Arthur Weiss

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

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