Robin Bernheim
Robin Bernheim | |
|---|---|
| Born | Robin Jill Bernheim |
| Other names | Robin Berger |
| Alma mater | Stanford University, UCLA |
| Occupation | Television screenwriter & producer |
| Years active | 1983–present |
Robin Jill Bernheim (a.k.a. Robin Burger) is an American television producer and writer, as well as a story editor and creative consultant.
Career
[edit]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,[1] which starred Stephanie Zimbalist, her friend since childhood.[2] 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 [3]
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.[4] She was the executive producer of the hit Hallmark series When Calls the Heart from 2015 to 2018,[5] the writer-producer of several Hallmark movies (including I'll Be Home For Christmas and Royal Hearts) [6] and in 2019 co-wrote & co-created the network's Mystery 101 series of movies with Lee Goldberg.[7] 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.[8]
Personal life
[edit]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
[edit]| Year | Title | Role/Job | Episodes/ Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Crazy Like a Fox | Writer, Story Editor | 2 episodes |
| 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" |
| Houston Knights | Co-producer, writer | Wrote/produced episode "Mirrors" | |
| 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 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Leap Years: 'Robin Bernheim Is Doing Her Part to Make You Watch Quantum Leap". Starlog Magazine #184 November 1992. 2 February 2011.
- ^ "Zimbalist Writes Her Way Through Steele". Tampa Tribune. 29 July 1984.
- ^ "The Forgotten 'Star Trek: Voyager' Episode Worth Revisiting". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ "Laura Ingalls Wilder Documentary". littlehouseontheprairie.com. 25 December 2014.
- ^ "'When Calls The Heart' Renewed for Season 4'". Deadline Hollywood. 5 April 2016.
- ^ "A Hallmark of Christmas". Written By Magazine. January 2019.
- ^ "Interview with Lee Goldberg about 'Mystery 101'". Kings River Life Magazine. 9 February 2019.
- ^ "The Princess Switch fans hyped for sequel with Vanessa Hudgens in three roles". The Mirror UK. 31 October 2019.
External links
[edit]- Robin Bernheim at IMDb
- Episode 108: “Writing Remington Steele with Robin Bernheim – Part One” 80s TV Ladies (interview)
- Episode 109: “Writing Remington Steele with Robin Bernheim – Part Two” 80s TV Ladies (interview)
- 1956 births
- Living people
- Television producers from California
- American women television writers
- Writers from Santa Barbara, California
- American women television producers
- Screenwriters from Los Angeles
- 20th-century American screenwriters
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American screenwriters
- 21st-century American women writers
- Stanford University alumni
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni