Robin Bernheim | |
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Born | Robin Jill Bernheim Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
Other names | Robin Bernheim Burger |
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Occupation | Television screenwriter & producer |
Years active | 1983–present |
Spouse | David Burger |
Family | Douglas Bernheim (brother) |
Robin Jill Bernheim is an American television producer and writer, as well as a story editor and creative consultant.
Bernheim was born in Santa Monica, California, and is a graduate of Stanford University and UCLA, the latter of which she received her MBA. She broke into television by submitting a spec script to Remington Steele , [1] which starred Stephanie Zimbalist, her friend since childhood. [2] Executive producer Michael Gleason then hired Bernheim on staff, leading to her career as one of the few women writing and producing hour-long, network television dramas in the 1980s and 1990s, including shows like Quantum Leap , Crazy Like a Fox , Houston Knights , MacGyver , Renegade and Tekwar . One of her Star Trek:Voyager episodes was chosen in 2020 by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the most memorable in the series' history [3]
Her work also includes several forays into animation, writing episodes of the Men In Black: The Series and Extreme Ghostbusters cartoons. In 2015, she co-produced and wrote the acclaimed PBS documentary feature Little House On The Prairie: The Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder . [4] She was the executive producer of the hit Hallmark series When Calls the Heart from 2015 to 2018, [5] the writer-producer of several Hallmark movies (including I'll Be Home For Christmas and Royal Hearts) [6] and in 2019 co-wrote & co-created the network's Mystery 101 series of movies with Lee Goldberg. [7] Most recently, Bernheim co-wrote and co-produced the 2019 Netflix movie The Princess Switch starring Vanessa Hudgens, as well as a sequel, The Princess Switch: Switched Again, that was scheduled for release for Christmas 2020. [8]
Bernheim lives in Dublin, California, with her husband David Burger. [9] Her brother is Douglas Bernheim, currently the Edward Ames Edmunds Professor of Economics at Stanford University.
Year | Title | Role/Job | Episodes/ Notes |
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1986 | Crazy Like a Fox | Writer, Story Editor | 2 episodes |
MacGyver | Writer, executive story consultant | 2 episodes, "The Eraser" & "The Human Factor" | |
1986–87 | Remington Steele | Writer, executive story editor | 7 episodes |
1987 | Beauty and the Beast | Writer | Episode: "Dark Spirit" |
Houston Knights | Co-producer, writer | Wrote/produced episode "Mirrors" | |
Matlock | Writer, executive story consultant | 7 episodes | |
1990 | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Writer | Episode: "The Hunted" |
1990–91 | Over My Dead Body | Writer / Teleplay | 2 episodes |
1992 | Tequila and Bonetti | Producer, writer (Teleplay/Story) | 5 episodes |
1991–92 | Beyond Reality | Writer | 3 episodes |
1992–93 | Quantum Leap | Producer, writer | 5 episodes |
1993–96 | Renegade | Supervising producer, writer | 6 episodes |
1994–96 | TekWar | Writer, supervising creative consultant | 22 episodes |
1994–98 | Diagnosis: Murder | Writer | 3 episodes |
1995 | Silk Stalkings | Writer | Episode: "Tricks of the Trade" |
1995–96 | Renegade | Supervising producer | 20 episodes |
1997 | Extreme Ghostbusters | Writer | Episode: "Witchy Woman" |
1997–98 | Ghost Stories | Writer / Teleplay writer | 5 episodes |
1998 | Men in Black: The Series | Writer | Episode: "The Jack O'Lantern Syndrome" |
1999–2000 | Star Trek: Voyager | Producer, writer | 29 episodes |
1999 | Soldier of Fortune, Inc. | Writer | Episode: "Critical List" |
2000–01 | Earth: Final Conflict | Writer | 22 episodes |
2003 | Wild Card | Writer | TV series; Credited as Robin Jill Burger |
2003–04 | She Spies | Supervising producer, writer | 23 episodes |
2015–2017 | When Calls the Heart | Executive producer, Writer, Showrunner | 29 episodes total |
2018 | The Princess Switch | Writer / Producer | Netflix film |
2018 | A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding | Writer | Netflix film |
2019–2021 | Mystery 101 | Co-Creator | 7 Hallmark Movies & Mysteries films |
2020 | The Princess Switch: Switched Again | Writer / Producer | Netflix film |
2021 | The Princess Switch 3 | Writer / Executive Producer | Netflix film |
2023 | When Calls the Heart | Consulting producer | Season 10; 6 episodes |
2024 | Mother of the Bride | Writer | Netflix film [10] |
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