Script-of-the-Week: Married With Children “For Whom The Bell Tolls”

by Richard Gurman and Katherine Green (45 pages)

Awards: None that I could find.

Points of Interest:

• Pacing: Quick. Jokes in the first lines of dialogue get right to the “Bundy sensibility”. The story in the middle of the script slows down but the gags are continuous. Ending is abrupt.

• Screen Visibility: Besides minimal character actions the visibility of the set absent.

• Formatting: Lines are double spaced. Action is capitalized in parenthesis. Characters’ names and entries/exits are underlined.

• Dialogue: Sharp, biting and relatively short.

• Action: Moderate descriptions directing some of the character’s movements and physical humor.

• Act Structure: Act One, Scene One. Act One, Scene Two. Act One, Scene Three. Act Two, Scene One. Act Two, Scene Two. Act Two, Scene Three. Act Two, Scene Four. Act Two, Scene Five. Act Two, Scene Six. Act Two, Scene Seven. (10 Scenes).