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Art Wallace was a television writer who worked on Star Trek: The Original Series. He wrote the second season episode " Obsession " and co-wrote " Assignment: Earth " with Gene Roddenberry . Outside of Trek , he is best known for his work on the soap opera, Dark Shadows .
Art Wallace was an American television writer best known for his work on the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. He began work in television in the 1940s, on the anthology series Studio One and Kraft Television Theater. Over the years, Wallace wrote for Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, Combat!, Star Trek, and many other shows.
YearTv SeriesCredit1948Writer1950Writer1953-54Writer1955-56WriterArt Wallace is known for All My Children (1970), Dark Shadows (1966) and Star Trek (1966).
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In the middle of Star Trek's second season, Roddenberry and writer Art Wallace reworked the Æ premise: "Assignment: Earth is interesting in a sense," Wallace points out, "because I had gone to Paramount and pitched a series idea to them.
"Assignment: Earth" is the twenty-sixth and final episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Art Wallace (based on a story by Wallace and Gene Roddenberry) and directed by Marc Daniels, it was first broadcast on 29 March 1968.
Obsession features a great Art Wallace script and solid performances by Shatner, Kelley and Nimoy. An away team is investigating a seemingly uninhabited planet, while carrying a cargo of medical supplies to a rendezvous for which they can't be late.
The second episode, Matter of Life and Death, started life as a script called Siren Planet by American writer Art Wallace. Wallace. Wallace had written two episodes of Star Trek (1967, 1968), as well as The Invaders (1967) and would later write for the TV series Planet of the Apes (1974).
