Benjamin Aaron Joelson (November 1, 1925 - August 24, 1996) was an American producer and

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

. He is known for producing and writing for the American romantic comedy drama ''

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'', with his partner, Art Baer. Joelson has also worked as a writer/producer on other television programs, as his credits includes, '' Wings'', ''

Car 54, Where Are You? ''Car 54, Where Are You?'' is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 1961 to April 1963. Filmed in black and white, the series starred Joe E. Ross as Gunther Toody and Fred Gwynne as Francis Muldoon, two mismatched New York City Po ...

'', ''

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'' (and its spin-off '' Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.''), '' Hogan's Heroes'', ''

The Carol Burnett Show ''The Carol Burnett Show'' is an American variety/sketch comedy television show that originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 279 episodes, and again with nine episodes in fall 1991. It starred Carol Burnett, Harv ...

'', ''

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'', ''

The Partridge Family ''The Partridge Family'' is an American musical sitcom created by Bernard Slade, which was broadcast in the United States from September 1970 to March 1974 on American Broadcasting Company, ABC. After the final first-run telecast on ABC in March ...

'', '' Good Times'', '' The Odd Couple'', ''

Get Smart ''Get Smart'' is an American comedy television series parodying the Spy fiction, secret agent genre that had become widely popular in the first half of the 1960s with the release of the ''James Bond'' films. It was created by Mel Brooks and Bu ...

'' and ''

Happy Days ''Happy Days'' is an American television sitcom that aired first-run on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC network from January 15, 1974, to July 19, 1984, with a total of 255 half-hour episodes spanning 11 seasons. Created by Garry Marsha ...

''. In 1972, he won an Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Variety or Music. Joelson died in August 1996 from complications of a

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at the Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 70.

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* 1925 births 1996 deaths American male television writers American television writers Writers from Paterson, New Jersey 20th-century American screenwriters Television producers from New Jersey {{US-tv-writer-stub