The Transformers: weekday series press pack

Fresh off the success of The Transformers' first season on weekends in 1984, here is Sunbow Productions press pack to promote the series going to full weekday syndication in 1985.

My Little Pony: Rescue At Midnight Castle press pack

Featured below are the folder and pages for Sunbow Productions' press pack, promoting the first My Little Pony half-hour special (retroactively known as Rescue At Midnight Castle) to syndicators in early 1984.

In addition to promotion of celebrity guest voices Tony Randall and Sandy Duncan, the pack also contains a synopsis for the story that is somewhat gentler that the actual content of the special.

Transformers: Full CBS Network Pitch material

In February 1984, Marvel Productions' Hank Saroyan and Jeffrey Scott were hurriedly commissioned to create a development bible and pilot script, intending to sell The Transformers as a Saturday morning series to CBS Network.  Now, at last, the Archive presents the paper material that formed that pitch.

Included at the link below are: 

• The initial development bible, written in three days without full reference or character profiles available.
• The revised bible, dated 7th March 1984, incorporating Bob Budiansky's profiles and original characters requested by CBS.
• Outlines and full script for the pilot episode: A Robot's Best Friend Is His Dog.
• Jeffrey Scott's notes file, which ties all the pieces together.  Containing Hasbro product list, notes from development meetings between Scott and Saroyan, along with feedback from Hasbro, Griffin-Bacal and CBS executives.

To read them all, head to The Transformers, Part 1

Spider-Man 1981: Three outlines

 With thanks to Webhead over at spider-friends.com, the Archive now hosts Jeffrey Scott's outlines for the 1981 Spider-Man solo series.  Starting with the pilot Doctor Doom...Master Of The World, as well as Lizards, Lizards, Everywhere! and Curiosity Killed The Spider-Man.

To read these outlines and partial scripts from the same episodes, head to Marvel Superheroes

Dungeons & Dragons: The Time Lost storyboard

The Archive now hosts the Act I storyboards Michael Reaves' Dungeons & Dragons episode The Time Lost.  Wherein Venger uses a time portal to bring both an experimental jet fighter from the present and a Luftwaffe pilot from World War II into The Realm.  Intending to have the pilot fly the advanced aircraft back through the portal and win the war for Germany, ensuring that Dungeon Master's young pupils would never be born.

Unluckily for Venger, the kids find the pilot first and discover that he is elated to be free of war and the regime he fought for.  Now the Young Ones have to keep the pilot safe from Venger's clutches and preserve their own existence.

To view these storyboards and others, head to Marvel Network Shows