The Tracey Ullman Show [Season 1, Episode 4]

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television, 1987. Final Draft script for the fourth episode of the first season of the 1987-1990 television series which aired on Fox Television on April 26, 1987.

The script on offer here, noted on the title page as "Prod. No. 5001" with a scheduled air date of "3/6/86," a month before the show would premier, is comprised of three skits, "Like Mother," "Answering Machine," and "The Happy Lady," the first two of which aired on the fourth episode. The third skit in the script, "The Happy Lady," wouldn't air until the seventh episode on May 17, 1987.

"The Tracey Ullman Show" was a sketch comedy variety show which aired on Fox Television for four seasons, from 1987 through 1990, and featured the first appearance of the animated Simpson family, later adapted into the longest running scripted primetime series, the beloved animated series,"The Simpsons."

The fourth episode of "The Tracey Ullman Show" featured five segments when aired, "Like Mother," "Freeway," "Spontaneity," "Answering Machine," and "Inhale Pink," only two of which ("Like Mother" and "Answering Machine") appear in the script offered here.

"Like Mother" features a woman who fears she's turning into her mother. "Answering Machine" features a soft-spoken woman who tries to jazz up her answering machine message with a little music. And "The Happy Lady," the third skit found on the script on offer here, which was aired on the seventh episode, features a very happy woman who makes her hospital roommate miserable.

Titled beige wrappers. Title page present, dated FEBRUARY 27, 1987, noted as FINAL DRAFT, with credits for screenwriters Heide Perlman and Ken Estin. 32 leaves, with last page of text numbered 6. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with light foxing overall, bound with two gold brads.

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