Neal Marlens (born November 8, 1956)[1] is an American television producer and writer. He is known for work on the television series Growing Pains, The Wonder Years and Ellen, all with his wife,[2] fellow television producer/writer Carol Black.
Early life
Neal Marlens is one of two sons, with brother Steve, of Al and Hanna Marlens, respectively a Newsday managing editor and later an editor at The New York Times, and a Long Island school psychologist born in Vienna, Austria, in 1928 and who escaped The Holocaust by moving first to Cuba and then New York City, and who died in 2008.[3] Neal Marlens was raised in the Audubon Woods section of West Hills, New York, and graduated from Stimson Junior High and Walt Whitman High School, both in nearby Huntington Station, New York. Neal attended Swarthmore College in the late 1970s, where he competed successfully on the men's tennis team. He added good humor and a friendly personality to a campus that sometimes lacked both.[4]
^Benson, Jim (March 16, 1989). "'Wonder' Creators Run Out of Yeast". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on July 13, 2020. Retrieved July 13, 2020. Neal Marlens and Carol Black, the husband-and-wife team who created the popular ABC series The Wonder Years and now are its writers and executive producers, are about to leave the program to avoid getting burned out, they say, by a demanding work schedule.
