Steve Marshall is a writer and producer for film and television. He began his entertainment career in radio, rising to the level of program director of the CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

-owned KNX-FM in Los Angeles in the early 70's.

After a number of years in radio, Marshall wrote a script on spec

Spec script

A spec script, also known as a speculative screenplay, is a non-commissioned unsolicited screenplay. It is usually written by a screenwriter who hopes to have the script optioned and eventually purchased by a producer, production company, or studio....

 for the CBS television series WKRP in Cincinnati

WKRP in Cincinnati

WKRP in Cincinnati is an American situation comedy that featured the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show was created by Hugh Wilson and was based upon his experiences working in advertising sales at Top 40 radio station WQXI in Atlanta...

. The producers of the show bought the script and put Marshall on staff. During his three years with the series, he wrote many of its episodes and eventually teamed up with another WKRP writer, Dan Guntzelman. After the cancellation of the series, Marshall and Guntzelman executive produced the All in the Family

All in the Family

All in the Family is an American sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979. In September 1979, a new show, Archie Bunker's Place, picked up where All in the Family had ended...

spin-off, Gloria

Gloria (TV series)

Gloria is an American situation comedy that lasted one season on CBS, from September 1982 to September 1983. It stars Sally Struthers, reprising her role as Gloria Stivic, the daughter of Archie Bunker on the hugely successful 1970s sitcom All in the Family...

, with Sally Struthers

Sally Struthers

Sally Ann Struthers is an American actress and spokeswoman, best-known for her roles as Gloria Stivic on All in the Family, for which she won two Emmy awards, and as Babette on Gilmore Girls.-Personal life:...

 and Burgess Meredith

Burgess Meredith

Oliver Burgess Meredith , known professionally as Burgess Meredith, was an American actor in theatre, film, and television, who also worked as a director...

. The series aired on CBS during the 1982-83 season and was soon canceled.

Marshall and his partner then created a short lived series for ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 titled Off the Rack

Off the Rack (TV series)

Off The Rack was a comedy television series set in the Los Angeles garment industry that aired on ABC between 1984 and 1985. The series starred Ed Asner and Eileen Brennan and was originally directed by Noam Pitlik. Its taping location was the Warner Bros...

, starring Edward Asner and Eileen Brennan

Eileen Brennan

Eileen Brennan is an American actress of film, television, and theater. Brennan is best known for her role as Doreen Lewis in Private Benjamin for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She reprised the role in the TV adaption and won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy...

, which only ran for seven episodes before being canceled. Under contract as writer/producers to Warner Bros. Television

Warner Bros. Television

Warner Bros. Television is the television production arm of Warner Bros. Entertainment, itself part of Time Warner. Alongside CBS Television Studios, it serves as a television production arm of The CW Television Network , though it also produces shows for other networks, such as Shameless on...

, the two were asked to take over the running of the studio's new series, Growing Pains

Growing Pains

Growing Pains is an American television sitcom about an affluent family, residing in Huntington, New York, with a working mother and a stay-at-home psychiatrist father raising three children together, which aired on ABC from September 24, 1985 to April 25, 1992.-Synopsis:The show's premise is based...

. They kept the series in the Nielsen top 20 for most of its seven-year run, also creating a spin-off series for ABC, Just the Ten of Us

Just the Ten of Us

Just the Ten of Us is an American sitcom starring stand-up comedian Bill Kirchenbauer as Coach Graham Lubbock, a teacher and the head of a large Catholic family with eight children living in Eureka, California. The series was a spin-off of Growing Pains, in which Kirchenbauer portrayed the same...

. That series was canceled after two seasons, at which point Marshall and Guntzelman left Growing Pains in 1992 and went their separate ways.

A couple years later the two re-united to produce a series from a pilot they had written for NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 in 1984, a look at TV news titled Live Shot, which was given new life on the newly formed UPN

UPN

United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...

 network in 1995. That series was canceled after 13 episodes. During their partnership, Marshall and Guntzelman wrote a number of feature film scripts, including Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise

Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise

Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise is the 1987 sequel to the 1984 comedy Revenge of the Nerds. Its cast featured most of the main actors from the earlier film, including Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Curtis Armstrong, Larry B. Scott, Timothy Busfield, Donald Gibb, and Andrew Cassese....

, a 20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...

 release.

On March 16, 2010, Steve Marshall was sentenced to 7 years in prison by the State of Arkansas for child pornography

Child pornography

Child pornography refers to images or films and, in some cases, writings depicting sexually explicit activities involving a child...

distribution.

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