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	: "No one, not even the story editors, looked at these scripts very carefully. I seem to remember the show being on a really tight schedule, and we had to crank these scripts out fast. I wrote some of them in a single day, first draft, and they went almost immediately to the storyboard artists after [[Bryce Malek\|Bryce]] or an assistant gave them a rather cursory read. We were not trying to create art, just get them done fast, and get paid... None of the writing on this series, in my opinion, was good or passionate or, sometimes (my own included, like [[The Autobot Run]]) even adequate. But we got paid well for writing them fast.... I was never a fan of any of the characters."<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20070217131842/http://members.aol.com/tfencyc/interview_glut.html Zobovor interview with Don Glut]</ref>		: "No one, not even the story editors, looked at these scripts very carefully. I seem to remember the show being on a really tight schedule, and we had to crank these scripts out fast. I wrote some of them in a single day, first draft, and they went almost immediately to the storyboard artists after [[Bryce Malek\|Bryce]] or an assistant gave them a rather cursory read. We were not trying to create art, just get them done fast, and get paid... None of the writing on this series, in my opinion, was good or passionate or, sometimes (my own included, like [[The Autobot Run]]) even adequate. But we got paid well for writing them fast.... I was never a fan of any of the characters."<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20070217131842/http://members.aol.com/tfencyc/interview_glut.html Zobovor interview with Don Glut]</ref>

	Following the [[Transformers (film)\|2007 live action movie]], he also explicitly admitted not liking the "half-hour commercials" he wrote for in the 1980s, admitting that he "did it strictly for the $$$". At the same time, he also confirmed that his primary inspirations when writing episodes for the G1 cartoon were "Japanese giant robot shows" and Toho's [[Godzilla]], while "[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1\|Megatron's Master Plan]]" was based in part on the movie ''{{w\|Meet John Doe}}''.<ref>[~~http~~://~~monsterkidclassichorrorforum~~.~~yuku~~.com/~~topic~~/~~4754/t~~/~~Transformers~~.html~~?page=2~~ Don Glut comments on his work for the G1 cartoon] at ~~the~~ Classic Horror Film Board</ref>		Following the [[Transformers (film)\|2007 live action movie]], he also explicitly admitted not liking the "half-hour commercials" he wrote for in the 1980s, admitting that he "did it strictly for the $$$". At the same time, he also confirmed that his primary inspirations when writing episodes for the G1 cartoon were "Japanese giant robot shows" and Toho's [[Godzilla]], while "[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1\|Megatron's Master Plan]]" was based in part on the movie ''{{w\|Meet John Doe}}''.<ref>[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/monsterkidclassichorrorforum/transformers-t4754-s40.html#p333303 Don Glut comments on his work for the G1 cartoon] at [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/monsterkidclassichorrorforum The Classic Horror Film Board]</ref>

	==Episode scripts==		==Episode scripts==
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	* [[The Autobot Run]]		* [[The Autobot Run]]
	* [[Masquerade]]		* [[Masquerade]]
	* [[Call of the Primitives]]		* [[Call of the Primitives]]

	~~==Notes==~~
	*Despite Glut's own feelings towards his work in the 80s, he does think the "Autobot Spike", "Dinobot Island" and "Megatron's Master Plan" episodes were good episodes while he considers "The Autobot Run" was his worst episode.

	==External links==		==External links==
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	==References==		==References==
	{{reflist\|2}}		{{reflist}}

	[[Category:Writers\|Glut, Donald F.]]		[[Category:Writers\|Glut, Donald F.]]

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	* [[Masquerade]]		* [[Masquerade]]
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			==Notes==
			*Despite Glut's own feelings towards his work in the 80s, he does think the "Autobot Spike", "Dinobot Island" and "Megatron's Master Plan" episodes were good episodes while he considers "The Autobot Run" was his worst episode.

	==External links==		==External links==

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	* [http://web.archive.org/web/20070217131842/http://members.aol.com/tfencyc/interview_glut.html Zobovor's interview with Donald F Glut]		* [http://web.archive.org/web/20070217131842/http://members.aol.com/tfencyc/interview_glut.html Zobovor's interview with Donald F Glut]

	==~~Footnotes~~==		==References==
	~~<references />~~		{{reflist\|2}}

	[[Category:Writers\|Glut, Donald F.]]		[[Category:Writers\|Glut, Donald F.]]

