Samuel A. Peeples


Samuel Anthony Peeples was an American writer. He published several novels in the Western genre, often under the pen name Brad Ward, before moving into American series television after being given a script assignment by Frank Gruber. In addition to writing Western television scripts, he created several Western series, notably Lancer, Frontier Circus, The Tall Man, and co-created the series Custer.
Peeples was a literary science fiction enthusiast who also occasionally wrote science fiction for Television, starting by providing advice and reference material to friend and colleague Gene Roddenberry as the latter created what became the original ' series. Peeples was one of three writers pegged to write a proposed second pilot for the series, and his script, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", was filmed and sold the series. He contributed the first aired episode of the animated ' series, "Beyond the Farthest Star |Beyond the Farthest Star". Peeples wrote a number of episodes for Filmation's live action Space Academy and Jason of Star Command series and wrote the script for their animated TV movie and seven first season episodes of the series that resulted from it. He also wrote an unused alternative script, Worlds That Never Were, for the second Star Trek motion picture, however, the name of one character from his draft, Doctor Savik, would eventually get reused for the character Lieutenant Saavik.
Peeples died of cancer on September 22, 1997 at age 79.

Novels

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1958