Doug Molitor

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{{short description|American television screenwriter (born 1952)}}

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Doug Molitor (born July 8, 1952) is an American television screenwriter.

He has written for TV programs including Adventure Inc., Sliders, F/X: The Series, Lucky Luke, Police Academy: The Series, You Can't Take It with You, Sledge Hammer!, Young Hercules, Ritas Welt (Rita's World), Dinosaucers, James Bond Jr., and Deepwater Black (U.S. title: Mission Genesis).

Molitor won the American Accolades TV & Shorts Competition for "Farewell to Tuvalu", an episode of The West Wing,{{cite book|last=Haddad|first=Michael|title=The Screenwriter's Sourcebook: A Comprehensive Marketing Guide for Screen and Television Writers|url=https://archive.org/details/screenwriterssou0000hadd|url-access=registration|accessdate=18 November 2010|year=2005|publisher=Chicago Review Press|isbn=978-1-55652-550-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/screenwriterssou0000hadd/page/9 9]}} and was nominated for a Humanitas Prize for his work on the Captain Planet and the Planeteers episode "The Ark".{{cite web |date=26 June 1992 |title='Fly Away' Writers in the Running for Humanitas Prizes |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-06-26-ca-1184-story.html |url-access=subscription |accessdate=2025-04-10 |work=Los Angeles Times |page=24}}

He wrote for the Italian television series Lucky Luke.{{cite book|last1=Green|first1=Paul|last2=Hoffman|first2=Mike|title=Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns: Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Films, Television and Games|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HDnHo993Dv0C&pg=PA139|accessdate=18 November 2010|year=2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-4390-1|pages=138–139}} He was selected by the Writers Guild of America to participate in Writers Access Project.{{cite web|url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118017686?refCatId=1066|title=WGA taps 20 for Writer Access Project|last=McNary|first=Dave|date=13 April 2010|work=Variety|accessdate=18 November 2010}}

In 1987, Molitor was a four-time Jeopardy! champion and competed in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions. He later competed in the 1993 10th Anniversary Tournament and the 2025 Invitational Tournament.