Rita Lakin


Rita Lakin is an American screenwriter, active from around 1962 to 1981. She has credits for 474 produced television scripts spanning 30 productions. She is also a novelist and author of "The Only Woman In The Room," a memoir of her life as one of the first female show runners and one of the first women in television. In fiction, Lakin created the Gladdy Gold Mystery seven-book series, including Getting Old Is Murder, Getting Old Is The Best Revenge, and Getting Old Can Kill You.
Lakin began writing regularly during the early 1960s for such television shows as The Doctors, Dr. Kildare and Peyton Place. In 1968, she began working as story editor and head writer of The Mod Squad. In 1972, she created The Rookies. In 1977, she served as executive producer of the CBS TV adaptation of the 1954 film Executive Suite. She wrote numerous "Movies of the Week" including Women in Chains, and such miniseries as Strong Medicine and Voices of the Heart. In 1981, she developed the TV series adaptation and served as show-runner of Flamingo Road. In 1989, she co-created the medical drama Nightingales. She also wrote or co-authored two original theatrical plays, No Language But a Cry and Saturday Night at Grossinger's.

Awards

Rita Lakin has won nominations and awards for her writing including the Writers Guild of America Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Avery Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan.

Books

Television

Rita Lakin has written 464 episodes, eight movies of the week, and two miniseries, spanning 30 television productions. She is also the creator of the crime drama series The Rookies and the prime time soap Flamingo Road, and co-creator with Howard Lakin and Frank Furino of the US medical drama Nightingales produced by Aaron Spelling.
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Dr. KildareA Candle in the Window1964
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler TheatreThe Shattered Glass1964
Daniel BooneThe Reunion1965
The VirginianJennifer1965
Peyton Place
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Run for Your LifeA Choice of Evils1967
The InvadersMoonshot1967
The Doctors
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1967-1969
The Outsider
  • Service for One 1969
  • The Flip Side 1969
1969
Family Affair
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1968-1969
The Mod Squad
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  • Is That Justice? No, It's the Law ...
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  • The Judas Trap ...
  • A Time of Hyacinths ...
  • A Far Away Place So Near ...
  • Welcome to the Human Race, Levi Frazee! ...
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  • 'A' Is for Annie ...
  • The Loser ...
  • Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot! ...
  • Call Back Yesterday ...
  • Return to Darkness, Return to Light ...
  • A Time for Remembering ...
  • The Deadly Sin ...
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  • Mother of Sorrow ...
  • The Debt ...
  • Never Give the Fuzz an Even Break ...
  • In This Corner - Sol Alpert ...
  • The Healer ...
  • A Place to Run, a Heart to Hide In ...
  • The Death of Wild Bill Hannachek ...
  • Willie Poor Boy ...
  • Confrontation! ...
  • Lisa ...
  • To Linc - With Love ...
  • Ride the Man Down ...
  • An Eye for an Eye ...
  • My Name Is Manolete ...
  • The Girl in Chair Nine ...
1969-1971
Death Takes a HolidayTV Movie1971
Women in ChainsTV Movie1972
A Summer Without BoysTV Movie1973
Message to My DaughterTV Movie1973
The ABC Afternoon PlaybreakLast Bride of Salem1974
The Rookies
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  • Angel ...
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  • A Farewell Tree from Marly ...
  • Life Robbery ...
  • The Wheel of Death ...
  • Three Hours to Kill ...
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  • Snow Job ...
  • Crossfire ...
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  • Rabbits on the Runway ...
  • A Very Special Piece of Ground ...
  • A Bloody Shade of Blue ...
  • A Deadly Velocity ...
  • To Taste of Terror ...
  • The Good Die Young ...
  • Dirge for Sunday ...
  • The Bear That Didn't Get Up ...
  • Time Is the Fire ...
  • Covenant with Death ...
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  • Dead, Like a Lost Dream ...
  • Concrete Valley, Neon Sky ...
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1972-1975
Medical Center
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1975
Hey, I'm AliveTV Movie1975
Medical StoryUs Against the World1975
A Sensitive, Passionate ManTV Movie1975
Torn Between Two LoversTV Movie1975
Executive SuiteTV Series, Executive Producer1976
Flamingo Road
1980-1982
Emerald Point NAS
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  • Pandora's Box ...
  • Friends and Lovers ...
  • The Best Laid Plans ...
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  • Disguises ...
1984
Her Life as a ManTV Movie, Executive Consultant1984
TV Movie1985
Strong MedicineTV Miniseries1986
Dynasty
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  • The Affair ...
  • The Confession ...
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  • Valez ...
  • The Dress ...
  • The Shower ...
  • The Garage ...
  • The Surgery ...
  • The Mothers ...
1987
NightingalesCreator, Supervising Producer, Writer TV Movie1988
Voice of the HeartTV Miniseries1989
Nightingales
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1989