Rita Lakin: The Only Woman in the Room

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson · Apr 10, 2023 · 21m

TVC 607.1: An encore presentation of our October 2015 conversation with Rita Lakin, the Edgar nominated screenwriter and television pioneer who not only created The Rookies, one of Aaron Spelling's first hit series on ABC, but was one of the very first female script writers and producers in network television, opening doors for women in television at a time when the industry was run almost entirely by men. Rita Lakin passed away Thursday, Mar. 23 at age ninety-three; her book The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes from My Life and Career as a Television Writer, a memoir of her twenty-five-years…