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 notations in blue ink.Created as a vehicle for the Canadian comic duo Wayne and Shuster (and based on their recurring stage routine)... (read more) about Friends, Romans, Countrymen: Marriage, Roman Style (Original screenplay for a television pilot)

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. (read more) about In the Presence of a Clown (Three photographs from the set of the 1997 television movie)

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1997. Revised Draft script for the 1997 television movie. Based on the 1994 novel "The Advocate's Devil" by Alan Dershowitz. A film whose message regarding the nature of sexual assault remains potent and relevant, "The Advocate's Devil" follows an attorney who successfully helps a young athlete shake rape charges that have been brought against... (read more) about The Advocate's Devil (Original screenplay for the 1997 television movie)

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... (read more) about A Change of Heart (Original screenplay for the 1998 television film)

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. (read more) about Dracula (Post-production script for the 1974 film)

Los Angeles: Paul Kohner, Inc., 1982. Draft script for the 1987 West German film, "Lang soll er leben," here under the English working title, "More Than One Life." Agency copy, in Paul Kohner, Inc., wrappers. Screenwriter Mally was an actress in the 1970s, starring in several German films, and starred in German television throughout the 1980s and 1990s. A comedy... (read more) about Lang soll er leben [More Than One Life] (Original screenplay for the 1987 film)

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... (read more) about Who Will Love My Children (Original screenplay for the 1983 television movie)

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], circa 1974. Draft script for the 1974 television movie. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Last of the Belles," first published in the Saturday Evening Post on March 2, 1929. An unusual film detailing F. Scott Fitzgerald's attempt to patch up his marriage with Zelda, done while writing the semi-fictional account of... (read more) about F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' (Original screenplay for the 1974 television movie)

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..... (read more) about C.A.T. Squad (Original teleplay script for the 1986 television movie)

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... (read more) about Red Alert (Original screenplay for the 1977 television movie)

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... (read more) about Panic on the 5:22 [Terror on the 5:22] (Original screenplay for the 1974 television film)

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... (read more) about Light's Diamond Jubilee (Original screenplay for the 1954 television movie)

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... (read more) about Ibsen's Master Builder (Original teleplay script for an unproduced film)

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... (read more) about The Danny Thomas Hour: Fear is the Chain (Original teleplay script for the 1968 television...

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... (read more) about Echoes in Darkness: Part 2 (Original teleplay script for the 1987 television movie)

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... (read more) about Go Ask Alice (Original screenplay for the 1973 television movie)

Studio City, CA: Chrles 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... (read more) about Night Cries (Original screenplay for the 1978 film)

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 notations 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... (read more) about The British Greats (Collection of 3 stills from the 1980 television series)

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 notations in blue, red, and black ink and pink highlighter throughout, as well as handmade tape tabs marking the scenes. Laid in are... (read more) about Scoop (Original screenplay for the 1987 film)

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 notations 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... (read more) about The Last Child [The Day They Took the Babies Away] (Original screenplay for the 1971 television...

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... (read more) about Wake Me When the War is Over (Original Screenplay for the 1969 television movie)

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... (read more) about Hallmark Hall of Fame: Neither Are We Enemies (Original screenplay for the 1970 television movie,...

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 notations with the name of the production, credits for Renoir and photographer R. Saguet, and with... (read more) about Experiment in Evil [Le testament de Docteur Cordelier] (Collection of 36 original photographs...

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..... (read more) about The Track of the Fox (Original treatment script for an unproduced television film)

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... (read more) about Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (Original screenplay for the 1976 television miniseries,...

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 notations throughout. Also included are two rehearsal schedules for the production. "Playhouse 90" ran from 1956 to 1960... (read more) about Playhouse 90: The Cruel Day (Original teleplay script for the 1960 television episode, Van...

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1975. Final Draft script for the 1975 television movie. A biography of Rudolph Valentino, a silent movie star and widely-regarded as the screen's first male sex symbol, who established the archetype of the "great lover" and popularized "gaucho" pants, among other things. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present, dated July 28, 1975, noted as... (read more) about The Legend of Valentino [Valentino] (Original teleplay script for the 1975 television movie)

Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1969. Third Revision script for the 1969 television special, originally broadcast on November 5, 1969 on CBS. Presentation script belonging to uncredited production manager Gary Necessary, with his name and the title stamped on the front board of the custom spring binding. With holograph notations throughout delineating the pages of the script by acts... (read more) about Sinatra (Original screenplay for the 1969 television special, production manager's working copy)

Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1966. Final Draft script for the 1966 television special. Ed McMahon's presentation copy, with his name in gilt on the front board. McMahon served as the show's announcer. The second of five annual television specials by Frank Sinatra, after his departure from Columbia and the founding of Reprise Records saw him more in control... (read more) about Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music II (Original screenplay for the 1966 television special, Ed...

Los Angeles: Omnibus Productions Inc. / National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1972. Revised Final Shooting Script for the 1973 television movie, which originally aired on March 18, 1973 on NBC. Numerical notation in holograph ink on the title page. Based on the 1937 novella by John Steinbeck, filmed once before by Lewis Milestone in 1949. Winner of two Primetime Emmy awards... (read more) about The Red Pony (Original screenplay for the 1973 television movie)

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1974. Final Draft script for the 1975 film. Originally intended as the pilot episode of an ultimately unproduced television series, and loosely based on the books of Erich von Daniken. Shan Mullins (Russell) and Genera Juantez (Racimo) are searching for a mysterious golden tablet, an artifact they believe to be evidence that aliens visited Earth in... (read more) about Search for the Gods (Original screenplay for the 1975 film)

Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1992. First Draft script for the 1993 television mini-series. Based on the novel by Jules Verne, this film is a science fiction fascination of the exploration of the center of the Earth. One of many adaptations of the story for visual consumption, the plot features a crew which navigates a vessel through an active... (read more) about Journey to the Center of the Earth (Original screenplay for the 1993 film)

Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1987. Final Revised Draft script for the 1987 television film. Here under the working title, "LBJ." The years 1934 through 1963 of future president Lyndon Baines Johnson's tumultuous career are chronicled, following his political beginnings, style, and progression to presidency following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Set in Washington and Texas. Tan titled... (read more) about LBJ: The Early Years [LBJ] (Original teleplay script for the 1987 television movie)

London: Lawson Productions, 1988. Third Draft script for the second episode of an unproduced British television adaptation of Thornton Wilder's 1967 novel. Screenwriter Mayes is known for a number of stellar scripts for produced films made between 1957 and 1982, nearly all literary adaptations, including "The Spirit of St. Louis" (1957), "The Hunters" (1958), "Anatomy of a Murder" (1959), "Advise... (read more) about Thornton Wilder's The Eighth Day (Original teleplay script for an unproduced British television...