Cindy Begel

Cindy Begel is a television writer who scripted the 2018 Muppet Babies episode "A Backyard Divided."

Begel began writing for sitcoms in the early 1980s, including The Jeffersons and it's short-lived spin-off Checking In and most of the Garry Marshall series (Happy Days, Mork & Mindy, Laverne & Shirley, and Joanie Loves Chachi). She also wrote for Alice, Gimme a Break!, Still the Beaver, and Married... with Children. Begel shifted to writing for younger audiences, as with the Saturday morning sitcom Hang Time and the cartoon The Kids from Room 402.