(1X60) The story of Hollywood Director IB Melchior. A respected Novelist, Writer, film producer, film director and screenwriter, who started his life as a secret agent during WWII. Serving in the OSS and US Military Intelligence he was credited with ferreting out and destroying the fanatic Nazi Werewolf Organization, on the eve of plans to assassinate Gen. Eisenhower. He later deciphered a code on Shakespeare’s tombstone, which led to Ellsinore Castle where the code solution indicated a handwritten manuscript was buried. Shortly after this he located 13 buried trunks containing the documents and recordings from the Nazi’s that lead to the Nuremburg trials.

As an early Hollywood visionary, Melchior wrote and directed The Angry Red Planet and The Time Travelers. His most high profile credit was the critically acclaimed Robinson Crusoe on Mars.

For television, he wrote the original "Outer Limits" series. Melchior's short story The Racer was adapted as Paul Bartel's cult film favorite, Death Race 2000 (1975), starring David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone and produced by Roger Corman. It was later remade as Death Race (2008), starring Jason Statham and Joan Allen, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and produced by Tom Cruise.

In 1960, Melchior had created an outline for a series he called "Space Family Robinson", which later became a Gold Key comic book. Ed Shifres' book "Lost in Space: The True Story" is a detailed documentation of how Irwin Allen allegedly plagiarized Melchior's script, with the two outlines presented side by side.

Melchior, who is a decorated war hero, has also been involved in a long legal battle involving his father's estate (Famed Opera singer and movie star Lauritz Melchior), Chossewitz in Brandenburg, Germany. It was confiscated by the communist government of East Germany and never returned. In 1965, he was dubbed Knight Commander of the Militant Order of Saint Brigitte of Sweden and In 1976, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films awarded IB Melchior its Golden Scroll Award to Merit for Outstanding Achievement.