Miami Vice - Mirror Image (Alter Ego)
56 pages, dated 3/1988, shooting script. This was the episode where Sonny suffered a head injury and became his alter ego, a dangerous drug dealer who hated cops, including his own partner, Tubbs. Featured was a young Julia Roberts. This powerful episode evolved from a good script. One of my favorite episodes of all time.
Starsky and Hutch
David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser shared star billing with the red Ford Torino. These scripts are fun to read and reminisce with. These copies run from 53 to 71 pages. Shootout is a very early draft and there were many changes made when it was filmed - this is the Italian restaurant episode when Starsky is shot. Others are mostly final drafts.
1. The Fix
2. A Coffin For Starsky
3. Gillian
4. Black and Blue
5. Bloodbath
6. Protected Witness, aka Targets Without a Badge(2 hours- 115 pages) $11 this script only
7. Day in The Life of a Cop
8. Partners
9. The Committee
10. Shootout (Terror By Night)
11. Revenge (Starsky's Lady aka Snowball)
12. Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty
The Professionals
Rare and superb scripts! These are second or third draft and run about 70 pages. Some scripts come with several pages of revisions.
1. Discovered in a Graveyard
Third Draft, September 12, 1980. 59 pages plus about 20 pages of revisions and amendments.
During a bombing investigation Doyle is shot and seems unable to decide whether to live or die. A great combination of reality, flashbacks and unreality.What starts off as a routine story soon becomes much more than that. "You play around with bombs, you get blown up," is a line to remember. Lying comatose after being critically wounded, Doyle spends much of his time in a surreal, nightmare netherworld arguing with the spirits of Cowley and Bodie whether to allow himself to die.
The script covers two stories, of Doyle's struggle to come to terms with his violent job and CI5 trying to prevent an assassination of a political leader. Excellent script.
Bodie: "Play around with bombs, you get blown up."
Doyle: "Cynic."
Bodie: "Pragmatist."
Doyle: "I must look that up."
2. Bloodsports
While playing in an polo match, the son of a South American President is shot and killed. CI5 are called in to find the killer, and to protect his step-sister Anita, a student in London, is another possible target. Bodie and Doyle trace the getaway car used by the killer, and begin a manhunt involving terrorists.
3. Lawson's Last Stand Series 5, Episode 4.
Second draft, March 1981. 66 pages.
A mentally unstable, high-ranking Army officer has disappeared with vital NATO secrets. Bodie and Doyle track down the man and contend with toxic gas in this exciting script.
4. You'll Be All Right - Second Draft, August 12, 1980. 70 pages.
The leader of a criminal gang offers to surrender in exchange for protecting his family after his family is threatened by rival mobsters. Bodie gets to instruct sports at the school and seems to be enjoying himself. I like the line: "Thieves take care of their own," spoken by Chrissie. It applies to the men of CI5 as well.
5. Black Out - Second draft, May 12, 1980. 71 pages with 6 pages of amendments.
An amnesiac girl is the only clue to a possible terrorist attack. It starts with the boys riding with the victim in a speeding ambulance, under machine gun fire. They take the recovering girl on a tour, trying to jog her memory, and having a good time bantering in their usual way. Bodie even gets hurt!
ABOUT THE PROFESSIONALS (1977 - 1983) "Anarchy, acts of terror, crimes against the public. To combat it I've got special men - experts from the Army, the Police - from every service. These are The Professionals." The Professionals is one of British television's most popular and successful action series of the 1970s and 80s. At their peak in 1980 The Pros were earning as many as 17.6 million viewers.
Criminal Intelligence 5
The basis of The Professionals was CI5 - Criminal Intelligence 5 - an organisation lead by surly Scotsman George Cowley (played by Gordon Jackson), a former MI5 head who founded the team as an 'umbrella organisation' to help alleviate London's ever-increasing level of criminal activity. CI5 consisted of up to forty men and women agents, but the main action was centred around Cowley's two top operatives; William Andrew Philip Bodie (Agent 3.7) and Raymond Doyle (4.5).
Bodie (Lewis Collins) with his cropped hair, polo necks and smart suits, was a mercenary in Africa, who deserted the Merchant Navy to join the Paras and later the SAS, before being signed up to CI5 by Cowley. He didn't hesitate to get tough on suspects in a hands-on way.
Doyle (Martin Shaw) was a former Docklands Police Constable with a more laid back persona, trademark frizzy hairstyle and old jeans and jackets. This was a guy with an underlying tough streak that came in handy when interviewing suspects.
