N.p. Federal Telefilms, 1954. Draft script for Season One, Episode 14 of the 1954-1956 television show, which originally aired on September 23, 1954. Copy belonging to episode director Derwin Abrahams, with his name (as Derwin Abbe) on the front wrapper in holograph pencil, and holograph pencil notations on nearly every page. Based on the character created by Michael Arlen, which...
![Ultraviolet - Episode 2: In Nomine Patris [Crossing the Line] (Original screenplay for the 1998...](/pictures/thumb/135816.jpg?v=1492979179)
London: World Productions, 1997. Shooting script for the 1998 British television miniseries "Ultraviolet," seen here as "Crossing the Line," episode 2: "In Nomine Patris." Accompanied by 114 pages of call sheets, scene breakdowns, shooting schedules, and detailed notes on hair and makeup for each character. A six episode miniseries in which Jack Davenport plays a Detective Sergeant whose best friend...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television, 1982. First Draft script for the 1983 television episode. "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" was the final episode of Season 11, and the final episode of the series (1972-1983). The staff of the 4077th M*A*S*H unit find their lives no less hectic despite the fact that it appears that the war may soon be over. They...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958-1960. Archive of scripts and revision pages for 56 episodes of the hip private-eye detective television series "Peter Gunn." Copies belonging to screenwriter Lewis Reed, with his holograph name to the front wrapper of each episode. Included are screenplays for nearly half of the 114-episode run of the noir influenced television series starring the sophisticated, sharp-dressed...
N.p. N.p., 1954. Draft script for the pilot of a presumably unproduced Daniel Boone television series, entitled "The Gun Runners." A merchant wishes to pay Daniel Boone to take him to see the chief of the Cherokee Indians, in order to try and sell them rifles. Screenwriter Robert Angus envisioned Touch (later Mike) Connors in the role of Daniel Boone.....
Los Angeles: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1974. First Draft script for the 1975 episode "The Deadly Volley" from the television series "The Wide World of Mystery," first aired on January 27, 1975. An unliked professional tennis team owner is nearly murdered and the team members are all suspects. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 10/10/74, noted as SECOND DRAFT...
Hollywood: Paramount Television, 1976. Third Revised Final Draft script for the pilot of an 1976 unproduced television series. Presentation script belonging to producer Ross Hunter with Hunter's name on the front board. A comedy about the house hold of a 45 year old widowed man with two daughters, ages 12 and 20, who is remarried to a woman just a....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1986. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced television episode. Barish is screenwriter best known for "Desperately Seeking Susan" (1985) and two episodes of "The Hitchhiker" television series (1985-1986). Gray titled wrappers. Title page present, dated November 22, 1986, noted as Revised First Draft, with credits for writers Barish and Bean. 39 leaves, mechanically reproduced. Pages...
N.p. N.p., 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play belonging to performer and uncredited writer Bob Hoban. National Lampoon's Lemmings opened at the Village Gate / Downstairs on January 25, 1973 and was wildly successful, with a run of 350 performances that closed on November 25, 1973. In 1973 National Lampoon magazine was at its circulation peak when editor Tony...
Stockholm: Sveriges Television [SVT], 1997. Three vintage color still photographs showing Ingmar Bergman on the set of his 1997 Swedish television movie, which also screened at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival as part of the Un Certain Regard section. Two patients at a mental hospital attempt to make and market a film. 8.75 x 5.75 inches (22 x 15 cm). Fine.
![Scenes from a Marriage [Scener ur ett aktenskap] (Three original photographs from the set of the...](/pictures/thumb/138770.jpg?v=1492980074)
Sweden: Cinematograph AB, 1973. Three vintage photographs from the set of the 1973 six-part Swedish television mini-series, "Scenes from a Marriage," written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. All photos feature director Ingmar Bergman, cinematographer Sven Nykvist, Liv Ullman, and Erland Josephson on the set, gesticulating over scripts. Early photocopy snipe cello-taped to the verso, alongside photographer's rubber stamp, and pink...
