Douglas previously wrote episodes for the television series Insight (1983, directed by Michael Rhodes), Trapper John, M.D. (1984, with Madge Sinclair and Fran Bennett), Frank's Place (1987), A Year in the Life (1987, with Richard Kiley and Jay Underwood), and TV 101 (1989, with Leon Russom, Cristine Rose, and Scott Trost) and the teleplay for the television drama A Girl of the Limberlost (1990, with Joanna Cassidy).