who is this mysterious S-Bar David that penned the first episodes of Voyage, Lost, and Tunnel?
Was a Bar Mitzvah held during the first shoots or what?
I thought it was Allen's Jewish pen name
S. Bar David was a pen name for Shimon Wincelberg. I believe there was some contractual reason that he couldn't use his real name for "The Reluctant Stowaway" (the first LOST IN SPACE episode aired) even though he was credited as Shimon Wincelberg for his other early scripts. He is credited as Shimon Wincelberg for the TIME TUNNEL pilot and his VOYAGE episode. But it was not the pilot episode of VOYAGE that he wrote; he wrote "The Ghost of Moby Dick."
shareHe also wrote "Dagger of the Mind" and "The Galileo Seven" for Star Trek under the dame S-Bar David.
shareIrwin Allen wouldn't need a Jewish pen name. He was Jewish. So was Shimon Wincelberg
shareYes, but for some reason Simon Wincelberg couldn't use his real name, Jewish or not, for some of the scripts he wrote. I think that Brimfire was right that there was some sort of contractual obligation which prevented him from (openly) writing for other shows using his real name during some periods.
When Gene L. Coon left as producer of Star Trek in 1968 he signed up with another show and signed a contract forbidding him for writing for other shows, including Star Trek. But he did write a few episode for Star trek after that, using the pen name of Lee Cronin.
Yeah, but how would anybody know from his name that Shimon Wincelberg is Jewish. 🤣
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