Mannix: The Man Outside (Original screenplay for the 1971 television episode)

N.p.: N.p., 1971. Fourth Revised Final Draft script for Season 5 Episode 11 of the 1967-1975 television series. Copy belonging to actress Coleen Gray, with her character name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Laid in with the script is a call sheet dated September 13, 1971.

The series followed the adventures of a Los Angeles private eye and his loyal secretary, a police officer's widow. The secretary, played by Gail Fisher, marked one of the first regular series appearances by a Black actress. In this installment, Mannix helps an old wartime friend escape from a suspicious blackmail scheme. The episode originally aired on November 24, (truncated) 1971, on CBS.

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.

Goldenrod titled wrappers, noted as 4th Revised Final Draft and production No. 60055-108 on the front wrapper, dated September 7, 1971, with credit for screenwriter Arthur Weiss and story credit for Tibor Zada. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 60 leaves, with last page of text numbered 59. Xerographic duplication on goldenrod stock, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. (Inventory #: 166660)