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	[[File:DonFGlutFly01.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.67]]		[[File:DonFGlutFly01.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.67]]

	'''Donald F. Glut''' (born [[February 19]], [[1944]]) is an American writer and filmmaker. Glut got his start writing for the Warren horror comics magazines of the '70s such as ''Creepy'', ''Eerie'' and ''Vampirella''. He was also an amateur filmmaker throughout the '60s, producing, writing and starring in several fanfilms based on popular superheroes, even playing the titular webhead in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4HQn6rsJ38~~&feature=player_embedded~~ 1969 ''Spider-Man'' fanfilm].		'''Donald F. Glut''' (born [[February 19]], [[1944]]) is an American writer and filmmaker. Glut got his start writing for the Warren horror comics magazines of the '70s such as ''Creepy'', ''Eerie'' and ''Vampirella''. He was also an amateur filmmaker throughout the '60s, producing, writing and starring in several fanfilms based on popular superheroes, even playing the titular webhead in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4HQn6rsJ38 1969 ''Spider-Man'' fanfilm].

	In addition to ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)\|The Transformers]]'', he wrote many, many scripts for other '80s cartoons, including ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)\|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]]'', ''Masters of the Universe'', ''[[Spider-Man]] and his Amazing Friends'', ''DuckTales'' and ''The Mighty Orbots''. A noted [[dinosaur (dinosaur)\|dinosaur]] enthusiast, Glut has written several non-fiction books about dinosaurs and also "supervised" the paleontological accuracy of the 1993 film ''Carnosaur'' (good job on that one, Glut). He also wrote the bestselling novelization of ''[[Star Wars (franchise)\|The Empire Strikes Back]]''.		In addition to ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)\|The Transformers]]'', he wrote many, many scripts for other '80s cartoons, including ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)\|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]]'', ''Masters of the Universe'', ''[[Spider-Man]] and his Amazing Friends'', ''DuckTales'' and ''The Mighty Orbots''. A noted [[dinosaur (dinosaur)\|dinosaur]] enthusiast, Glut has written several non-fiction books about dinosaurs and also "supervised" the paleontological accuracy of the 1993 film ''Carnosaur'' (good job on that one, Glut). He also wrote the bestselling novelization of ''[[Star Wars (franchise)\|The Empire Strikes Back]]''.

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	: "No one, not even the story editors, looked at these scripts very carefully. I seem to remember the show being on a really tight schedule, and we had to crank these scripts out fast. I wrote some of them in a single day, first draft, and they went almost immediately to the storyboard artists after [[Bryce Malek\|Bryce]] or an assistant gave them a rather cursory read. We were not trying to create art, just get them done fast, and get paid... None of the writing on this series, in my opinion, was good or passionate or, sometimes (my own included, like [[The Autobot Run]]) even adequate. But we got paid well for writing them fast.... I was never a fan of any of the characters."<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20070217131842/http://members.aol.com/tfencyc/interview_glut.html Zobovor interview with Don Glut]</ref>		: "No one, not even the story editors, looked at these scripts very carefully. I seem to remember the show being on a really tight schedule, and we had to crank these scripts out fast. I wrote some of them in a single day, first draft, and they went almost immediately to the storyboard artists after [[Bryce Malek\|Bryce]] or an assistant gave them a rather cursory read. We were not trying to create art, just get them done fast, and get paid... None of the writing on this series, in my opinion, was good or passionate or, sometimes (my own included, like [[The Autobot Run]]) even adequate. But we got paid well for writing them fast.... I was never a fan of any of the characters."<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20070217131842/http://members.aol.com/tfencyc/interview_glut.html Zobovor interview with Don Glut]</ref>

	Following the [[Transformers (film)\|2007 live action movie]], he also explicitly admitted not liking the "half-hour commercials" he wrote for in the 1980s, admitting that he "did it strictly for the $$$". At the same time, he also confirmed that his primary inspirations when writing episodes for the G1 cartoon were "Japanese giant robot shows" and Toho's [[Godzilla]], while "[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1\|Megatron's Master Plan]]" was based in part on the movie ''~~[[Wikipedia:Meet John Doe~~\|Meet John Doe]]''.<ref>[http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/4754/t/Transformers.html?page=2 Don Glut comments on his work for the G1 cartoon] at the Classic Horror Film Board</ref>		Following the [[Transformers (film)\|2007 live action movie]], he also explicitly admitted not liking the "half-hour commercials" he wrote for in the 1980s, admitting that he "did it strictly for the $$$". At the same time, he also confirmed that his primary inspirations when writing episodes for the G1 cartoon were "Japanese giant robot shows" and Toho's [[Godzilla]], while "[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1\|Megatron's Master Plan]]" was based in part on the movie ''{{w\|Meet John Doe}}''.<ref>[http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/4754/t/Transformers.html?page=2 Don Glut comments on his work for the G1 cartoon] at the Classic Horror Film Board</ref>

