Film and Television
Spinrad wrote the script for an episode of the original Star Trek television series entitled "The Doomsday Machine" (1967). He also wrote an unproduced Star Trek script for Star Trek: Phase II.
He also wrote episodes for Land of the Lost (1974 TV series) and Werewolf (TV series).
He has been credited as a writer on two feature films, La sirène rouge and Druids. Universal Pictures bought the film rights to Bug Jack Barron, and Costa-Gavras was slated to direct. Harlan Ellison wrote an early version of the script, but the movie was never made.
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