AHJ_ah05566 Inventory of the Norman Hudis papers, 1953-2008 Hudis (Norman) papers Processed by Brittany Heye University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.
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 Finding aid encoded by Ann Mulfort July 2013 Finding aid is in English Collection Summary Hudis, Norman Norman Hudis papers 1953-2008 Website capture 2025-ongoing 05566 13.70 cubic feet (16 boxes) + 6.26 MB University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center. English Norman Hudis (1923–2016) was a British screenwriter and author, best known for writing the first six films in the Carry On series. This collection contains scripts, annotations, and subject files related to his film and television work, as well as biographical information, correspondence, and a copy of his autobiography No Laughing Matter. System Requirements

Radio interviews -- Audiocassette tapes.

 Biography of Norman Hudis

Norman Hudis (1923–2016) was a British screenwriter and author, best known for writing the first six films in the Carry On series. Born in London, he began his career as a journalist for the Hampstead & Highgate Express before serving in the British Royal Air Force during World War II, where he wrote for Air Force News in the Middle East. After the war, he pursued playwriting with limited success before transitioning to screenwriting. He gained recognition in the 1950s for writing B movies and was later hired by producer Peter Rogers to script Rock Around the World (1957). His success with this film led to further collaborations, including Carry On Sergeant (1958), which launched the long-running Carry On franchise. In the 1970s, Hudis moved to the United States, where he contributed scripts to television series such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Marcus Welby, M.D., Hawaii Five-O, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

 Scope and Content

This collection contains scripts, annotations, and subject files related to Norman Hudis’ various television and film works. Also included are biographical information, correspondence, audiocassette tapes of radio interviews, and drafts and a copy of his autobiography No Laughing Matter.

A portion of this collection is restricted from use until 2044 per agreement with the donor. The rest of the collection is available for research purposes, after the researcher signs a use agreement.

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There are no known other archival collections created by Norman Hudis at the date of processing.

This material was recieved from Norman Hudis between 1974 and 2008.

This collection was processed by Brittany Heye in February 2025.

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 Access Terms Television scripts. Television authorship. Motion picture plays. Motion picture authorship. Screenwriters. Marcus Welby, M.D. (Television program) Baretta (Television program) Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Television program) It takes a thief (Television program) McCloud (Television program) Supertrain (Television program) Buck Rogers in the 25th century (Television program) Search for tomorrow (Television program) <?xm-replace_text {Title as Subject}?> Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Performing Arts Series I. Professional Papers

This series contains material related to Norman Hudis' work. Included are scripts for projects he worked on, subject and research files, as well as annotations written by Hudis when he donated material to the American Heritage Center.

 11Correspondence1968-1979, 1986 11Correspondence - "38 Chevy"1982 11Correspondence - Barbara Corday1983 11Correspondence - Daytime TV Serials1982-1983 11Correspondence - Gene Gressley1974-1976 11Correspondence - James Genereaux (with annotations)1984-1985 11Correspondence - Jack Jacobs (with annotations)undated 11Correspondence - Leeundated 11Correspondence - Lili Gans (with annotations)1981 11Correspondence - Maurice Wiltshire1983-1984 11Correspondence - Press Letters1983 11Correspondence - "Snow Days"1983-1984 11Correspondence - Talbot Rothwell (with annotations)1981 11Correspondence - Tina Landau and "Faces on the Wall" (with annotations)1980 Digital Website: Carry On Line2025-ongoing Sub-series 1. Subject Files 1Australia1981 1"Carry On Again Nurse" undated 1Eagles & Sparrows1984-1986 1"Hadn't We the Gaiety"undated 1Henry IV1986-1987 1Immaculate Deceptionundated 1JJ-3 - JJ 121986-1987 1"The Lookalikes"1966-1984 1"The Maxin Connection"undated 1"Oasis"undated 1"The Paw-Paws"1983-1985 1"The Phantom Bard"undated 1Recon1987 1"Rotunda"undated 1"Search for Tomorrow"1985-1986 1"Snow Job"1984 1"Straighten Up"1987 2"True Brit"undated 2"Two From George Spota"1984 2"What Makes Norman Run?"1984-1985 Sub-series 2. Annotations

This subseries contains the annotations written by Norman Hudis as he was donating material to the American Heritage Center.

