Captain Henry "Hank" Stanley

Mike was born in Wallace, Idaho but his family moved around as his father was a career Army man who reached the rank of Brigadier General. He spent a good deal of his youth in Arlington, Virginia, then the family went overseas to Tokyo, Japan while his father was stationed in Korea during the war there. Returning to the States he attended his junior year of high school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, then finished up at Falls Church High School in Falls Church, Virginia. While at Falls Church he acted in several school plays. After 'Emergency!' Mike turned to television writing (having written four episodes of Emergency!) and wrote for such shows as The Love Boat, The Love Boat: The Next Wave, Nash Bridges and The Magnificent Seven, among others. He also wrote quite a few made-for-TV movies such as Doomsday Rock, Three On A Date, The Covergirl and the Cop, Pals, Barnum and The Incident, for which he was nominated for, but lost, an Emmy. He created and was Executive Producer for the short-lived, Love Boat clone Aloha Paradise.