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Bob Booker Dies: Writer And Producer For Grammy-Winning ‘The First Family’ Was 92
Bob Booker spent 75 years in show business before dying at 92.
He also wrote and produced five seasons of the syndicated sitcom Out of This World(1987-1991), starring Donna Pescow and Maureen Flannigan, as well as his friend Burt Reynolds, who as a favor agreed to play the extra-terrestrial voice of the father, Troy Garland. He produced numerous “out-take” television shows, including the series Foul-Ups, Bleeps and Blunders, hosted by Don Rickles and Steve Lawrence, and established an extensive comedy video tape library that he marketed globally for decades. A move to New York City in 1960 proved more difficult than he anticipated, and Booker eked out a living by writing an article for Playboy magazine and coming up with a series of gag record greeting cards, before hitting big with the First Family Album in 1963.
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