Jersey: Young Indy Worldwide Productions Ltd., 1992

54pp. mimeographed typescript, secured with split staple to left edge, and Rattigan's ownership signature to top right corner. With associated production material as listed below. A very well preserved collection.

ACTOR PAUL RATTIGAN'S SIGNED WORKING SCRIPT FOR THE SOMME, AUGUST 1916, 'EPISODE FOURTEEN' OF GEORGE LUCAS'S SPIN-OFF TV SERIES THE YOUNG INDIANA JONES CHRONICLES, AND ASSOCIATED MATERIALS: CALL SHEETS, A ONE-LINE SCHEDULE AND A LETTER OF CONGRATULATION FROM RICK McCALLUM CONGRATULATING CAST AND CREW ON THE RATINGS SUCCESS OF A PRECEDING EPISODE.

Twenty-eight episodes of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles were made, transmitted across two series in 1992-3. Although identified as 'Episode Fourteen' on the title page, this instalment eventually appeared as Series Two Episode Two of the show, and was first transmitted on 18 September 1992. It was written by Jonathan Hensleigh (who three years later would write Die Hard With A Vengeance (1995)) from a story outline by George Lucas.

The show starred Sean Patrick Flanery as Young Indy, and one of the guest leads on this episode was Paul Rattigan in the role of Lieutenant Moreau. His script, signed to the title page, has Moreau's lines highlighted in blue marker pen throughout, and on the verso of p.3 Rattigan has jotted down some notes, seemingly given to him by director Simon Wincer early in production: '1. STOP ACTING! YOUR [sic] NOT ON THE WEST END STAGE NOW! 2. FEEL IT -- DON'T SHOW IT!'. This is followed by a scribbled memo to self: 'LEARN LEARN LEARN!'.

The associated material comprises:

-- Three call sheets, dated 3, 5 and 6 March, on which the shoot is titled '"GERMANY", "SOMMA"' (two episodes were being filmed in one block) and giving details of the days' shooting schedules on the studio backlot in Prague;

-- 6pp. one-line shooting schedule, with Rattigan's profuse annotations to his shooting days;

-- Rattigan's 3pp. Additional Dialogue Recording schedule, post-it note attached to final page giving date and location of session (1 July at De Lane Lea studios, London);

-- Mimeographed 1p. typed letter, 5 March 1992, from producer Rick McCallum to the show's cast and crew, informing them of a 28% audience share for the pilot episode, which had aired the previous evening;

-- Small colour photograph of Rattigan, on set and in costume, taken by his friend the actor Sean Pertwee, who had just arrived to begin filming the show's next episode, Germany, Mid-August 1916. (In 1999 the two episodes were re-edited into a single feature-length film under the title Trenches of Hell.)