dish, as well as others interested in breaking into the TV biz, will find much to enjoy in this charming reliving of Littlefield's glory days." --Booklist "With entertaning insider's perspective, Littlefield transports readers back to a seemingly magical time when half the country would watch the same show." --Kirkus About the Author WARREN LITTLEFIELD is the former NBC president of entertainment. Previous to that, he was the NBC comedy executive who developed such hit shows as The Cosby Show and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air . He currently runs his own television production company. T. R. PEARSON is the author of fourteen novels, including A Short History of a Small Place , and a dozen screenplays. 1 Where Everybody Knows Your Name Warren: I arrived at NBC in December 1979, hired by Brandon Tartikoff to work in the comedy department. I was manager of comedy development, the junior member of the department. Brandon was a newly minted vice president of development at the network, which was mired in last place. I was twenty-seven years old, and though I had watched a lot of it, I knew next to nothing about Network Television. Brandon, my boss, was all of thirty. In what was just a three-way race for audience (there'd be no Fox Broadcasting until 1987), NBC was jokingly derided as number four. CBS had ten comedies on its schedule, including M*A*S*H, WKRP in Cincinnati, The Jeffersons, Alice, and One Day at a Time. ABC could boast fourteen sitcoms, among them