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1974. First Tape Draft script for the 1974 film "Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya - General Yamashita," here seen with the title "Judgment: The Court-Martial of General Yamashita." . The second of three television films in the "Judgment " series directed for television by Stanley Kramer, following on the success...
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1967. Two Draft scripts for "The Barren Ground," the 1967 episode of "The Virginian" television show. Loosely based on the 1902 novel by Owen Wister. Television's first 90-minute western series, and one of the longest running western shows in history, having aired from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. The series...
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1954-1955. Vintage studio still photograph from Season 1 of the Imogene Coca variety show. Snipe printed on the verso. A half-hour variety show and sit com starring Imogene Coca. The program debuted following the closing of "Your Show of Shows," which frequently featured Coca. Unfortunately, "The Imogene Coca Show" was extremely short lived, only...
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1976. Collection of four vintage black-and-white reference studio still photographs from the 1976 television series. Snipe affixed to each image. Veteran writer and producer Norman Lear developed the show, which focuses on the life of a happily married middle-aged couple running a small luncheonette. Geraldine Brooks plays the jolly Angela Dumpling in the final...
New York: Bonhams Auctions, 2017. About Fine and unread in illustrated wrappers. Perfect bound. Illustrated profusely in color throughout. Includes items relating to science and technology, including works by Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Niels Bohr, as well as globes, telescopes, and most notably including early Apple computer memorabilia.
N.p. N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. Beans is the chauffeur secret agent Jedediah Norris, a beautiful young woman who is in graduate school and adopted from Vietnam during the war by her father, a black man named Tom Callahan. She is also a gourmet chef and is in desperate love with her boss, but he only seems.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. First printing of this edition. Very Good condition. Toning overall, spine ends bumped, slight cocking of the spine, lightly rubbed tips, a half-inch blue "J" on the title page. A collection of essays concerning eight British playwrights.
![Chicago in the Roaring Twenties [The Bootleggers] (Original screenplay for the 1965 television...](/pictures/thumb/141961.jpg?v=1525704111)
London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1967. Final Draft script for the 1967 BBC television special "Chicago in the Roaring Twenties," seen here under the working title "The Bootleggers." Based on British broadcaster and naturalist Kenneth Allsop's 1961 book "The Bootleggers." A BBC special in which the infamous gangster Al Capone's Chicago mafia reign is illustrated in song and dance, directed...
Los Angeles: Freyda Rothstein Productions, 1998. Draft script for the 1998 television film, originally aired July 19, 1998 on Lifetime Television. Elaine Marshall (Jean Smart) catches her husband (John Terry) with his male lover in a hotel room. Their idyllic family life is turned upside down as they are forced to confront this long kept secret. Shot on location in...
Rome: Vides Cinematografica, 1980. Set of 10 master typescripts for the ambitious 1982 television mini-series, all dated June 1980, used as a master for printing the final scripts. Anthony Burgess was one of the series writers (credited on the title page of each segment), and Ennio Morricone composed the original score. Present are scripts for all 8 segments of the...
N.p. N.p., 1966. Set of three remarkable double weight photograph of Carol Burnett, Rock Hudson, Frank Gorshin, and Ken Berry on the set of one of Carol Burnett's earliest television specials, "Carol and Company," which aired on October 9, 1966. CBS tested the waters with Carol Burnett four times with specials between 1963 and 1966. This photograph was shot on...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1980. First Draft script for Episode 3 from Season 1 of the 1981 television series. The debut season of the show received eight Emmy Awards and a total of 98 Emmy nominations during its seven season run. A police drama with the appearance of a documentary feel. In the last episode, a presidential visit is scheduled...
Burbank, CA: Fox Broadcasting Company / Warner Brothers Television / Sweet Freedom Productions / Main Sequence Productions, 1993-1994. Archive of original scripts for all 27 episodes of "The George Carlin Show," which ran on Fox for two seasons in 1994 and 1995, with multiple drafts of each episode, totaling 196 scripts. Also included are several key pieces of ephemera relating...
