Earl W. Wallace

Emerging from a regional newspaper role as city editor of the Thousand Oaks Acorn, Wallace entered television writing after a screenwriting class led to his first Gunsmoke teleplay, which secured him a staff position and eventually the head-writer title when the long-running Western ended. He later co-created the ill-fated 1979 series Supertrain, adapting a story with Donald E. Westlake, and trans… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources