This week we welcome Lowell Ganz back for part two of our interview. In these two hours we cover:

• The trouble with The Odyssey Couple
• The furniture in Take My Furniture Please
• The stories behind the appearances of Hugh Hefner, Bobby Riggs and Rob Reiner
• Why there was a series finale when most 5-season shows don’t get that chance
• What the plans were if there was a S6
• Lowell’s move to Happy Days
• How he and Mark Rothman accidentally created Laverne and Shirley
• Some of his shorter-lived such as Busting Loose, Making It, and Joanie Loves Chachi
• Casting of two of his earliest movies – Night Shift and Splash
• How three of his movies were turned into TV shows: Gung Ho, A League Of Their Own and Parenthood. The latter two were turned into TV series – twice!

Feedback or questions? Please email 1049pod@gmail.com

In this episode we are honored to be joined by Lowell Ganz who, with his partner at the time Mark Rothman, wrote more episodes of The Odd Couple than anyone else - 12. They were also on the writing staff for S3-S5 so they have a hand in all episodes for those seasons.

In this first of a two-part interview we discuss Mr. Ganz's background and the incredible story of how he got his first job in showbiz which was on The Odd Couple; a week in the life of The OC writing staff and how an episode went from script to film; and go into detail on each of his 12 episodes which are:

- The Ides Of April

- The Hustler

- My Strife In Court

- Gloria Moves In

- The New Car

- Barnacle Adventure

- Cleanliness Is Next To Impossible

- The Flying Felix

- Shuffling Off To Buffalo

- The Odd Candidate

- The Subway Story

- Two On The Aisle

Please note that at one point there was a Wifi outage which forced the interview to move from Zoom Video to phone and you may hear the quality of Mr. Ganz's audio change a bit.

In this episode we review an original "pre-production" script for S5E13 The Bigger They Are. Among the topics covered are 1) how John Byner's casting, which was clearly not known at the time of this draft, changed several key elements of the script, 2) the difference in motivations for Felix and Oscar in the script vs. the finished episode, 3) what distinguishes catsup vs. ketchup [will make sense if you listen to the episode], and 4) some key scenes in the script not in the episode and vice verse.

If you want to see a pdf of the actual script please email us at 1049pod@gmail.com and ask for the dropbox link