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THE ELLISON TREATMENT contains never-before-published storylines for Ripcord (the other ideas pitched alongside Harlan’s first produced screen credit), Route 66 (including a story inspired by Harlan’s time as associate editor of the men’s magazine Rogue), The Untouchables (based on the same events that inspired his Babylon 5 story, “Objects at Rest”), The Name of the Game (mentioned at length within The Glass Teat columns), and material developed while Harlan was the story editor of The Sixth Sense anthology series (“I spent seven weeks in a death cell at Universal, and if you are all good little boys and girls, and if the maggots don’t get into the marmalade so the dog gets the flashes when he sneaks into the jar, Uncle Wiggily will tell you all about how horrendous a steady job in tv can be before one flees shrieking in terror from $1250 a week.”).
But wait, there’s more! THE ELLISON TREATMENT also boasts “The Darkness Behind Their Eyes,” Harlan’s proposed Alfred Hitchcock Hour follow-up to “Memos from Purgatory,” which has a substantial amount of research behind it–the tapes still exist–and is utterly chilling. Have I mentioned “Eight Bombs in Search of a Target” yet? That’s one Harlan exhumed from his files a few years ago, with an idea to further developing beyond this 1963 treatment. Then there’s Amos Burke, Secret Agent, the ill-fated attempt to dress Gene Barry in Robert Vaughn’s spy getup. On the feature-length side of the equation, we have the cinematic adaptation of the novella RUN FOR THE STARS, which was to have been an AIP production starring Jack Palance—according to Harlan’s treatment—as Beno Tallant, and—back on the small screen—there’s The Land of the Lost outline (well, ⅔ of an outline) for story editor David Gerrold, and even the Duck Tales comicbook story co-plotted by Harlan & Susan Ellison (the latter, of course, well known as the author of a segment of Dinosaucers).
Edited by Jason Davis.
Edited by Jason Davis.
Contents:
Ripcord: Four Premises
Empire: A Coat-Tail Ride Is the Smoothest Ride
Airport: An Ivory Mischief, a Silent Deceit
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Ormond Always Pays His Bills
The Untouchables: No More Saints
The Great Adventure: Eight Bombs in Search of a Target
Route 66: One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty (Not based on Ellison’s short story of the same title.)
Route 66: The Girl in the Spinning Glass Globe
The Dick Powell Show: All That Glitters
Run for the Stars – Film Treatment for AIP
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Darkness Behind Their Eyes
Honey West: Mrs. Pigsfoot
Amos Burke, Secret Agent: In the Valley of the Winds
The Name of the Game: The Whimper of Whipped Dogs
The Sixth Sense: Salamander
The Super: The Star
Land of the Lost: The Guardians of the Pit
Duck Tales: The Fowlness at the Center of the Earth!
6″ x 9″ Trade Paperback, 140 pp. ISBN: 978-1-946542-04-5.
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