The other day here while plugging Frank Ferrante, I uploaded the title page on a script for The Dick Van Dyke Show — the one about the walnuts. Ruben Bolling, maker of the wonderful Tom the Dancing Bug wrote to ask…
As always, love your blog. I was wondering if you knew what the code on the front page of the Dicky Van Dyke Show script meant (A-1, B-10, etc.). If so, I'd love to know, and I'm sure many of your reader as dumb as I am would too.
Sure, I can tell you. The script had seven scenes in it and they called the first one Scene A and it started on page one. They called the second one Scene B and it started on page ten…and so on. Scene D was bisected by the middle commercial so the first half of it started on page 25 and the second part started on page 30. The entire script, by the way, was 42 pages.
As you'll see in a moment, Surprise Guest Danny Thomas was mentioned in the script. On the cast list, however, it merely said that the role of "Guest Star" was played by "A Twiloite."
While I was scanning, I thought you might also like a peek at the description in that script of a pretty famous scene in television history…
