{"id":7175,"date":"2015-09-03T22:20:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T06:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=7175"},"modified":"2015-09-03T22:20:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T06:20:44","slug":"did-a-tv-writer-once-get-a-parking-spot-for-his-pseudonym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2015\/09\/03\/did-a-tv-writer-once-get-a-parking-spot-for-his-pseudonym\/","title":{"rendered":"Did a TV Writer Once Get a Parking Spot for His Pseudonym?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about TV and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the TV urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

TV URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: A TV writer’s pseudonym had his own parking space at Paramount!<\/p>\n

One of the (many, many MANY) differences between television nowadays, or heck, television over the past twenty years or so and television of the past is that the role of the writer has become a major aspect of popular culture. People know who Joss Whedon is – a show will be marketed as being written by David E. Kelley and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n

This was not really the case forty years ago (although Norman Lear certainly began to change things in the 1970s, then guys like Stephen J. Cannell in the 80s were part of a real movement to make the creator of the show a brand – notice how Cannell had his trademark at the end of his shows, as did Gary David Goldberg with his “Sit, Ubu, sit” closer to Family Ties). <\/p>\n

In fact, one notable TV creator specifically went out of his way to NOT get as much public credit as he “deserved.”
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Roy Huggins was one of the most prolific creators in television history, creating or co-creating such legendary television programs as…<\/p>\n

The Fugitive….<\/p>\n

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