Steve Marshall

Steve Marshall's earliest career in the entertainment business was in radio where he was program director of Los Angeles radio station KNX/FM throughout most of the 1970's. He was credited with being the creator of radio's first soft rock format. At the end of the decade, Marshall decided to pursue his dream of working in television and wrote a script on spec for WKRP in Cincinnati. Not only did the producers take the unusual step of buying the spec script but they hired Marshall as a staff writer and story editor. He stayed with the series, working his way up to producer, until its cancellation in 1982. It was during his time on WKRP that he met and teamed up with writer Dan Guntzelman. The two of them went on to executive produce the All in the Family spin-off, Gloria, starring Sally Struthers and Burgess Meredith. They created a short-lived sitcom starring Ed Asner and Eileen Brennan called Off the Rack, which ran Friday nights on ABC. Marshall and Guntzelman were then asked to become show-runners for ABC's new comedy, Growing Pains. They served as Executive Producers of the show for the next six seasons. During that period, they co-created a spin-off from Growing Pains, Just the Ten of Us, starring comedian Bill Kirchenbauer. The two went their separate ways after leaving Growing Pains, but re-united briefly when the fledgling UPN network picked up a pilot they had written eleven years earlier for NBC titled Live Shot. The series ran for a single season on UPN. The duo also wrote numerous screenplays together, including Revenge of the Nerds II, Nerds in Paradise.