N.p. N.p., Circa 1965. Draft script for the 1965 Yugoslavian made-for-television film, first aired on November 15, 1965. With a few holograph ink annotations throughout, mostly noting deletions and grammatical revisions. Text in English. An aging actor recalls his experiences twenty years earlier during World War II, in particular remembering an older artist nicknamed "Maestro" who encouraged him to pursue.....

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1979. Collection of three vintage studio still photographs and two advertising mockups from the 1979 film. Both the photographs and the advertising mockups have been hand-retouched, adhered to a backing board, and prepared for use in advertising. A stark black comedy in which a man who is caretaker for his mentally disabled mother becomes.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Universal City: Universal Television, 1972. Draft Script for the 1972 television movie pilot, here under the working title "Nick Carter: Where is Ivy Duncan?" which premiered on ABC's ABC Sunday Night Movie on February 20, 1972. Laid in on a sheet of heavy stock paper is a note to Art, potentially producer Arthur Hilton, from Robert Conrad, "To Art, I......

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.....

Los Angeles: RLC/Finnegan, 1986. Shooting script for the television film, here under the working title "Hoover," first aired on Showtime on January 11, 1987.A biopic documenting the rise to power and final years of J. Edgar Hoover, the long-standing and controversial director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Loosely based on William C. Sullivan's 1979 memoir "The Bureau: My Thirty.....

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. Mechanical.....

Los Angeles: CBS, 1981. Wardrobe breakdown pages and shooting schedule for the 1981 television film which originally aired on October 24, 1981 on CBS. Archive belonging to an unknown crew member in the wardrobe department with holograph annotations on every page and 94 Polaroid photographs tipped onto pages throughout. A cult classic. Charles "Bubba" Ritter (Larry Drake) is wrongfully accused.....

Los Angeles: Edgar J. Scherick Associates, 1987. Final Draft script for the 1988 television film, here under the working title "Eminent Domain," originally aired on ABC on January 17, 1988. With the name and phone number of casting agent Pam Dixon in holograph ink to the title page, and holograph annotations throughout noting lines for the character Tiger, whose name.....

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 annotations, on the verso. Based on the 1929 novel by Alfred Doblin, previously filmed in 1931, directed by Phil Jutzi. Despite taking place over.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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 annotations in holograph ink throughout. Based on the 1960 Broadway play by Robert Bolt, about Sir Thomas More's devotion to the Catholic Church during.....

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.....

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 annotations 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.....

Los Angeles: Hollywood Television Theatre, 1975. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few annotations 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.....

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 annotations 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.....

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.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., Unknown. Second Draft script for the 1995 television film, which originally aired on September 12, 1995 on Showtime.Based on Ella Leffland's 1970 novel, about a woman who seeks revenge on her wealthy, wheelchair-bound father-in-law. An early draft of a project that underwent heavy rewrites by director Diane Ladd before finally being shot in 1995. Shot on location in.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Draft script for an unproduced television film. With the name "ILSE LAHN", a reader for the Paul Kohner Agency, in holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper. Bandit Samuel Thaddeus Tartar arrives in town, injured from a gunfight, forcing his mother to admit that she has lied about his profession for years to preserve both of.....

London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1980. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1980 UK television series film. Small mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos, cropping annotations on the verso of 1 still. Essentially produced as the final season of "Hollywood Greats" (1977-1979), but featuring British film stars. Represented is Robert Donat, Gracie Fields, and Peter Finch. 8.....

N.p. N.p., 1980. First Draft script for an unproduced television film. Laid in are six pages of letters urging the production of this film. Based on Ed McBain's police procedural novels set in "The 87th Precinct" specifically the 1972 novel "Sadie When She Died," but not to be confused with the 1961-1962 television series also based on this series of.....

London: Independent Television, 1986. 3rd Draft script for the television movie. Based on the 1938 novel by Evelyn Waugh, which in turn was based on Waugh's own experiences working at the Daily Mail. Working copy, with holograph annotations in blue, red, and black ink and pink highlighter throughout, as well as handmade tape tabs marking the scenes. Laid in are.....

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1971. Draft script for the 1971 television movie, here under the working title "The Day They Took the Babies Away." Actor Van Heflin's working copy, with his holograph annotations throughout. A film produced for ABC's now-legendary "Movie of the Week" series. A pregnant woman goes on the run in a dystopian future where having.....

