The George Schenck Memorial Fund

George Schenck was a devoted mentor to many aspiring TV writers. With more than 40 years as a producing partner with Frank Cardea, Schenck’s prolific writing and producing credits stretch back from the 1960s to 2000s on such popular series as Fantasy Island (1981); Bring ‘Em Back Alive, the 1982 adventure series starring Bruce Boxleitner; and the 1984 detective series Crazy Like a Fox starring Jack Warden and John Rubinstein. But his signature series was NCIS, the long-running series – it began in 2003 and continues today – that depicts a team of special agents for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Schenck joined the series as a writer, taking over as co-showrunner (with Cardea) in 2016 until he retired in 2018.