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^2. them to wltlnsit another Las Vegas Series. Hence, this contest between two sets of producers could work to our ultimate ruin. Let me ask a question right there. How would Goodson-Todman be making their series more attractive by adding more violence? (Gene} I don"t know. And we are restricted..! mean forget whether we do or don't want to...restricted from doing what they're doing, let's put it that way? I don't know, Bill. You have script approval. I am simply (Gene) explaining to you that the script that was presented here was a master of violence, low, in their honest opinion, they thought that they| had a good script.against the Las Vegas background and were somewhat surprised i when the group took an attitude contrary to theirs. They thought that this was actually a dynamic and exciting script. Was that story not based on some fact ..1 think that was the story about the truck that was about to be robbed and, as I understand, from you Gene, it never came off due to good surveilance and crime prevention. The episode never took place but it was planned. Am I correct so far? 1 .t was a planned operation. That story could be told about your community that somebody, some two fellows, a gang of fallows sitting| in L.A. , San Francisco, had a Iqp plot but due to good surveilance, under the sheriff and the police department that plan was aborted. Now they went ahead and pds told the story and probably a good or.e...I don't know*...of the plan going through and then being aborted at the very end with a lot of killing, a lot of .......Let me say it was a very eaeo' script and a?½ a man who has been in the raovi for years 1 enjoyed reading it and if it were made against the background of South Bend I wduld have loved to have seen it. Unfortunately we Jcbxsk are particularly sensitive sreaJiowever, ( ) I don't| wish to involve one coss?any against the other except as I say in the normal course of events should you both be making pictures and one gets a little bit