- Garrie Bateson is known for Mission: Impossible (1966), The Traveling Executioner (1970) and Night Gallery (1969).
- Garrie Bateson was a cinema student at the University of Southern California when he started writing "a black comedy on capital punishment" in 1968. He submitted his original screenplay to his instructor, the noted screenwriting teacher Howard A. Rodman, who showed it around to others in the industry. Director Jack Smight liked the script and MGM agreed to finance it ($1.8 million). Bateson was about 22 years old when The Traveling Executioner (1970) premiered in October 1970.
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