# 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

TV series Scripts :
| TV Show | Episode | Date |
| Emergency! | Body Language | 8 December 1973 |
| Emergency! | Quicker Than the Eye | 9 November 1974 |
| Super Friends | The Power Pirate | 8 September 1973 |
| Super Friends | The Baffles Puzzle | 15 September 1973 |
| Super Friends | Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C. | 22 September 1973 |
| Super Friends | The Weather Maker | 29 September 1973 |
| Super Friends | Dr. Pelagian's War | 6 October 1973 |
| Super Friends | Shamon U | 13 October 1973 |
| Super Friends | Too Hot to Handle | 20 October 1973 |
| Super Friends | The Androids | 27 October 1973 |
| Super Friends | The Balloon People | 3 November 1973 |
| Super Friends | The Fantastic Frerps | 10 November 1973 |
| Super Friends | The Ultra Beam | 17 November 1973 |
| Super Friends | Menace of the White Dwarf | 24 November 1973 |
| Super Friends | The Mysterious Moles | 1 December 1973 |
| Super Friends | Gulliver's Gigantic Goof | 8 December 1973 |
| Super Friends | The Planet Splitter | 15 December 1973 |
| Super Friends | The Watermen | 22 December 1973 |
| Mission: Impossible | The Killer | 19 September 1970 |
| Mission: Impossible | Takeover | 2 January 1971 |
| Mission: Impossible | The Missile | 16 January 1971 |
| Mission: Impossible | Blind | 18 September 1971 |
| Mission: Impossible | Underwater | 6 November 1971 |
| Mission: Impossible | Committed | 22 January 1972 |
| Mission: Impossible | Movie | 4 November 1972 |
| Land of the Giants | Target: Earth | 2 March 1969 |
| Land of the Giants | The Chase | 20 April 1969 |
| Land of the Giants | Deadly Pawn | 12 October 1969 |
| Land of the Giants | Chamber of Fear | 16 November 1969 |
| Mannix | The Silent Cry | 28 September 1968 |
| Mannix | Fly, Little One | 21 February 1970 |
| Mannix | The Man Outside | 24 November 1971 |
| Mannix | To Kill a Memory | 29 October 1972 |
| Mannix | A Question of Murder | 10 March 1974 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Fires of Death | 17 September 1967 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Journey with Fear | 15 October 1967 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Deadly Amphibians | 17 December 1967 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Savage Jungle | 25 February 1968 |
| The Time Tunnel | One Way to the Moon | 16 September 1966 |
| The Time Tunnel | End of the World | 23 September 1966 |
| The Time Tunnel | The Day the Sky Fell In | 30 September 1966 |
| The Time Tunnel | The Last Patrol | 7 October 1966 |
| The Time Tunnel | Crack of Doom | 14 October 1966 |
| The Time Tunnel | Revenge of the Gods | 21 October 1966 |
| The Time Tunnel | Massacre | 28 October 1966 |
| The Time Tunnel | Devil's Island | 11 November 1966 |
| The Time Tunnel | Reign of Terror | 18 November 1966 |
| The Time Tunnel | Secret Weapon | 25 November 1966 |
| The Time Tunnel | The Death Trap | 2 December 1966 |
| The Time Tunnel | The Alamo | 9 December 1966 |
| The Time Tunnel | Night of the Long Knives | 16 December 1966 |
| The Time Tunnel | Invasion | 23 December 1966 |
| The Time Tunnel | The Revenge of Robin Hood | 30 December 1966 |
| The Time Tunnel | Kill Two by Two | 6 January 1967 |
| The Time Tunnel | The Ghost of Nero | 20 January 1967 |
| The Time Tunnel | The Walls of Jericho | 27 January 1967 |
| The Time Tunnel | Idol of Death | 3 February 1967 |
| The Time Tunnel | Billy the Kid | 10 February 1967 |
