Film Story

Peter Engel, the man behind “Saved by the Bell” called me into his office one day with this idea: “Malibu, CA.”   Peter had me come up with a story based on two brothers who go to live with their father in Malibu when their mother movies  to work abroad.   A week later we were in the office of TV exec Dick Askin, and  Peter was pitching what sounded like a cross between Saved by the Bell and Baywatch.   We left with a 26 episode order and I was the showrunner.

While the T-NBC’s dominated Saturday morning for most of the 1990s, “Malibu, CA” was a bit more controversial.