Brian Cooke Brian Cooke Brian Cooke (born 1937, in Liverpool, Merseyside) is a British comedy writer who, along with co-writer, Johnnie Mortimer, wrote scripts for and devised many of the top television sitcoms during the 1970s, including "Man About the House", "George and Mildred", and "Robin's Nest". Cooke also wrote and created the 1980s TV sitcom "Keep It in the Family", starring Robert Gillespie and the late-1960s/early-1970s sitcom "Father, Dear Father" starring Patrick Cargill. "Man About the House", "George and Mildred", "Robin's Nest", and "Keep It in the Family" were remade for American television as "Three's Company", "The Ropers", "Three's a Crowd"
Michael Murphy (actor) "Me Lay" Marston, IV in "M*A*S*H" (1970), as Frank Shaft in "Brewster McCloud" (1970), as John Triplette in "Nashville" (1975), and as the title character in "Tanner '88" (a role he reprised in the 2004 miniseries "Tanner on Tanner"). Other Altman films and television series in which Murphy appeared include the World War II TV series "Combat!" (in which Murphy appeared in 1963, on the show's second of its five seasons), "Countdown" (1968), "That Cold Day in the Park" (1969), "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971), "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" (1988) and "Kansas City" (1996). Other notable film roles include