Dean Hargrove

Dean Hargrove is an American television producer who was born on July 27, 1938 in Iola, Kansas. After graduating from high school, he offered the job to become a comedy writer. He offered the job as an Emmy nominated writer in 1962 when he was writing The Bob Newhart Show (1961). After Newhart's cancellation, he quickly wrote for My Three Sons (1960) in 1963, before offering him the job as a staff writer in 1964 for the spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964). Besides "U.N.C.L.E.", he contributed some work, like Jericho (1966) and The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966), both of them were from MGM Television and Norman Felton's Arena Productions. After "U.N.C.L.E."'s cancellation, he moved for Universal Studios. He went on to stay there until 1977. For Universal, he wrote scripts for The Name of the Game (1968), Columbo (1971) and McCoy (1975) and he produced various TV shows like Madigan (1972) and The Family Holvak (1975), thus making Hargrove the biggest paid writer in history for the s