Guide to the Thomas Seller Papers , 1948-1978
Guide to the Thomas Seller Papers , 1948-1978
Collection number: M0303
Department of Special Collections and University ArchivesStanford University Libraries
Stanford, California
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- Date Completed:
- 1987
Container List
TOM SELLER'S GIFT
THE TALL BOY
Script: Big Sam's boy 12/23/60
Script: A scheme of hearts 2/10/61
Script: A kind of courage 2/20/61
Script: The leopards spots 8/29/61
Script: The property of the crown 1/8/62
Script: Quarantine 2/1/62
Script: The four queens 1/29/62
Script: The four queens 2/1/62
Outline: Return of the prodigal (Alternate title for Big Sam's boy) 12/14/60
Outline: The leopards spots 1/30/60
Treatment: The property of the crown 1/10/62
Treatment: The property of the crown 1/11/62
Treatment: The four queens
RIVERBOAT
Script: Cargo for canyon creek 3/20/59(Earlier title for the unforgiven)
Script: The unforgiven (Earlier title for the Barrier) 4/3/59
Script: The barrier 6/4/59
Script: Jessie Quinn 9/15/59
ScriptJessie Quinn 2/7/62
Script: Sailors on horseback 11/15/69
Script: Sailors on horseback 11/25/59
Script: The river makers (formerly the ditch diggers) 1/4/60
Treatment: The patriot (earlier title to lady from texas) 8/24/59
Treatment: The lady from texas (earlier title to Jessie Quinn) 8/24/59
Treatment: Sailors on horseback 10/26/59
Treatment: The ditch diggers 11/16/59
Outline: The landlubbers (earlier title to sailors on horseback) 10/20/59
Outline: Saliors on horseback 10/27/59
Treatment: Sailors on horseback 10/28/59
Outline: The ditch diggers 11/11/59
THE LONE RANGER
Script: Legion of old timers 5/10/49
Script: Rustlers hideout 5/25/49
Script: Pete and Pedro 9/2/49
Script: Old Joe's sister 10/17/49
Script: The masked rider 10/22/49
Script: The mystery of cannonball McKay 5/13/49
Script: Gredd for gold 12/1/49
Script: Man of the house 12/8/49
Script: Jim Tylers Past 12/20/49
Script: The man with two faces 1/4/50
Script: Buried treasure 1/16/50
Script: Billie the great 2/1/50
Script: Never say die 2/7/50
Script: Death trap 2/20/50
Script: Bullets for Ballots 3/14/50
Script: Devils pass 3/24/50
Script: Damsels in distress 4/7/50
Script: Eye for an eye 4/21/50
Script: Trouble for Tonto 5/3/50
Script: The silent voice 8/15/50
Script: Two gold lockets 9/6/50
Script: Through the wall 4/5/52
Script: Outlaws son 4/18/52
Script: The map 5/2/52
Script: Ranger in danger 6/23/52
Script: The godless men 6/11/52
Script: Colorado gold 5/25/54
Script: Wanted: the lone ranger 7/2/54
Script: The cross of santo domingo 3/19/56
Script: The cross of santo domingo 2/24/56
Script: The return of dom Pedro O'Sullivan 3/14/56
Script: The return of dom Pedro O'Sullivan 3/29/56
Script: Mission for Tonto 4/30/56
Script: Outlaws in grease paint 6/18/56
Script: Outlaws in grease paint 6/21/56
Script: Decision for Chris McKeever 6/13/56
Script: Decision for Chris McKeever 6/22/56
Script: The law and Miss Aggie 7/27/56
Script: The law and Miss Aggie 7/31/56
Script: Two against two 9/25/56
Script: Two againdt two 10/1/56
Script: The prince of buffalo gap 10/4/56
Script: The prince of buffalo gap 10/11/56
Alterations of Outlaws in grease paint 7/4/56
Lone Ranger do's and don'ts
Lone Ranger Episodes (List)
Lone Ranger story costs (week of 6/22/50)
Tom Seller background and credits
Letter: comments on scripts 6/22/49
