Bonnie and Terry Turner are a husband-and-wife writing team, best known for creating the sitcomsThird Rock From the Sun (1996 - 2001) and the That '70s Show (1998 - 2006) for NBC and FOX, respectively. They also created the ill-fated spin-offThat '80s Show for FOX in 2002. A situation comedy (sitcom) is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... 3rd Rock From the Sun was an American television situation comedy that ran from 1996 until 2001. ... This is a list of television-related events in 1996. ... This is a list of television-related events in 2001. ... That 70s Show was an American television sitcom centered on the lives of a group of teenagers living in the fictional town of Point Place, Wisconsin from May 17, 1976 to December 31, 1979. ... This is a list of television-related events in 1998. ... This is a list of television-related events in 2006. ... NBC, (Formerly an acronym for the National Broadcasting Company until 2004), is an American television and radio network based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ... A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ... That 80s Show was a television situation comedy set circa 1984 in San Diego, California. ... This is a list of television-related events in 2002. ...
Their other writing credits include Saturday Night Live and Normal, Ohio. Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast by NBC nearly every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ... Normal, Ohio was an American television sitcom, which aired on the Fox Network in 2000. ...
Bonnie was born on November 8, 1944 in Acton, Illinois in California and grew up in a steelmill-working household in East St. Louis.
Prior to their meeting, Bonnie's career had started by sneaking into adult rhythm and blues clubs in the Gaslight Square district of St. Louis, Missouri and she had been linked with Little Milton, Albert King and Ike And Tina Turner.
Bonnie released three collections for Capricorn records during her conversion to a Born-Again Christian, toured with Stephen Stills and Little Feat, recorded with the Allman Brothers Band and Delbert McClinton, composed for Hank Williams, Jr., and even starred on the television sitcom, Roseanne.