• SECRET SITCOM WRITER: How Margie wrote a sitcom pilot "Under One Roof" based on her life at night -- while spending her days being a mother, a housewife, AND a journalist! 
• Hollywood writer/producer Bernie Orenstien (That Girl!, Sanford & Son) reads it and calls her with these magical words: “I think you could have a career out here.”  Two weeks later she’s on a plane to Hollywood!
• INSTANT CHEMISTRY: Actress Linda Marsh teams with Margie and a writing partnership begins…
• SPEAK YOUR TRUTH: Their first meeting at Facts of Life: “Why are the girls wearing hot pants and cut-off tops -- in New England? In winter?!?  It’s kiddie porn!”  
• Margie & Linda stay on Facts of Life from Season 2 through Season 6 -- working their way up from Staff Writers to Show Runners!
• THE ONE THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING:  Margie & Linda write S2:EP3 “Double Standard” -- showrunners Jerry Mayer and Jack Elinson tell them: “You have found the soul of the show”.
• THE ONE WHERE NATALIE’S FATHER HAS AN AFFAIR: “We loved the actor but we hated the character. So we killed him.”
• WORKING WITH THE GIRLS: Working with Charlotte Rae, Lisa Whelchel, Mindy Cohn, Kim Fields, Nancy McKeon and Geri Jewell.
• Lisa Whelchel balked when the writers pitched Blair losing her virginity. So Mindy Cohn said: “I’ll do it!”
• WHAT'S NEXT? The day came when Linda Marsh said, “I’m done.”  But Margie kept going…Then Marcy Carsey called: “We’d like to bring you on ‘A Different World’”!
• THINKING IN THE CAR: How the award-winning “No Means No” episode came to be -- and almost didn’t happen at all!
• "MAKE DWAYNE THE HERO" - How to solve the producer notes when tackling a story on campus rape in "No Means No" 

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So join Susan and Sharon -- and Margie -- as they talk Mary Tyler Moore, Terri Hatcher, Jason Bateman, Asaad Kelada, Susan Fales Hill, Neema Barnette, HBCs, Cagney & Lacey, reinventing yourself, working for diversity…  and saying “No” to Norman Lear! 

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STAY TUNED IN TWO WEEKS FOR THE FACTS OF LIFE WITH MARGIE PETERS - PART 2!  

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