Los Angeles: 187 Corp / Artisan Entertainment, 1993. Shooting script for the 1993 television film. An anthology film directed by two masters of horror, Tobe Hooper and John Carpenter, and sporting a cameo by a third, Wes Craven. Three separate vignettes, each with increasing tension, and featuring many celebrity cameos. John Carpenter was commissioned by The Showtime Network to compete...
![Someone's Watching Me [High-Rise] (Original screenplay for the 1978 television movie). John...](/pictures/thumb/130336.jpg?v=1492802383)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1978. Final Shooting script for the 1978 television movie "Someone's Watching Me!," here under the early working title, "High-Rise." Airing on NBC in the same year as Carpenter's runaway hit "Halloween," made-for-television thriller "Someone's Watching Me!" still has the typical Carpenter characteristics, in which a woman being stalked in her ultra-modern high rise apartment must confront her...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers Television, 1998. Draft script for Season one, episode 11 of the 1998-1999 television series, which originally aired January 29, 1999 on FOX. Copy belonging to actor Brian O'Sullivan who played Brian Reed in the episode, with his name and character on a label tipped onto the front wrapper. A deceased cop is sent back to earth...
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1989. Draft script for the 1989 television film, originally broadcast on CBS. Copy belonging to actor Billy O'Sullivan, who portrayed Teddy, with his autograph on the title page. Two parents discover horrible stories of abuse coming from the daycare their children attends, especially since the people running the center are moral pillars of the...
Beverly Hills, CA: Goodson-Todman Enterprises, Circa 1959. Draft script for the 1959 television series. Credited to writer E. Jack Neuman and producer Matthew Rapf, both who would not receive official credit upon the show's release. Small numerical notation in holograph ink on the title page, perhaps eluding to an episode number. Based on Chandler's wisecracking alcoholic private eye, the series...
London: Thames Television, 1982. Original British quad poster for the 1982 television series based on short stories by Agatha Christie. The series aired in September and finished in November, each episode one hour long, featuring different performers in each episode. Episode titles include "The Case of the Middle-Ages Wife," "The Fourth Man," "Magnolia Blossom," "The Mystery of the Blue Jar,"...
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1968. Draft script for the season two, episode eight of the 1968 television series, originally broadcast November 7, 1968 on NBC. Copy belonging to Peggy Ann Garner, who plays Jack's ex-wife, as indicated by notations in holograph ink around her lines. A homeless man, who was a former private investigator, approaches Detective Ironside with...
Santa Monica: Home Box Office (HBO), 1988. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1988 television movie. A television drama about a young doctor who persuades a truck driver to transport medical supplies, aiding a cholera-stricken African community. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request.
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1980. Draft script for the season one, episode four of the 1983 television mini-series, originally broadcast February 9, 1983 on ABC. As per request of the President, Pug Henry visits London to see the efficiency of the RAF and he is very impressed. He meets Pamela Tudsbury and her fiance, who is later shot...
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1980. Draft script for the season one, episode six of the 1983 television mini-series, originally broadcast on February 11, 1983 on ABC. The President of the United States asks Pug Henry to lead 70 merchant ships to England in order to deliver much needed supplies, at the promise by the president of command of...
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1974. Post-production Export script for the 1974 television movie. Represents the full European version screened in the UK upon release. An edited version later screened in the US on television only. Written by noted novelist and screenwriter Richard Matheson. Pink and blue clip-bound titled wrappers, noting 10 reels and footage of 8,957 feet. Mechanically reproduced. Near Fine. 145 leaves.
Rome: N.p., 1974. Draft script for the first episode of an unproduced television series. Based on "De Novelle Della Pescara" or "The Stories of Pescara" by Gabriele D'Annunzio, published in 1902. The whole collection was envisioned as a miniseries and here is the first episode, based on the first story, "The Virgin Orsola." A schoolteacher in a convent is threatened...
