[2][better source needed] William Froug was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1922 and placed for adoption through the Louise Wise agency there.

[citation needed] He served as an officer aboard a subchaser stationed at Pearl Harbor before taking command of his own ship, USS PC800, in 1945 at Eniwetok Atoll.

[4] As a writer-producer he went on to write numerous optioned screenplays, one of which was bought by 3 different studios, and wrote and/or produced for such iconic television series as Adventures in Paradise, The Twilight Zone, Bewitched and Gilligan's Island.

James Michener sent him a telegram congratulating him on the script he wrote for Adventures in Paradise, "Angel of Death," calling it, "A real achievement."

The pilot for which he served as a producer, Adam's Rib, was accepted into the permanent collection of the Museum of Broadcasting in New York.

[citation needed] As a tenured professor at UCLA, he revamped the screenwriting program and taught select graduate level courses.

The UCSB Special Collection Library holds his extensive research documents on the "Oklahoma Run" which he used for a proposed series, El Dorado.

In addition, he was a founding member of "The Caucus for Producers, Writers and Directors" for which he served as both chair and co-chair over the years.

One thing that keeps Froug young is that, unlike Flash Madden, he almost certainly does not sit on an expressway overpass guzzling Jack Daniels from a pint bottle.