| Description | Material in this ssub-sereis covers the 1980s and contains both US and UK work. Included in this material are nearprint scripts for ONE FINE DAY, the final manuscript for RED SONJA, treatments for an a array of television series including THE MAGNIFICENT THREE, as well as scripts for Eddie and the Breakthrough, Butcher Boy, the Patient, Saga of the HMS Bounty (made into a film called BOUNTY! starring Anthony Hopkins), as well as Exton's adaptions of the Inspector Wexford mysteries for ITV: Wolf to Slaughter, A Guilty Thing Surprised, and Shake Hands Forever, the latter two which Exton wrote under the nome de plume MK Jeeves. |
| Individual or organisational biography | From his earliest days working on ITV's Armchair Theatre productions to his dramatisations for popular, lavishly produced series such as Agatha Christie's Poirot and Jeeves & Wooster, Clive Exton was a screenwriter who brought intelligence and depth to television drama. (see Saturday, 18 August 2007 Independent Newspaper).
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| Custodial History | The papers have been in the possession of Mrs Mara Exton, since the death of her husband Clive Exton. The papers are donated to University of the Arts London in March 2010. |