Alcestis (Light and Dark)

We just lost another legend today 😔 Bernie Orenstein helped write and produce the kind of sitcoms that became part of generations of American television. The veteran writer and producer behind That Girl, The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Sanford and Son and more has passed away at 95, closing the book on a career that stretched across some of television comedy’s most influential decades. Working frequently with longtime creative partner Saul Turteltaub, Orenstein helped shape shows that mixed sharp comedy with characters and situations audiences kept returning to week after week. His work reached from the pop-culture energy of the 1960s through the family and workplace sitcoms of the 1980s and 1990s. Some of his most recognizable works included: - Sanford and Son - That Girl - What’s Happening!! - Cosby - Kate & Allie - The New Dick Van Dyke Show - The Monkees - Love, American Style - Baby Talk - E/R Born in Canada before building his career in American television, Orenstein spent most of his professional life behind the camera, where writers and producers quietly shape the timing, characters and stories audiences eventually remember. His name may not have appeared above the title, but generations of television comedy still carry his fingerprints. Rest in paradise, Bernie Orenstein. 🤍