Ironside - “License to Kill” Teleplay by Donn Mullaly and Sy Salkowitz

Los Angeles: Universal Studios Television, 1971. First Edition. Signed on the front cover by actor James McEachin, who co-starred in this episode. Original 70 page revised shooting script with color rewrite pages, dated through September 27, 1971, for an episode of the detective drama television series Ironside, starring Raymond Burr. This episode, “License to Kill” written by Donn Mullaly and Sy Salkowitz aired on December 2, 1971 (Season 5, Episode 13) and co-starred Don Galloway, Don Mitchell, Elizabeth Baur, David Carradine, Roger Perry, Richard Anderson, (truncated) and Jackie Coogan. Bound with brads. Lightly used copy in printed studio wrappers. James McEachin’s early life experiences were in the military, as a policeman, a fireman, and a record producer. He turned to a career in show business, and was often cast to highlight his African-American heritage with successful roles in such well-known television series as Hawaii Five-O, Mannix, and Dragnet. He was cast in the pivotal role of the d.j. in Play Misty for Me with Clint Eastwood. He starred briefly in his own series as detective Harry Tenafly, in Tenafly. Many of us remember him for his terrific work as police lieutenant Brock in the 1986 television movie Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun - a role he would reprise throughout the years. He is the author of Farewell to the Mockingbirds which won the 1998 Benjamin Franklin Award, The Heroin Factor (1999), Say Goodnight to the Boys in Blue (2000), The Great Canis Lupus (2001), and Tell me a Tale: A Novel of the Old South (2003), Pebbles in the Roadway (2003), a collection of short stories and essays, and in 2005, he produced the award-winning audio book Voices: A Tribute to the American Veteran. (Inventory #: 17258E)