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Series 1. Motion Picture Projects

 

Consenting Adults (Buena Vista, 1992)

box 9, folder 9

Script by Matthew Chapman August 20, 1991

Biographical / Historical

E. G. Marshall played the role Adams was considering.
 

The Empty Mirror (Lions Gate, 1999)

box 5, folder 9

Script November 10, 1994

 

The Final Conflict (20th Century-Fox, 1981)

box 9, folder 1

Second draft script by Andrew Birkin October 1, 1979

 

F/X (Orion, 1986)

box 8, folder 9

Revised final draft screenplay by Robert T. Megginson and Gregory Fleeman February 14, 1985

box 8, folder 10

Publicity and stills 1986

 

It's My Turn (Columbia, 1980)

box 1, folder 8

Script A Perfect Circle by Eleanor Bergstein November, 1979

 

Kid Butterfly (unproduced)

box 10, folder 1

Screenplay by Doug Jacoby 1991

 

9 to 5 (Twentieth Century-Fox, 1980)

box 1, folder 9

Final draft script Nine to Five by Colin Higgins December 12, 1979

 

Road Trip (Dreamworks, 2000)

box 9, folder 10

Script by Todd Phillips & Scot Armstrong August 5, 1999

 

Son in Law (Buena Vista, 1993)

box 5, folder 4

Script by Fax Bahr & Adam Small and Shawn Schepps November 4, 1992

box 5, folder 5

Script by Fax Bahr & Adam Small and Shawn Schepps [lightly annotated] November 4, 1992

box 5, folder 7

Script by Fax Bahr & Adam Small and Shawn Schepps [annotated] December 15, 1992

box 9, folder 2

Publicity and stills 1993

box 5, folder 6

Shooting schedule 1992-1993

 

Unidentified

box 1, folder 3

Unidentified script undated

 

Series 2. Television and Radio Projects

 

Adam (NBC, 1983)

box 3, folder 2

Shooting script by Allan Leicht May 17, 1983

 

American Teacher Awards (Disney)

box 5, folder 3

One-minute profiles December 1, 1992

 

Appearances (NBC, 1990)

box 4, folder 14

Script 1990

 

Bliss (unproduced)

box 2, folder 10

Pilot script "O Sweet Mystery of Love" by Chip Keyes & Doug Keyes February 23, 1983

 

CBS Afternoon Playhouse (CBS, 1978-1983)

box 2, folder 7

Script "Secret Agent Boy" by John Francis Whelpley September 13, 1982

 

Civil Wars (ABC, 1991-1993)

box 5, folder 1

Script "Chute First, Ask Questions Later" by George Malko January 17, 1992

 

Class of '96 (Fox, 1993)

box 9, folder 5

Script "Episode #1" by John Romano July 6, 1992

 

Cocaine: One Man's Seduction (NBC, 1983)

box 2, folder 6

Script Cocaine: Another Man's Poison by Barry Schneider, from an original story by David Goldsmith and Barry Schneider August 27, 1982

 

Code Name: Foxfire (NBC, 1985)

box 3, folder 3

Teleplay "Quicksilver: Slay It Again, Sam" by Richard Chapman and Bill Dial from a story by Joel Schumacher, Bill Dial, and Richard Chapman October 29, 1964

 

Diagnosis: Murder (CBS, 1993-2001)

box 9, folder 6

Script pages "Open and Shut" by Jacquelyn Blain July 8, 1997

Biographical / Historical

Robert Stack played the role Adams was considering.
 

Enemy (unproduced)

box 6, folder 2

Script by David S. Goyer, based on the Dark Horse Comics character January 12, 1995

 

Every Wednesday (unproduced)

box 1, folder 1

Script by Clyde Ware and Gloria Gonzalez undated

 

The Exit Elves (unproduced)

box 6, folder 1

Second draft script "Intermission" by Nancy Miller January 5, 1995

 

Family Matters (ABC, 1989-1997; CBS, 1997-1998)

box 4, folder 17

Shooting script "Citizen's Court" by Regina Stewart Larsen [annotated] August 21, 1991

 

The Fantastic World Of D.C. Collins (NBC, 1984)

box 3, folder 1

Second draft script by Martin Cohan and Phil Margo May 2, 1983

 

For the People (unproduced)

box 9, folder 7

Script by Janice Hendler and Larry Brody and Jack Guss 1982

 

Goodnight, Beantown (CBS, 1983-1984)

box 2, folder 8

Script "First Episode" by A. J. Carothers December 10, 1982

 

The Great Defender (Fox, 1995)

box 5, folder 8

First draft script by Frank Renzulli and George Schenck & Frank Cardea December 3, 1993

 

Knight & Daye (NBC, 1989)

