The Los Angeles Times is reporting the death of television writer Robert Vincent Wright, of acute bronchitis and pneumonia, on 17 June 2007. The Times credits Wright with episodes of Lost in Space, The Wild Wild West, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and Fantasy Island. Of those genre scripts, IMDB lists only The Wild Wild West and four episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Wright was working as the supervisor of motion pictures in the engineering division of the Boeing Airplane Co. in Seattle when he wrote his first TV script, an episode of Maverick.
An agent dropped off the script with one of the show’s producers on a Friday afternoon. The next Monday, the agent called Wright to say that his script had not only sold but also would be shot as written.
Wright moved to Van Nuys, California, with his wife and two sons and went on to write dozens of TV episodes. He also served as story editor on Bonanza in the 1970s.