Sherry Coben, a writer-producer greatest recognized for creating Kate & Allie, died Oct. 16 of most cancers at her dwelling in New Milford, NJ. She was 71.
Coben was the mastermind behind the Emmy-winning comedy that starred Jane Curtin and Susan St. James. Shot within the Ed Sullivan Theater, Kate & Allie rapidly grew to become a high 10 hit and ran for six seasons on CBS.
Coben started her profession within the artwork division at KYW-TV in Philadelphia, doing graphics, units, illustration, and animation for all their native programming and The Mike Douglas Present. After transferring to New York Metropolis and dealing freelance as an artist for a variety of tv exhibits and magazines, she acquired her break in writing on the beloved NBC youngsters’s program Scorching Hero Sandwich, for which she obtained an Emmy Award.
She went on to jot down for the ABC cleaning soap opera Ryan’s Hope in 1980 earlier than creating the hit CBS sitcom 4 years later. It lasted till 1989.
Coben additionally served as a writer-producer on the CBS tv collection Bailey Kipper’s P.O.V. and creator-writer of the net collection Little Girls, Large Automobiles.
Along with her work as a writer-producer, Coben was a proud mentor and lively volunteer in service of the subsequent technology of high-caliber writers, performers, artists, and human beings.
She is survived by her husband, movie editor Patrick McMahon, and her daughters, Kaley McMahon and Jama McMahon.
