Original Shooting Script for an Episode Trial by Fire from the Television Series Insight, Starring Bradford Dillman, from Dillman’s Library
n.d. (1966) · Los Angeles
by DUGAN, JOHN T. & BRADFORD DILLMAN
Los Angeles: CBS Television, n.d. (1966). Original shooting script for an episode Trial by Fire from the television series Insight written by John T. Dugan, starring Bradford Dillman, with Ricardo Montalban, Jeff Corey, John Van Dreelan, and Pippa Scott. This was Dillman’s working script with his extensive notations throughout and with a page of his handwritten character notes. With Dillman’s estate stamp which reads, “From the Library of Bradford Dillman”. Unbound 39 pages. The episode aired in 1966. A lightly handled copy with paper clip marks to the covers. Insight was a long-running religious-themed weekly anthology television series comprised of half-hour dramas exploring moral and ethical stories and it ran in syndication from October ,1960 to January, 1985. Bradford Dillman (1930-2018) was one of Hollywood’s best regarded actors among his peers and the public. He was trained at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg and knew James Dean in early television. Dillman rose to sudden fame with his appearance in Richard Fleisher’s film Compulsion (1959) with Dean Stockwell and Orson Welles, and continued in movies throughout his career in such films as The Way We Were, The Iceman Cometh, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, Crack in the Mirror, Escape From the Planet of the Apes, Francis of Assisi, Piranha, The Swarm, etc. A great success in television, Dillman appeared in a remarkable number of shows and made for TV movies in a variety of genres, including, Mission Impossible, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Columbo, Wagon Train, Ironside, Dynasty, The Wild Wild West, Thriller, Wonder Woman, Cannon, Barnaby Jones, and many others. (Inventory #: 21971E)