Fred Freiberger (February 19, 1915 – March 2, 2003) was an American television producer and script writer. He is best known for his work as producer of the third and final season of science fiction series Star Trek from 1968–1969. He was later contracted by Gerry Anderson and became the producer of the British-made science fiction series Space: 1999 for its second season. He wrote three episodes for Space: 1999 under the pseudonym "Charles Woodgr...
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Fred Freiberger (February 19, 1915 – March 2, 2003) was an American television producer and script writer. He is best known for his work as producer of the third and final season of science fiction series Star Trek from 1968–1969. He was later contracted by Gerry Anderson and became the producer of the British-made science fiction series Space: 1999 for its second season. He wrote three episodes for Space: 1999 under the pseudonym "Charles Woodgrove" as he had done when writing episodes of the Western series Rawhide. Perhaps unusually for writer/producers of his standing in his generation, Freiberger also did a considerable amount of work in animation, including Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space, yet another Freiberger space series.
Freiberger's career began as a writer for film in the 1940s, and by the late 1950s he was working extensively in television, writing Westerns and other genres. In 1960, he became producer of the popular medical drama, Ben Casey, which was followed by...
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