 2Annotationsundated 213th Day - Story of Estherundated 238 Chevyundated 2Bebe and Benundated 2Blank Verse and the IRSundated 2Boys' Own Macbethundated 2Bracken's World - "Stop Date"November 23, 1969 2Broadcastundated 2Buck Rogers in the 25th Centuryundated 2"The Buring Tree War" and "Barbed Wire Bookie"undated 2The Card in Showbusinessundated 2Carry On Again Nurseundated 2Carry On USAundated 2"The Checkered Flag" for the series "The Saint"1979 2The Crocusundated 2"Curious Episode"undated 2Daytime TV serials1966-1982 2Digs1984 2Domestic Blank Verseundated 2Eve of the Feastundated 2Fighting Padre1979 2For A Million Women1979 2Friday to Tokyo1979 2Fun with United Home Life Insuranceundated 2The Gabriel1979 2Getting Into Gearundated 2The Go Away Roomundated 2Hadn't We the Gaietyundated 2Heart Projectundated 2Here Is the News1979 2Honest Leighundated 2Hotelundated 2Immaculate Deceptionundated 3Judgement Jr.undated 3"The Last Hour" for the series "Kate Loves A Mystery"undated 3The Life Project1979 3The Lookalikesundated 3The Man in the Middleundated 3The Maxin Connectionundated 3Mr. Ten Percent1979 3My Masterpieceundated 3Notes on a TV Idea (Britain)undated 3On the Upundated 3The Phoenixundated 3The Pleasures of Parenthoodundated 3The Priest Storyundated 3Radio Playsundated 3Shakespeare's Birthdayundated 3The Sharif of Kismet Pass - pilot TV scriptundated 3Sink the Bank1979 3Snow Jobundated 3Sweet Geniusundated 3These Dayes 1978, undated 3The Thirteenth Dayundated 3"Tourist" TV Serial1979 3Too Many Drunk Cowsundated 3True Britundated 3The Unknown Forceundated 3Wartime poetryundated 3What Made Norman Run?undated 3Whose World Is It Anyway?undated 3Working Toward A Workundated 3Where Are The Children?undated 3The Wrong Bookundated 3Yentlundated Sub-series 3. Scripts 4The 13th Day - "The Story of Esther"undated 4"38 Chevy"undated 4"38 Chevy" First Draft1982 4"38 Chevy" Outlineundated 4"A Matter of Life"1979 4ABC Afterschool Special - "Alcohol Story: Untitled"July 5, 1974 4"All in the Family"undated 4An ABC Movie of the Week (M.O.W.) - "Simon & Elly"August 24, 1973 4"Another Time, Another Face"undated 4"Dear Tony"July 1976 4"Beau and Mandy"undated 4"Body of Evidence"undated 4"Boy Most Likely to Leave"undated 4Bracken's World - "Stop Date" September 23, 1969 4Bracken's World - "Stop Date" First DraftSeptember 23, 1969 4Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - "Hawk" parts 1 and 2June 1980 5"The Card in Showbusiness"undated 5"Caribbean Hotel"undated 5"Carry On Again Nurse" undated 5"Carry On Nurse"September 1958 5Cave Boy - "Battle of t he Shellbacks"February 8, 1974 5"The Checkered Flag"undated 5"Color of Your Money"undated 5"Cops and Robbers"undated 5"The Cromarty Crouch" - proposed TV Seriesundated 5"Cut Out Man"undated 5"Dan Haigs Woman"undated 5"Daughter of Bonnie and Clyde" screenplayNovember 4, 1970 5"Digs"1984 5"Enter Edward Lydel"undated 5"The Eve of the Feast"undated 5"Fighting Padre"undated 5"For A Million Women"undated 5"Fortec Conspiracy"undated 5"Friday to Tokyo"September 1953 5"The Gabriel"October 15, 1954 5Galactica 1980 - "Troy 1190 B.C." First DraftMarch 5, 1980 6"The Glass Marble"undated 6"Gulf of Pain"undated 6"Hadn't We the Gaiety"undated 6"Hadn't We the Gaiety" First Draftundated 6"Here Comes the Bus"undated 6High Risk - "Tunnel Trouble"November - December 1985 6"The House on Garibaldi Street"undated 6"Here is the News"1952, undated 6"I am 46 & Do Not Intend to Roll Over and Die"undated 6"I'll See You in Hell"undated 6It Takes A Thief - "Beyond A Treasonable Doubt"1970 6It Takes A Thief - "Nice Girls Marry Stockbrokers"1969 6It Takes A Thief - "Sing A Song of Murder"1969-1970 6"Just … In Time"undated 6Kate Loves A Mystery - "The Last Hour" OutlineNovember 21, 1979 6"La Vie Passionnee of Rodney Buckthorne"undated 6"Larger Than Death"undated 6"The Loaf"undated 6The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - "The Yo-Ho-Ho & A Bottle