George Bellak

George Bellak (April 9, 1919 – October 22, 2002)^[1]^[2] was an American television writer who was active from the 1950s to the 1980s. He wrote episodes for Justice, (1954), Playhouse 90 (1957-1959), The Asphalt Jungle (1961), N.Y.P.D. (1967-1968), Cannon (1970-1975), and dozens of others. He was a winner of Writers Guild of America Award, and was nominated for an Emmy award for his teleplay Sadbird as part of the CBS Playhouse series.^[3]

Bellak was recruited in August 1973 to work on the TV series Space: 1999 (1975). He wrote the pilot episode Breakaway and was story consultant during early development, even preparing a writer's guide in September, before leaving the show in October just before filming began.

External links

George Bellak at the Internet Movie Database
George Bellak on The Catacombs - A comprehensive guide to Space:1999

References

↑ "All U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 results for George Bellak". Ancestry.com. n.d. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
↑ "George Bellak—Obituary". The New York Times. October 23, 2002. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
↑ TV.com: CBS Playhouse: Sadbird.

Space: 1999

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Episodes

Series 1	"Breakaway" "Matter of Life and Death" "Black Sun" "Ring Around the Moon" "Earthbound" "Another Time, Another Place" "Missing Link" "Guardian of Piri" "Force of Life" "The Last Sunset" "Voyager's Return" "Collision Course" "The Full Circle" "War Games" "The Last Enemy" "The Troubled Spirit" "The Infernal Machine" "Mission of the Darians" "Dragon's Domain" "The Testament of Arkadia"

Series 2	"The Metamorph" "One Moment of Humanity" "All That Glisters" "Journey to Where" "The Taybor" "The Mark of Archanon" "Brian the Brain" "New Adam, New Eve" "Catacombs of the Moon" "The AB Chrysalis" "Seed of Destruction" "The Beta Cloud" "Space Warp" "The Bringers of Wonder": Part 1 / Part 2 "The Lambda Factor" "The Seance Spectre" "Devil's Planet" "The Dorcons"