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)...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 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: 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 notations 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 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...

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...

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 notations 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.....

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 notations 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], 1968. As Broadcast script for the 1968 television special, originally aired November 25, 1968 on CBS. Presentation copy belonging to musical supervisor Irving Weiss, with his name on the front board. The fourth of five annual television specials by Frank Sinatra, after his departure from Columbia and the founding of Reprise Records saw him...

Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1967. As Broadcast script for the 1967 television special, originally broadcast on November 13, 1967 on NBC. Presentation copy belonging to music supervisor Irving Weiss, with his name on the front board. Laid in are three leaves with brief autograph notations, and an eight page musical clearance sheet with holograph notations regarding song timings...

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...

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1978. Final Draft script for the 1979 television film. Based on the novel by Pete Hamill, a convict begins boxing while in prison, excelling to great lengths in his newfound sport. Upon release, he begins training and pursues a career as a professional boxer. Nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor. Beige titled wrappers. Title...

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...

Burbank, CA: Universal Television / American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1973. Draft script for the 1974 television movie "The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd," seen here under the title "The Daltons: Outlaws." As the script's title indicates, a story originally intended to be about the Dalton Gang. For reasons unknown, presumably legal, the script was haphazardly rewritten in the same year...

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...