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Compare [[Directed by Cast Member]], obviously, as well as [[Cast Full of Writers]] for when the vast majority of the writing staff is also up on screen.

 

* [[Sylvester Stallone]] has written or co-written a lot of his movies, even the ones that he didn't pen from scratch (like ''[[Cliff Hanger]]'' and ''[[The Expendables]]'').

* Italian movie star David Warbeck (that was his real name; he was from New Zealand) wrote some of his movies like ''Treasure Of The Golden Cobra'', although not with credit.

* ''[[Small Wonder]]'' had a few episodes written, at least in part, by Dick Christie.

* Since the 1980s, Sonia Manzano has been both a performer and a writer on ''[[Sesame Street]]''.

* Although "Saving Private Leo" is one of the few episodes of ''[[Charmed]]'' to specifically be about the Halliwells' favourite Whitelighter, and Brian Krause (Leo) is the only cast member of ''[[Charmed]]'' to co-write an episode, this isn't it - he has co-story credit on "Sense And Sense Ability." [[Executive Meddling|He's said the finished product was different from what he turned in.]]

* Unlike ''[[Directed by Cast Member]]'', very few episodes of ''[[Star Trek]]'' (any incarnation) qualify - in fact, the only episodes of the entire run to have involved cast members are "The Muse" on ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''(co-written by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry) and "Life Line" from ''Star Trek: Voyager'' (co-written by Robert Picardo). Walter Koenig wrote "The Infinite Vulcan" for the animated series, but that doesn't count because Chekov wasn't on the cartoon.

* Robert Culp loved doing this on his series - ''Trackdown'', ''[[I Spy]]'' and ''[[The Greatest American Hero]]'' all had episodes he wrote (AND directed).

* John Schneider co-wrote and directed "Opening Night At The Boar's Nest," the [[Series Finale]] of ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]''.

* Both Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher wrote episodes of ''[[Lois and Clark|Lois And Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman]]''.

* [[Tina Fey]] has written or co-written a number of ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'' episodes, including the pilot. This is more a case of [[Descended Creator]], however, as she did not originally plan to act on the show.

* Michael Imperioli wrote several episodes of ''[[The Sopranos]]''.

* Michael Landon penned several episodes of ''[[Bonanza]]'', wrote more episodes of ''[[Little House on the Prairie (TV series)|Little House On the Prairie]]'' than anyone else and was a regular writer for ''[[Highway to Heaven]]'' (the only one of his three series which he also created).

 

== Radio ==

* In 1955 ''[[The Archers]]'' had an episode where Grace Archer, the wife of Phil, was killed off. (It may or may not have been coincidence that the episode went out on BBC radio the very night [[ITV|commercial television]] began.) The script had Grace's fate be conveyed in the final line of dialogue thusly: "She... she died in my arms... on the way to hospital." However, Norman Painting (who played Phil) suggested the line go "In my arms... on the way to hospital... she's dead!" Suffice to say that not only was this one of the most talked-about episodes of the soap, but Painting went on to write many, many episodes as well as act in them.

* ''Radio Active'' had a [[Cast Full of Writers]] (so full, in fact, that Helen Atkinson Wood was the only one who didn't chip in on that front).

 

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