 Maxwell acquired the rights to "Lassie" in 1953 for $2,000 and sold the popular television program starring the collie to Jack Wrather in 1956 for a reported $3.5 million.He also was the producer of "Creeps by Night" (1944) on the Blue Network.He also wrote episodes of the "Superman" radio and TV series as Richard Fielding (a pseudonym that he shared with fellow producers Whitney Ellsworth and Maxwell's then wife, Jessica Fielding Maxwell).