	==Episode scripts==		==Episode scripts==
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	==External links==		==External links==
	* [http://www.donaldfglut.com/ Donald F. Glut's official website]		* [http://www.donaldfglut.com/ Donald F. Glut's official website]
	* ~~[http://en~~.~~wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_F._Glut~~ Donald F. Glut ~~article~~ at Wikipedia]		* {{w\|Donald F. Glut\|Donald F. Glut at Wikipedia}}
	* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0323304/ Donald F. Glut at the Internet Movie Database]		* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0323304/ Donald F. Glut at the Internet Movie Database]
	* [http://web.archive.org/web/20070217131842/http://members.aol.com/tfencyc/interview_glut.html Zobovor's interview with Donald F Glut]		* [http://web.archive.org/web/20070217131842/http://members.aol.com/tfencyc/interview_glut.html Zobovor's interview with Donald F Glut]

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	[[~~Image~~:DonFGlutFly01.jpg\|thumb\|~~right\|300px\|~~]]		[[File:DonFGlutFly01.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.67]]

	'''Donald F. Glut''' (born [[February 19]], [[1944]]) is an American writer and filmmaker. Glut got his start writing for the Warren horror comics magazines of the '70s such as ''Creepy'', ''Eerie'' and ''Vampirella''. He was also an amateur filmmaker throughout the '60s, producing, writing and starring in several fanfilms based ~~off of~~ popular superheroes, even playing the titular webhead in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4HQn6rsJ38&feature=player_embedded 1969 ''Spider-Man'' fanfilm].		'''Donald F. Glut''' (born [[February 19]], [[1944]]) is an American writer and filmmaker. Glut got his start writing for the Warren horror comics magazines of the '70s such as ''Creepy'', ''Eerie'' and ''Vampirella''. He was also an amateur filmmaker throughout the '60s, producing, writing and starring in several fanfilms based on popular superheroes, even playing the titular webhead in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4HQn6rsJ38&feature=player_embedded 1969 ''Spider-Man'' fanfilm].

	In addition to ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)\|The Transformers]]'', he wrote many, many scripts for other '80s cartoons, including ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)\|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]]'', ''Masters of the Universe'', ''[[Spider-Man]] and his Amazing Friends'', ''DuckTales'' and ''The Mighty Orbots''. A noted [[dinosaur (dinosaur)\|dinosaur]] enthusiast, Glut has written several non-fiction books about dinosaurs and also "supervised" the paleontological accuracy of the 1993 film ''Carnosaur'' (good job on that one, Glut). He also wrote the bestselling novelization of ''[[Star Wars (franchise)\|The Empire Strikes Back]]''.		In addition to ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)\|The Transformers]]'', he wrote many, many scripts for other '80s cartoons, including ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)\|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]]'', ''Masters of the Universe'', ''[[Spider-Man]] and his Amazing Friends'', ''DuckTales'' and ''The Mighty Orbots''. A noted [[dinosaur (dinosaur)\|dinosaur]] enthusiast, Glut has written several non-fiction books about dinosaurs and also "supervised" the paleontological accuracy of the 1993 film ''Carnosaur'' (good job on that one, Glut). He also wrote the bestselling novelization of ''[[Star Wars (franchise)\|The Empire Strikes Back]]''.

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	'''Donald F. Glut''' (born [[February 19]], [[1944]]) is an American writer and filmmaker. Glut got his start writing for the Warren horror comics magazines of the '70s such as ''Creepy'', ''Eerie'' and ''Vampirella''. He was also an amateur filmmaker throughout the '60s, producing, writing and starring in several fanfilms based off of popular superheroes, even playing the titular webhead in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4HQn6rsJ38&feature=player_embedded 1969 ''Spider-Man'' fanfilm].		'''Donald F. Glut''' (born [[February 19]], [[1944]]) is an American writer and filmmaker. Glut got his start writing for the Warren horror comics magazines of the '70s such as ''Creepy'', ''Eerie'' and ''Vampirella''. He was also an amateur filmmaker throughout the '60s, producing, writing and starring in several fanfilms based off of popular superheroes, even playing the titular webhead in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4HQn6rsJ38&feature=player_embedded 1969 ''Spider-Man'' fanfilm].

