Collection of Television Movie Scripts

Search Help

• All results are sorted by movie title.
• Not all the records include an entry for Script Writers.
• If you are certain of a writer's name, enter the last name first followed by a comma and the firstname.
• You may enter a single word or phrase.
• To search for non-adjacent words in a title, use the "%" wildcard between the terms (e.g., GONE % WIND).
• Searches are not case-sensitive.
• Boolean searching (and, or, not) is not supported.
• Both the Title and Script Writer searches have automatic left and right truncation, so a single word search will produce results with that term anywhere within the field, including within a word (e.g., RAIN will return RAIN, RAINING, BRAIN, GRAIN, TRAIN,etc.).

Wildcards

• _ (underscore) replaces any single alphanumeric character.
  Example: a search for "T_N" will retrieve TIN, TAN, TEN, TON, etc.
• % (percent) replaces any number of characters in the search term or phrase.
  Example: searching for "RAIN%" using the title index will retrieve all scripts containing the search term, even if it is within a word (e.g., RAIN, RAINING, RAINED, RAINS, etc.)
  Example: searching for "BUMP % NIGHT" using the title index will return BUMP IN THE NIGHT.

About the Indexes:

Title: Searches the Television Movie titles using left and right truncation to find the occurrence of the search term anywhere within the field, including within words.

Script Writer: Searches the Script Writer field using automatic left and right truncation to find all instances of the search term anywhere within the field, including within words. Not all the records include an entry for script writers!

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