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Just saw this: “Television producer Alan Sacks died October 22 following a battle with lymphoma. He was 81. Sacks is best known for co-creating 1970s sitcom “Welcome Back, Kotter,” and later executive produced projects for Disney Channel.”

I was Alan’s assistant for a brief time when he had a development deal with Charles Fries Productions. This would have been somewhere around 1979 or 1980. We were a poor match. He was demanding and neurotic and probably feeling the pressure of trying to come up with another hit show. Not a lot of fun to work for. I can’t say this news makes me sad, exactly, but it’s a marker of the passage of time and of my past. FWIW.