Bruce Johnson

Bruce Johnson
Basic information
Birthname	Bruce Johnson
Born	July 7, 1939
Birthplace	Piedmont, CA, USA
Died	September 27, 2005
Deathplace	Encino, CA, USA
Gender	Male
Occupation	Writer / Producer
Years active	1964 - 2001
Known for	Mork & Mindy
Family/personal information
Spouse(s)	Kathy Johnson (1966 - 2005) (his death)
Series involvement
Job on series/Appeared as:	Writer / Producer
Episodes involved with/Appeared in:	94

Bruce Johnson (July 7, 1939 - September 27, 2005) served as writer, story consultant, producer and supervisory producer over the entire run of Mork & Mindy

Biography

Bruce Johnson was born on July 7, 1939 in Piedmont, California, USA. He moved to Los Angeles when he transferred from City College of San Francisco to USC where he majored in drama. He married his wife Kathy in 1966, and together they had two sons: - Grant & Jon. After a successful career as a writer and producer. Bruce died young at the age of 66, at his Encino California home on September 27 2005 of heart failure, survived by his wife, sons and his grandchildren, Coleman, Peyton, and Taylor.

Career

Upon graduating USC, Bruce gained his first professional experience interning on "The Andy Griffith Show." and as a production assistant on "The Baileys of Balboa" (1964) and "The Patty Duke Show (1965) and got his first production credit on the TV Movie "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" (1966). In the same year he worked as an associate producer on the short-lived sitcom Hey Landlord where he first encountered Garry Marshall, one of it's creators.

In a career that spanned forty years, apart from Mork & Mindy, Bruce wrote for and produced shows such as "Gomer Pyle,USMC," "Good Morning World" "The Jim Nabors Hour", "Alice" (1976) and "Webster" (1984)

He was also producer on TV Shows Arnie (1971-1972) The Brian Keith Show (1972) The New Temperatures Rising Show (1973) Sierra (1974) Blansky's Beauties (1977) Angie (1979) Quark (1978) The New Odd Couple (1982) The Powers of Matthew Star (1982) Mr. President (1987) The People Next Door (1989) CBS Summer Playhouse (1989) Flesh 'n' Blood (1991) Hangin' with Mr. Cooper (1992) All-American Girl (1994) The Home Court (1995) Sparks (1997) The Good News (1997) LateLine (1998) Tucker (2000).

And producer on the TV Movies - Let's Switch! (1975) Scalpels (1980) Little Shots (1983) Burning Bridges (1990)

Mork & Mindy

Having met Garry Marshall while working "Hey Landlord" in 1966, Marshall was impressed enough with Bruce Johnson offer him a contract to come work for him at Paramount. Johnson was working for CBS on the show "Alice" at the time, but the show was suffering from behind the scenes issues, and so he took Marshall up on his offer, and went to work for Marshall on Blanksy's Beauties before he brought him on Board as a producer on Mork & Mindy from its inception. Bruce served as Producer for the first 2 Seasons, before acting as Supervising Producer from Season 3 on.

During the first two seasons he also acted as Story Consultant on the show (46 episodes) while Mork & Mindy saw his greatest contribution as a writer (along with writing partner Dale McRaven) to any show he worked on, penning 12 episodes across all 4 seasons. Including:

• Mork's First Christmas
• Mork's Night Out
• Skyflakes Keep Falling on My Head
• Mork in Wonderland: Part 1
• Mork in Wonderland: Part 2
• The Exidor Affair
• Exidor's Wedding
• Dueling Skates
• Mork Meets Robin Williams
• Mork and Mindy Meet Rick and Ruby
• The Honeymoon
• My Dad Can't Beat Up Anybody