![The Dick Powell Theatre: Ricochet [The Dick Powell Show: Ricochet] (Original teleplay script for...](/pictures/thumb/130807.jpg?v=1488554638)
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1961. Draft script for the 1961 television episode. Actor Van Heflin's copy. "The Dick Powell Show" was an American anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961 to 1963, ending when the show's host, Dick Powell, died of lung cancer. It featured a number of notable screenwriters and directors, including Aaron Spelling, William Friedkin...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television, 1987. Collection of four vintage studio still photographs from the 1987 television episode. Margaret Colin plays Claire McCarron, a former Assistant D.A. turned private investigator. The film stills feature Colin and Patrick James Clarke, who played her brother and fellow law enforcement official. Shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches (20.5...
Hollywood: DuMont Television Network, 1955. Draft script for Season One, episode 25 of the 1954-1955 television series, originally broadcast on March 8, 1955 on the DuMont Television Network. Script belonging to Lyn Thomas, who played Val in the episode, with her holograph name in ink on the front wrapper, and her lines circled in holograph ink throughout, shooting schedule laid...
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1988. Third Draft script for the 1988 television film, originally broadcast on CBS. Copy belonging to actor Brandon Marsh, who portrayed Tommy, with notations in holograph ink related to his role. Country musician John Denver stars as John Clayton, a disillusioned CIA agent, who retires to become a bush pilot in the Alaskan wilderness...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Pictures, Circa 1977. Black-and-white still photograph from an early episode of "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" (1954-1992), struck from a new negative in 1977 per the reference number on the negative, which reads "television-SPEC.77 / 1054-8006." The original series premiered in 1954 on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) as "Disneyland," aired in black-and-white, and became...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1985. Draft script for the 1986 television movie. A mystery involving Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot. A murder hunt game occurs at a country manor and Poirot is invited as an expert when a real murder takes place. Set in England and filmed on location there. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present, dated September 10, 1985...
N.p. Filmways Television, 1971. Collection of four studio still photographs for the 1971 television pilot, entitled "Powderkeg." Pilot for the American Western television series that ran during the fall of 1971. Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole star as "private security" agents who help an array of high-earning clientele during WWI. The duo drives a 1914 Stutz Bearcat, a flashy expensive...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Collection of 7 vintage black-and-white test photographs from the 1966 feature film, released the same year as the debut of the seminal television series. Included is a rear shot of the Batmobile, designed by George Barris, replete with its completely current 1966 Gotham City license plates. The other six photos in the set are test...
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1979. Shooting Draft script for the season one, episode one of the 1979 television mini-series, originally broadcast on February 18, 1979 on ABC. Twelve years after arriving in Henning, Tennessee, "Chicken" George Moore, former cockfighting champion, is getting old and soon moves in with his son Tom, who has a family of his own...
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1978. Shooting Draft script for the season one, episode four of the 1979 television mini-series, originally broadcast on February 21, 1979 on ABC. Eight soldiers are hanged for staging a mutiny and one of Simon's fellow black soliders is beaten nearly to death by a state trooper. Soon, the whole platoon is sent overseas...
Los Angeles: Charles Fries Productions, 1977. Archive of five scripts for four episodes from Season One of "The Amazing Spider-Man" television series in 1977. All belonging to actor Michael Pataki, who played police captain Barbera in the series, each with his holograph name on either the front wrapper or title page, and his lines and stage directions circled throughout, with...
Burbank, CA: J. Walter Thompson Agency, 1955. Draft script for the Season 6, Episode 7 of the 1955 television series, originally broadcast November 10, 1955, on NBC, on live television, and is today lost. Copy belonging to Marguerite Chapman, who played Jane Drake, her name in holograph pencil on the first page. With notations in holograph grey and red pencil...
