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teleplay

n. a script, or screenplay, intended for a television show rather than a movie

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Teleplay

A teleplay is a screenplay used in the production of television plays, productions of comedies or dramas written or adapted specifically for television. The term surfaced during the 1950s with wide usage to distinguish teleplays from stage plays written for theater and screenplays written for films. All three have different formats, conventions and constraints.

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Directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a teleplay by Francis Cockrell based on DFW 36.

His father had given it to him when he sold his first teleplay: it was reconditioned, from the typing pool at the Security Pacific Bank.