Writer-producer David W. Rintels, has worked in a variety of dramatic television forms, including series, made-for-television movies, and miniseries. He began his television career in the early 1960s writing episodes for the critically acclaimed CBS courtroom drama series The Defenders. He continued his series involvement writing episodes for Slattery's People (1964-65), a CBS political drama, and became head writer for the ABC science fiction series The Invaders (1967-68), before concentrating his energies on writing and producing made-for-television movies and miniseries. His work has been honored with two Emmy awards for outstanding writing (Clarence Darrow, 1973, and Fear On Trial, 1975); Writers Guild of America awards for outstanding script (A Continual Roar of Musketry, Parts I and II of the series The Senator, 1970, Fear On Trial, 1975, and Gideon's Trumpet, 1980); and a cable ACE award for writing (Sakharov, 1984). Rintels's credits also include the sole story and joint screenplay for the feature film Scorpio (1972).
