The first big successful television creation of William Link and Richard Levinson was “Mannix” (1967-1975), the private detective series starring Mike Connors. Goldsmith's theme came from his score for the second episode, "A Jug Of Wine, A Loaf Of Bread And Pow!" In June 2005, Film Score Monthly released an album of music from the series, twinned with the score John Williams composed for the unsold pilot “The Ghostbreaker” (also produced by Arena Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television). The “Jericho” theme was composed by Jerry Goldsmith, although Goldsmith did not score the pilot episode "Upbeat And Underground" (Lalo Schifrin composed the music for the pilot and a theme which was never used). “Jericho” was cancelled after 16 episodes. “Jericho” couldn’t get a foothold in the action audience since “Daniel Boone,” then in its third season, was already well-entrenched. “Jericho”’s real competition came from NBC’s “Daniel Boone,” which was the #25-rated series for the season. “Batman”, in its second season, had already dropped out of the top 30 shows. On ABC, its competition was “Batman” and “F Troop”. Each week, the three performed a mission behind enemy lines using their skills in espionage and sabotage.ĬBS premiered the hour-long “Jericho” on Thursday, 15 September 1966 at 7:30 PM. “Jean-Gaston Andre” (Marino Masé) was skilled in armaments. Army Captain “Franklin Shepphard” (Don Francks) was an expert in psychological warfare Royal Navy Lieutenant “Nicholas Gage” (John Leyton) was an expert in demolitions and French Air Force Lt. “Jericho” was a series about a trio of agents: U.S. He called upon William Link and Richard Levinson to create such a show. Norman Felton who had previously co-produced “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” came up with the idea of a World War II espionage series to be produced by his Arena Productions through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television for the CBS television network. Over the next five years, sometimes alone, and sometimes with Richard Levinson, he would script episodes for nearly two dozen different series, including the westerns “Johnny Ringo,” “The Rebel,” and “Black Saddle ” crime shows such as “Richard Diamond, Private Detective,” “Burke’s Law,” and “Honey West ” and dramas like “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” “Stoney Burke,” and “Dr. William Link began writing for television in 1959. Some of their short stories were published in Playboy.
While studying at the University of Pennsylvania, they wrote film criticism for the college newspaper. In high school, they created radio scripts. Each had enjoyed doing magic tricks, and other students repeatedly mentioned to each of them that they should meet.
William Link and Richard Levinson met on their first day of junior high school. His obituary says he created Murder She Wrote, Mannix, and Jericho. William Link mystery writer and co-creator of Columbo. Non-Film Score Discussion: William Link Co- Creator of Columbo- RIP FSM Board: William Link Co- Creator of Columbo- RIP
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