The F.B.I. [FBI]: [The] Eye of the Needle (Original screenplay for the 1971 television episode, copy belonging to actress Coleen Gray)

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / QM Productions, 1970. Final Draft script for Season 6 Episode 18 of the 1965-1974 television series. Copy belonging to actress Coleen Gray, with her character's name on the front wrapper ("Mrs. Barth") and her annotations in manuscript ink throughout.

Loosely based on the 1959 Warner Brothers film "The FBI Story," the series dramatized real Federal Bureau of Investigation cases. In this installment, a doctor is kidnapped during his vacation in rural Washington but escapes into the wilderness, forcing investigators to desperately search him in hopes of finding him before his blackmailers do. The episode originally (truncated) aired on January 24, 1971, on ABC.

Actress Coleen Gray was born Doris Jensen in Staplehurst, Nebraska. After graduating from Hamline University, she moved to California, where she would sign with Twentieth Century-Fox in 1944. She appeared in multiple prominent films with the studio, including the 1947 films noir "Kiss of Death" and "Nightmare Alley," and the 1948 Howard Hawks Western "Red River." Gray worked steadily in Hollywood throughout the 1950s, most notably appearing opposite Sterling Hayden in Stanley Kubrick's 1956 classic "The Killing," but by the 1960s had largely moved her career to television.

White titled wrappers, noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper, noted as production No. 28519, dated October 13, 1970. Title page present, noted as FINAL DRAFT and production No. 28519, dated October 13, 1970, with credit for screenwriter Robert Heverly. 67 leaves, with last page of text numbered 64. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue, pink, and yellow revision pages throughout, dated variously between 10/28/70 and 11/4/70. Pages Near Fine, wrapper about Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. (Inventory #: 166662)