Earl Barret

Born in Canton, Ohio Earl Barret is known primarily as a television writer/producer although he has written for both stage and screen, See No Evil, Hear No Evil being his last movie. As a free-lance writer Earl wrote for some of TV's most iconic comedies: Bewitched, My Three Sons, Get Smart, Batman, Sanford and Son, Bob Newhart, I Spy, The Wild, Wild, West, The Andy Griffith Show, Welcome Back Kotter, etc. In all, he wrote episodes for 33 different shows.

Then Earl went over to the dark side and became story editor for The Governor and JJ. He and the producer, Arne Sultan, wrote 19 episodes and eventually became writing partners. Earl produced the next couple of shows they did, and finally they both were the Executive Producers of Too Close for Comfort which they developed for American TV.

Earl found writing a novel a singular pleasure. "I had nobody to argue with except myself. And sometimes I won."