Michael Norell was a staff writer on the Aaron Spelling/Douglas S. Cramer produced ABC hit series
The Love Boat (1977) from 1977-79, In 1981, Norell helped develop Spelling's mid-season network program replacement series, a spin-off of "The Love Boat", for ABC ,
Aloha Paradise (1981) (which ran only eight episodes). Norell was credited as a producer and screenwriter, writing scripts with colleague
Alan Foster Friedman (1931-2015).