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unusual facts about Teleplay


Identity Within

It was scripted and storyboards were produced, getting further than most 'lost episodes'.


A Piano for Mrs. Cimino

The teleplay by John Gay is based on the novel of the same name by Robert Oliphant.

Behold, Eck!

It was then passed to John Mantley, later the producer of western TV series Gunsmoke (from 1965-1967/Exec.Prod:1968-1975), to write the final teleplay.

Call It Courage

Call it Courage was filmed for television with a teleplay by Benjamin Masselink and a narration by Don Ho, and appeared on The Wonderful World of Disney for the first time in 1 April 1973 (Season 19, Episode 20).

Daniel Carney

The Wild Geese (1977) (originally titled The Thin White Line) ISBN 0-552-10869-3, made into a film with a screenplay by Reginald Rose (author of 12 Angry Men).

Daniel T. Thomsen

"7:15 A.M." 1.10 (Thomsen wrote a teleplay, based on a story by co-creators Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz)

Dave Polsky

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - Feeling Pinkie Keen, Over a Barrel, Too Many Pinkie Pies, Spike At Your Service (story), Keep Calm and Flutter On (teleplay), Games Ponies Play, Daring Don't, Rarity Takes Manehattan

Don Coscarelli

Coscarelli also directed the premiere episode of the American TV series Masters of Horror entitled Incident On and Off a Mountain Road and co-wrote the teleplay with Stephen Romano.

Ek Ruka Hua Faisla

It is a remake of the Golden Bear winning, American motion picture 12 Angry Men (1957), which was directed by Sidney Lumet, the film in turn was an adaptation from a teleplay of the same name by Reginald Rose.

Ernest Tidyman

In 1980, he wrote the teleplay for the TV movie Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, which he also had a hand in producing), which got him an Emmy nomination.

I, Don Quixote

The title of the 1959 teleplay was originally Man of La Mancha, but sponsor DuPont Corp. objected and producer David Susskind changed it to the more specific I, Don Quixote, fearing that the TV audience would not know who Wasserman was referring to if the original title was used.

Ian McLellan Hunter

He wrote the screenplays for over twenty films, including Footlight Fever (1941), The Amazing Mr. X (1948) and Mastermind (1976), as well as episodes of the popular television series The Defenders and the teleplay for the 1982 miniseries The Blue and the Gray.

If She Dies

The teleplay, written by David Bennett Carren, was based on a 1982 story originally written by Carren for the Twisted Tales comic book.

J. H. Wyman

"Peter" (2.16) (Wyman, Pinkner, and supervising producer Josh Singer wrote a teleplay, based on a story along with Goldsman)

Jody Worth

Olmstead and Nicholas Wootton co-wrote the teleplay for the episode "Healthy McDowell Movement" from a story Worth co-wrote with Clark.

John D. F. Black

Black also wrote the teleplay for and was the associate producer of one of the outstanding early episodes of Star Trek—The Naked Time.

John Eisendrath

Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990) TV Series (story) (episode Dog's Best Friend) (teleplay) (episode Fortunate Son) (teleplay) (episode Spring Breakdown) (multiple episodes 1995–1999)

John J. Ordover

Both have story credits on "It's Only a Paper Moon", which was written as a teleplay by Ronald D. Moore.

Jorge Zamacona

Noel Behn wrote the teleplay for the episode "A Model Citizen" from a story from Zamacona and Fontana.

Kazuyuki Aijima

He joined Mitani Koki's Tokyo Sunshine Boys theatrical troupe in 1983, which grew in popularity until its movie debut with the parody of Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men, a comedy called 12 Gentle Japanese released in 1991.

Larry Gates

He played the role of Secretary of State Dean Rusk in the 1974 teleplay The Missiles of October, and played President Herbert Hoover in the 1979 miniseries Backstairs at the White House.

Millard Lampell

In 1966, he was awarded an Emmy for his teleplay for the Hallmark Hall of Fame drama Eagle in a Cage.

My Father and My Mother

The teleplay broadcast in February 1968, and received an Emmy award nomination for the score, written by Bernard Green.

NBC Sunday Showcase

For the October 18 telecast of Murder and the Android, Alfred Bester scripted a teleplay adaptation of his cyber-crime story "Fondly Fahrenheit," first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (August 1954).

Night of the Dead Living

The teleplay was written by Frank Pugliese based on a story he wrote along with executive director Tom Fontana.

Night Slaves

The teleplay was co-written by Robert Specht who had contributed to the TV series The Outer Limits and The Immortal.

No More Good Days

The episode's teleplay was written by David S. Goyer and Brannon Braga, who also conceived of the television story, based upon the novel of the same name by Robert J. Sawyer.

Ralph Pape

In 1983, Say Goodnight, Gracie was adapted by the author for a 90-minute teleplay which was seen on Chicago's PBS affiliate WTTW with the original Steppenwolf cast of Joan Allen, Jeff Perry, Glenne Headly, Francis Guinan and John Malkovich.

Richard Russo

Russo wrote the teleplay for the HBO adaptation of Empire Falls, the screenplay for the 2005 film Ice Harvest, and the screenplay for the 2005 Niall Johnson film Keeping Mum, which starred Rowan Atkinson.

Roger Rueff

Mr. Rueff's works for the screen include the teleplay God Lives produced by the Magic Door Children's Theater in Chicago and The Big Kahuna, his screen adaptation of Hospitality Suite, starring Kevin Spacey and Danny DeVito.

Scott A. Williams

He co-wrote the story for the episode "Forget Me Not" with Kring and Steve Valentine and co-wrote the teleplay with Kring.

Stephen Sachs

The teleplay and adaptation are by Mr. Sachs himself, and the film was directed by Joseph Sargent.

Sticks and Bones

In 1973, David Rabe wrote the teleplay for and Robert Downey Sr. directed a CBS television movie based on Rabe's play.

Sticky Wicket

written by Richard Baer with the teleplay written by Laurence Marks and Larry Gelbart, it originally aired on CBS-TV on March 4, 1973.

The Cracker Factory

The teleplay by Richard Shapiro is based on the best-selling 1977 novel by Joyce Rebeta-Burditt.

The Ferguson Syndrome

The pilot was originally written by Michael Petroni as a screenplay for Touchstone, but was later adapted into a teleplay for ABC by Richard Hatem.

The Golden Spiders

Directed by Michael O'Herlihy from a teleplay by Wallace Ware (David Karp), "The Golden Spiders" aired January 16, 1981.

The Left Handed Gun

The screenplay was written by Leslie Stevens from a teleplay by Gore Vidal, which he wrote for the television series The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse 1955 episode The Death of Billy the Kid, in which Newman also played the title character.

The Whimper of Whipped Dogs

The first use of the title The Whimper of Whipped Dogs was a teleplay for a 1970 episode of the TV series The Young Lawyers, which was serialized in Ellison's Los Angeles Free Press television critique column at the time, The Glass Teat.


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