The Transformers 1984 CBS Network Pitch documents now online

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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 Sunbow Marvel 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 https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/p/mp-700-transformers-part-1-1984-1985.html

[Fenrir72]

Nice to know but thank Primus this was not to be.