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Veteran TV screenwriter Gillis discusses his work writing 15 episodes of The Adventures of Superman (1950s), explaining how he pushed the series toward science-fictional fantasy and deliberately introduced kryptonite to give the invincible hero vulnerability. He reflects on the difficulty of plotting mystery series like Perry Mason and Columbo, and notes that a 1953 Superman episode he wrote included a prescient anti-nuclear speech drawn from his experience as a WWII intelligence officer who flew over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.