London: Edgar Wallace Mystery Theater / Merton Park Productions, 1963. Final Script for the 1964 British film, later rebroadcast as Season 5, Episode 5 of "The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theater." Based on the 1929 novel "The Big Four" by Edgar Wallace. "The Edgar Wallace Mysteries" constituted a run of 47 films, all produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated between...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1977. Final Draft script for the November 7, 1977 television episode, "The Crypt," season 1, episode 7 of the science fiction series "Logan's Run." This episode is based on an original story by Harlan Ellison. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member named Chuck Sereci, with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper...
London: Target Television, 1999. Three Draft scripts for episodes two and three of the 1999 three-part television miniseries. This listing includes two separate drafts for episode 3. Also includes 13 pages of photocopied storyboards and six pages of call sheets and shooting location information. Copies belonging to make-up artist Teresa Kelly, with her holograph name and notations to the later...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1957. Pre-production Continuity script for the 1957 film. Based on William Marchant's 1956 play. The penultimate Hepburn and Tracy film, and a significant script in that dialogue--which sees many changes here--was always at the heart of the pair's nine on-screen collaborations. "Desk Set" is also significant in that it was one of the first major motion...
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1978. Final Draft script for the season one, episode seven of the 1979 television mini-series, originally broadcast on February 24, 1979 on ABC. Ribbon copy Master typescript, from which all other copies of this draft were made. In the final installment of this epic tale, Alex, along with his family gather in Henning, Tennessee...
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1982. Draft script and assorted production notes and shooting schedules for the 1982 television movie. Based on the true story of an Iowan farm wife with terminal cancer who helped find new adoptive families for each of her ten children before her death. She Winner of a Golden Globe and nominated for a second...
Grunwald, Germany: Bavaria Film, 1980. Vintage photograph showing director Rainer Werner Fassbinder on the set of 1980 German television mini-series. With the stamps of German magazine "Der Spiegel" and photo agency Presse-Seeger, as well as holograph notations, on the verso. Based on the 1929 novel by Alfred Doblin, previously filmed in 1931, directed by Phil Jutzi. Despite taking place over...
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1984-1996. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1984 television episode: Season 1 episode 7. Snipe affixed to photograph. James Coco, featured in the still, guest stars as Horatio, and eccentric theme park owner. The television series, starring Angela Lansbury, ran for 12 seasons and won Lansbury 12 Emmy Awards and 10 Golden Globe nominations...
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956. First Edition. Collects eight of the playwright and screenwriter's memorable plays, including "The Trip to Bountiful," basis for the 1985 film directed by Peter Masterson and starring Geraldine Page. Five of these plays appeared on "The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse," a television series that played host to a plethora of notable writers, including Paddy Chayefksy and...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1955. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1955 film. Snipe affixed to the verso, printed on light pink stock. The film is an edited compilation of the first three stories from the Disney television miniseries, Davy Crockett. It follows Davy Crockett and his companion, "Gorgie" Russell as they venture out west. Shot on location in...
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1986. Fifth Draft script for the 1986 television movie, directed by William Friedkin and written for the screen by Gerald Petievich. "C.A.T. [Counter Assault Tactical] Squad" was the first of two television movies, intended to become a series but never further developed. The sequel, "C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf," was broadcast two years later, in.....
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1986. First Draft script for the 1986 television movie. One of two "C.A.T. Squad" films made in the mid-1980s, both directed for television by noted director William Friedkin. An early draft, possibly constructed as a television episode that grew into a feature-length project. A special government trio is formed to combat terrorism, known as.....
London: Bentley Productions, 1997. 5th Draft script for the 1997 television episode of the show "The Broker's Man." Though broadcast in two parts, this script contains both the first and second parts. Kevin Whately plays Jimmy Griffin, an ex-cop now working as an investigator for an insurance company still finds ways to use his detective skills at his new job...
London: Independent Television, 1995. Draft scripts for four episodes of the 1996 television show "Delta Wave:" "A Twist of Lemming: Part 1," "A Twist of Lemming: Part 2," "A Glitch in Time: Part 1," and "A Glitch in Time: Part 2." A television show about two children with psycho-kinetic powers and their scientist caretaker. The show ran for only ten episodes...
