Ellison also contributed scripts to the original run of The Outer Limits; later he sued the creators of The Terminator, claiming it plagiarized his work on The Outer Limits episode “Soldier.”
(The lawsuit was later settled, and home video versions of the film added a credit for Ellison, although James Cameron always insisted he did not copy Ellison’s work.)
Ellison was also a consultant on the 1980s iteration of The Twilight Zone (the first episode of the revival featured an adaptation of his story “Shatterday,” directed by Wes Craven) and Babylon 5.