Career
He is best known for his work on the television series Star Trek (The Original Series) in 1966, and its sequel series, Star Trek: The Next Generation during the 1980s. During the 1980s, Black was also given cr for the story for sequel episode, "The Naked Now", in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Black also received shared story-writing cr (with Worley Thorne, who wrote the teleplay) for one more episode in this series, "Justice", under his pseudonym of "Ralph Wills".
Black also wrote for many other television series, including The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Charlie"s Angels, Hawaii Five-O, The Fugitive, Mission: Impossible, and Mannix.
In work for motion pictures, Black co-wrote the movie adaptation of Shaft (1971), along with his co-writer, Ernest Tidyman, who had written the original novel of Shaft. Black also was the executive producer of the detective movie Trouble Manitoba (1972), which starred Robert Hooks and whose musical score was written by Marvin Gaye.
