Mr. Beaver Builds A Dam... - On the sitcom WHAT'S HAPPENING!!/ABC/1976-79, Roger "Raj" Thomas (Ernest Thomas), the editor of the Jefferson High Gazette dreamed of one day becoming a writer. He published his first story Mr. Beaver Builds a Dam and Saves the Town of Gum Drop Falls for $35 to Little Miss Muffet magazine. In the sequel series WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW!!/SYN/1985-87 Roger was a struggling writer who had written a first novel The Kremlin Dimension (sold 25 copies); Fateful Harvest (his second novel published by Ballard Publishing); It's Nothing Personal (a play); and The Great Cleveland Jewel Heist (A movie script).