Organization and Arrangement

Scripts are listed in order of broadcast.
box 4, folder 8

Shooting draft script "Sugar Mama" by Kevin Kelton April 12, 1989

box 4, folder 9

Shooting draft script "New York! New York? " by Bob Pekurny April 19, 1989

box 4, folder 10

Shooting draft script "Still Motile After All These Years" May 1, 1989

box 4, folder 11

Shooting draft script "Stalk Radio" by Art Everett May 10, 1989

box 4, folder 12

Shooting draft script "Good-bye Mr. Scrimshaw" by Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel May 17, 1989

box 4, folder 7

Shooting draft script "The Last Honest Man In America" by Barry Rubinowitz April 5, 1989

 

Law and Order (NBC, 1990-2010)

box 7, folder 5

Script pages February 10, 2004

 

Lifestories (NBC, 1990)

box 4, folder 16

Script "Life & Death: Colon Cancer" [annotated] 1990

Biography/History

Broadcast as "Don Chapin," with Robert Prosky playing the role Adams had considered.
 

Lou Grant (CBS, 1977-1982)

box 2, folder 4

Script "Execution" by April Smith [cover inscribed by cast] September 15, 1981

box 7, folder 3

Correspondence 1977-1981

box 7, folder 4

Clippings 1980-1981

 

Matlock (NBC, 1986-1992; ABC, 1992-1995)

box 4, folder 5

First draft script "The Heiress" by Diana Kopald Marcus February 24, 1988

 

Metropolitan Hospital (unproduced)

box 5, folder 10

First draft script by Al Aidekman & Rob Dames & Bob Farrelly & Lloyd Garver & Brian Levant & Jeffrey Pohn & Leonard Rips & Bennett Yellin February 11, 1994

 

Morningstar/Eveningstar (CBS, 1986)

box 3, folder 6

Revised final draft script "A Rose For Alice" by Paul W. Cooper February 4, 1986

box 7, folder 2

Publicity 1986

 

Murder Can Hurt You! (ABC, 1980)

box 2, folder 1

Final shooting script by Ron Friedman and Ben Joelson and Art Baer February 27, 1980

 

Pepper Young's Family (NBC Radio, 1932-1959)

box 9, folder 4

Clippings 1956-1958

 

Rage of Angels: The Story Continues (NBC, 1986)

box 3, folder 5

Script by Robert L. Joseph February, 1986

box 7, folder 7

Script pages by Robert L. Joseph 1986

 

Raising Caines (NBC, 1995)

box 6, folder 3

Third draft script by Bob Brush January 3, 1995

 

Rise and Shine (unproduced)

box 5, folder 2

Revised second draft script by Josh Brand & John Falsey March 3, 1992

 

Rockenwagner (unproduced)

box 4, folder 13

Second draft script by Charles H. Eglee and Channing Gibson November 27, 1989

 

Screenplay (BBC, 1986-1993) [UK]

box 7, folder 6

Script "Buying a Landslide" by David Edgar 1992

 

There Goes The Neighborhood (unproduced)

box 2, folder 5

First draft pilot script March 16, 1983

 

This Is The Life (Syndicated, 1952-1988)

box 2, folder 11

Script "In Search of Morgan Avery" by Richard Wendley April 4, 1983

 

Tomorrow's Child (ABC, 1982)

box 2, folder 3

Revised script Genesis by Jerry McNeely February 9, 1981

 

Top of the Hill (CBS, 1989)

box 4, folder 4

Script The Lame Duck by Stephen J. Cannell December 23, 1987

 

Valdez (unproduced)

box 9, folder 8

Script "Pilot" by Jeff Valdez and Ed Decter & John J. Strauss 1995

 

Voiceovers

box 9, folder 3

Scripts and contracts 1992-2004

Scope and Contents

Contains material on a variety of television, radio, and corporate narrations; includes material for Smucker's, the American Parkinson Disease Association, and Wyse Advertising, among others.
 

The West Wing (NBC, 1999-2006)

box 6, folder 4

Script pages for episodes 7-10; schedules 1999

 

When In Rome (unproduced)

box 4, folder 6

Revised second draft script by Kimberly Hill February 10, 1988

 

Where are My Children? (ABC, 1994)

box 5, folder 11

Revised script by Michael Zagor March 8, 1994

 

Whip Valentine (unproduced)

box 4, folder 15

Revised second draft script by Tony Blake & Paul Jackson March 7, 1990

 

Wilk, Max shows

box 7, folder 1

Treatments 1982

 

Who Is Julia (CBS, 1986)

box 3, folder 7

Final draft script by James S. Sadwith, based on the novel by Barbara S. Harris May 19, 1986

box 3, folder 8

Final draft script by James S. Sadwith, based on the novel by Barbara S. Harris [annotated] May 19, 1986

 

Series 3. Theater Projects

 

Adlai, Alone

box 10, folder 2

Script by Herbert Mitgang undated

 

Appearances Are Deceiving

box 10, folder 3

Script by Thomas Bernhard 1983

 

Are You Sure?

box 2, folder 9

Script by Sam Bobrick January 12, 1983

 

Baby On Board

box 4, folder 3

Script by Peter Stone March 16, 1987

 

