David Silverman Stephen Sustarsic Screenwriter (3 results)

Four draft scripts, 6 treatment scripts, and some ephemera related to an unproduced pilot episode of a television series, set to air on MTV. Set to star former MTV VJ Ed Marqus, this series would have followed a laid-back Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who takes a job teaching a journalism class at a stuffy private high school. Set in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Fourth Draft script: White titled self wrappers, lacking rear wrapper, noted as FOURTH DRAFT on the front wrapper, dated March 1, 1994, with credits for screenwriters David Silverman and Stephen Sustarsic. Title page integral with front wrapper. 53 leaves, with last page of text numbered 53. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound in binder. Third Draft script: White titled self wrappers, lacking rear wrapper, noted as THIRD DRAFT on the front wrapper, dated February 20, 1994, with credits for screenwriters David Silverman and Stephen Sustarsic. Title page integral with front wrapper. 56 leaves, with last page of text numbered 56. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound in binder. Draft script 1: White titled self wrappers, lacking rear wrapper, dated January 12, 1994, with credits for screenwriters David Silverman and Stephen Sustarsic. Title page integral with front wrapper. 52 leaves, with last page of text numbered 52. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound in binder. Draft script 2: White titled self wrappers, lacking rear wrapper, dated January 5, 1994, with credits for screenwriters David Silverman and Stephen Sustarsic. Title page integral with front wrapper. 51 leaves, with last page of text numbered 51. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound in binder. Treatment script 1: Lacking wrappers. 4 leaves. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Near Fine, unbound. With manuscript ink annotations to each page. Treatment script 2: Lacking wrappers. 2 leaves. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Near Fine, bound with staple at top left corner. Treatment script 3: Lacking wrappers. 3 leaves. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Near fine, bound with staple at top left corner. With manuscript ink annotation to each page. Treatment script 4: Lacking wrappers. 8 leaves. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Near Fine, bound with paperclip at top left corner. Treatment script 5: Lacking wrappers. 13 leaves. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, printed on gray stock. Near Fine, unbound. Treatment script 6: Lacking wrappers. 8 leaves. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Very Good plus, bound with paperclip at top left corner. 1 Deal proposal to screenwriter Stephen Sustarsic: 2 leaves, Near Fine. Housed in a Major Clients Agency envelope, Very Good plus, with some tearing from opening and with manuscript ink annotation on the verso. 1 set of handwritten notes: 11 leaves, rectos only, unbound. Very Good plus. All materials housed in a generic three-ring binder.…

Three gatherings of vintage treatment and draft material relating to the 1999-2000 primetime animated television series. Includes: 1. A gathering of brief treatments for episodes, dated February 3, 1999, and credited to screenwriters David Silverman and Stephen Sustarsic. 2. A treatment script for an unproduced episode entitled "The Dil 1.0," credited to Silverman and Sustarsic, dated February 8, 1999. 3. A five-page gathering of story ideas, dated March 7, 1999, credited to Silverman and Sustarsic. Based on the successful 1989-2023 comic strip by Scott Adams, about the titular pessimistic white-collar engineer and his daily interactions with his idiotic boss and frustrated coworkers. All materials 8.5 x 11 inches, bound with a single staple at the top left corners. Near Fine to Very Good plus.…

Second Draft ribbon copy typescript master script, with manuscript white-out annotations on 25 pages, for the season 7, episode 18, "Not So Dearly Beloved," episode of the acclaimed television sitcom, which aired on May 15, 1981 on CBS. Screenwriters David Silverman and Steve Sustarsic were best known for their work as animators and screenwriters for sitcom television. Broadcast on CBS for eleven seasons, from 1975 to 1985, "The Jeffersons," created by Norman Lear was a spin-off of his watershed sitcom "All in the Family," and was one of the longest running series in television history, the second-longest featuring a primarily African American cast, and the first television series which prominently featured a married interracial couple. Sherman Hemsley stars as the irascible George Jefferson, a successful African American entrepreneur, who, with the Emmy Award winning Isabel Sanford as his kind and level-headed wife Louise (Weezy), move to an ritzy Manhattan apartment with their college age son and wise-cracking maid. George invites his rude problem employee Wendell up to his apartment to fire him, but shortly after Wendell arrives, he collapses and dies of a stroke on George's sofa. Front wrapper integral with title page, noted as SECOND DRAFT, with credits for screenwriters David Silverman and Stephen Sustarsic. 48 leaves, with last page of text numbered 46. Ribbon copy typescript, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, unbound.…