Given the success of Perry Mason, which debuted in 1957, it is not surprising that there would be
knock-offs or pale imitations. Lock Up,
which starred MacDonald Carey as real-life Philadelphia lawyer Herbert L.
Maris, has a similar thrust in that Maris always defends those he considered
unjustly arrested or convicted, and he always wins. Also as on Mason, the police are quick to accuse
the nearest or most obvious suspect on the most coincidental and circumstantial
evidence, which Maris, like Mason, easily discounts by digging just a little
deeper into the case. There are, however, as many if not more differences
between the two shows than there are similarities. Maris was a real, historical
figure; Mason was merely the creation of Erle Stanley Gardner. And whereas
Mason is a defense attorney who spends at least half his time doing detective
work, Maris is a corporate lawyer who each week is drawn into a criminal case,
usually murder. Though he often tries to fend off requests for his services, in
the end his keen desire for justice to be served and his soft heart have him
always agree to defend the unjustly accused. It would be interesting to learn
how closely the TV Maris resembles the
historical figure, but there is precious little current information available
online about the real Herbert L. Maris. However, just this year Irving Morris,
current president of the Delaware Bar Association, has published a book, The
Rape Case: A Young Lawyer’s Struggle for Justice in the 1950s, about a group of three young men unjustly
accused and convicted of rape in 1947. After their conviction, one of the young
men's mother read an article in the January 1948 edition of Reader's Digest
about Maris and his quest to defend the wrongly accused. She contacted him and
asked him to take up their case, which he did, but only after reading the
transcript of the trial. By Delaware law, however, the appeal had to have a
lawyer from Delaware on its defense team, which is how Morris became involved
with the appeal attempt. He was then a 22-year-old law student at Yale but a
resident of Delaware. Despite several defeats early on, Morris and Maris
successfully proved that the policemen who had arrested and interrogated the
three young men had perjured themselves, and the young men were set free. The
fact that Maris was written up in Reader's Digest shows how widespread
his fame had become at the time.
Another distinction between Lock Up and Perry Mason
is the protagonist's relationship with the police. On Perry Mason, the titular character is constantly trying to outsmart
law enforcement, and Mason has a rather prickly relationship with the chief of
Homicide, Lt. Tragg. On Lock Up, by
contrast, Maris has a rather affable relationship with Lt. Weston, who initially
usually discounts Maris' efforts and tells him he is wasting his time, but
soon, in the quest for justice rather than merely convictions, Weston joins in
as equal partner with Maris in attempting to unravel what actually took place. Their
relationship is so chummy that in one episode ("The Case of Joe
Slate," September 24, 1960) they take a fishing trip together, which Maris
describes as an annual affair.
Maris does not have the entourage that Mason
carries--confidential secretary Della Street and private investigator Paul
Drake always at his beck and call. Maris does have a secretary, or rather, two
of them. Initially his secretary is the young Miss Brent, whose relationship
with Maris is usually as a teasing foil, though occasionally she can be called
on to help flush out the true criminal, as in "Voice of Doom" (June
11, 1960) when she is disguised as fortune teller Madame Astarra to trap the
real killer, carnival barker Doc Johnson. Miss Brent appears in only 14 of the
show's 78 episodes. Two episodes before her turn as a fortune teller ("So
Shall Ye Reap," May 28, 1960), Maris relates that Miss Brent has left to
get married and is replaced by his father's one-time secretary Casey.
Thereafter either Casey or Miss Brent may show up in a given episode with no
explanation as to why one is serving as his secretary rather than the other.
Maris also occasionally has a receptionist, and at least on two occasions with
different actresses playing the role, she seems infatuated with Maris but
unable to communicate her feelings to him. Maris also lacks the investigative
services of a Paul Drake and his cadre of men who can tail a suspect or dig up
his past.
Perhaps the most striking difference between the two legal
dramas is that Maris is never shown in the courtroom, whereas in most episodes
of Perry Mason, the first half of the
show reveals the crime and facts about the various suspects and the last half
of the show depicts the trial. Maris is always able to prove his client's
innocence without a trial, making him more of a detective or private
investigator than a lawyer. Although many episodes begin with Maris engaged in
some corporate legal affair, or bemoaning another boring day of work, his day
job rarely has any bearing on the cases depicted in the remainder of each
episode.
In many episodes, Maris resorts to some form of trickery to
unmask the guilty party, though his subterfuges are never as elaborate or
contrived as those used by Perry Mason to fool the police or prosecutor
Hamilton Burger. Besides the aforementioned episode in which Miss Brent
impersonates a fortune teller, he has one of his receptionists, Brigitte
Holmgren, pose as a Scandinavian immigrant in search of work in order to expose
a human trafficking ring in "Girls Wanted" (December 31, 1960). In
"Diamond Dupe" (date unknown), an undercover policewoman, Sgt. Hines,
acts as his dinner date at a club that he believes is running a racket to break
into customers' houses while they are at the restaurant, only this time, Lt.
