[This sets forth the social and commercial problems created by daytime radioserials, reviews what
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[This sets forth the social and commercial problems created by daytime radio serials, reviews what is known, and suggests areas which need further exploration. The research methods which might be used are also discussed.]
William "Billy" Friedberg (1916-1965) is best remembered as a television comedy writer, although he also wrote plays, musicals, variety reviews, short stories, and radio programs. Among his best-known works are episodes of "Car 54, Where Are You?", "As Time Goes By", and "The Phil Silvers Show". Friedberg's work represented in this collection spans many genres, including comedy review sketches, TV dramas, short stories, plays, and musicals.
Included in this subseries are the scripts of fifty-one episodes of the radioserial "The
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Included in this subseries are the scripts of fifty-one episodes of the radio serial "The Magnificent Montague" in chronological order. These aired in 1950-1951, and several years later (circa 1957) Friedberg wrote a pilot script for an adaptation of the series into a television program, included in Subseries I.1. The series title is also the name of a popular African-American disc jockey of the late 1950s and the 1960s; however, they seem to be unrelated.
This collection consists of scripts and other materials related to the work of American radio, stage, and screen writer and producer Louis Dropkin. It provides insight into the nature of a journeyman writer/producer's professional life during the years when television first began to challenge radio for mass media dominance in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Of particular note in this series are scripts from two radioserials with which Dropkin was
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Nearly every item in this series is a production copy of a radio script, many of which were written by Dropkin and at least some of which were produced by him. There are also a few manuscript drafts for which production status is indeterminable. The scripts in this series cover a range of topics, but the two biggest groups include radio dramas and documentaries.