To get Canadian government subsidies the production was shot in Canada and Canadian writers produced the scripts from story outlines by Ellison.

Fifteen writers a year worked on the show's scripts, but very few lasted longer than one season.

Norman Stiles, head writer in 1987, reported that most writers would " burn out " after writing about a dozen scripts.

It was written and illustrated by a variety of writers and artists ; Caitlin R. Kiernan wrote the largest number of scripts for the series.

The project carried on through several more writers and scripts.

In addition to earning $ 45 to $ 50 a week at the college radio station, Serling attempted to make a living selling freelance scripts to radio programs, but the industry at that time was involved in many lawsuits, which affected willingness to take on new writers ( some who had scripts rejected would often hear a similar plot produced, claim their work had been stolen and sue for recompense ).

The best-known example of this is its animated adaptation Star Trek: The Animated Series, which included scripts contributed by well-known science fiction writers and starred most of the original cast.

Jane Espenson has explained how scripts came together for Mutant Enemy Productions series Buffy, Angel and Firefly: a meeting was held and an idea was floated ( generally by Whedon ) and the writers brainstormed to develop the central theme of the episode and the character development.

One of his rare leading roles was in the BBC series The Rough with the Smooth, in which he and Tim Brooke-Taylor played comedy writers ( with both actors contributing scripts to the series as well )..

) Breen's power to change scripts and scenes angered many writers, directors, and Hollywood moguls.

A number of well-respected writers in the science fiction field contributed scripts to the series ( mostly in the first and second seasons ), including Larry Niven, Theodore Sturgeon, Ben Bova, and Norman Spinrad, and a number of people involved with Star Trek, such as Dorothy " D. C ." Fontana, Walter Koenig, and David Gerrold.

Additionally, Elizabethan theatre often paid professional writers of the time to perform minor additions and emendations to problematic or overly brief scripts ( the additions to the popular but brief Doctor Faustus and Shakespeare's own additions on the unperformed Thomas More being some of the best known ).

Thanks to Ward's genial partner Bill Scott ( who contributed to the scripts and voiced Bullwinkle and other characters ) and a corps of top comedy writers, puns were used often and shamelessly: in a " Fractured Fairy Tales " featuring Little Jack Horner, upon pulling out the plum, Jack announced, " Lord, what foods these morsels be!

However, the producers accepted scripts for sketches from a wide range of writers and ensured the show remained topical by recording sketches only days before broadcast.

Parallel to The Practice, Kelley penned all the scripts for the first season, then brought in other writers in subsequent years although he continued to write many episodes himself.

After a few years of this, writers became more conscious of the space required for the laugh track and began writing and timing their scripts around it.

From the summer of 1933 until August 1935, Cooper was NBC Chicago's continuity chief, supervising a staff of writers and editing their scripts.

The following excerpt from the TOS bible Star Trek Guide ( April 17, 1967, p. 25 ) instructs writers on how to select stardates for their scripts:

The sitcom was one of the most critically successful ITV comedy series of its day, and developed a strong following: the audience laughter was so loud and persistent that it apparently caused the show to overrun and the writers had to shorten the scripts to compensate.

Mackintosh disappeared after he had written just four of the scripts for Series Three, so other writers were called in to bring the episode count up to seven.

The show was revived for a season in 1988, using old scripts reshot with new casts when a writers ' strike made new material inaccessible.

Fine and Friedkin ( who previously wrote scripts for radio's Broadway Is My Beat and Crime Classics under producer / director Elliott Lewis ) were co-producers and head writers, and wrote the scripts for 16 episodes, one of which Friedkin directed.

In an attempt to provide a coherent timeline which fit the numerous adventures of Conan penned by Robert E. Howard and later writers, various " Conan chronologies " have been prepared by many people from the 1930s onward.

In the time since Gygax had left TSR, no original Greyhawk material had been published, and many letter writers had requested ideas for new adventures.

However American folklorist Richard M. Dorson found that O ' Reilly invented the stories as " fakelore ", and later writers either borrowed tales from O ' Reilly or added further adventures of their own invention to the cycle.

It was created bit by bit by different writers through adventures and source books creating a somewhat haphazard world ; medieval feudal states exist side-by-side with comparably advanced Renaissance-styled nations.

Dragonlance is one of the most popular shared worlds, worlds in which writers other than those that created them place adventures.

The adventures themselves, which took place between 1947 and 1950, were meant to help him overcome writers block during early attempts to write the book.

Typical of British thriller writers of the era, he rarely used recurring characters whose adventures unfolded over multiple books.

Franklin and many of his friends had new voice actors in these new adventures, but many of the show's strongest writers and staff-members remained on board.

The price was raised from 70p to £ 1. 20 ( 99p for the first two weeks ), a new comic strip called " Office Hours " ( a comic strip about the adventures of the writers of The Dandy ) appeared, and two supposedly new ones also started, though they were actually revivals from a few years earlier (" Jak " and " Dreadlock Holmes ").

Created by Robert Kanigher and Charles Paris, his later adventures were handled by writers France Herron, Don Cameron, and Gardner Fox ; and artists Gil Kane and Carmine Infantino.

Attempting to pin down the exact details of Iris's history is problematic because such details are not only kept deliberately vague by Magrs and other writers, but also because the accounts of her adventures may not be reliable, in whole or in part.

With a unique perspective on the eventful early life of Indiana Jones – including its cinematic qualities, an emphasis on storytelling and characters, and an enticing promise of new adventures each week – McCallum attracted a stellar list of writers and actors to the creative ranks of the series.

His lost account of his adventures is quoted by Roman writers.

John Peel's two-book novelisation of Master Plan indicates that some six months elapsed between the seventh and eighth episodes of the serial, during which Sara, Steven and the Doctor travel together and have other adventures ; Peel stated that this was in order to allow future writers to develop stories involving Sara.

When not saving the world as the archetypal superhero, Crane illustrated the adventures of Omniman, a Supreme-like character undergoing a re-launch with a change of writers.

Eventually it was stated that the writers of DC Comics of Earth Prime unconsciously base their stories on the adventures of the heroes on Earth-One and Earth-Two.

The inspiration for the episode came from the concept of " thrillionaires ", a term the Simpsons writers found in an issue of The Economist to describe millionaires who " do really incredible stunts " and " go on amazing adventures.

There are also several groups of quasi-independent writers who's adventures are sup-plots to the main story and are centered around a specific city, region, or secret society.

Telarium focused on prime quality text and published eight adventures, partly in cooperation with established writers like Michael Crichton, Byron Preiss, Ray Bradbury, and Arthur C. Clarke.

) which the zine's writers would explore in exhaustive detail, freely recounting their own suicide attempts, kinky sexual adventures, addictions or family horror stories.

The Triad was responsible for finding writers for regional adventures ( or writing the regional adventures themselves ), approving story ideas, editing adventures and submitting finished adventures to the Circle for approval, writing special missions for individual players, answering questions from players, arbitrating disputes regarding play, auditing players ' documents, and maintaining a regional website.