Original Shooting Script for a Special Two-Part Episode The Connection by Rick Husky for the Television Series The Mod Squad, Co-Starring Bradford Dillman, from Dillman’s Library
1972 · Los Angeles
by HUSKY, RICK & BRADFORD DILLMAN
Los Angeles: Thomas / Spelling Productions / ABC, 1972. Original revised final draft shooting script with color rewrite pages for a special two-part episode The Connection for the television series The Mod Squad written by Rick Husky, co-starring Bradford Dillman. This was Dillman’s working script 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, 121 pages, dated May 4, 1972. Season 5, Episode 1, which aired on September 14, 1972. Near fine bright copy with some minor handling. In these episodes Dillman costars alongside Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton, Tige Andrews, Edward Asner, Cleavon Little, Stefanie Powers, Richard Pryor, Robert Reed, and Cesar Romero in the story of an international drug ring. 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 #: 22025E)