MISCELLANEOUS (Scriptwriter), 1970s

The collection consists of 65 boxes of material beginning in 1942 (University of Florida, WRUF - Radio) and ending in 1981 with the CBS television drama, "Jessica Novak". The PRESTON WOOD SCRIPT COLLECTION contains hundreds of scripts, in various formats (outline, first and second drafts, revisions and final shooting scripts). In addition, a patron may find writer's and producer's notes and research materials (such as official forms and notes from the office of Los Angeles Coroner, Thomas Naguchi, used to add realism to the NBC crime/medical drama "Quincy" ), clippings and articles from various trade newspapers and journals with reviews of episodes written by Preston Wood, signed memos from studio and production executives (Jack Webb, etc), contracts and union "writing credit" documents, and actual cassette recordings of story conferences between writers, producers and actors. The collection is filed chronologically, by television series title (Dragnet (NBC-TV) 1967-70). Preston Wood did extensive work on a number of series ("Bonanza", " Adam-12", etc.), but also wrote scattered episodes for a number of programs during the 1950s, 60s and 70s ("Mr. Novak", "The Wild Wild West", "The Man From U.N.C.L.E", "The D.A.", etc). This material is filed, alphabetically in MISCELLANEOUS boxes for each decade.

The PRESTON WOOD SCRIPT COLLECTION is a valuable resource for writers and students of radio and television history. The researcher can follow the career of Mr. Wood, from the beginning, through the various stages of his professional life and also follow each step in the writing process from the story idea, outline and first draft to the rewrites and final shooting script.