Creator Profiles - Peter Casey

Peter was born in San Francisco, the son of a cop (sound familiar?). He wanted to be in showbiz all his life. In 1975, Peter graduated from the San Francisco State University, where during his senior year he took a TV writing course and wrote a spec script for The Waltons. Like David Angell, he too has a Bachelor's Degree, except Peter has one in Broadcast Communication.

Not long afterwards, Peter moved to Los Angeles, where he started working for a mimeograph company as a typist. Here he met David Lee, who would proof-read Peter's typed scripts, and they began writing their own scripts together. The three weeks they were together (Peter was fired after 3 weeks because he was too slow!) was enough for the two men to bond.

Peter went from job to job, such as a pizza delivery boy and a survey taker, as he and David wrote scripts firstly for drama, before switching to comedy. When David Lee left the mimeo company, he joined David working as a sandwich salesman at Paramount Studios.

In 1978 they got their first big break when The Jeffersons accepted one of their scripts. One year later Peter and David Lee were invited to join the show as writers, story editors and producers, all of which they did during their 6 year stint with the show.

In 1983 they submitted a spec script to Cheers, but the Charles brothers (the creators of Cheers) were on holiday and didn't read it right away. Whilst waiting for the reply from Cheers, Peter and David were offered a new contract from The Jeffersons. They stalled as long as they could, hoping the Cheers people would respond, but they didn't. peter and David signed for one more year at The Jeffersons - and three days later the Cheers offer came through. The Charles brothers agreed to wait a year for them.

In 1984 the two finally moved to Cheers, where they met David Angell. The three were writers and producers on that show too, and in 1990 they formed Grub Street Productions. For what happened afterwards, please see the David Angell page.

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