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: 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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

N.p. Televison Film Production, circa late 1940's. Draft shooting script for an unproduced British television film, circa late 1940's. Note on title page, in holograph ink, in hand of "Punch" editor E. V. Knox, "See article on this subject [arrow] Argus," "(EVK)" to right of note, with "(sent by producers)" below. Eight page "Foreword" bound in after title page, details.....

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, Inc., 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.....

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.....

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 annotations 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: 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], 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.....

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......

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.....

Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1982. First Draft script for the 1983 television movie. Rosemary Barton sat down for dinner with six others and never got back up. Her death was ruled a post-depression suicide but her husband George was skeptical, so he staged a reenactment of the dinner a year later and he dies by the same means.....

New York: Robert Halmi Productions, 1982. Third Revised Draft script for the 1983 television film which premiered on CBS on January 29, 1983. Laid in are five film stills and promotional photographs with CBS snipes affixed to the verso and folded over the recto, three of Maximilian Schell, one of Jane Seymour, and one of Michael York.Of the many film.....

Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1968. Third Revised Final Draft script for the 1970 television movie. A marshal returns home to find his town has been nearly wiped out by Mexican bandits and, with the help of a young Mexican boy and his mother, seeks to hunt them down. Set in New Mexico territory, shot on location in Utah.....

Burbank, CA: Ross Hunter Productions Inc. / National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1978. First Draft script for the 1979 television film, conceived and aired in 2 parts, originally by NBC on May 27, 1979. 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. Based.....

Burbank, CA: Lorimar Productions, 1973. Final draft script for the classic 1973 television horror film, originally aired on Wednesday October 10, 1973 as the ABC Movie of the Week.A young housewife begins seeing and hearing hideous, whispering little ogres after unlocking a mysterious door in the old mansion she inherited from her grandmother. A fun and slightly campy seventies horror.....

[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.....

Hollywood: Lawrence Schiller Productions, 1981. Feature Draft script (television equivalent of a Shooting script) for the 1982 television film, which originally aired November 28, 1982 on NBC.Based on the 1979 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Norman Mailer, who adapted his own book for the screen, about the final years in the life of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, following his release.....

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.....

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: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1966. As Broadcast script for the 1966 television special, which originally aired on December 7, 1966 on CBS. 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 of his career and revitalized artistically. In the same way.....

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.....

Unknown: Playboy Productions, 1979. Final Draft script for the television film, originally aired on ABC on October 19, 1979. Actor Martin Landau's copy, with his holograph ink and pencil annotations to the wrapper and throughout. Laid in with the script are a set of eleven blue revision pages, as well as ten photographically reproduced call sheets with copied handwritten annotations.....