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.

Weiss married actress Fay Baker on 3 August 1940. He divorced in 1965 and later married Patricia Jones.

Television series scripts

TV series Scripts TV Show Episode DateEmergency! Body Language 8 December 1973 Quicker Than the Eye 9 November 1974Super 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 1972Land of the Giants Target: Earth 2 March 1969 The Chase 20 April 1969 Deadly Pawn 12 October 1969 Chamber of Fear 16 November 1969Mannix 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 1974Voyage 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 1968The 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) 1964The 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 1961Men into Space Moon Probe 30 September 1959 Tankers in Space 6 January 1960The 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 1958The 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 1958Sea 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 1956Highway 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 1957Science 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 TV Show Episode Date The Swiss Family Robinson (Producer) (unknown episodes) 1975–1977The 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

Film Year Film Role Notes 1996 Flipper Original Script Posthumous credit 1983 The Night the Bridge Fell Down Writer Posthumous credit 1978 The Return of Captain Nemo Producer TV 1977 Fire! Writer/Executive TV 1976 Adventures of the Queen Production Executive TV 1976 Flood! Writer/Executive TV 1976 Time Travelers Production executive TV 1966 Namu, the Killer Whale Writer 1966 Around the World Under the Sea Writer 1964 Rhino! Writer 1963 Flipper Writer

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