Charlotte Brown (producer)

brown went on to direct and write. She created the 1992 tv series, The Powers That Be with Marta Kauffman and David Crane.

When Brooks created Rhoda, a spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Brown was hired as a staff writer. She quickly rose up the ranks, becoming the program's executive producer in 1977. As a result, Brown became one of the first female showrunners in primetime television history.

Brown worked on many of Grant Tinker['s MTM Enterprises shows run by writers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns during the early 1970s – shows like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Partridge Family, Love, American Style and The Bob Newhart Show She was part of a universe of women writers that included Pat Nardo, Gail Parent, Susan Silver, and Treva Silverman.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was unusual to find a woman inside the writers' room of a primetime network television show other than secretaries and personal assistants. A notable exception was Madelyn Pugh, who wrote for the I Love Lucy series. After the success of Treva Silverman, some showrunners began to actively recruit women writers. One of them was James L. Brooks who hired Brown to write an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Assignments soon followed on The Sandy Duncan Show, The Partridge Family, and The Bob Newhart Show. For many of the series in which she worked, Brown was often the first woman writer that had ever been hired by that particular producer.

Charlotte Sue Brown (born October 20, 1943) is an American television producer, writer, director, and showrunner who in 1977 was acclaimed to have become the first woman showrunner of a primetime network television series for her work on The Mary Tyler Moore Show spin-off Rhoda. However, Gertrude Berg, who created The Goldbergs, earned that title almost two decades earlier.