Original Shooting Script for an Episode The Deadlier Species by Lou Shaw for the Television Series Barnaby Jones, Starring Bradford Dillman, from Dillman’s Library
1974 · Los Angeles
by SHAW, LOU & BRADFORD DILLMAN
Los Angeles: Quinn Martin Productions, 1974. Original final draft shooting script with color rewrite pages for an episode The Deadlier Species written by Lou Shaw for the hit television series Barnaby Jones with Bradford Dillman. This was Dillman’s working script with his extensive notations throughout for his character Robert Travis and two pages of detailed notes in Dillman’s hand. With his estate stamp which reads, “From the Library of Bradford Dillman”. Bradbound, 60 pages with a 1 page synopsis, dated December 23, 1974. Season 3, Episode 21 which aired on March 18, 1975. Near fine bright copy with some minor handling. In this episode, Dillman costars with Buddy Ebsen as detective Barnaby Jones, Lee Meriwether, Marj Dusay, and Patricia Smith. 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 #: 21923E)