| The Time Tunnel | Pirates of Deadman's Island | 17 February 1967 |
| The Time Tunnel | Chase Through Time | 24 February 1967 |
| The Time Tunnel | The Death Merchant | 3 March 1967 |
| The Time Tunnel | Attack of the Barbarians | 10 March 1967 |
| The Time Tunnel | Merlin the Magician | 17 March 1967 |
| The Time Tunnel | The Kidnappers | 24 March 1967 |
| The Time Tunnel | Raiders from Outer Space | 31 March 1967 |
| The Time Tunnel | 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 |
| The Fugitive | Home Is the Hunted | 7 January 1964 |
| The Fugitive | The End Is But the Beginning | 12 January 1965 |
| The Fugitive | 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 |
| Men into Space | Tankers in Space | 6 January 1960 |
| The Man and the Challenge | Odds Against Survival | 26 September 1959 |
| The Man and the Challenge | 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 Court of Last Resort | The Jacob Loveless Case (script supervisor) | 28 February 1958 |
| The Court of Last Resort | The Mary Morales Case | 21 March 1958 |
| The Court of Last Resort | The Todd-Loomis Case | 4 April 1958 |
| Sea Hunt | Sixty Feet Below | 4 January 1958 |
| Sea Hunt | Mark of the Octopus | 1 February 1958 |
| Sea Hunt | Killer Whale | 22 March 1958 |
| Sea Hunt | Magnetic Mine | 31 May 1958 |
| Sea Hunt | Hermes | 10 May 1959 |
| Dr. Christian | The Guardian | 1 January 1956 |
| Highway Patrol | Released Convict | 1 January 1956 |
| Highway Patrol | Hit and Run | 13 February 1956 |
| Highway Patrol | Dead Patrolman | 30 April 1956 |
| Highway Patrol | Stolen Car Ring | 24 December 1956 |
| Highway Patrol | Mistaken Identity | 1 January 1957 |
| Highway Patrol | Escaped Mental Patient | 1 January 1957 |
| Highway Patrol | Nitro | 25 March 1957 |
| Highway Patrol | Double Cross | 3 June 1957 |
| Science Fiction Theatre | The Unexplored | 11 November 1955 |
| Science Fiction Theatre | Before the Beginning | 16 December 1955 |
| Science Fiction Theatre | The Long Sleep | 13 April 1956 |
| Science Fiction Theatre | The Unguided Missile | 25 May 1956 |
| Science Fiction Theatre | Jupitron | 17 August 1956 |
| Science Fiction Theatre | 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) | 1975–1977 |
| The Fugitive (Associate Producer) | Fear in a Desert City | 17 September 1963 |
| The Fugitive (Associate Producer) | The Witch | 24 September 1963 |
| The Fugitive (Associate Producer) | The Other Side of the Mountain | 1 October 1963 |
| The Fugitive (Associate Producer) | Never Wave Goodbye: Part 1 | 8 October 1963 |
| The Fugitive (Associate Producer) | Never Wave Goodbye: Part 2 | 15 October 1963 |
| The Fugitive (Associate Producer) | Smoke Screen | 29 October 1963 |
| The Fugitive (Associate Producer) | Fatso | 19 November 1963 |
| The Fugitive (Associate Producer) | Home Is the Hunted | 7 January 1964 |
| The Fugitive (Associate Producer) | Come Watch Me Die | 21 January 1964 |
| The Fugitive (Associate Producer) | Where the Action Is | 28 January 1964 |
| The Fugitive (Associate Producer) | Flight from the Final Demon | 10 March 1964 |
| The Fugitive (Associate Producer) | Taps for a Dead War | 17 March 1964 |
| The Fugitive (Associate Producer) | Somebody to Remember | 24 March 1964 |
| The Fugitive (Associate Producer) | Never Stop Running | 31 March 1964 |
| The Fugitive (Associate Producer) | The Homecoming | 7 April 1964 |
| The Fugitive (Associate Producer) | Storm Center | 14 April 1964 |
| The Fugitive (Associate Producer) | 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 |