of Rum Affair"November 22, 1966 6The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - "The Mallinson Affair"October 7, 1967 6The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - "The "J" Affair"May 16, 1967 6The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - "The Five Daughter Affair - The Karate Killers" parts I and IIFebruary 14, 1967 6-7"Man in the Middle"undated 6"Man in the Middle" Outlineundated 7"Man in the Middle" First DraftSeptember 12, 1977 7"Made in Athens" pilot scriptDecember 28, 1973 7McCloud - "The Stage Is All the World"June - July 1970 7Miscellaneousundated 7"Mr. Adam"undated 7"Mr. Ten Percent"undated 7"The Musician"undated 7"Music-Mongers"undated 7"Please Turn Over"undated 7"Powder Magazine"undated 7"Return to Wuthering Heights"undated 7"The Sack"undated 7Search - "The Clayton Ellis Document"December 1972 7Search - "Suffer My Child"September 1972 7"The Shadow Over Innsmouth"January 22, 1975 7"Sharif of Kismet"undated 7"S.I.B." Outlineundated 7-8"Sink the Bank" aka "Sink the Holy Ghost"undated 8"Snow Job"1983 8"Star Bright"undated 8"The Stroke"undated 8"Supertrain"undated 8"These Days"undated 8"These Days" with Correspondence1978 8"These Days" miscellaneousundated 8-9"This Year, Next Year" undated 9Tramps of the Air - "The Harsh Voice"undated 9"Tourist"September 11, 1979 9"Upstage" TV projectundated 9"Vincent and Coral"undated 9"Working Toward A Work" material1982-1983 Daytime TV Serials: 9"Birthright" by Ferdinand Villeli and Jerry Weissmanundated 9"Mystery Street"undated 9"Mystery Street" Summary and Presentation1982 9"Mystery Street" materialundated 9"Starbright"1982 Marcus Welby, M.D.: 9"A Fevered Angel"undated 9"A Necessary End"October-November 1972 9"An End and A Beginning"August 1975 9"The Boy They Threw Away"June 2, 1975 9"Marcus Welby's Greatest Case"undated 10"Hell Is Upstairs"September-October 1974 10"Killers of Dreams"September-October 1975 10"The Last Rip-Off"May-July 1974 10"The Medea Factor"October 1975 10"No Gods in Sight"July 1974 10"Prisoner of the Island Cell"November 11, 1975 10"Prisoner of the Island Cell" Part INovember 1975 10"Prisoner of the Island Cell" Part IINovember 1975 10"Second Opinion"October 1975 10"Second Opinion" Second DraftOctober 1975 10"To Live Another Day"July 1975 10"Unindicted Wife"December 1974 - January 1975 10"Vanity Case"February 1976 10"The Velvet Whip" or "Aspects of Love"January 1976 Sub-series 4. Research Material 10Australia (with annotations)undated 10Anti-Fascism in Post-War Londonundated 10Book - "Arigato" by Richard Condon (2 copies)1972 10Book - "Tourist" by Gerald Green"1973 10Book - "Return to Wuthering Heights" by Anna L 'Estrange1977 10Book - "Wuthering Heights" by Charlotte Bronte1961 10Book - "No Laughing Matter: How I Carried On" by Norman Hudis (autobiography)2008 10Bulletinundated 10Copy of Book Cover - "Return to Wuthering Heights" by Anna L 'Estrangeundated 10Desert Island discs (NH Radio Program Appearance)undated 10James Joyce Evaluation for N.E.H. (with annotations)undated 10List of Annotations - United Childrens Settlementundated 11Magazine Articlesundated 11Miscellaneousundated 11Newspaper Articlesundated 11Newspaper and Periodical clippings1983 11Outlinesundated 11Publicationsundated 11Rafmoundated 11Reincarnation (with annotations"undated 11Xerox Copiesundated Series II. Personal Papers 11Assorted Personal Documents (with annotations)undated 11Biographical Information - Michael Hudisundated 11Biographical Information - Norman Hudis2006 11Broadcast Interview with Mark AlynJanuary 15, 1979 11Correspondenceundated 11Uncle Jackundated Audio Cassette Tapes: 12Anti-Fascism in Post-War London InterviewNovember 29, 1981 12Broadcast Interview with Mark Alyn1979 12Coward - 11978 12Desert Island Discs1984 12KCSN tapes (2 tapes)1978-1979 12"Wuthering Heights" Peniston Iwc. (2 tapes)undated 12OA tapes (2 tapes)undated Series III. Material Restricted until the end of 2044

