Finally, Kirgo prompt Spinout, which was the discarded title of another script he had written earlier. Kirgo and Flicker accommodated the Colonel, solely to be summoned by the producers a number of days later. The scriptwriters for Spinout, George Kirgo and Theodore Flicker, had originally been commissioned to write a script for Sonny and Cher. They rapidly completed the script and confirmed it to the Colonel, who declared that he loved it.