Rick Mittleman

Rick Mittleman was an American screenwriter known for Bewitched, The [Red Skelton Show], and many other TV series.

Career

Mittleman started out on the TV series You Asked for It. He was nominated for an Emmy Award three times, in 1963 for The Red Skelton Show, in 1971 for Arnie, and in 1976 for Van Dyke and Company.
His other credits include The [Dick Van Dyke Show], The [Mary Tyler Moore Show], Get Smart, Bewitched, McHale's Navy, The [Donna Reed Show], Petticoat Junction, The [Doris Day Show], The [Courtship of Eddie's Father (TV series)|The Courtship of Eddie's Father], That Girl, Welcome Back, Kotter, Sanford and Son, Gomer Pyle, USMC, ''I Spy, Emergency!, A Touch of Grace, The Practice, CHiPs, Remington Steele, Matlock, MacGyver, Simon & Simon, and Murder, She Wrote''. He was also on the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America. He died in 2014, aged 84.