# Robin Bernheim

Robin Jill Bernheim is an American television producer and writer, as well as a story editor and creative consultant.

## Career

Bernheim was born in Santa Monica, California, and is a graduate of Stanford University and UCLA, the latter of which she received her MBA. She broke into television by submitting a spec script to Remington Steele, which starred Stephanie Zimbalist, her friend since childhood. Executive producer Michael Gleason then hired Bernheim on staff, leading to her career as one of the few women writing and producing hour-long, network television dramas in the 1980s and 1990s, including shows like Quantum Leap, Crazy Like a Fox, Houston Knights, MacGyver, Renegade and Tekwar. One of her Star Trek:Voyager episodes was chosen in 2020 by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the most memorable in the series' history
Her work also includes several forays into animation, writing episodes of the Men In Black: The Series and Extreme Ghostbusters cartoons. In 2015, she co-produced and wrote the acclaimed PBS documentary feature Little House On The Prairie: The Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder. She was the executive producer of the hit Hallmark series When Calls the Heart from 2015 to 2017, the writer-producer of several Hallmark movies (including I'll Be Home For Christmas and Royal Hearts) and in 2019 co-wrote & co-created the network's Mystery 101 series of movies with Lee Goldberg. Most recently, Bernheim co-wrote and co-produced the 2019 Netflix movie The Princess Switch starring Vanessa Hudgens, as well as a sequel, The Princess Switch: Switched Again, that was scheduled for release for Christmas 2020.

## Personal life

Bernheim lives in Dublin, California, with her husband David Burger. Her brother is Douglas Bernheim, currently the Edward Ames Edmunds Professor of Economics at Stanford University.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role/Job | Episodes/ Notes |
| 1986 | Crazy Like a Fox | Writer, Story Editor | 2 episodes |
| 1986 | MacGyver | Writer, executive story consultant | 2 episodes, "The Eraser" & "The Human Factor" |
| 1986–87 | Remington Steele | Writer, executive story editor | 7 episodes |
| 1987 | Beauty and the Beast | Writer | Episode: "Dark Spirit" |
| 1987 | Houston Knights | Co-producer, writer | Wrote/produced episode "Mirrors" |
| 1987 | Matlock | Writer, executive story consultant | 7 episodes |
| 1990 | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Writer | Episode: "The Hunted" |
| 1990–91 | Over My Dead Body | Writer / Teleplay | 2 episodes |
| 1992 | Tequila and Bonetti | Producer, writer (Teleplay/Story) | 5 episodes |
| 1991–92 | Beyond Reality | Writer | 3 episodes |
| 1992–93 | Quantum Leap | Producer, writer | 5 episodes |
| 1993–96 | Renegade | Supervising producer, writer | 6 episodes |
| 1994–96 | TekWar | Writer, supervising creative consultant | 22 episodes |
| 1994–98 | Diagnosis: Murder | Writer | 3 episodes |
| 1995 | Silk Stalkings | Writer | Episode: "Tricks of the Trade" |
| 1995–96 | Renegade | Supervising producer | 20 episodes |
| 1997 | Extreme Ghostbusters | Writer | Episode: "Witchy Woman" |
| 1997–98 | Ghost Stories | Writer / Teleplay writer | 5 episodes |
| 1998 | Men in Black: The Series | Writer | Episode: "The Jack O'Lantern Syndrome" |
| 1999–2000 | Star Trek: Voyager | Producer, writer | 29 episodes |
| 1999 | Soldier of Fortune, Inc. | Writer | Episode: "Critical List" |
| 2000–01 | Earth: Final Conflict | Writer | 22 episodes |
| 2003 | Wild Card | Writer | TV series; Credited as Robin Jill Burger |
| 2003–04 | She Spies | Supervising producer, writer | 23 episodes |
| 2015–2017 | When Calls the Heart | Executive producer, Writer, Showrunner | 29 episodes total |
| 2018 | The Princess Switch | Writer / Producer | Netflix film |
| 2018 | A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding | Writer | Netflix film |
| 2019–2021 | Mystery 101 | Co-Creator | 7 Hallmark Movies & Mysteries films |
| 2020 | The Princess Switch: Switched Again | Writer / Producer | Netflix film |
| 2021 | The Princess Switch 3 | Writer / Executive Producer | Netflix film |
| 2023 | When Calls the Heart | Consulting producer | Season 10; 6 episodes |
| 2024 | Mother of the Bride | Writer | Netflix film |