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Cy Chermak (born in 1929 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA, as Seymour Albert Chermak) is an American television writer and producer whose career has spanned five decades, from the 1950s to the 1990s.

Chermak served as story editor on the TV series Rescue 8 (1958-59), following as story editor on the long-running NBC-TV Western series The Virginian for its second and third seasons (1963-65).

Chermak became a television producer with the short-lived NBC-TV war drama Convey (1965), then assumed producing chores on The Virginian for two seasons (1965-67). He left the series to take over as producer for the second season of the NBC crime drama Ironside, beginning in 1968 and remaining to the end of the series in 1974. During this time, he also served as producer of the NBC medical drama The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969-71). Other series produced by Chermak were ABC-TV's crime drama Amy Prentice (1974), ABC's espionage-western Barbary Coast (1975-76), ABC's supernatural thriller The Night Stalker (1974-75), and NBC's CHiPs, which dramatized the daily adventures of a pair of California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers. Chermak also co-wrote and produced the 1977 ABC TV Movie, Murder at the World Series.

Chermak wrote the screenplay for the 1959 horror film 4D Man, as well as scripts for the television series Rocky King, Detective (1954), Front Row Center (1956), The Ford Television Theatre (1957), Kraft Theatre (1954), Decoy (1959), Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959), Acapulco (1961), Cheyenne (1961), Bronco (1961), The Dakotas (1963), and Bonanza (1963). Chermak also wrote numerous scripts for the series he worked on as story editor or producer, including Rescue 8 and The Virginian. He provided the story for the 1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Wounded."

Chermak shared in three Emmy award nominations[1] for Ironside, in 1969, 1970 and 1971 (as Outstanding Dramatic Series). He received nominations from the Writers Guild of America and the Humanitas Prize as one of the writers of the 1998 Showtime channel production, Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Couples.

In 2017, Chermak wrote the book, The Show Runner: An Insiders Guide to Successful TV Production, published by Jacobs/Brown Press.

Cy Chermak (born in 1929 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA, as Seymour Albert Chermak) is an American television writer and producer whose career has spanned five decades, from the 1950s to the 1990s. [1]

Chermak served as story editor on the TV series Rescue 8 (1958-59), following as story editor on the long-running NBC-TV Western series The Virginian for its second and third seasons (1963-65).[2]

Chermak became a television producer with the short-lived NBC-TV war drama Convey (1965), then assumed producing chores on The Virginian for two seasons (1965-67). He left the series to take over as producer for the second season of the NBC crime drama Ironside, beginning in 1968 and remaining to the end of the series in 1974. During this time, he also served as producer of the NBC medical drama The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969-71). Other series produced by Chermak were ABC-TV's crime drama Amy Prentiss (1974), ABC's espionage-western Barbary Coast (1975-76), ABC's supernatural thriller The Night Stalker (1974-75), and NBC's CHiPs, [3] which dramatized the daily adventures of a pair of California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers. Chermak also co-wrote and produced the 1977 ABC TV Movie, Murder at the World Series.

Chermak wrote the screenplay for the 1959 horror film 4D Man, as well as scripts for the television series Rocky King, Detective (1954), Front Row Center (1956), The Ford Television Theatre (1957), Kraft Theatre (1954), Decoy (TV series), (1959), Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959), Acapulco (1961), Cheyenne (1961), Bronco (1961), The Dakotas (1963), and Bonanza (1963). Chermak also wrote numerous scripts for the series he worked on as story editor or producer, including Rescue 8 and The Virginian. He provided the story for the 1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Wounded."

Chermak shared in three Emmy award nominations for Ironside, in 1969, 1970 and 1971 (as Outstanding Dramatic Series). He received nominations from the Writers Guild of America and the Humanitas Prize as one of the writers of the 1998 Showtime channel production, Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Couples.[2]

In 2017, Chermak wrote the book, The Show Runner: An Insiders Guide to Successful TV Production, published by Jacobs/Brown Press.[4]

Cy Chermak, American TV Producer and Writer[edit]


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  1. "Cy Chermak". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
  2. "Rescuers: Stories of Courage—Two Couples | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2018-10-15.