Word traveled fast about how I turned the episode around, and, soon after, I started to get a lot of TV work, including two episodes of The Bob Newhart Show and episodes of Rhoda, The Bob Crane Show, and Phyllis. I was able to turn a B- script into a B+. Another first-time director was brought on to do an episode of TMTMS, and it won an Emmy. Despite that, he was never asked back. When I talk to aspiring directors, I always use that example. In my mind, the other director was not asked back because they didn’t like the quality of the work he did. He had a great script and I had a terrible one,
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