Doug Wildey - Story Board for NBC The Martian Chronicles

This is an odd thing that I have had for years. I got this from a strange dealer at a Charlotte HeroesCon who had a lot of Wildey art. He was talking about "the girls" which were Wildey pin-ups... and then he had a small group of art like this that he told me came from the Martian Chronicles.

As many of you know, the Martian Chronicles is actually a collection of short stories written by Ray Bradbury in the 1940's-50's which chronicled the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing a troubled and (eventually) devastated Earth. It told of the conflict between the native Martians and the new colonists.

In 1979 NBC joined with the BBC to produce a three-episode miniseries adaptation running just over four hours. It was written by Richard Matheson, was directed by Michael Anderson and had a large cast including Rock Hudson, Darren McGavin, Bernadette Peters, Bernie Casey, Roddy McDowall, Barry Morse and Fritz Weaver. A number of artists contributed to the production including Doug Wildey. This is one of the more striking pieces, done almost like a comic page, showing the action on Mars. At first I thought that this was Al Williamson... but plainly signed by Wildey and done in mixed media with vivid colors.