Psycho screenplay writer...

"August 30, 2006: Joseph Stefano, 84, who wrote the screenplay for
Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller "Psycho" and was the influential
first-season producer-writer of the 1960s science-fiction anthology TV
series "The Outer Limits," died Friday of heart failure in Thousand
Oaks, Calif."

LC

L Covey wrote:
> "August 30, 2006: Joseph Stefano, 84, who wrote the screenplay for
> Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller "Psycho" and was the influential
> first-season producer-writer of the 1960s science-fiction anthology TV
> series "The Outer Limits," died Friday of heart failure in Thousand
> Oaks, Calif."
>
> LC

Sorry to hear the news. He was a superb writer.

The script for Psycho was great ("Alma loved it" per Hitch), and a
number of episodes he wrote for the first season of The Outer Limits
are classics of the genre.

My favorite Stefano-written opening for an Outer Limits episode was for
"The Invisibles":

"You do not know these men. You may have looked at them, but you did
not see them. They are the newspapers blowing down a gutter on a windy
night. For reasons both sociological and psychological these three have
never joined or been invited to join society. They have never
experienced love or friendship, or formed any lasting or constructive
relationship, but today, at last they will become a part of something.
They will belong. They will come a little closer to their unrealistic
dreams of power and glory. Today, finally, they will join the hu...I
almost said the human race, and that would have been a half-truth, for
the race they are joining today is only half human."