Letter: comments on script revisions. 5/22/49
Letter: comments on script 5/9/50
Letter; comments on script 5/9/50
Letter; comments on film 10/8/50
Letter: comments on script 8/9/50
Letter: comments on script 8/9/50
Letter: comments on script 9/21/50
Letter: comments on script revisions 9/21/50
Comments on script Sherrif of gunstock
Comments on script White man's magic
Memo: Lone Ranger scripts 4/30/52
Memo: Lone Ranger scripts 5/19/52
Memo: Script length 7/2/52
Memo: Show length 7/8/52
Memo: Script endings. 7/31/52
Release schedual second series Lone Ranger 10/13/52
Memo: The leads and their horses
Description of the leads
Standards and background: the Lone Ranger
Lone Ranger Episodes
Shooting schedual: Wanted the Lone Ranger
Notes:Lone Ranger gimmicks
Descriptions: semi- regular characters
Cast lists for various episodes
Treatment: The hostages
Treatment: The last Holdup
Back to Haunt me Article by Tom Seller
WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY
Treatment: Pancho a dog of the plain 12/19/66
Treatment: Pancho a dog of the plain 1/3/67
Treatment: Pancho (Formerly Pancho a dog of the plain) 2/2/67
Treatment (Revised) Pancho 2/22/67
Third draft Treatment: Barry of the great St. Bernard 11/28/66
Revised Treatment: Barry of the great St. Bernard 6/10/67
Interoffice communication: Analysis of Barry 11/5/66
Letter: on Barry
Comments on suggestions 6/26/67
Second Revised Treatment: Barry of the great St. Bernard 10/23/67
Third Revised Treatment: Barry of the great St. Bernard 1/4/68
Outline: Snow bear 2/20/68
Step Sheet: Snow bear 2/15/68
Notes on Polar Bears
Revised Treatment: Snow bear
Final Draft narration: Snow bear
Final draft narration and continuity- theatrical: Snow bear 3/17/70
RAWHIDE
Script: The blue spy 7/11/61
Script: The blue spy 7/31/61
Script: The greedy town 8/21/61
Script: The hasty marriage 4/10/62
Script: The custodians 2/17/65(First draft)
Script: The custodians 2/22/65(Second draft)
Treatment: Incident of the blue spy 6/16/61(with comments)
Treatment: Incident of the greedy town 7/26/61
Treatment: The hasty marriage 2/15/62
Treatment: The custodians 2/2/65
Treatment: The custodians 2/8/65
Outline: The hasty marriage 2/12/62
Outline: The hasty marriage 3/10/62
Shooting script: The greedy town 10/11/61
PLAYHOUSE OF STARS
Script: Kinsman 6/25/58
Script; Kinsman 7/1/58
Script: Fourth son 7/25/58
Script: Third son 9/23/58(Formerly Fourth son)
Script: No answer 10/23/58
Script: No answer 10/24/58
Script: The man who had no friends 12/9/58
Outline: The man who had no friends 11/17/58
The man who had no friends story by Hugh Pentecost
No answer story by Theodore Sturgeon
Fourth son story by Ernest Haycox
CAVALCADE OF AMERICA
Script: No greater love 2/28/51
Script: The Zenger story 3/1/51
Script: Teddy of the badlands 2/20/53
Script: The Baron and the rose 10/20/53
Script: Father Serra 2/15/54
Format/Theme statement: Cavalcade of America 4/28/53
PRIVATE SECRETARY
Script: Private secretary 9/2/52
Script: Femme fatale 9/19/52
Script: Old flame 12/5/52
Script: Lady from Paris 12/8/52
Script: Dark stranger 3/2/53
Script: Friend in need 10/8/53
Script: Good neighbor 1/9/54
Script: Where, oh where 1/23/54
Script: Susie for President 3/15/54
Script: Whistlers dayghter 7/15/54
Script: Finders keepers 1/25/55
Script: Slow curve 3/4/55
Script: In darkest Manhattan 5/5/55
Script: Private secretary 6/2/52 also 3/20/52