N.p. N.p., 1979-1997. Archive of 22 pieces of correspondence between writer Larry Gelbart and director Robert Parrish, consisting of nine typescripts, six of which are INSCRIBED, plus three autographed letters signed, one typed letter signed, and six autographed notes from Gelbart to Parrish, as well as three outgoing carbons of letters written from Parrish to Gelbart and a seven-page typescript.....
New York: HBO Pictures, 1998. Original Press Kit for the 1998 television film. Based on Neil Sheehan's 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, abut a retired Army Lieutenant John Paul Vann and his involvement in the Vietnam War. Eric Bogosian, Bill Whelan, and Vivian Wu also starred in the film, which was nominated for a Primetime Emmy. A realistic portrayal of what...
![A Woman Called Golda [A Woman Called Golda: Part I] (Original teleplay script for the 1982 film)....](/pictures/thumb/140025.jpg?v=1525704070)
Culver City, CA: Harry Bennett Productions, 1981. Final Draft script for Part II the 1982 television movie (shown in two installments, at a length of 240 minutes). Winner of three Emmys, including Outstanding Lead Actress, and nominated for four more. A biopic on the life of Israel's first female prime minister, Golda Meir, who tells her story at her old...
Culver City, CA: Harry Bennett Productions, 1981. Final Draft script for Part II the 1982 television movie (shown in two installments, at a length of 240 minutes). Winner of three Emmys, including Outstanding Lead Actress, and nominated for four more. A biopic on the life of Israel's first female prime minister, Golda Meir, recounts her story at the school in...
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1983. Vintage studio still photograph advertising two episodes of the television soap opera series, which aired on June 17 and 21, 1983. Original paper snipe folded around still, dated 6/3/83. Notable here is the inclusion of singer-songwriter Kenny Rankin, who made an appearance as himself in these two episodes. 8 x 10 inches (20.5...
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1977. Final Revised Draft script for the 1977 television movie. Based on the 1977 book by Harold King. Included is a vintage production photo of William Devane from the film, with a snipe on the verso with the CBS television logo. A computer at a nuclear power plant malfunctions and seals off the reactor...
![The Desperate Miles [No Help Required] (Original screenplay for the 1975 television movie)....](/pictures/thumb/136240.jpg?v=1492979278)
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1975. Second Revised Draft script for the 1976 film "The Desperate Miles," seen here under the title "No Help Required." A disabled Vietnam war veteran takes a road trip from LA to San Diego in his wheelchair to prove himself. Green titled wrappers, noted as 2nd Rev. on the front wrapper, production No. 42128, dated...
London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1999. Draft scripts for two Season 2 episodes of the 2000 television show "Badger:" "The Price of a Daughter.," and "Only Ewe," later released under the title "Blood Ties." Jerome Flynn plays a wildlife liaison officer in a small rural town who fights various animal crime and encounters the usual interpersonal drama. Set in Northumberland...
![Panic on the 5:22 [Terror on the 5:22] (Original screenplay for the 1974 television film). Harvey...](/pictures/thumb/143719.jpg?v=1541362777)
Los Angeles: Quinn Martin Productions, 1974. Final Draft script for the 1974 television film, which originally aired November 20, 1974 on ABC. Three armed men take over a private train car determined to rob and murder all of the passengers. Yellow titled wrappers, noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper, dated Aug 13, 1974. Title page present, dated Aug...
New York: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1962. Draft script for the 1962 television documentary. Copy belonging to actor Van Heflin, who narrated the film, with his holograph name on the title page and holograph notations throughout. An hour long documentary about US Route 1, which runs from Maine to Florida. Nominated for an Emmy Award. Script is as issued with...
Los Angeles and Burbank: American Broadcasting Company [ABC] / Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] / National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1954. Draft script for the short segment from the film "Light's Diamond Jubilee," a variety program developed by all three major television networks to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Edison's invention of the light bulb. Goldenrod titled wrappers, noted as FINAL, rubber-stamped...
