Gilbert Ralston

Gilbert Alexander Ralston (January 5, 1912 – March 18, 1999) was a British-American screenwriter,^[1] journalist and author. He was a television producer in the 1950s and a screenwriter in the 1960s. He created the television series The Wild Wild West and wrote scripts for Star Trek, Gunsmoke, Ben Casey, I Spy,^[1] Hawaii Five-O and Naked City. He wrote the screenplay for the 1971 movie Willard,^[2] which was based on the 1968 novel Ratman's Notebooks written by Stephen Gilbert.^[2]