Scripts

Each episode would have it's own script which would go through a number of stages from first drafts through to final versions. Each time the script was changed the updates appeared on different coloured paper. Often there are differences between the shooting script and the finished episode so they make interesting reading.

Officially the scripts should have been handed back to MGM once filming had wrapped but many cast and crew kept there's and they have been made available for others to buy. Autographed scripts from Albert Hague and Billy Hufsey have made their way into the public domain.

Scripts are hard to come by now but ocassionally come up on Ebay.

The script master copy was kept in a folder in the script department office along with other pertinent information for the episode, like the legal checks that each script went through to check there were no copyright issues; shooting schedules listing which scenes would be filmed on which days and the day out of days schedule which listed information about which days the cast and guest stars would be working.