[1] With television in its infancy, Asher introduced the sitcom Our Miss Brooks, which was adapted from a radio show.

[2] Asher's family moved to Los Angeles when he was around 3, where he often accompanied his father to the movie studio.

[6] As a result of having to live in New York with his mother, he dropped out of school and, after working in the mailroom at Universal Studios in Los Angeles,[7] he joined the Army in 1941.

He served in the Army Signal Corps for four years,[2] stationed in Astoria, Queens New York City as a unit photographer.

He eventually gravitated to television (then a new medium),[8] and gained a job writing short story "fillers" for various programs, which evolved into a series which was titled Little Theatre.

[6] From CBS Studios, Asher received an offer to direct Our Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden, a television version of the radio show.

[10] In addition to Our Miss Brooks and I Love Lucy, Asher directed episodes of The Colgate Comedy Hour, Make Room for Daddy, The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series), The Patty Duke Show, Gidget, The Dukes of Hazzard, and Alice.

[2] Asher's best-known work was Bewitched, which he directed regularly over its entire eight-year run, although he was only credited as producer for its last five seasons.

Critic Wheeler Winston Dixon later suggested that the Beach Party films were not only "visions of paradise" for the audience, but also for Asher, who used them "to create a fantasy world to replace his own troubled childhood".

He later recalled his directorial years: When I look back at my own work, Bewitched stays with me the most, and Lucy, and the Beach Party pictures.