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1969. Draft script for the 1969 television movie. During the latter days of WW2 an American Lieutenant (Berry), accidentally falls out of an airplane that he was on and falls into German territory. He is taken in by a Baroness (Gabor). She is taken with him and doesn't want him to leave, so she.....

Atlanta: Turner Home Video, 1990. Final Draft script for the 1991 television film. Here under the working title, "The Final Warning." Copy belonging to crew member Robert Easton, with his name on the front wrapper in holograph ink. Based on the 1988 book, "Final Warning: The Legacy of Chernobyl" by Robert Peter Gale and Thomas Hauser. Even Jon Voight and.....

Santa Monica, CA: HBO, 1992. Shooting script for the 1992 television film, with lines and phrases highlighted in yellow throughout. Included with the script are three separate sets of color revision pages (blue, pink, and yellow), dated between 2/7/92 and 2/11/92.Based on the true story of Joseph McCarthy's chief council Roy Cohn, who acted as one of the head proponents.....

France: Radio-Television Francaise [RTF], 1959. Vintage photograph of Jean Renoir and members of the crew on the set of the 1959 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. Renoir's loose adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," premiering at the Venice Film Festival, followed by airing on French television and an.....

Hollywood: Paramount Television / National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1977. Draft script for the 1978 television film, originally aired on April 9, 1978 on NBC. Presentation copy belonging to producer, Ross Hunter, bound in navy full calf with gilt titles on cover and spine, with Hunter's name on the front board. An elderly married couple find themselves increasingly dependent on their.....

Los Angeles: CBS, 1989. Draft script for the 1990 television film, which originally aired May 1, 1990 on CBS. Copy belonging to casting director Barbara Claman, with her name in holograph ink on front wrapper. A nine-year-old boy witnesses his father's murder. A psychologist works with him to retrieve important information for the criminal investigation. Elijah Wood's debut. Shot on.....

Hollywood: MCA TV, 1993. Revised Draft script for the 1994 television film.Sequel to the 1963 film by Alfred Hitchcok. A family grieving the death of their son relocates to a summer house on a remote East Coast island, where flocks of birds begin to attack the town. Director Rick Rosenthal's dissatisfaction with the final film led him to remove his.....

Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1976. First Draft script in two volumes for the 1976 television miniseries based on Arthur Hailey's 1975 novel. Presentation script belonging to producer Ross Hunter with Hunter's name on the front board of each volume. Boris Sagal directed this star-studded miniseries based on Arthur Hailey's fastidious novel. The laboriously researched story follows the happenings.....

Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1960. Draft script for Season Four, episode Eleven of the anthology drama show "Playhouse 90," which aired on February 24, 1960. Actor Van Heflin's working copy, with his holograph name on the first page and holograph annotations throughout. Also included are two rehearsal schedules for the production. "Playhouse 90" ran from 1956 to 1960.....

Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1988. Revised Draft script for the 1989 television mini-series, "Twist of Fate," consisting of two episodes: "Pursuit: Part I," and "Pursuit: Part II." The two scripts are bound together. Screenwriter Gy Waldon receives a credit on the script but would be dropped from the final credits. SS-Lieutenant Colonel Helmut Von Schreader (Greenwood) plots to.....

Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1983. Third Draft script for the 1983 television film, originally broadcast on CBS. An American investigator is sent to Manila in order to negotiate the release of a hostage. Set in Manila. Tan titled wrappers, notated copy No. 22 and production No. 89. Title page present, dated January 6, 1983, noted as THIRD DRAFT.....

Los Angeles: Villa di Stefano Productions, 1964. First Draft script for the 1964 television film, which originally aired on CBS. With actor Martin Landau's copied annotations throughout. Included are a set of synopses for proposed episodes, a shooting schedule, a distributor's announcement booklet, and various other documents related to production. Also included is an original print of the film, in.....

Los Angeles: The Aubrey Company, 1980. Final Draft script for the 1980 television film, which originally aired December 10, 1980 on CBS.Based on the 1967 book. In the wake of the critical and commercial success of "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979), this film depicts the long and painful custody battle between a widower and his late wife's parents over his ten.....

Studio City, CA: Charles Fries Productions, 1977. Draft script for the 1978 television film, which originally aired December 17, 1978 on NBC.Broadcast on the 75th anniversary of the Wright brothers' famous 1903 airplane flight. The story of the invention of the first successful powered flying machine.Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 10/7/77, with credits for screenwriters William Kelley and.....