Original Shooting Script for an Unaired Episode, The Weekend by Joyce Perry and B.W. Sandefur, for the Television Series Having Babies, Starring Bradford Dillman, from Dillman’s Library
1978 · Los Angeles
by PERRY, JOYCE & B.W. SANDEFUR & BRADFORD DILLMAN
Los Angeles: Paramount Television, 1978. Original revised final draft shooting script with color rewrite pages for an unaired episode ‘The Weekend’ written by Joyce Perry and B.W. Sandefur for the television series Having Babies, starring Bradford Dillman. This was Dillman’s working script with his extensive notations throughout and with his estate stamp which reads, “From the Library of Bradford Dillman”. Bradbound, 57 pages, dated January 23,1978. Very good copy with some minor handling. The television series ‘Having Babies’ was based on three television movies with that same title, and was eventually renamed ‘Julie Far, M.D.’ and starred Susan Sullivan in the title role with Mitchell Ryan, Dennis Howard, Beverly Todd, Ralph Bellamy, and Jeff Conaway. 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 #: 21921E)