Script: Private secretary 8/18/52
Treatment: opening episode 2/28/52
Treatment: Private secretary 3/3/52
Treatment: Femme fatale 9/9/52
Treatment: Lend lease 12/11/52
Treatment: Good neighbors
Treatment: Where, oh where by Arthur Hoffe 1/4/54
Treatment: Susie for President 3/1/54
Treatment: The rich full life 6/16/54
Treatment: Finders Keepers 9/28/54
Treatment: Slow curve 2/15/55
Treatment: Rear echelon 3/7/55
Treatment: Easy come, easy go 2/18/54
Treatment: Wedding bells 2/19/54
Treatment: The awkward age 2/20/54
Treatment: A ripe old age 3/7/55
Treatment: The athletic type 12/9/52
Treatment: Audition 2/11/55
Treatment: A young man's fancy 6/7/54
Treatment: The Carnoustie prophecy 8/5/55
Treatment: Clothes horse 1/9/53
Treatment: Competition 8/26/53
Treatment: Most likely to succeed 10/6/53
Treatment Namesake 8/26/53
Treatment: Return to yesterday 8/24/55
Treatment: Sob sister Susie 10/9/53
Treatment: Sob sister Susie 10/13/53
Treatment: Three loves has Susie 8/23/55
Treatment: Turnabout 8/26/53
Treatment: Uncle Shelly 3/1/55
Treatment: Younger than springtime 7/18/55
Outline: Old flame 11/10/52
Outline: Spring fever (Earlier title to Old flame) 11/10/52
Outline: Heart trouble 4/17/53
Outline: Legacy 8/26/53
Outline: Reunion 3/26/53
Shooting schedual: Good neighbor
Shooting schedual: Susie for President
Shooting schedual: Whistler's daughter
Shooting schedual: In darkest Manhattan
Notes: comments on Femme fatale and The eyes have it
List: Episodes of Private Secretary
Private secretary: background and characters
Story synopses; Private secretary, Femme fatale, Old flame, Lady from Paris
Story ideas
Memo: story ideas
Format statements
Memo: belivability and character
Call sheet: Private secretary
List of story ideas
Call sheet: Femme fatale
Plot notes (Hand written)
Notes; Private Secretary ideas 3/19/53
Notes: Private Secretary ideas 6/14/54
Background material: Private Secretary
WHISPERING SMITH
Script: The blind gun 10/29/59
Script: Prayer of a chance 12/30/59
CASEY JONES
Script: The track walker: 7/15/57
Script: Roaring Camp 7/18/57
DEATH VALLEY DAYS
Script: The gladiator
Script: The gambler and the lady
Show description
TROUBLE WITH FATHER
Script: Father knows best 12/20/48
Script: Father Knows best 11/8/50
Script revisions for Father knows best 12/23/48 and 1/5/49
Script: A helping hand 11/8/50
All in the Family (Synopsis for a television series)
Letter/contracr 1949
The Trimmed Lamp (Telecast script)
SKY KING
Script: Two gun Penny 1/16/52
Script: Desperate character 2/9/52
Sky King list of episodes
STEVE DONOVAN, WESTERN MARSHAL
Script: Mystery canyon 2/14/55
Script: The peoples choice 2/14/55
Character sketches: Steve Donovan and Rusty 2/7/55
THE ANN SOUTHERN SHOW
Script: Three loves has Katy
Treatment: Three loves has Katy
Treatment: Three loves has Katy
BONANZA
Script: Bullet for a bride 8/27/63
Script: Bullet for a bride 10/14/63
Treatment: The Parasites (earlier title for Bullet for a bride) 7/5/63
Treatment: The Parasites 10/14/63
Outline: Bullet for a bride 8/8/63
Bonanza information 7/17/63
COMBAT
Script: The man between (formerly The Wall) 3/13/64
Treatment: The wall 1/14/64
Treatment: Man on a pedestal 5/7/62(Formerly The Golden Fingers)
Treatment: The wall L/13/64
Treatment: The man between 3/13/64
Outline: The wall 1/14/64
Character outline
Code Names
Memo: Fictional unit designations
Idea: The golden fingers 4/26/62
THE F.B.I.
