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name: "Robert E. Swanson"
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updated: "2026-09-16T16:51:23.025126+00:00"
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# Robert E. Swanson

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Also known as:** Robert Swanson

## Biography

Robert E. Swanson is a television writer and producer, also credited as Robert Swanson. He began writing for series in the mid-1970s, contributing the episode 'The Trade-Off' to *Kojak* in 1975 and an episode to *Baretta* the same year.

Swanson wrote multiple episodes of *Starsky and Hutch* (1978–1979), as well as episodes of *Hart to Hart*, *Barnaby Jones*, *Ellery Queen* and other crime and mystery series. From 1984 he worked extensively on *Murder, She Wrote*, writing around 25 episodes and later serving as producer and supervising producer.

*Sources: fandango.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Kojak* (1973), Fi1m 80, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/kojak.md)

## Also known for

- *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), Writer
- *Starsky & Hutch* (1975), Writer
- *Hart to Hart* (1979), Writer
- *Ellery Queen* (1975), Writer

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