Bud Yorkin Productions Records, 1977-1979

Collection context

Summary

Creators:
Yorkin, Bud
Language:
English.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of scripts, photographs and production materials such as script files, correspondence, publicity, music cue sheets, memos, and contracts related to Bud Yorkin Productions, Inc. Also includes material from Toy Productions and from the unproduced series, "Five Women."

Biographical / historical:

Alan Bud Yorkin was born in Washington, PA, Feb. 22, 1926; BS, Carnegie Mellon Univ., graduate work at Columbia Univ., English Literature; began his career in television at NBC (1950) and went on to produce and direct a variety of shows including "All In The Family," "Sanford And Son," and "Carter Country"; co-founded Tandem Productions with Norman Lear (1959) and later went on to form Bud Yorkin Productions (1974); he is the recipient of numerous awards including six Emmys.

Arrangement:

Arranged in the following series:

  1. 13 Queens Boulevard
  2. Carter Country
  3. Coast To Coast
  4. Sanford Arms
  5. Unidentified
  6. What's Happening

Physical location:
Held at SRLF. Please contact the Performing Arts Special Collections for paging information.
Physical description:
74 boxes

Access and use

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988