Original Shooting Script for a Special Two-Part Episode The Mastermind by Robert Heverly for the Television Series The FBI, Co-Starring Bradford Dillman, from Dillman’s Library
1971 · Los Angeles
by HEVERLY, ROBERT & BRADFORD DILLMAN
Los Angeles: Quinn Martin Productions / Warner Bros. / ABC, 1971. Original final draft shooting scripts with color rewrite pages for a special two-part episode The Mastermind for the television series The F.B.I. written by Robert Heverly, co-starring Bradford Dillman. These were Dillman’s working scripts with his extensive notations throughout and with 2 pages of his handwritten character and scene notes. With his estate stamp which reads, “From the Library of Bradford Dillman”. Bradbound, 131 pages total, dated July 29, 1971. Season 7, Episodes 6 and 7, airing on October 17, 1971 and October 24, 1971 respectively. Near fine bright copies with some minor handling. In these episodes Dillman costars alongside Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Philip Abbott, William Reynolds, and Clu Gulager, telling the story of a team of four men who rob and amusement park of $1.8 million dollars. 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 #: 22024E)