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He is an American television producer, writer, and director. His background includes graduating the St. John's Military School and attending the UCLA Film School as a graduate student. He specializes in creating mystery series. He frequently works with television producer Fred Silverman and television writer Joel Steiger.

He became a writer for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. late in the show's first season (1964). His biggest involvement with U.N.C.L.E. was in the second season when he wrote episodes that included a two-parter, "The Alexander the Greater Affair", later repackaged as the film One Spy Too Many. He did not work on the third season of U.N.C.L.E. and wrote just one two-parter for the short-lived fourth season.

Hargrove won a Primetime Emmy Award for Columbo in 1974 and was nominated on four other occasions