Buck Houghton

Archible Ernest "Buck" Houghton (4 May 1915 – 14 May 1999) was an American television producer and writer best known for producing the first three seasons of The Twilight Zone, as well as many other television programs from the 1950s through the 1990s. His collaboration with dramatist Clifford Odets, "The Richard Boone Show" (1963–64) was the only repertory company on television, in which a resident cast of actors played different roles in a TV play every week.

Houghton graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1933, where he was known as Arch Houghton. He attended UCLA, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. While attending high school and college, he helped out backstage on several films by Cecil B. DeMille, along with his close friend and classmate Horace Hahn.

He was the father of Jim Houghton.

He also had a daughter, Mona Houghton, featured at the end of the Twilight Zone episode Five Characters in Search of an Exit.

His 1991 book, What a Producer Does (Samuel French) is a primer for would-be film and television producers.

Houghton died in Los Angeles. He was suffering with both emphysema and ALS.

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