Several Blueprint Specials were mentioned at one time or another as being "in production" or as "coming soon," but for one reason or another were not published, and in some cases possibly never completed.

This show, sometimes hyphenated as Three-Day Pass, was to have been the first "Blueprint Special" with all of the songs (some new, some already written) by professional civilian songwriters. The show was a musical revue built around the theme of how GIs around the world choose to spend their free time when granted three days leave from the Army base.

Three Day Pass was tried out on March 1, 1945 before a live audience at Fort Hamilton, New York in anticipation of being "blueprinted" and distributed to the troops, but unfortunately the show did not go over well with its preview audience. Most of the performers were from Camp Sibert in Alabama.

There were plans to revise the show extensively, with Cpl. Harold Rome expected to write several new songs, and with several new sketches and a "book-thread" to be added, but nothing ever came of this and the "blueprint" was never published or distributed to troops.   

The following songs were written specifically for this show:

• Opening number: "A Day Gone" (by Irvin Graham and Bob Saur).
  A rhythm number reprised several times and said to have "a certain snap."
• Title song: "A  Three Day Pass" (music by George W. Meyer, words by Oscar Hammerstein II).
  This ballad was said to be the only number "of hit calibre."
• "Best of All" (by Allie Wrubel, the only songwriter working solo)
  "A good swing number."
• "Jungle Stage Door Canteen" (by Bert Shefter and Ervin Drake)
  "Has some good music."
• "Around This Neck of the Woods" (by Fred E. Ahlert and Al Stillman)
  This song has also been referred to as "Neck O' the Woods." 

The following already-written songs were to be incorporated into the score with the permission of the songwriters:

• "The Trouble with Women" (music by Kurt Weill, words by Ogden Nash) from One Touch of Venus
  Listen to "The Trouble with Women" at YouTube
• “We’re on Our Way (Infantry Song)” (music by Richard Rodgers, words by Oscar Hammerstein II), dedicated to the U.S. Army Infantry
  Listen to "We're on Our Way" at the Internet Archive
• A song from the musical Criss-Cross by Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern, and Anne Caldwell was also used.

The sketches were written by the following members of Special Services, who also created the sketches for Hi, Yank!:

• Lt. Jack Hill
• Lt. Bob Eastright
• T/4 Ed Milk
• Pvt. Arnold Auerbach

Only the sketch "Lie Down Strike" was said to be "of top grade," although "Broadway" and the parody "Sergeant Pagliacci" (adapted from the Leoncavallo opera by Robert Simon and Broadway orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett) were also said to be "amusing."

For a review, see "'3-Day Pass’ NSG in GI B’klyn Tryout,” Variety 157, no. 13 (March 7, 1945), p. 4. Available online in Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/variety157-1945-03/page/n3/mode/2up 

This would have been the first Blueprint Special intended for an "all-Negro" cast. It was completed by May 1945, but never published.

The book and sketches were written by Special Services personnel, but the music and lyrics were provided mostly by civilian professionals, including Larry Steele, Duke Ellington, Bob Russell, Don Redman, Cab Calloway, Buster Harding, Jack Palmer, Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing, Paul Webster, Leo Robin, and Nacio Herb Brown.

There is a 1944 registration of copyright for an unpublished song entitled "Watch Harvey," with music and lyrics by Sy Oliver. It seems likely that this was the title song for the show, since Melvin James "Sy" Oliver was leader of an Army band from 1943 to 1945, and Sy Oliver and Mercer Ellington had previously provided orchestrations for the demonstration recording of the first "Blueprint Special," About Face!

While Watch Harvey was in production, some concern was expressed by Harold Friedman of Brandt & Brandt play brokers that the show's title might be too similar to that of the hugely popular, Pulitzer-prize-winning play Harvey, which was running on Broadway at the time. Col. Marvin Young of Special Services offered to change the title of the Blueprint Special, but also explained that it derived from a "Negro expression" and had no connection with Mary Chase's play.

For a description, see the "'Watch Harvey' ready to do 'Shuffle Along" routine for Army S.S.," Variety 158, no. 9 (May 9, 1945), p. 9. Available in Internet Archive at archive.org/details/variety158-1945-05/page/n71/

For an discussion of the title controversy, see "Beef on Similarity of 'Harvey' Title to Colored Army Show," Variety 158, no. 10 (May 16, 1945), p. 51. Available in Internet Archive at archive.org/details/variety158-1945-05/page/n71/ 

This Blueprint Special was to have words and music entirely by Special Services personnel, and according to the May 9, 1945 issue of Variety was said to be "in preparation." It is possible that the show was not quite ready before the war ended.

At least one song from this show—"Counting the Days," by Hy Zaret and Alex Kramer—was published separately in a commercial sheet music arrangement by the publisher Santly-Joy.