Robert Brush is an American writer-producer and composer, best known for his work as executive producer, writer and show runner of ABC'sThe Wonder Years. ForThe Wonder Years he received an Emmy for individual writing, the Peabody Award, and multipleHumanitas Awards.^[1][2][3] He wrote, developed and produced the CBS hit seriesEarly Edition, and ABC'sKaren Sisco, as well as adapting for television the novelsThe Prince of Tides andScruples (miniseries).

Brush began his career as a musical composer following his graduation from Yale, where he was Pitchpipe of theYale Whiffenpoofs.^[4] In the 1970s he worked atSesame Street andCaptain Kangaroo, writing scripts and composing songs, among them the Good Morning Captain theme song. In 1981 he composed the score for the Broadway musicalThe First, about baseball immortalJackie Robinson, which ran for 70 performances at theMartin Beck Theatre.^[5][6] In 1986 he teamed with writer/producerJay Tarses onThe Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, starringBlair Brown, andThe Slap Maxwell Story withDabney Coleman. Beginning in 1988 he executive-produced and wroteThe Wonder Years for its run of over 100 episodes, and followed withEarly Edition, starring Kyle Chandler. Other projects include Raising Caines, 111 Gramercy Park, and No Ordinary Girl.

Brush returned to New York to pursue his love of literature and is completing a series of novels. His first novel,The Piazza: Stories from Piazza Santa Caterina Piccola, is currently available for pre-order and will be released August 1, 2022.^[7][8]

Brush lives in Manhattan and Hudson, NY with his wife, actress and writerMel Harris.^[9] They have four children.

• The Wonder Years (1988–93)
• The Facts of Life (1985)
• Growing Pains (1986)
• Duet (1987)
• The Slap Maxwell Story (1987)
• The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (10 episodes, 1987–1989)
• Square One Television (1992)
• Raising Caines (1995)
• Early Edition (1996-1998)
• Ed (1 episode, 2000)
• Karen Sisco (2 episodes, 2003)
• 111 Gramercy Park (2003)

• The Wonder Years (96 episodes, 1989–1993) (executive producer)
• The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1987-1989) (supervising producer)
• Raising Caines (1995) (executive producer)
• Early Edition (1996-2000) (executive producer, developer, executive consultant)
• Ed (1 episode, 2000) (consulting producer)
• Karen Sisco (1 episode, 2004) (executive producer)
• 111 Gramercy Park (2003) (executive producer)

• Bob Brush atIMDb
• Brush on working onThe Wonder Years
• Rolling Stone article on Wonder Years Oral History
• Wonder Years Retrospective

• American television producers
• American male television writers
• American television writers
• Primetime Emmy Award winners
• Living people

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• Year of birth missing (living people)