tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060041.post4040004610103962735..comments2024-03-23T19:30:55.540-04:00Comments on INNER TOOB: BOOK 'EM - REMEMBERING CHANDLER ON HIS 125THToby O'Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06999037844031101965noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060041.post-32634329424541487232013-07-25T12:22:53.779-04:002013-07-25T12:22:53.779-04:00Thanks for the info, Mike, and thanks for checking...Thanks for the info, Mike, and thanks for checking in!<br /><br />I never heard this story, but I knew of WB's cheap ways when it came to crediting writers. The only way 'Maverick' could get on the air was if Roy Huggins based it on a previous work owned by the studio so they wouldn't have to pay him royalties as the creator. So he pulled out some non-fiction book on which he based the War of the Silver Kings episode.....Toby O'Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06999037844031101965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060041.post-80305569752102420862013-07-25T10:48:21.428-04:002013-07-25T10:48:21.428-04:00Actually, Raymond Chandler didn't write that 7...Actually, Raymond Chandler <i>didn't</i> write that <i>77 Sunset Strip</i> episode.<br />It was just another adaptation (read <i>knockoff</i>) of <i>Strangers On A Train</i>.<br /><br />Warners was making so many TV shows at that time (at a rate of 35-40 episodes a year for each one) that they had no compunction of freely reusing any properties that they might have retained remake rights to.<br /> To stay within "the rules", it was necessary to give onscreen credit to anyone who had contributed to the original <i>Strangers</i> screenplay - in this case, not only Chandler, but Czenzi Ormonde (who did Hitchcock's rewrite), Whitfield Cook (who first scouted out the story for Hitchcock), and even Patricia Highsmith (who wrote the original novel - and reportedly didn't much like any of the versions that resulted).<br /><br />This was, as I said, common practice at Warner Bros TV; the year after this show aired, they raided their Hitchcock collection to make a tab version of <i>Dial 'M' For Murder</i> for 77SS (Richard Long was the villain in this one as well).<br /><br />Anyway, that's the whole story, for whatever it might be worth.Mike Dorannoreply@blogger.com