Robert Dozier was a busy television writer in the 50s and 60s. His father was William Dozier, sometime story editor at RKO studios, sometime husband of Joan Fontaine, and producer (and narrator) of the "Batman" TV series of 1966-8, to which Robert contributed scripts. Robert Dozier achieved fame in 1955 with a well-received TV play, "Deal A Blow", a study of a son's difficult relationship with his overbearing father, which some claimed was autobiographical. This was turned into one of the last RKO movies, "The Young Stranger", and another of his TV plays, "The Lonely Stage" was loosely the
… More basis of Judy Garland's last film, "I Could Go On Singing" (1963). In the same year, Robert Dozier was the sole credited screenwriter of the acclaimed movie "The Cardinal", but its director Otto Preminger later claimed in his memoirs that the final version of the script was written by Gore Vidal. Dozier returned to TV after this film flopped. In 1981, he married the popular TV actress Diana Muldaur, of "Born Free" and "McCloud" fame. 