	In addition to ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)\|The Transformers]]'', he wrote many, many scripts for other '80s cartoons, including ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)\|G.I. Joe]]'', ''Masters of the Universe'', ''[[Spider-Man]] and his Amazing Friends'', ''DuckTales'' and ''The Mighty Orbots''. A noted [[dinosaur (dinosaur)\|dinosaur]] enthusiast, Glut has written several non-fiction books about dinosaurs. He also wrote the bestselling novelization of ''The Empire Strikes Back''.		In addition to ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)\|The Transformers]]'', he wrote many, many scripts for other '80s cartoons, including ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)\|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]]'', ''Masters of the Universe'', ''[[Spider-Man]] and his Amazing Friends'', ''DuckTales'' and ''The Mighty Orbots''. A noted [[dinosaur (dinosaur)\|dinosaur]] enthusiast, Glut has written several non-fiction books about dinosaurs and also "supervised" the paleontological accuracy of the 1993 film ''Carnosaur'' (good job on that one, Glut). He also wrote the bestselling novelization of ''[[Star Wars (franchise)\|The Empire Strikes Back]]''.

	Glut's testimony regarding his ''The Transformers'' work is much more cynical compared to his peers. In 2001, he wrote:		Glut's testimony regarding his ''The Transformers'' work is much more cynical compared to his peers. In 2001, he wrote:

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	==Episode scripts==		==Episode scripts==
	===~~Generation 1~~===		===''The Transformers''===
	* [[Divide and Conquer]]		* [[Divide and Conquer]]
	* [[S.O.S. Dinobots]]		* [[S.O.S. Dinobots]]

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	'''Donald F. Glut''' (born [[February 19]], [[1944]]) is an American writer and filmmaker. Glut got his start writing for the Warren horror comics magazines of the '70s such as ''Creepy'', ''Eerie'' and ''Vampirella''. He was also an amateur filmmaker throughout the '60s, producing, writing and starring in several fanfilms based off of popular superheroes, even playing the titular webhead in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4HQn6rsJ38&feature=player_embedded 1969 ''Spider-Man'' fanfilm].		'''Donald F. Glut''' (born [[February 19]], [[1944]]) is an American writer and filmmaker. Glut got his start writing for the Warren horror comics magazines of the '70s such as ''Creepy'', ''Eerie'' and ''Vampirella''. He was also an amateur filmmaker throughout the '60s, producing, writing and starring in several fanfilms based off of popular superheroes, even playing the titular webhead in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4HQn6rsJ38&feature=player_embedded 1969 ''Spider-Man'' fanfilm].

	In addition to ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)\|The Transformers]]'', he wrote many, many scripts for other '80s cartoons, including ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)\|G.I. Joe]]'', ''Masters of the Universe'', ''[[Spider-Man]] and his Amazing Friends'', ''DuckTales'' and ''The Mighty Orbots''. A noted [[dinosaur]] enthusiast, Glut has written several non-fiction books about dinosaurs. He also wrote the bestselling novelization of ''The Empire Strikes Back''.		In addition to ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)\|The Transformers]]'', he wrote many, many scripts for other '80s cartoons, including ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)\|G.I. Joe]]'', ''Masters of the Universe'', ''[[Spider-Man]] and his Amazing Friends'', ''DuckTales'' and ''The Mighty Orbots''. A noted [[dinosaur (dinosaur)\|dinosaur]] enthusiast, Glut has written several non-fiction books about dinosaurs. He also wrote the bestselling novelization of ''The Empire Strikes Back''.

	Glut's testimony regarding his ''The Transformers'' work is much more cynical compared to his peers. In 2001, he wrote:		Glut's testimony regarding his ''The Transformers'' work is much more cynical compared to his peers. In 2001, he wrote:

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	* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_F._Glut Donald F. Glut article at Wikipedia]		* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_F._Glut Donald F. Glut article at Wikipedia]
	* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0323304/ Donald F. Glut at the Internet Movie Database]		* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0323304/ Donald F. Glut at the Internet Movie Database]
	* [http://members.aol.com/tfencyc/interview_glut.html Zobovor's interview with Donald F Glut]		* [http://web.archive.org/web/20070217131842/http://members.aol.com/tfencyc/interview_glut.html Zobovor's interview with Donald F Glut]

	==Footnotes==		==Footnotes==