Record carton ACC-MSS 001 Box 04

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes the bound scripts from The Steve Allen Show, The New Steve Allen Show, The Bill Dana Show, The Danny Thomas Show, and The Spike Jones Show. Also, included here is a bulk of the unbound scripts of The Bill Dana Show. The Bill Dana Show scripts contain more than the final version of the script. Most episodes have the first draft through various revisions and then the final shooting script. There are unbound scripts from various other shows.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes the bound scripts from The Steve Allen Show, The New Steve Allen Show, The Bill Dana Show, The Danny Thomas Show, and The Spike Jones Show. Also, included here is a bulk of the unbound scripts of The Bill Dana Show. The Bill Dana Show scripts contain more than the final version of the script. Most episodes have the first draft through various revisions and then the final shooting script. There are unbound scripts from various other shows.

Scope and Contents The papers of Bill Dana (1925- ) span the period (1940s- 2006) and focus primarily on his two most popular television series "The Steve Allen Show" and "The Bill Dana Show," as well as material related to his most famous character, Jose Jimenez. The papers consist mostly of annotated scripts for the live programs which aired on NBC. Dana was both a writer and performer. The papers here also contain scripts for the numerous other television and film scripts Dana worked on, comedy routines...