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Actor. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Paul Robert Coyle is known for Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995), Star Trek: Voyager (1995) and Crazy Like a Fox (1984). Add photos, demo reels. Add to list. More at IMDbPro. Contact info. Agent info. Known for. Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. 6.5. TV Series. Writer. 1997–1999 • 14 eps. Star Trek: Voyager.
- Writer, Additional Crew, Actor
- Paul Robert Coyle
- In The Beginning
- Star Trek
- Space Precinct
- Moving from Science Fiction to Fantasy
- Ten Little Warlords
- A Necessary Evil
- The Execution
- Sacrifice II
- Moving to Hercules
- The End of The Beginning
PAUL ROBERT COYLE: I started writing on The Streets of San Francisco. That was the first thing I sold. When I was very young I decided I wanted to pursue this career. I was living back East and moved out here immediately after High School. I took some writing courses and wrote a lot of spec material. I finally sold my first script to The Streets o...
COYLE: I wound up doing a bunch of Star Trek's because Mike Piller, who had been story editor for Simon and Simon, later wound up taking over Star Trek: The Next Generation. I did a lot of rewrites on Next Generation, a lot of uncredited work. I was coming in after writers had done a script and finished or fixed them. They hired a lot of freelance...
RUDNICK: Prior to Hercules and Xena, the most interesting credit from you for me personally was when you wrote for a show that I absolutely loved that was on at one or two in the morning called Space Precinct. COYLE: [smiles] Oh, my God, you saw that?! RUDNICK: Not only saw it but loved it. COYLE: A lot of people I know saw that. Liz Friedman is a...
COYLE: That [SPACE PRECINCT] and the STAR TREKs had me moving more to sci-fi. I always had an interest in that genre as a kid but there weren't many sci-fi shows on TV during the time I was writing through the 70's. Just junk like BUCK ROGERS. So mostly I did cop and detective shows. CRAZY LIKE A FOX, JAKE AND THE FATMAN, and others. Finally I woun...
The very last idea I pitched was an AgathaChristie kind of "Ten Little Indians" story, but Rob doesn't like mysteries. He didn't want to do a murder mystery. I pitched my villain as a magician and Rob hates magic. We never do magic on HERCULES or XENA. I broke those two rules but they said "We'll think about it and get back to you." I figured I'd s...
RUDNICK: The next credit I have for you broadcast is A NECESSARY EVIL. COYLE: I think I actually wrote THE EXECUTION second. But ANECESSARY EVIL, I don't remember the genesis of that. I know they [producers] wanted Xena and Callisto to team up and go after Velasca, who was introduced in THE QUEST. That was another of the emergency episodes. A NECES...
RUDNICK: THE EXECUTION was an interesting episode because that's the second time we get to see the Meleager character, who is very popular. COYLE: He's very popular and again, someone who occasionally can come back. But Tim Thomerson does work on other series, sometimes he's available and sometimes not. It's a possibility we might be able to work s...
RUDNICK: SACRIFICE II was the last XENA broadcast that you did. COYLE: That came about after I'd already been on staff at HERCULES for a year. I was busy over here, although the two are sister shows. There are separate writing staffs. No one moves back and forth freely between the two. I had been doing HERCULES all of last season, Rob had been doin...
RUDNICK: Now sometime after THE EXECUTION but prior to SACRIFICE II, you moved over from the XENA side to the HERCULES side. COYLE: That happened because I was doing well writing freelance XENAs, and at the same time I began to watch XENA, I started checking out HERCULES. I was impressed by that show, too. As a freelance writer you're always lookin...
I wasn't even thinking of a staff position when I thought about writing for HERCULES. I asked Liz, "Do you want me to write a HERC?" She said, "Let me think about it." Many months went by, and a story I had originally pitched to XENA about Autolycus stealing the Kronos stone, they wanted to do for HERCULES instead. RUDNICK: That became END OF THE B...
Nov 25, 2020 · Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: PAUL ROBERT COYLE on his forty-plus-year journey as a freelance television writer, story editor, and producer, including learning how to adapt to the various changes in the TV industry over the years; the importance of building relationships; and many other hands-on tips that will help anyone who wishes to pursue ...
Paul Robert Coyle is a freelance writer who was involved in the writing of three Star Trek episodes, two of which were produced. In 1973, Coyle wrote a first draft script of "Point of Extinction", an episode which was submitted but never developed for Star Trek: The Animated Series. Years...
Paul Robert Coyle. Besides writing for hit TV series such as Crazy Like a Fox and Jake and the Fatman, Paul was a writer for Xena: Warrior Princess, a writer/producer for Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and a writer for three Trek series – Star Trek: The Animated Series; Star Trek: Voyager; and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Feb 19, 2023 · Joe Nazzaro meets writer Paul Robert Coyle, responsible for penning many of the most unusual episodes of Xena and Hercules, who admits he's nothing like that strange guy embodied by Michael Hurst in Yes, Virginia, There is a Hercules… Official Xena Magazine: Issue 10. Time travel; parallel universes; other-dimensional portals...
Paul Robert Coyle. Writer: Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Paul Robert Coyle is known for Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995), Crazy Like a Fox (1984) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993).
