big-screen work for many years. Throughout the 1970s, he wrote many television films such as Revenge! (1971), A Death of Innocence (1971), Home for the Holidays (1972), Live Again, Die Again (1974), Aloha Means Goodbye (1974) and Snowbeast (1977). Stefano also wrote one episode for the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988) entitled "Skin of Evil". Stefano was one of the Guests of Honor at the 1974 NY Telefantasy Convention (along with Noel Neill, Jim Danforth and William Tuttle), and spent hours signing autographs for hundreds of Outer Limits fans. At the show, he expressed his surprise that so many people still remembered the series almost a decade after its cancellation. In 1990, he revisited the characters from Psycho with the TV movie script for the prequel, in what he believed had become an increasingly disappointing series of films. Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990) posits the origins of Norman Bates' destructive mother-love, featuring Olivia Hussey as Mrs. Bates. Stefano wrote and executive produced the Al Pacino drama Two Bits (1995), a personal project that fared poorly at the box-office and with critics, leaving Stefano less than enthusiastic about continuing to write for modern Hollywood. Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho (1998 film) (1998) followed Stefano's script punctiliously, and in the biopic Hitchcock (2012) based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello, he is portrayed by Ralph Macchio. Stefano died of a heart attack at Los Robles Hospital in Thousand Oaks, California, in 2006. The Outer Limits Stefano was a producer for the first season of The Outer Limits and wrote a total of 12 episodes. They are: "Nightmare" "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork" "The Zanti Misfits" "The Mice" (teleplay) "Don't Open Till Doomsday" "The Invisibles" "The Bellero Shield" (story & teleplay) "Moonstone" (story) "Fun and Games" (teleplay) "A Feasibility Study" "The Chameleon" (story) "The Forms of Things Unknown" The last episode was originally a pilot for a proposed TV series called The Unknown, but after ABC rejected it, Stefano reworked it as the season one finale. Filmography Films Television References External links 1975 interview 1990 interview 1922 births 2006 deaths American male screenwriters American writers of Italian descent Edgar Award winners Writers from Philadelphia Screenwriters from Pennsylvania 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters South Philadelphia High School alumni