This series contains the material restricted by the donor until the end of 2044.

 5566.0000-00-00: 13Scripts - "Andy" material (including audio cassette tape)undated 13Scripts - "Arigato"undated 13Scripts - "Arigato" scenesundated 13Scripts - "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century"undated 13Scripts - "Going Back"undated 13Scripts - "Hotel" Backgroundundated 13-14Scripts - "Londoners" materialundated 14Scripts - "P.O.W."undated 14Scripts - "P.O.W." materialundated 14Scripts - "Second Opinion"undated 14Annotationsundated 14Annotations - "Going Back"1976 14Annotations - "Origins and Sources" / "Londoners" / etc.undated 14Biographical Material: Family backgroundundated 14Correspondence1977 14Correspondence and Manuscriptsundated 14Correspondence - Dr. Nicholl1980 14Miscellaneous1979 14Subject Files - "Contractions - or the Advisability of Facing Mecca"undated 5566.1983-07-15: 14Background to the "The Go-Away Room/Explanation"undated 5566.1983-09-00: 14"Hotel" First Draft1983 5566.1985-04-04: 15"The Age of Terror"undated 15"Conversation with A Third Party"undated 15"Daytime, Another Time Around"1985 15Letters from London1984 5566.1985-10-04: 15Annotations - "Man in the Middle" First Draft1977 15Biographical Material - Family Background1978 5566.1988-01-27: 15"This Week's Bible"undated 5566.2006-02-15: 15Manuscripts and Annotationsundated Digitalahcdm_05566_001Floppy disc of script of "A Christmas Closet"undated Digitalahcdm_05566_002Floppy disc of script of "Dinner with Ribbentrop"undated Digitalahcdm_05566_003Floppy disc of script of "The Hat on the Stool"undated Digitalahcdm_05566_004Floppy disc of script of "Peanut Envy" screenplayundated 5566.2008-04-04: 15"No Laughing Matter" manuscript (parts 1 and 2)2008