Television Series and Specials Scripts, 1946-1992: A Catalog of the American Radio Archives Collection

545 Pages·2009·18.6 MB·English

by  Compiled by Jeanette M. Berard

Television Series and
Specials Scripts,
1946–1992
ALSOBYJEANETTEM. BERARDANDKLAUDIAENGLUND
ANDFROMMCFARLAND
Radio Series Scripts, 1930–2001:
A Catalog of the American Radio Archives Collection (2006)
Television Series and
Specials Scripts,
1946–1992
A Catalog of the American
Radio Archives Collection
Compiled by
Jeanette M. Berard and
Klaudia Englund
FOREWORD BY NORMAN CORWIN
The American Radio Archives Collection
was created by the Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London
LIBRARYOFCONGRESSCATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATIONDATA
Thousand Oaks (Calif.) Library. American Radio Archives.
Television series and specials scripts, 1946–1992 :
a catalog of the American Radio Archives collection /
compiled by Jeanette M. Berard and Klaudia Englund ;
foreword by Norman Corwin.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7864-3348-3
softcover : 50# alkaline paper
1. Television series—Bibliography—Catalogs.
2. Television specials—Bibliography—Catalogs.
3. Television scripts—Bibliography—Catalogs.
4. Thousand Oaks (Calif.) Library. American Radio Archives—Catalogs.
I. Berard, Jeanette M. II. Englund, Klaudia. III. Title.
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We respectfully dedicate this book
to the Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters.
Acknowledgments
The compilers wish to acknowledge the City of Thousand
Oaks, who made this work possible, and the Thousand Oaks Library
Foundation for support with acquiring the collections. And a huge
thank you to our assistant, Joy Urban, who did so much to make
the book happen.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vi
Foreword by Norman Corwin 1
Introduction 2
How to Use This Book 3
List of Collections 4
TELEVISION SERIES 7
TELEVISION SPECIALS, AWARDS SHOWS,
UNSOLD PILOTS, AND MINI-SERIES 333
Glossary 427
Bibliography 429
Index 431
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Foreword
by Norman Corwin
The greatest and commonest Hybrid in the world is not an automobile—it
is Television, the daughter of Radio and Cinema, much studied, often character-
ized variously as a bitch or a saint.
Both media are capable of reaching simultaneously millions of people in
unseen audiences. Both have created massive industries, both exercise magical
properties; are transmitted at the speed of light, are crudely measurable, gener-
ate influence, can be permanized, and are finally collectible. Toward the last of
these properties, acting in the twin function of library and museum, a single insti-
tution has risen and is still on the rise—the Thousand Oaks Library Foundation.
Thousand Oaks is known locally as the Beverly Hills of Ventura County—
pleasant, rich, green, heavily coated by affluent homes, densely treed, unsmirched
by the exhausts of any industry, and endowed by a beautiful library which more
than once has won national distinction as one of the heaviest per capita book-lend-
ing libraries in the country.
This same library only twenty-four years ago set out to be the major depos-
itory of radio scripts in the world. It attracted so many fine materials so swiftly
that other depositories recognized the magnet trove in T.O. These included the
formidable collections of the venerable Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters.
Now televisors are clamoring to be invited to the party. The first fruit of this
ambition is the following catalogue put together enchantingly by Archivists Berard
and Englund, who forthwith speak for themselves.
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