The Winston Miller collection is composed primarily of scripts that document Miller's career as a screenwriter and a television writer-producer. Some notes and production materials supplement the scripts. The materials encompass two series -- Motion Pictures and Television -- and a transcription of a biographical interview with Miller conducted by John A. Gallagher in 1989. The materials in the two series are ordered chronologically.
The first five boxes contain the Motion Picture series and include examples of Miller's more than fifty produced screenplays. Box 1 holds scripts from the Dick Tracy and Crime Does Not Pay serials, as well as a shooting script of Gone With the Wind.
The Television series (Boxes 5-22) deals with Miller's television career, 1956-1971. Boxes 5-7 contain miscellaneous scripts from his early television writing, such as Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, Cimarron City, Rawhide, and The Virginian. In Box 7 is material relating to The Longest Hundred Miles, a World Premiere movie written especially for television.
Beginning with Box 7 and continuing through Box 21, the most extensive part of the collection, are scripts and production materials for the television series, Ironside and “The New Doctors” portion of The Bold Ones. Revisions, production reports, and shooting schedules provide a detailed look at the production of Ironside.
The Television series ends with the documentation of another World Premiere movie, The Aquarians.
