![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So Hamner did what he did best - he went to his roots. His first spec script was for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, but the Master of Suspense left the young writer uncertain about his future when that script was rejected. That didn't stop him from shooting for the biggest TV shows of the time, though. It's a common way for TV shows to be written even now, but at that time, Hamner was new to the game. Writing a spec script, for those not familiar with the industry term, is when a writer pens an unsolicited episode of a show and submits it for consideration. So his agent suggested he try writing spec scripts. Back in the Sixties, all producers wanted was to see film reels from writers, but Hamner had no reels. There was a reason for that, his agent told him at the time. But he'd have to wait to find that fame, because even after he published Spencer's Mountain - the book upon which that classic show is based - in 1961, Hamner said he was still having a hard time finding work as a writer, despite getting a fancy agent. He would, of course, go on to write one of the most cherished home-spun TV shows ever: The Waltons. "At that time, I thought, well all I can do is sort of home-spun stuff," Hamner told the Archive of American Television. was just starting out as a writer, there was one thing he knew: ![]()
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