Summary:  The following script was submitted to Bonanza in early 1963 by a kind agent willing to take on an unsold writer.  The script was rejected as ‘well done, but too expensive in production.”

Let’s call it PG13.  (19,427 words)

 When Adam arrives at the Nevada State Prison for a routine inspection, he is taken hostage by desperate inmates who are ready to change the prison’s abusive conditions by any means necessary, even murder.  Outside the prison walls, Joe and Candy work together to end the riot and save Adam.  While trapped, Adam meets Griff King, a young covict who enlightens Adam about the corruption found at the prison.

Rating T WC  15,000