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

Jim Shooter 1951-2025

Veteran writer Mark Waid has delivered the sad news that Jim Shooter, giant of the comic book industry, has died at the age of 73: source

During his tenure as Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics, Shooter oversaw the development of G.I Joe's relaunch as A Real American Hero in 1982 for Griffin-Bacal.  In 1983, he personally wrote an eight-page development treatment for The Transformers, establishing many of the foundational concepts used by the franchise today.  A reproduction of that treatment is available below:

Unproduced Projects update

The Unproduced Projects page has been edited and expanded, breaking down year-by-year the various pitches and unsold pilots from Sunbow and Marvel