Date of birth: 27 February 1919
Date of death: 4 February 2003
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Steve Carlin was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. When he was 24 he attended the College of the City of New York, were he got his B.S. While he was at college he freelanced at a local radio station, WNEW. He went on to receive an M.S. in Education from Columbia University. After graduating, be had difficulty finding a teaching position, so he returned to radio freelancing. By 1940, he was working full-time as a script manager for the station WMCA. He produced scripts for Kate Smith, Famous Jury Trials, Counterspy, Gang Busters and Exploring the Unknown, and other radio shows. In 1942 he joined the production staff at NBC. In 1944 he presented his unpublished children's Christmas book Happy the Humbug, which he had written under the pen name Steve Roy, to NBC, and they used it as the basis of a Christmas special. Happy Humbug went on to become a popular comic strip. He created the popular character Rootie Kazootie, which was a popular television show, accompanied by several marketing tie-ins, including a series of Little Golden Books.

Carlin went on to work for Louis G. Cowan's game show production company, and later for CBS when Cowan sold the company to them. Carlin created and produced several successful game shows. He was the executive producer of "The $64,000 Question." In 1958 the fixed outcome of television game shows became a scandal and all game shows were dropped by the network. In 1959 Carlin testified before the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight that he had rigged game shows.

After the cancellation of his American game shows, Carlin went to Europe to produce game shows. In Italy, his show "M'ama Non M'ama" ("'Love Me, Love Me Not") was particularly successful. When the American scandal faded, he returned to the U.S. He produced "M'ama Non M'ama" for American television, along with new shows such as "The $64,000 Question."

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