Ed Weinberger is one of television's most respected writer-producers who, along with James L. Brooks, David Davis. Allan Bums. and Stan Daniels, made up the heart of the MTM Enterprises creative team. Wein­berger has received many awards for his contributions to a number of successful or critically acclaimed series for both MTM and the John Charles Walters Company, of which he was a partner.

     Weinberger's early TV experience included writing for The Dean Martin Sh<m; where he was teamed with Stan Daniels, who eventually became Weinberger's writing partner at MTM. Weinberger had also been a writer for Bob Hope, traveling with him to Vietnam. In the late 1960s, Weinberger wrote a screenplay about a divorced woman who was struggling to make it on her own. Although it was never produced, The Mary Tyler Moore Show creators James L. Brooks  and  Allan Bums saw a copy of the script and hired Weinberger during the series' second season.

     In addition to his Emmy Award-winning work on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Weinberger, along with Daniels, created and produced the MTM sitcoms Phyllis, Doc, and The Betty White Show. In 1977 Wein­berger, Brooks, Davis, and Daniels were all wooed away by Paramount, which was looking to finance other independent production companies for ABC programming. The MTM alumni welcomed the change. if only because the cozy MTM atmosphere was being gradually replaced by a growing bureaucracy that hampered creativity. Brooks, Davis, Daniels, Weinberger formed the John Charles Walters Company which produced its most famous sitcom, Tati, in 1978.

     In Taxi, Weinberger and the other members of the new creative team were able to successfully echo the quality television that had become synonymous with MTM. Much like an MTM show, Taxi was a sophisticated example of humor derived from carefully crafted character exploration. Taxi also pursued the "workplace-as-family" theme so prominent in the best of MTM sitcoms. Canceled in 1982 by ABC. Tati was picked up by NBC for a subsequent season. Thus. Weinberger helped deliver a second generation of quality television that extended into the 1980s.

     In 1983, after NBC also canceled Taxi, Weinberger seemed to take a giant step backward when he co-produced Mr. Smith, a sitcom featuring a talking chimp for which Weinberger provided the voice. This was not the first time Weinberger had used his voice-over talents; the sigh in the John Charles Walters Company end­ credit logo is Weinberger's as well. In 1984 Wein­ berger was back on the quality track when he co-wrote the Emmy Award-winning pilot episode for The Cosby Show. Weinberger's later production credits also included the disappointing-yet-successful series Amen, as well as the critically acclaimed yet unpopular sitcom Dear John.