Lorenzo Semple Jr.

But the two episodes were High Diddle Riddle and Smack in the Middle.

Robert Butler handling the writing with direction by Lorenzo Semple Jr.

And again, January 12 and 13 of 66, our villain is the Riddler, Frank Gorshin.

And I had to look this one up.

point that I wanted to hear.

Well, bringing up Lorenzo Semple, obviously, and again, his tie to James Bond, making that 80s Sean Connery movie, Never Say Never Again.

That was my initial thought, that we could obviously talk about James Bond origin.

It only took us 45 minutes to get to one of your books to talk about.

You can talk to actual people who are involved in these things.

The very first person I interviewed for the book was Lorenzo Semple Jr., who was the screenwriter of the 70s Kong.

He also created, for those who were interested, the Batman TV show.

And he was also the first screenwriter on Three Days of the Condor, which is, you know, if you're a 70s movie fan, you're going to know.

Right.

There's a guy named Lorenzo Semple Jr. who is kind of instrumental in writing a lot of the first season and overseeing the writer's room.

So I think that person set the standard, but they have...

they have a lot more returning writers this season.

The other is, here's the Glennon moment.

So the film was, the screenplay was co-written by Lorenzo Semple Jr.

His daughter is Maria Semple, the writer, who I have met.

That's pretty

There's no existing early version of Lorenzo Semple's script for Zelda the Great A Death Worse Than Fate.

Or so we thought.

An alert listener has sent us a, well, a related treatment.