Original Shooting Script for an Episode Day of Execution by Robert C. Dennis for the Television Series Manhunter, Co-Starring Bradford Dillman, from Dillman’s Library
1974 · Studio City, CA
by DENNIS, ROBERT C. & BRADFORD DILLMAN
Studio City, CA: Quinn Martin Productions / CBS, 1974. Original revised final draft shooting script with color rewrite pages for an episode Day of Execution written by Robert C. Dennis for the television series Manhunter, co-starring Bradford Dillman, alongside Ken Howard, Paul Jenkins, Bill McKinney, and Edward Power. This was Dillman’s working script with his extensive notations throughout and with 2 pages of his handwritten character and scene notes. With Dillman’s estate stamp which reads, “From the Library of Bradford Dillman”. Bradbound, 59 pages, dated November 21, 1974 on the front cover, which aired on January 15, 1975, Season 1, Episode 16. About fine copy with a hint of handling. 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 #: 22063E)