The Co-op Chronicles

box 8, folder 5

Script and contract 2002

box 8, folder 6

Script by Charles Grodin 2002

box 8, folder 7

Script pages undated

 

Diplomacy

box 2, folder 2

Script by Chuck Workman 1981

 

The Downside

box 1, folder 6

Script by Richard Dresser undated

 

EEN

box 1, folder 5

Script by Thomas Whipple Hammond 1988

 

A Few Stout Individuals

box 10, folder 4

Script by John Guare [autographed by Guare] 2002

 

The Japanese Foreign Trade Minister

box 10, folder 5

Script by Murray Schisgal 1991

 

Jayhawker

box 10, folder 6

Script pages by Sinclair Lewis and Lloyd Lewis undated

 

The Man Who Had All the Luck (Roundabout Theatre Company, 2002)

Biography/History

Also played at the Williamstown (MA) Theatre Festival in 2001.
box 7, folder 8

Research guide 2002

box 7, folder 9

Script material and program 2002

box 7, folder 10

Correspondence and contact lists 2002

Scope and Contents

Includes handwritten letter from Chris O'Donnell.
box 7, folder 11

Clippings 2001-2002

 

Mortal Acts

box 10, folder 7

Script by Tom Huey undated

 

Mountain (White Barn Theatre [Westport, CT], 1988)

box 8, folder 2

Scripts by Douglas Scott 1986

box 8, folder 3

Clippings 1988

box 8, folder 4

Correspondence 1988

 

My Father's Song

box 10, folder 8

Script by Devon Amber 2002

 

My World and Welcome to It

box 8, folder 8

Script material undated

 

Outrage!

box 1, folder 2

Script by Henry Denker no date

 

Pete and Jenny

box 1, folder 4

Script by Hazel Chilstrom undated

 

The Rose Quartet (Circle Repertory Company, 1991)

box 11, folder 8

Publicity and correspondence 1991

 

The Sum of Us

box 3, folder 4

Script by David Stevens 1986

 

The Time of Your Life (Mirror Repertory Company, 1986)

box 8, folder 1

Notes and contact sheets 1985-1986

 

Time Steps

box 1, folder 7

Script by Gus Kaikkonen 1978

 

A Trip to Bountiful

box 10, folder 9

Script by Horton Foote [autographed by Foote] 2005

 

The Value of Names

box 10, folder 10

Script undated

 

Waiting in the Wings

box 10, folder 11

Script by Noel Coward, revisited by Jeremy Sams 1999

 

Unidentified

box 10, folder 12

Unidentified script undated

box 10, folder 13

Unidentified script from Jonathan Bernstein 2003

 

Series 4. General Files

box 12, folder 11

Abrams, Morris 1982-1990

box 11, folder 9

Acting notes 1937

box 11, folder 5-7

Articles and reviews 1957-1991

box 11, folder 4

Biographical information circa 1957-2005

box 12, folder 6

Biographical notes undated

box 12, folder 16

Books 1945-1996

Scope and Contents

The Best Plays of 1943-1944 edited by Burns Mantle (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1945); Lou Grant by Douglass K. Daniel (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996).
box 4, folder 1

Clippings 1975-1987

box 12, folder 7

Contracts 1986-1999

box 12, folder 14

Head shots circa 1937-circa 2000

box 12, folder 3

Letters from Adams circa 1937-2003

box 12, folder 2

Letters to Adams 1980-2004

Scope and Contents

Includes note from Harold Prince.
box 12, folder 9

Membership 1993-2001

box 12, folder 1

Obituaries of Mason Adams 2005

box 12, folder 8

Pension 1990-1998

box 6, folder 5

Periodical - Columbus Monthly December, 1978

box 4, folder 2

Periodical - Manhattan, Inc. November, 1987

box 11, folder 1-3

Playbills and programs 1984-2002

box 12, folder 5

Sheet music 1975

box 12, folder 4

Speeches circa 1977-2002

box 12, folder 12

Stills circa 1977-2001

box 12, folder 13

Stills circa 1937-1978

box 12, folder 10

University of Wisconsin - diploma and certificates 1939-1941

box 12, folder 15

"Winning Orations of the Northern Oratorical League" - pamphlet 1940

 

Series 5. Audiovisual material

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

SERIES CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audiovisual materials in this series will require assessment and possible digitization for safe access. To review these audiovisual materials, you must notify the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk in advance of your visit.
box 13

VHS tapes 1983-2006

Scope and Contents

Thirty-three cassettes, mostly with various works featuring Adams.
box 14

Video cassettes 1988-1997

Scope and Content

Twenty-six VHS cassettes and one Beta cassette of demo reels, theatrical performances, and unknown material.
box 15

Audio and video tapes 1985-1999

Scope and Contents

Video tapes of demo reels and unknown material; audio tapes of commercials, books on tape, and unknown material.
box 16

Phonograph records 1983

Scope and Contents

Five 2-LP sets of "A True Life Story - Soap Opera."