Robin Jill Bernheim is an American

television producer A television producer is a person who oversees one or more aspects of a television show, television program. Some producers take more of an executive role, in that they conceive new programs and pitch them to the television networks, but upon acce ...

and

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, as well as a

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and

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Career

Bernheim was born in

Santa Monica, California Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United Sta ...

, and is a graduate of

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

and

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the C ...

, the latter of which she received her MBA. She broke into television by submitting a spec script to ''

Remington Steele ''Remington Steele'' is an American television series co-created by Robert Butler and Michael Gleason. The series, starring Stephanie Zimbalist and Pierce Brosnan, was produced by MTM Enterprises and first broadcast on NBC from October 1, 1982, ...

'', which starred

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, her friend since childhood. Executive producer Michael Gleason then hired Bernheim on staff, leading to her career as one of the few women writing and producing hour-long, network television dramas in the 1980s and 1990s, including shows like ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. One of her '' Star Trek:Voyager'' episodes was chosen in 2020 by ''

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'' as one of the most memorable in the series' history Her work also includes several forays into animation, writing episodes of the '' Men In Black: The Series'' and ''

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'' cartoons. In 2015, she co-produced and wrote the acclaimed PBS documentary feature '' Little House On The Prairie: The Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder''. She was the executive producer of the hit Hallmark series ''

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'' from 2015 to 2017, the writer-producer of several Hallmark movies (including ''I'll Be Home For Christmas'' and ''Royal Hearts'') and in 2019 co-wrote & co-created the network's '' Mystery 101'' series of movies with

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. Most recently, Bernheim co-wrote and co-produced the 2019 Netflix movie '' The Princess Switch'' starring

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, as well as a sequel, ''The Princess Switch: Switched Again'', that was scheduled for release for Christmas 2020.

Personal life

Bernheim lives in Dublin, California, with her husband David Burger. Her brother is

Douglas Bernheim B. Douglas Bernheim (born 1958) is an American economics professor, and currently the Edward Ames Edmunds Professor of Economics at Stanford University; his previous academic appointments have included an endowed chair in Economics and Business P ...

, currently the Edward Ames Edmunds Professor of Economics at Stanford University.

Filmography

References

External links

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Episode 108: “Writing Remington Steele with Robin Bernheim – Part One”
80s TV Ladies (interview)
Episode 109: “Writing Remington Steele with Robin Bernheim – Part Two”
80s TV Ladies (interview) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bernheim, Robin 1956 births Living people Television producers from California American women television writers American television writers Writers from Santa Barbara, California American women television producers Screenwriters from Los Angeles 20th-century American screenwriters 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American screenwriters 21st-century American women writers Stanford University alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni