Editing William Lederer (section)

===Television and film===
Two of his 1949 short stories published in [[Reader's Digest]] ''I Taught My Wife to Keep House the Navy Way'' and ''The Skipper Surprised His Wife'' were filmed in 1950 as ''[[The Skipper Surprised His Wife]]''/

The [[television series]] ''[[Ensign O'Toole]]'', a [[situation comedy]] which starred [[Dean Jones (actor)|Dean Jones]] and aired on [[NBC]] from 1962 to 1963, was based on ''All the Ships at Sea'' and ''Ensign O'Toole and Me'' and depicted the misadventures of the crew of the fictional U.S. Navy destroyer USS ''Appleby'' in the early 1960s. Lederer served as [[technical adviser]] for the series.<ref name="mcneil">McNeil, Alex, ''Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming From 1948 to the Present, Fourth Edition'', New York: Penguin Books, 1996, {{ISBN|0 14 02 4916 8}}, p. 258.</ref><ref name="Brooks and Marsh">Brooks, Tim, and Earle Marsh, ''The Complete Directory to Prime-Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946–present (Sixth Edition)'', New York: Ballantine Books, 1995, {{ISBN|0-345-39736-3}}, p. 316.</ref> 

He co-wrote the [[screenplay]] of the 1965 feature film ''[[McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force]]''.