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A Collection of scripts for The Flip Wilson Show
8 December 2021, 10:00 PST
Los AngelesSold for US$382.50 inc. premium
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A Collection of scripts for The Flip Wilson Show
A large collection of scripts from the collection of screenwriter Hal Goodman, comprising approximately 140 scripts and sketches for The Flip Wilson Show, mimeographed typescript scripts with paper clips, some duplicates, some with minor annotations in Hal Goodman's hand, some with "Hal" or "Hal Goodman" to title page, various dates 1971-1972, with sketches including Flip and Lucille Ball; Flip - Lee Marvin; Flip & Tony Randall; Flip & Bobby Darin; Flip - Don Rickles; Flip & Lucille Ball; Flip & David Frost; Flip & Johnny Cash; and Flip & Lily Tomlin.
Provenance: The Estate of Hal Goodman.
All: 11 x 8.5 in.
Provenance: The Estate of Hal Goodman.
All: 11 x 8.5 in.
Footnotes
Hal Goodman (1915-1997) was an Emmy® Award-winning comedic screenwriter and producer; as the LA Times obituary noted, "He put funny words in the mouths of entertainers ranging from a young Bob Hope to Johnny Carson..." He was nominated for eight Emmy® Awards and won one for The Flip Wilson Show. He began his career in radio and got his big break in television as a joke writer for Bob Hope after World War II. Along with his writing partner, Larry Klein, he wrote for Carol Burnett, Jackie Gleason, Red Skelton, Frank Sinatra, Milton Berle, and Steve Allen before spending the latter part of his career in the 1970s and 1980s writing for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, being responsible for many of Carson's most memorable sketches and monologues of that era. The Flip Wilson Show aired from 1970 to 1974 and was the first network show starring an African American host; it was nominated for 18 Emmy® awards and won two, as well as a Golden Globe® for Wilson in 1971.