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1954. Final script for the 1954 television special, an anthology of stories commemorating the 75th anniversary of the invention of the light bulb by Thomas Edison. An ambitious undertaking, with adaptations and original stories by G.K. Chesterton, Arthur Gordon, Irwin Shaw, Max Shulman, John Steinbeck and Mark Twain. Much of the script doctoring and...
Los Angeles: TNT / Agamemnon Films / British Lion, 1987. British Draft script for the 1988 television film, originally airing on December 21, 1988 on TNT, the first made-for-television movie produced for the fledging network. Brief notations in holograph ink throughout. Based on the 1960 Broadway play by Robert Bolt, about Sir Thomas More's devotion to the Catholic Church during...
London: London Weekend Television, 1981. Draft camera script for the 1982 episode "Hands Across the Sea," from the British miniseries "We'll Meet Again." Copy belonging to make-up artist Teresa Kelly, with a sheet of her notes about each character's makeup laid in. The series follows the goings-on of a British air base when a group of American airmen take over...
London: London Weekly Television, 1980. Two Draft scripts for the 1981 television showcase "Dark Secret," which ran split into two episodes of "Sunday Night Thriller." This listing contains the combined Camera Script draft for both episodes, and the Film Script draft for the first half. Copies belonging to make-up artist Teresa Kelly, with her holograph name to the front wrapper...
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1959. Revised Final Draft script for the 1959 television episode. Screenwriter Charles Hoffman's copy, with his name in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. An interesting but short lived series, set in New Orleans, preceding similar detective-based programs that are today better remembered, such as "77 Sunset Strip" and...
Los Angeles: Showtime, 1984. Two vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1984 television film. Tennessee Williams' sharp little play is translated to television in this version starring Jessica Lange as Maggie and Tommy Lee Jones as Brick. Set on an estate in Mississippi, the story follows a vicious web of lies between members of the Pollitt family. Maggie is...
London: Fox, 1987. First Draft script for Season One Episode 13 of the 1987 television program, originally broadcast October 31, 1987 on Fox. Copy belonging to actor Billy O'Sullivan, who portrayed Snivels, with his name, address and phone number on the front wrapper in holograph ink and his notations, changes and additions throughout in holograph ink and pencil. A Halloween...
Beverly Hills, CA: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 1968. Final script for the 1968 television special, originally aired on April 10, 1968 on ABC. With brief holograph notations throughout, including occasional changes to presenters' dialog. Hosted by Bob Hope, the 40th Academy Awards were originally scheduled for April 8, but were postponed due to assassination of Martin Luther...
London: William Heinemann, 1994. First Edition. Near Fine and unread in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket has light rubbing overall and has light bumping along the top edge. An "exuberant, rip-roaring gallop through the recent history of the BBC."
Hollywood: Westgate, 1987. Draft script for the 1987 television film. Copy belonging to host and narrator Telly Savalas, with his autograph on the title page, and his notations throughout in holograph ink and pencil. A live television event broadcast in 1987, featuring the latest footage of the sunken vessel, shot via a French submarine expedition. The event was highly publicized...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First Edition. Basis for an episode (season 1, episode 17) of the 1961-1962 television series, "87th Precinct." From the collection of noted bibliophile and writer, William F. Deeck, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Very Good plus lacking the dust jacket. Slight spine lean, faint stains to the boards, extremities lightly rubbed.
Los Angeles: Hollywood Television Theatre, 1975. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few notations in holograph pencil. Based on Ibsen's 1892 play, considered one of his most revealing works, about Halvard Solness, a master builder who returns to his hometown to construct a church with a towering steeple. Iit is revealed Solness has a great fear of...
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1968. Original scenario artwork for the 1968 comedy television show. Set design sketch for the living room of Lucy's apartment, including the oft-pictured brick fireplace, and Lucy herself coming down the stairs. The third of Lucille Ball's television comedy sitcoms, following her famed "I Love Lucy" (1951-1957) and "The Lucy Show" (1962-1968). While "The...
