William Rabkin


William Rabkin is an American television producer, television writer and author.

Early life

Rabkin grew up in Berkeley, CA, where his father was a Classics professor. He graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle, then received his MFA in screenwriting from UCLA, where he wrote for the Daily Bruin student newspaper.

Career

He has written for a number of notable television series namely Spenser: For Hire, Murphy's Law, Hunter, Baywatch, Diagnosis Murder, A [Nero Wolfe Mystery], Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories, Monk and many other series.
Nearly all of his television work has been collaborations with fellow writer and producer Lee Goldberg, whom he met when they were both UCLA students working on Daily Bruin. They first teamed up as writers on the unmade, feature film adaptation of Goldberg's novel .357 Vigilante, beginning a professional partnership that lasted for twenty years.
Rabkin is also the author of a number of tie-in companion novels for the Psych television series, as well as the reference books Successful Television Writing , Beginning Television Writing,, and Writing the Pilot.

Teaching

He teaches screenwriting as part of the faculty at UC Riverside's Low-Residency Graduate Creative Writing Program in Palm Desert, California. and is assistant director of the MFA program at Long Island University

Personal life

His father was Norman Rabkin, the Shakespearean scholar best known for his work Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning.

The ''Dead Man'' Series

  • Face of Evil
  • Ring of Knives
  • Hell in Heaven
  • The Dead Woman
  • The Blood Mesa
  • Kill Them All
  • Beast Within
  • Fire & Ice
  • Carnival of Death
  • Freaks Must Die
  • Slaves to Evil
  • The Midnight Special
  • The Death Match
  • The Black Death
  • The Killing Floor
  • Colder Than Hell
  • Evil to Burn
  • Streets of Blood
  • Crucible of Fire
  • The Dark Need
  • The Rising Dead
  • ''Reborn''

    Psych Tie-Ins

  • A Mind Is a [Terrible Thing to Read]
  • Mind Over Magic
  • The Call of the Mild
  • A Fatal Frame of Mind
  • ''Mind-Altering Murder''

    Non-fiction

  • Science Fiction Film-Making in the 1980s – co-written with Lee Goldberg, Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficier
  • Dreamweavers: Fantasy Film-Making in the 1980s – co-written with Lee Goldberg, Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficier
  • Successful Television Writing – co-written with Lee Goldberg
  • Writing the Pilot
  • ''Writing the Pilot: Creating the Series''

    Filmography