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Overview

Tom Fontana, a Buffalo native and 1973 graduate of Buffalo State College, is the award-winning writer and producer of three acclaimed television series, " St. Elsewhere", "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "Oz".

Tom has generously placed his collection of scripts and materials associated with the production of the television series and the television movies in the Special Collections of E. H. Butler Library. His collection also contains videotapes of many of the episodes of the series he has written and produced.

Other accomplishments of Tom's include his involvement as a writer and producer on the series "Tattinger's", "Home Fires" and "The Beat". He wrote the ABC special "The Fourth Wiseman", "FireHouse: the Movie" a pilot for CBS, and "Homicide: Life Everlasting", a TV movie of the week for NBC. He also wrote a made-for-television movie "Judas" which premiered February 15, 2002 at Canisius High School in Buffalo, NY. This premier honored a fellow graduate of the school, Sean Rooney who died September 11th during the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

Tom taught a class on ensemble writing at Buffalo State College in the fall of 2003. On November 19, 2003, Tom's new play, "The Day Jack London Got Pinched", taken from the memoirs of the 19th century writer was premiered at the college.

Currently, Tom is working with Barry Levinson and James Yoshimura, on a pilot entitled "The Circuit" for Fox Broadcasting. The hour long drama will focus on a New York City jury.

On November 24, 2003 Tom was inducted into the Western New York Entertainment Hall of Fame at the Shea's Performing Arts Cener. Past inductees include Lucille Ball, Buffalo Bob Smith, Broadway's George Abbott and Michael Bennett, playwright A.R. Gurney and jazz musician Grover Washington Jr. Tom's portrait, by Buffalo artist George Palmer, will hang in the lobby of the Shea's theater.

Tom has written several plays which have been produced in New York City, San Francisco and at the Studio Arena in Buffalo. His collection contains one of his unpublished plays entitled "A Slice of Buffalo, A Peace of Paris."

Tom has his own web site where he discusses new projects.

Scripts from Homicide: Life on the Street

Baby It’s You Part 1 - Box 75 Blood Ties Part 3 - Box 75 Double Blind - Box 60 City That Bleeds - Box 52 Cradle to Grave - Box 52 End Game - Box 52 Fallen Heroes - Box 80 Finnegans Wake - Box 80 Fox, FBI - Box 52 Fits Like A Glove - Box 52 Gypsy Luck - Box 78 Kellerman, P.I. - Box 94 Law and Order . Part 1 - Box 106

Law and Order . Part 2 - Box 106 Nothing Personal - Box 52 Old And The Dead - Box 52 People Next Door - Box 116/123 Practice To Deceive - Box 60 Red, Red Wine (? Untitled) - Box 94 Saigon Rose - Box 75 Silent Service - Box 75 Sitting Ducks - Box 80 Subway - Box 75 Trifles Light As Air - Box 116/123 Why Chromosome - Box 116

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Tom's cartoon depicting the creative process

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