Richard Levinson and William Link were television producers and writers who collaborated for 43 years, until Levinson's death. They created classic television detective series such as Columbo, Mannix, Ellery Queen, Murder, She Wrote and Scene of the Crime, as well as made-for-TV movies including The Gun, My Sweet Charlie, That Certain Summer, The Judge and Jake Wyler, The Execution of Private Slovik, Charlie Cobb: A Nice Night for a Hanging, Rehearsal for Murder, and Blacke's Magic. They also collaborated on two feature films: The Hindenburg (1975) and Rollercoaster (1977).