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Alan Eisenstock is a writer, producer, story consultant and now, novelist who together with writing partner Larry Mintz wrote several episodes of the show in Season 2 and Season 4.
Born in Massachusetts, he began writing in the second grade. He submitted his first story to Reader's Digest when he was in seventh grade. Two weeks later the article was returned with a note from an editor urging him to "keep trying." which he did, noting that by the time he finished college, he had 'accumulated enough rejection slips to wallpaper a house.'
Finally, when he was in graduate school at the University of Michigan, he made my first sale, to Detroit Magazine. The effect of the publication was that instead of he and his wife starting to study for their doctorates at the University of Minnesota. Alan came to Los Angeles in 1974 to check out the screenwriting scene, and took up a 25 year screenwriting/producing career.
Along with writing partner Larry Mintz he helped develop, write and produce Angie (1979) and wrote and produced for Family Matters (1989 - 90) Going Places (1990 - 91) and Step By Step (1991 - 92)
As a Writer & Story/Creative Consultant/Editor he has worked on Sanford & Son (1976 - 1977) What's Happening! (1976 - 1978) and was Creative Consultant on Married...with Children (1996 - 1997)
He has also written episodes for Carter Country, The Waverly Wonders, The Nanny, Hanging' With Mr Cooper; Saved By The Bell: The New Class, and Partners
He also wrote and produced the TV Movies Blue Jeans (1980), High School U.S.A (1983), If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium (1987)
Alan Eisenstock together with writing partner Larry Mintz contributed 3 (4 if you count Mork Vs. The Necrotons as a 2 parter) scripts to the show from Season 2 and Season 4, as well as garnering a contributing writer credit for the compilation episode 'The Way Mork Were'.
Mintz & Eisenstock were not part of the Mork & Mindy writers room, but had been collaborating with Garry Marshall and Dale McRaven on their latest production Angie. Their script for Season's 2 Mork Vs. The Necrotons was network dictated as part of the 'jiggle factor' ABC was going for, and for many of the writers in the Mork & Mindy room, it felt it was parachuted into the show with no real understanding of the show. As a result it is not terribly fondly remembered by cast or crew, and is viewed as another reason for the slide in the ratings that year as the show veered further away from what it had been.
They were called on again however in Season 4, this time contributing a more beloved entry in The Wedding, Mork suffering his canine transformation at the hands of a disapproving Orson, before Mindy's plea, sees the pair safely down the aisle, in an episode that still makes the lists of Best TV Weddings.
Their final entry was the actual Season 4 finale, before it was cancelled by ABC and The Mork Report inserted instead. The cliffhanger ending of Gotta Run, Part 3, that sees Mork & Mindy escaping the murderous Kalnik into pre-history, and then with a set of malfunctioning time travel shoes, tossed through time, with a view to further adventures that unfortunately never materialized.
1.Alan Eisenstock - About Alan (20th May 2021).
Writer and producer Alan Eisenstock is best known for his comedies. In 1976 he began writing for two popular sitcoms based in the Watts section of L.A., "Sanford and Son," starring...
Alan Eisenstock. I've been a writer most of my life. I've written books, magazine articles, TV shows, movies, plays, advertising copy, and brochures for my kids' school. A few years ago, I decided to walk away from a successful television writing and producing career and follow my dream of writing prose for a living.
