Only You, Dick Darling! by Miller, Merle and Rhodes, Evan - 1965

New York: William Sloane Associates. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice copy with no discernible shelfwear, just a slight shadow (from a removed label?) on the front pastedown, and a very pale stripe (remainder mark?) on the bottom edge of the text block; the jacket shows only the faintest traces of soiling, notable because it's printed on uncoated paper and its light color makes it very prone to wear and soiling]. In this book, one of the earliest "insider" exposés of the network television business, the writers of a TV pilot give a blow-by-blow-by-blow account of their involvement with an ultimately doomed project. Called "Calhoun" (or, alternatively, "Calhoun: County Agent"), it was a proposed one-hour drama series about a county agent in New Mexico, and was developed under the auspices of United Artists Television (then headed up by the notorious James Aubrey, aka "The Smiling Cobra"). The stars were to… Read More