alex (Judd Hirsch) is surprisingly unaffected when his sister Charlotte (Joan Hackett) shows up with the news that their father, Joe, has suffered a near-fatal heart attack. It soon develops that Alex has never forgiven Joe for running out on his family years earlier. But when he shows up in the Read More

Taxi: Hollywood Calling

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: After two months' worth of reruns, Taxi closed out its first season with two "new" episodes. This one features Martin Mull as Hollywood producer Roger Chapman, who shows up in the garage with plans to make a documentary about a day in the life of a "typical" cabbie. Naturally, aspiring actor Bobby Read More

Taxi: Elaine and the Lame Duck

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Future Larry Sanders Show and Arrested Development co-star Jeffrey Tambor appears in this episode as self-pitying congressman Walter Griswold (Jeffrey Tambor). Convinced that he is now, always has been, and always will be a loser with the ladies, Griswold evokes the sympathy of cabbie Alex (Judd Hirsch Read More

Taxi: Mama Gravas

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: When Latka (Andy Kaufman) announces that his mother is coming from the Old Country to pay him a visit, the cabbies expect to meet a shy, wizened old lady. But Greta Gravas (Susan Kellerman) turns out to be a busty, Junoesque blonde with an insatiable appetite for food...among other things. Read More

Taxi: Season 02

Crew: Producer

Actors: Judd Hirsch, Jeff Conaway, Danny DeVito, Marilu Henner, Tony Danza

Synopsis: Securely imbedded as the ninth most popular program on American television, Taxi inaugurated its second season on the same network (ABC), but in a new timeslot (Wednesday rather than Thursday). A few changes had been made in the cast as well. Randall Carver, who spent all of season one playing Read More

Taxi: Sugar Mama

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Oscar-winning actress Ruth Gordon earned an Emmy award for her work in this episode. Gordon is cast as septuagenarian Dee Wilcox, a freewheeling millionairess who is in the habit of hiring cab drivers for the night and lavishing huge sums of money on them -- no strings attached. Dee is so Read More

Taxi [TV Series]

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A true classic of the "ensemble sitcom" genre, Taxi ran for five years on two different networks, accumulating dozens of industry awards (including several Emmys) and a comparatively small but intensely vocal corps of loyal and loving viewers along the way. Most of the action took place in the Read More

Taxi: Season 01

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The classic sitcom Taxi spent all of one episode establishing its premise and characters -- then proceeded forward with the confidence of a series that had been on the air for years. In episode one, the viewer was swiftly and economically introduced to the personnel of New York's Sunshine Cab Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Happy Trails to You

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: The Bob Newhart Show ended its six-season, 142-episode run with the aptly titled "Happy Trails to You." The show opens as Bob assumes his new responsibilities as a psychology professor in a small Oregon college. In flashback, Bob recalls how he bade farewell to his friends, colleagues, and Read More

Taxi: Come as You Aren't

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: While preparing a cocktail party for a group of high-profile art dealers, Elaine (Marilu Henner) invites Alex (Judd Hirsch) to attend the soiree to provide some moral support. More than a few feelings are hurt when, on the night of the party, Elaine begs Alex not to tell anyone that he is "only" a Read More

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Mary and the Sexagenarian

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Lew Ayres guest stars as Doug Booth, a handsome and charming sixtysomething gentleman who sweeps Mary (Mary Tyler Moore) off her feet. After a few dates with Doug, Mary finds herself subjecting to the good-natured joshing of her co-workers. But Mary isn't laughing -- especially after discovering Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Bob's Change of Life

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: The fifth season of The Bob Newhart Show ended on March 19, 1977, with the news that Emily Hartley was pregnant. This somewhat significant plot point was conveniently forgotten when the series launched its sixth season on September 24, 1977. Written by Glen and Les Charles, the opening episode Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Who Was That Masked Man?

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: With the help of Bob and a bottle, henpecked Mr. Petersen (John Fiedler) stands up to his wife. The consequences are enormous, not only for the Petersens, but also for Bob. Toni Lamond appears as the much-discussed but seldom-seen Doris Petersen, while Larry Goldman is cast as the cop. Scripted by Glen Read More

M*A*S*H: The Late Captain Pierce

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: Thanks to a bureaucratic snafu, the father of chief surgeon Hawkeye (Alan Alda) receives a letter informing him that his son is dead. Though upset that his dad is in temporary distress, the very much alive Hawkeye intends to take advantage of his "deceased" state--at least until he is denied his Read More