Paris: Gamma, 1985. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Robert Altman and actor Carol Burnett on the set of the 1985 television film, which originally aired on HBO on April 1. With a printed mimeo snipe on the verso along with the stamps of Gamma Film.Two women meet at a laundromat and reveal secrets about their lives. The third and.....

Los Angeles: The Producers Entertainment Group, 1997. Draft script for the 1998 television film, which originally aired August 30, 1998 on Showtime.Based on the novel "Sorrow Floats," the second book in Tim Sandlin's GroVont series. A suicidal, alcoholic woman decides to leave her small Wyoming hometown to help two bumbling men move a trailer full of illegal beer across the.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Imagine Entertainment, 1999. Final Draft script for the 2000 television pilot, which originally aired on NBC on February 14. Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis, warmly INSCRIBED on the title page by members of the cast and crew, including screenwriter Noah Baumbach and actors Joanna Going, Sabrina Grdevich, Carlos Jacott, Heidi Schanz, and Eric Stoltz. From.....

Los Angeles: United Artists Television, 1965. Draft script for what was to have been the pilot to the television series, "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" in 1966. Instead the pilot was aired as a 30-minute television movie. With occasional holograph annotations in blue ink.Created as a vehicle for the Canadian comic duo Wayne and Shuster (and based on their recurring stage routine).....

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. Fine.

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: American International Pictures [AIP], Circa 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film, "Suicide Batallion," here under its working title, "Hell Raiders." The screenwriter-director team of Rusoff and Kahn worked together on several AIP films, including "Girls in Prison" (1956), "The She-Creature" (1956), "Shake, Rattle & Rock" (1956), "Runaway Daughters" (1956), "Dragstrip Girl" (1957), and "Motorcycle Gang" (1957). Rusoff.....

Burbank, CA: Edgar J. Scherick and Associates, 1978. Second Draft script for the 1978 television film. One of director John Carpenter's earliest efforts as a screenwriter, released the same year as "Halloween" and the television movie "Someone's Watching Me." Originally aired on NBC on September 27, 1978. While written as a vehicle for Suzanne Somers, some actors that would soon.....

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.....

Culver City, CA: Lorimar, 1980. Final Draft script for the 1980 film. A woman dying from a blood disease who needs a bone marrow transplant contacts the daughter she gave up for adoption at birth in the hopes that they might be a match.Set in California. Brown titled wrappers, noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped production No.....

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 annotations 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: United Productions of America, 1962. Revised Draft script for the 1962 animated television film, which originally aired on December 18 on NBC. With holograph pencil annotations throughout, both editorial and substantive in nature.A musical, animated version of Charles Dickens' classic 1843 Christmas story, featuring the diminutive, nearsighted Mr. Magoo as Ebenezer Scrooge. Set in New York and London.Black.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1997. Draft script for the 1997 television film, which originally aired on CBS on November 24. Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis, warmly INSCRIBED by members of the cast and crew on the front wrapper, including Olympia Dukakis and Julie Hagerty. Laid in with the script is an inscribed borderless black-and-white photograph of actress Olympia.....

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: Walt Disney Productions, 1956. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1956 television movie. Disney re-edited the 1954 film Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue into a two part movie for The Magical World of Disney, which aired on ABC on October 3 and 10, 1956.Wartime adventures of Scottish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor (Richard Todd), outlawed and hunted by.....

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.....

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.....

Studio City, CA: EMI Television Programs, 1976. Two Revised draft scripts, Part I and Part II, comprising the complete script, for the 1977 television film, which was broadcast in two parts on CBS on April 13 and 14, 1977.First script, titled "Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes" on front wrapper, and titled "'Howard The Amazing Mr. Hughes' Part I" on first.....

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 Film Corporation, 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.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., 1997. Shooting script for the 1998 television film, which originally aired on March 1 on TNT. Rainbow revision draft, with holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout, most editorial in content. A dramatization of the experiences of Matthew Henson, who accompanied arctic explorer Robert Peary during his successful, groundbreaking 1909 expedition to the North Pole. In his later years.....

Los Angeles: Henry Jaffe Enterprises, 1978. Treatment script for an unproduced television miniseries. With a complete genealogical chart preceding the narrative, and two pages of detailed production notes at the rear.The decades-spanning drama of a large Mexican family's immigration to the US, and their subsequent experiences within Mexican-American society. Produced for NBC in 1978 but never picked up.Set in central.....

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 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.....

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.....

Studio City, CA: Charles Fries Productions / Stonehenge Productions, 1977. Draft script, circa 1977, for the 1978 television movie. Jeannie Haskins (James) is a schoolteacher who is told, during labor, that her baby has died. Soon after she is haunted by nightmares that seem to indicate her child is alive, so she seeks the help of a dream therapist. Director.....

N.p. N.p., 1979. Final Draft script for the 1980 film. With a single holograph pencil annotation to the title page noting a telephone number. Based on Alistair MacLean's novel, which was written deliberately for adaptation to film, wherein a criminal mastermind plots to blow up the Eiffel Tower and murder the US President's mother unless his ransom demands are met.Set.....

N.p. Omnibus Productions Inc., 1968. Treatment script for the 1970 television film which aired on NBC on January 4, 1970 and released theatrically in Europe. Annotations on top right, and copy number "3" circled, all in holograph pencil on front wrapper. Treatment is broken into a prologue, three acts, then an epilogue which follow character and sets. Producer Frederick H......

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.....

[unknown]: Brut Productions, 1975. Revised Draft script for the 1975 television film, here under the working title "Welcome to Xanadu," which originally aired on ABC on October 10, 1975. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with holograph ink annotations to the front wrapper and title page.Based on the 1968 novel "Welcome to Xanadu" by Nathaniel Benchley. A fugitive mental.....

Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1969. First Draft script for the 1969 television movie. Actor Van Heflin's copy. A television-movie broadcast on NBC as a Hallmark Hall of Fame Easter special and set during Jesus' life. The film follows a Hebrew judge and his son, Jonathan, who interprets Jesus' message as a call to arms. Script as issued, without.....

France: Radio-Television Francaise [RTF], 1959. Vintage borderless photograph of director Jean Renoir and actor Jean-Louis Barrault on the set of the 1959 film. With the stamp of photographer Albert Decamps 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.....

France: Radio-Television Francaise [RTF] / Societe Financiere de Radiodiffusion / Compagnie Jean Renoir, 1959. Archive of 36 press photographs taken on the set of the 1959 film, mounted to four printed card stock proof sheets from "Telerama" magazine, with each sheet containing holograph ink annotations with the name of the production, credits for Renoir and photographer R. Saguet, and with.....

N.p. N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced television miniseries. Based on the true story of Erwin Rommel, a field marshal of the Nazi Army during World War II, who rose to infamy and great respect amongst comrades and foes during the North African campaign of the war, one of the longest campaigns of the entire war. The format of the.....

Los Angeles: Lawrence Schiller Productions, 1982. Original borderless photograph of director Lawrence Schiller consulting with novelist Norman Mailer regarding the script for the 1982 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso.Based on the 1979 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Mailer, who adapted his own book for the screen, about the final years in the life of convicted.....

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.....