I think that my years of college studying great books and poetry helped us find the best words to convey a lot in a short time.At night, several power company technicians answer a call at Charles Graiman's home. In the same manner, we figured that the learning experience of the son and father, coming together facing each other for the first time, could lead to a whole new world of experience with them “learning about the things you just can’t buy”. What would Archie Bunker have been without Edith or Meathead? Just a bigot, but placed in the same space as a liberal son-in-law gave that show wings.
We realized that the story for most sitcoms is based upon the interaction between the main characters. The title of the show, and thinking about being born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth helped with the initial direction. We got right on this project and from scratch, in a few hours we had completed the words and music. Little Ricky is a kid who attends military school, very structured and adult for his age, and his father Edward is a rich child-like adult who plays with toys way too much.
We submitted our tape and found about fifty other submissions on the desk for the same show! We were not given video footage of an opening title sequence but were told the family dynamics of the leads on the show.
“Like to?!?! Of course!” Now, there was no money for the time and effort to create this theme. Knowing I wrote music, she asked if we would like to submit a theme song. After subsequent meetings, we became friends and Sharyn said to us one day that Ron had written a pilot entitled Silver Spoons. Ron was submitting a script to Mark and Lowell for the series. I attended a taping one night and met Sharyn and Ron Leavitt who were also relatively new to L.A. After moving to L.A., I contacted them and was told that they were working on The Ted Knight Show. If you don’t recognize these two names, Google them and you will see just how many television series and films they have worked on together or separately. Mark Rothman and Lowell Ganz were in the same troop. I was in the Boy Scouts in New York when I was younger.
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