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Francis Moss is an American television writer and novelist who wrote and story-edited hundreds of hours of animation scripts across some of the most prominent American cartoons of the 1980s and 1990s. He contributed two episodes to the Ghostbusters animated universe: one episode of The Real Ghostbusters and one episode of Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters.
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Moss grew up in Los Angeles, California. After high school he enlisted in the United States Army, where he served as a military policeman stationed in Poitiers, France. Following his military service he enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in English literature.1
Moss began his professional writing career in television live-action, with early credits including Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979). He transitioned into animation during the mid-1980s and quickly became a prolific contributor to the syndicated and network Saturday-morning cartoon landscape of that era.
His animated credits span some of the most popular children's series of the period, among them She-Ra: Princess of Power, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series, for which he held a four-year staff position), DuckTales, Bionic Six, The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, The Care Bears, The New Adventures of He-Man, Exosquad (1993), Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, Mighty Max, Spider-Man (the 1994 animated series), Street Fighter: The Animated Series, Rainbow Fish, and Iron Man: The Animated Series. Moss frequently collaborated with writers Ted Pedersen, Doug Booth, Brooks Wachtel, Michael Edens, and Len Wein.2
Moss also co-authored three middle-grade non-fiction books on internet literacy: Internet For Kids, Make Your Own Web Page, and How To Find (Almost) Anything On The Internet. He wrote the non-fiction title The Rosenberg Espionage Case as sole author.1
In later years Moss turned to fiction. His debut novel Losing Normal received a Gold Medal from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and a Reader's Favorite Silver Medal. He followed it with the novels She-Wolf and Operation Overlord: A Tommy Collins Adventure, all published under his own imprint and available on Amazon.1
Moss wrote the Season 4 episode "Robo-Buster," which aired on October 15, 1988. In the episode, Janine befriends a wealthy industrialist who uses her access to the Ghostbusters' files to build the Robo-Buster X-1, a robot designed not to contain ghosts but to destroy them outright.3
Moss contributed the episode "Class Clown" to Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters, which aired December 31, 1988.4
Moss is married to Phyllis, a former music teacher and active viola player. They have a son, a daughter, and one grandson, and live in Joshua Tree, California.1
Goodreads author profile and LinkedIn profile for Francis Moss, as cited via public sources, 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
FilmAffinity, Francis Moss filmography (filmaffinity.com). ↩
IMDb, "The Real Ghostbusters: Robo-Buster" (tt0928910), aired October 15, 1988. ↩
IMDb, "Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters: Class Clown" (tt0929157), aired December 31, 1988. ↩
