Max Hodge (February 12, 1916 – August 17, 2007)[1] was an American television writer who worked on shows including The Girl From U.N.C.L.E., CHiPS and Mission: Impossible, and is perhaps best known for creating Mr.
He then attended Pasadena Playhouse College of Theater Arts and began his television career in the 1950s as a producer working on industrial shows for Oldsmobile.
[2] In his time at University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, Hodge was chief editor of the student magazine the Gargoyle and president of the men's dramatic union, the Mimes.
His writing career spanned the 1960s through the early 1980s, with Hodge writing for Dr. Kildare, The Wild Wild West, Marcus Welby, M.D., Ironside, The Waltons, The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan[3] in addition to the aforementioned ChiPS, Mission: Impossible, The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.
In the comics, Freeze's other identity became "Art Shivel" (apparently a mishearing of how he was addressed on "Batman").