Gary David Goldberg — American Producer born on June 25, 1944, died on June 22, 2013

Gary David Goldberg was an American writer and producer for television and film. Goldberg was best known for his work on Family Ties, Spin City, and his semi-autobiographical series Brooklyn Bridge... (wikipedia)

My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.
It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.
A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity - the team - the show - which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own.
I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.
At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.