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= : * Arie. : mt e ce ore ia Sadan FAN “ah “oe, it * wet Sh thie Poe te la Ss i RE IT aw oe aes, #, me we FROM SUBJECT: awott “ = _ a war 18 et Pte Oba GEM GFO. om OOF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum : Mr. Franck ** DATE: 4/11/74 uN : Mr. Heim Lg7/ MOTION PI ENTITLED _x"ME »..G~MAN” TELECAST’ BY ABC NETWORK APRIL 9, 1974 Ny. On Monday, April 15, 1974, Director Kelley is scheduled to meet in New_York_City/with Elton H-Rule, President and Chief Operating Officer of the American Broadcasting Companies. For the past nine years, the ABC network has telecast our Sunday night television series ("The FBI"); and according to Quinn Martin, ABC-TV has until April 15 to advise whether it desires to renew “The FBI" for a 10th season on the ABC network beginning next September. In contrast to the fair and factual treatment accorded the Bureav by ABC in its telecasting of our Tv series, the ABC network featured a new motion pic- ture last Tuesday night (April 9) that represented a cheap, tasteless effort to commercialize on the name of former SAC Melvin Purvis and his association with This motion picture, entitied “Melvin Purvis, G-Man," was.especially made for ABC's Movie-of~the-Week feature by‘American_ International Pictures. It was made to serve as a "pilot" program for possible adaptation to a television series that would dramatize exploits of the FBI~-featuring the late former SAC Purvis--in the 1930's. The ABC Network did not advise us of its intention to have this film produced; nor were we affornes an opportunity to review the script. ( be Aanee. Ow. Dep. AD Adm. Dep. AD Wwe. Anat. Bie. Adaia. Come. frat. Ent. AMeirg Files & Com. Gen, ee, Mert. Penpectis betel. Leberetery Plex, & Evel. Spec, lav Tratming Lege! Coun, Tolephens Ra, Dwecter See's Jie ‘ Enclosure bo ny peG-16..* . 1 + Mr. Franck'~+ Enclosure — a ~~ 1 ~ Mrs. Metcalf - Enclosure APR o =“, 1 ~ Telephone Room - Enclosure S19 CONTINUED™ OVER 4 GWG :djm 7) ye Leas aa oh 7 f aol . ld ee RR RP ee woe ea