Douglas Schwartz is an American television screenwriter and series creator who, along with Michael Berk, worked as a writer on the television series Manimal, and multiple made for television movies. He is most famous for creating co-producing, and writing The Wizard (TV series), as well as creating and writing the earlier scripts of Baywatch a show which exceeded a global audience of 1 billion people. He also developed Sheena, based on the comic book of the same name.