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1979-1993. Vintage studio still photograph from an unidentified episode of the 1979-1993 television series. Small paper snipe affixed to the verso. One of the longest-running primetime dramas on U.S. television, surpassed only by "Gunsmoke" and "Bonanza." A soap opera with a notable early appearance from actor Alec Baldwin, who played Joshua Rush, an innocent.....
London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1965. Draft script for the 1965 BBC television movie "Tea Party," adapted by Pinter from his 1963 short story. The film first aired live on March 25, 1965 on the BBC program "The Largest Theatre in the World." INSCRIBED by screenwriter Pinter on that day: "March 25th 1965 / To Peter Colin Holder / Congratulations...
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1967. Final Draft script for episode 19 of the 1967-1968 television anthology show. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with the name of his character in holograph ink on the front wrapper and holograph notations on nearly every page. "The Danny Thomas Hour" ran for one season on NBC as an anthology show, with Thomas presenting...
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1987. First Draft script for the 1987 television movie. Based on the true crime story from the 1970's, and adapted from the novel of the same name by Joseph Wambaugh. Susan Reinert is a schoolteacher in Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania who goes missing and is found murdered with her two children. Nominated for two...
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1987. First Draft script for the 1987 television movie. Based on the true crime story from the 1970's, and adapted from the novel of the same name by Joseph Wambaugh. Susan Reinert is a schoolteacher in Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania who goes missing and is found murdered with her two children. Nominated for two...
New York: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]. Revised final Draft script for the 1985 television film, originally broadcast on CBS. A television film featuring Solomon Stark, a crack private investigator who assembles a team of various experts in order to investigate and solve crime. White untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present, dated March 26, 1985, noted as...
New York: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1985. Revised Final Draft script for the 1985 television film, originally broadcast on CBS. With a few notations in holograph ink. Copy belonging to Vicente Fernandez, with his signature on the title page in holograph ink. A television film featuring Solomon Stark, a crack private investigator who assembles a team of various experts in...
Los Angeles: Lorimar Productions, Circa 1978. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the long-running US television series. Rubber-stamped on the verso. Features Linda Gray, who played Sue Ellen Ewing, in sparkling jewelry. "Dallas" is the fourth longest running hour long drama in American television history, and is still the standard bearer for quality and ingenuity in prime time soaps. 6 x....
New York: Children's Songs, Inc., circa 1949. Original manuscript and typescript for "The Howdy Doody Show" theme song "It's a Howdy Doody World," created by and belonging to the song's composer Edward Kean, INSCRIBED by Kean in the margin: "From Edward Kean / to / the very special Scott Petersen man!," and further annotated by Kean in holograph ink. The listing...
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1989. Final Draft script for Season 6, Episode 10 of the 1989 television series, originally broadcast November 28, 1989 on ABC. "Who's the Boss?" was an American sitcom starring Tony Danza which ran for eight seasons and was one of the most popular sitcoms of the 1980s. Danza is a retired baseball player who...
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1969. First Draft script for the 1974 television movie. The wife of a bootlegger in the backwoods dies while giving birth to her seventh child and her husband falls off the roof in a drunken stupor, thus leaving the seven children orphaned. Following the guidance of the oldest sibling, children seek replacement parents by...
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 notations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. Two private investigators work on the south side of...
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1972. Final Draft script for the 1972 television movie. Copy belonging to prop assistant Paul Marco, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper and title page, with other production ephemera laid in. Based on the infamous 1971 novel by Beatrice Sparks. A mostly tasteful, surprisingly non-exploitative look at 1970s teenage drug...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1985. Collection of four vintage studio still photographs from the 1985 television re-release. A brilliant yet socially awkward aeronautical engineer predicts that the newest airplane model, the Raindeer, will break up mid-flight after reaching 1,440 hours of use due to accumulated stress. The engineer, Theodore Honey (played by James Stewart), tries desperately to prove his prediction...