Script: Pound of flesh 5/17/65
Script: Pound of flesh 9/29/65
Treatment: Pound of flesh 4/9/65
Story idea Pound of flesh
Idea: The wanted
Idea: The long lost
Idea: The hard choice
Idea: ...How you play the game
Idea: The guilty (Handwritten)
Story ideas
Format: The F.B.I.
Case file pertaining to the murder of an F.B.I. agent
Phaphlet: The story of the F.B.I.
Phamphlet: Know your F.B.I.
Information concerning the postiton of special agent in the F.B.I. (Xerox)
F.B.I.-I.C. Numbers list
The F.B.I.-Jurisdiction and program format information
Areas of F.B.I. involvement (handwritten)
CIMARRON CITY
Script: Return of the dead 1/6/59
Script: Have sword will duel 1/30/59
Outline: Have sword will duel 1/7/59
THE VIRGINIAN
Script: My old man 6/23/64
Treatment: Chip off the old block 1/2/64
Treatment: My old man 2/10/64(formerly Chip off the old block)
Treatment: My old man 2/27/64
DESTRY
Treatment: It's a wild, wild, wild, wild west 11/29/63
Treatment: It's a wild, wild, wild, wild west 12/19/63
Outline: It's a wild, wild, wild, wild west 12/15/63
Suggestions for changes: It's a wild, wild, wild, wild west 12/4/63
IRONSIDE
Script: The laying on of hands 9/8/70
Treatment: The laying on of hands 3/19/70
Treatment: The laying on of hands 4/7/70
Treatment: The laying on of hands 4/22/70
ROADBLOCK
Script: Hostage
KENTUCKY JONES
Script: The big shot 11/23/64
Treatment: The big shot
ROBERT TAYLOR SHOW
Script: Hiram 6/67/63
Treatment: Irresistable force, Immovable object
LARAMIE
Script: Indian giver 8/7/61
Treatment: Private property (Alternate title for Indian giver) 6/26/61
Treatment: Private property
Treatment: The debt
Treatment: Private property) 6/19/61
T.V. FORMATS
Tevevision Quarterly (Magazine) vol 10. #4 summer '73
Resume of Adventures of Jim Bowie and synopses of purchesed stories.
The Alaskans (Format)
The Bob Cummings Show (format)
Bringing Up Buddy Cast of characters and direction & motivation of program
Format- Bringing Up Buddy
Broken Arrow Series first year plot synopses.
Channing (Format)
Checkmate (Format)
Circus Boy titles and themes
Colt.45 (Format)
Summary of Death Valley Days T.V. films
Information for Dr. Kildare writers
Memo to Flipper writers
Frontier Circus (format)
The Great Adventure: Notes to writers
Notes: The Greatest Show on Earth
Greatest Show on Earth format and story synopses
Arena floor plan Greatest Show on Earth
Gunslinger (format)
The Investigators (format)
The Young Ones (Format)
Laramie (format `61- `62 season)
Lassie script problem analysis
Description: Love American Style
Man With a Camera exerpts from format
Description: Man Without a Gun
Crisis (format)
Description; Maverik
My Friend Flika (format)
The Canons of The Outer Limits
Rawhide story and character guide
Redigo (Format)
Riverboat presentation to writers
Information to writers concerning the T.V. serise Riverboat
Road Block presentation to writers
Description: Sugerfoot
Tales of the Plainsman (writers guide)
Twelve O'clock High story prospects
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (format material)
Whirlybirds story assignments
Zane Grey Theator (format material)
PLAYBILLS
Performing Arts (magazine) 18 issues may '76 - apr'78
Miscellanious playbills and theater annoucements