Abby Mann
Writer
About This Interview
Writer/Producer Abby Mann (1927-2008) discusses writing such teleplays as "A Child Is Waiting" (for Studio One) and "Judgement at Nuremberg" (for Playhouse 90). He also talks about the feature film adaptations of these teleplays and of writing the TV movie "The Marcus Nelson Murders", and the creation of the series Kojak. Mann talks in detail about 1970s projects, the series Medical Story and the miniseries King. He speaks about being a writer and executive producer of such TV movies as The Atlanta Child Murders and Indictment: The McMartin Trials. Throughout the interview, Mann expresses his lifelong passion to correct or spotlight injustices through the written word. The three hour interview was conducted August 18, 2004 by Gary Rutkowski.
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
- On his formative years and his early writing for "live" television in the 1950s; on his teleplay "A Child Is Waiting" (for Studio One).
- Chapter 2
- On the feature film "A Child Is Waiting" and his famed Playhouse 90 teleplay "Judgment at Nuremberg."
- Chapter 3
- On the feature film version of "Judgment at Nuremberg."
- Chapter 4
- On his writing of the television movie The Marcus Nelson Murders, and the creation of the subsequent series Kojak; on two other 1970s projects, the series Medical Story and the miniseries King.
- Chapter 5
- On the miniseries King and the television movies The Atlanta Child Murders and Indictment: The McMartin Trials.
- Chapter 6
- On his later work including the television movie Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story; on his thoughts on the television industry, the Blacklist, then-current projects, advice to aspiring writers, and his legacy
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