I owe my old friend a call this afternoon, when it gets to be a Decent Hour in LA. Tom it was who in 1979 or thereabouts read the newly published The Door Into Fire and somehow, unaccountably, came to the conclusion that its author might be someone who would like to write animation. And he was right! He and the inimitable Duane Poole were my story editors on Scooby and Scrappy-Doo, for which they asked me to write some scripts…and with infinite patience they guided me through the process, with the result that I now have sixty or so scripts, various European live-action TV series, and a prime-time live-action project under my belt (presently undergoing its fifth rewrite. Thanks loads, guys…).
Tom has, of course, moved on to (theoretically) deathless fame as one of the two Senior Advisory wizards for the NY metropolitan area in the “Young Wizards” series. But now I see that The Big Cartoon Database has done him and Duane a naughty. Do a search in there on “Diane Duane” and one finds that I have been credited with fourteen scripts for the series, whereas I only actually wrote two. I think we can chalk this one up to the dangers of “gang credits”. Still, it seems unfair to my mentors, who (I’m pretty sure) wrote the majority of the others…
Meanwhile, I see that a rogue apostrophe has crept into the title of the Gargoyles script Peter and I wrote. “I’ll Met By Moonlight?” Pleeeeeeeease!!
