American screenwriter
Arthur Weiss
Born Arthur Weiss
(1912-06-13 ) 13 June 1912Died 26 August 1980(1980-08-26) (aged 68) Years active 1955–1977 Spouse(s) Fay Baker (1940–1965; divorced) 2 children (1 deceased)
Arthur Weiss (13 June 1912 – 26 August 1980) was an American script writer for two decades on action/adventure TV shows like Mission: Impossible , Mannix , The Fugitive , Super Friends , The Time Tunnel , Emergency!, and Sea Hunt . His most famous creation was the script for the movie Flipper in 1963, which became a TV series and was remade as a movie in 1996. He also worked alongside Irwin Allen as a writer and producer for "disaster" TV films including Flood! and Fire! .
In 1969 Weiss published the novel O'Kelly's Eclipse about the undefeated British racehorse Eclipse .[ 1]
Weiss married actress Fay Baker on 3 August 1940. He divorced in 1965 and later married Patricia Jones.
Television series scripts
TV series Scripts[ 2]
TV Show
Episode
Date
Emergency!
Body Language
8 December 1973
Quicker Than the Eye
9 November 1974
Super Friends
The Power Pirate
8 September 1973
The Baffles Puzzle
15 September 1973
Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C.
22 September 1973
The Weather Maker
29 September 1973
Dr. Pelagian's War
6 October 1973
Shamon U
13 October 1973
Too Hot to Handle
20 October 1973
The Androids
27 October 1973
The Balloon People
3 November 1973
The Fantastic Frerps
10 November 1973
The Ultra Beam
17 November 1973
Menace of the White Dwarf
24 November 1973
The Mysterious Moles
1 December 1973
Gulliver's Gigantic Goof
8 December 1973
The Planet Splitter
15 December 1973
The Watermen
22 December 1973
Mission: Impossible
The Killer
19 September 1970
Takeover
2 January 1971
The Missile
16 January 1971
Blind
18 September 1971
Underwater
6 November 1971
Committed
22 January 1972
Movie
4 November 1972
Land of the Giants
Target: Earth
2 March 1969
The Chase
20 April 1969
Deadly Pawn
12 October 1969
Chamber of Fear
16 November 1969
Mannix
The Silent Cry
28 September 1968
Fly, Little One
21 February 1970
The Man Outside
24 November 1971
To Kill a Memory
29 October 1972
A Question of Murder
10 March 1974
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Fires of Death
17 September 1967
Journey with Fear
15 October 1967
Deadly Amphibians
17 December 1967
Savage Jungle
25 February 1968
The Time Tunnel
One Way to the Moon
16 September 1966
End of the World
23 September 1966
The Day the Sky Fell In
30 September 1966
The Last Patrol
7 October 1966
Crack of Doom
14 October 1966
Revenge of the Gods
21 October 1966
Massacre
28 October 1966
Devil's Island
11 November 1966
Reign of Terror
18 November 1966
Secret Weapon
25 November 1966
The Death Trap
2 December 1966
The Alamo
9 December 1966
Night of the Long Knives
16 December 1966
Invasion
23 December 1966
The Revenge of Robin Hood
30 December 1966
Kill Two by Two
6 January 1967
The Ghost of Nero
20 January 1967
The Walls of Jericho
27 January 1967
Idol of Death
3 February 1967
Billy the Kid
10 February 1967
Pirates of Deadman's Island
17 February 1967
Chase Through Time
24 February 1967
The Death Merchant
3 March 1967
Attack of the Barbarians
10 March 1967
Merlin the Magician
17 March 1967
The Kidnappers
24 March 1967
Raiders from Outer Space
31 March 1967
Town of Terror
7 April 1967
Daktari
Leopard of Madla George
15 February 1966
Flipper
(unknown episodes)
1964
The Fugitive
Decision in the Ring
22 October 1963
Home Is the Hunted
7 January 1964
The End Is But the Beginning
12 January 1965
Fun and Games and Party Favors
26 January 1965
Dr. Kildare
A Time to Every Purpose
27 December 1962
Ripcord
The Sky Diver
28 September 1961
Everglades
Lie Detector
27 November 1961
Men into Space
Moon Probe
30 September 1959
Tankers in Space
6 January 1960
The Man and the Challenge
Odds Against Survival
26 September 1959
White Out
14 November 1959
The Rifleman
Young Englishman
16 December 1958
The Restless Gun
The Hand Is Quicker
17 March 1958
The Court of Last Resort
The Frank Clark Case (writing supervisor)
21 February 1958
The Jacob Loveless Case (script supervisor)
28 February 1958
The Mary Morales Case
21 March 1958
The Todd-Loomis Case
4 April 1958
Sea Hunt
Sixty Feet Below
4 January 1958
Mark of the Octopus
1 February 1958
Killer Whale
22 March 1958
Magnetic Mine
31 May 1958
Hermes
10 May 1959
Dr. Christian
The Guardian
1 January 1956
Highway Patrol
Released Convict
1 January 1956
Hit and Run
13 February 1956
Dead Patrolman
30 April 1956
Stolen Car Ring
24 December 1956
Mistaken Identity
1 January 1957
Escaped Mental Patient
1 January 1957
Nitro
25 March 1957
Double Cross
3 June 1957
Science Fiction Theatre
The Unexplored
11 November 1955
Before the Beginning
16 December 1955
The Long Sleep
13 April 1956
The Unguided Missile
25 May 1956
Jupitron
17 August 1956
The Strange Lodger
8 February 1957
Four Star Playhouse
Tusitala
24 February 1955
Television series production
TV series Production[ 2]
TV Show
Episode
Date
The Swiss Family Robinson (Producer)
(unknown episodes)
1975–1977
The Fugitive (Associate Producer)
Fear in a Desert City
17 September 1963
The Witch
24 September 1963
The Other Side of the Mountain
1 October 1963
Never Wave Goodbye: Part 1
8 October 1963
Never Wave Goodbye: Part 2
15 October 1963
Smoke Screen
29 October 1963
Fatso
19 November 1963
Home Is the Hunted
7 January 1964
Come Watch Me Die
21 January 1964
Where the Action Is
28 January 1964
Flight from the Final Demon
10 March 1964
Taps for a Dead War
17 March 1964
Somebody to Remember
24 March 1964
Never Stop Running
31 March 1964
The Homecoming
7 April 1964
Storm Center
14 April 1964
The End Game
21 April 1964
Filmography
Screen Play by Arthur Weiss
References
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