77 Sunset Strip: The Gang's All Here

James Komack (director, screenwriter)
Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Edd Byrnes, Louis Quinn, Jacqueline Beer, Sammy Davis Jr. (starring)

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers Television, 1962. Revised Draft script for the Episode 41 of Season 4 of the television series. Copy belonging to Sammy Davis Jr, who played the cashier and Kid Pepper in this episode, with his signature on the first page, and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil throughout.

Two private investigators work on the south side of the Sunset Strip, next to Dean Martin's actual nightclub, Dino's Lodge. Each episode was an hour long and featured two hardboiled detectives and an aspiring PI working next door as a valet. The actor's first appearance in a show that hewed so closely to his "Rat Pack" persona (though he had appeared in a few other television dramas and Westerns as early as 1952).

Set in Los Angeles.

Bound in a homemade sewn binding with a card wrapper, black endpapers, and binding sealed with tan paper tape. Title page present, dated March 1, 1962, noted as Revised. 147 leaves, with last page of text numbered 71. Mechanical duplication, with green, blue, and pink revision pages throughout, dated variously between February 20, 1962 and March 1, 1962. Pages Very Good plus, lacking wrapper perfect bound.


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