With thanks to Rich Helscher, the Archive now hosts an earlier version of Transformers script Fire on the Mountain. Accompanying the script are memos from story editor Bryce Malek notifying producer Nelson Shin of rewritten pages to accompany the 2nd July 1984 revision, the earlier first draft having already gone forward to storyboards (as was common during the series run):
The impetus for these revisions was to insert a scene where Wheeljack and Sideswipe rescue Skyfire from the Arctic ice, where he was buried at the end of concurrently-written episode Fire in the Sky
Insert pages 13 and 13A, as mentioned in the above memos
The original pages 12 and 13 from the first draft are included with this copy of the revised script, and show Doug Booth writing Skyfire as simply being an established part of the Autobot roster. Setting out from Autobot Headquarters with Brawn and Windcharger to investigate the destruction of their Sky Spy satellite by Megatron's new weapon.
These pages were replaced by the new inserts and the script handed over to Ron Friedman for his dialogue changes.
Both scripts can be read at The Transformers, Part 1
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