Weston is waiting for the crook who enters Maris' apartment where he
intentionally left his wallet. Maris and Weston use the undercover policewoman
routine again in "Compulsive Killer" (December 24, 1960) to catch a
student who attacks women after dark on a college campus. And in "Concrete
Coffin" (December 17, 1960), Maris has Amy Kraus, the former bookkeeper at
a crooked construction company, pretend to blackmail the company's former
foreman and now president, as well as the head of the local government building
committee, to extract their confessions of involvement in the murder years ago
of one of the company's co-founders. Maris' technique of extracting these
confessions is a game of wits, not the withering cross-examination pressure
tactics employed by Perry Mason to extract similar confessions of guilt in the
courtroom.
Despite the show's lack of melodrama and its more natural
humorous interplay between Maris and Weston (as opposed to the tacked on
guffaws at the end of episodes of Mason),
who often goof around with props related to the case as the credits roll, Lock Up did not enjoy the long run of
the more popular Mason, lasting a
mere two seasons from 1959-61. A syndicated show produced by Ziv Productions
(who also turned out Sea Hunt, Bat Masterson, and a host of other programs
during the era), its production company didn't last much longer, bought out by
United Artists in 1960 and dissolved two years later. However, the show's star
would go on to greater television fame only a few years after that, as
described below in the actor biographies.
The theme song, a stirring march that plays at the beginning
and end of each episode, is not mentioned in the credits. Given that the show
was produced on a tight budget, it's quite possible that the music could have
been licensed from a music library or have been in the public domain. In any
case, it gives the show a patriotic air as a defender of liberty and justice
for all.
There have been multiple DVD releases of selected episodes
from this series but no complete season or series releases at this date.
Timeless Media Group has released a 2-disc set containing 10 episodes randomly
selected from the show's two seasons. However, several of the episodes are
misidentified, meaning that the title listed on the package and DVD menu do not
match the actual episode. Alpha Video has also released four single-disc DVDs,
each containing four episodes, and these, too, are randomly taken from the
show's two seasons. Video quality on both of these is barely acceptable to
poor. Nearly all the episodes from the series are available online at
archive.org, and many of these episodes are also available on youtube.com,
though video quality for all the online episodes is poor.
The Actors
MacDonald Carey
Born in Sioux City, Iowa to the son of an investment
counselor, Carey, by his own admission, caught the acting bug at an early age,
taking roles in everything from Gilbert & Sullivan to Shakespeare while
attending prep school and then enrolling in a 5-year acting and theatre program
at the University of Iowa. During the Depression, he moved to Chicago and found
work in 15-minute radio dramas. He later moved to New York, continuing to work
in radio but hoping to move back onto the stage and found success in a production
of Lady in the Dark, which was
acquired by Paramount Pictures, who then signed him to a 7-year film contract.
His first movie appearance was in the 1942 Rosalind Russell-Fred MacMurray
comedy Take a Letter, Darling and
later that same year he had his first starring role in Dr. Broadway. Filmwork continued through the 1940s in movies such
as Shadow of a Doubt, The Great Gatsby, and The Great Missouri Raid and by the early
1950s he began adding TV appearances to his resumé. He played the title role in
the medical show Dr. Christian, which
lasted for a single season in 1956-57, before appearing in two episodes as
attorney Herbert L. Maris on the anthology drama and suspense program Target in 1958. The next year he was
cast as Maris on Lock Up.
After Lock Up's
two-year run, he continued guest appearances on shows such as Checkmate, The Outer Limits, Burke's Law,
and Run for Your Life before being
cast as Dr. Thomas Horton on the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives in 1965, a role he played for 28 years, until
1993, and for which he won two Daytime Emmys. He died the following year from
lung cancer at age 81. During his life he wrote several books of poetry and in
1991 published an autobiography titled The
Days of My Life. He also served as Vice President of the Screen Actors
Guild and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
A more extensive biography of Carey can be found here: http://matineeclassics.com/celebrities/actors/macdonald_carey/details/
John Doucette
A native of Brockton, MA, the husky, balding Doucette got
his start playing threatening bad guys in mob dramas and westerns, but his
deep, theatrical voice lent itself equally well to comedy, sometimes more so
than intended, which comes across in his role as Lt. Weston on Lock Up. He grew up the son of a factory
worker who moved frequently due to numerous factory closures. By Doucette's
reckoning, he attended 32 different elementary schools. His family eventually
settled in California, where Doucette attended high school and joined the
Pasadena Playhouse after graduation. Amongst other alumni of the theatre group
are William Holden, Gig Young, Raymond Burr, and Randolph Scott. His
involvement with this troupe led to his first film role in Two Tickets to London in 1943, soon after which he was drafted and
saw action in the Army at the Battle of Metz and the Battle of the Bulge, where
he was able to observe General George Patton first-hand. After the war, he
returned to Pasadena Playhouse, where he appeared in several productions and
made his way back into films by 1947 with the anti-Ku Klux Klan picture The Burning Cross. Doucette is now
credited with some 260 appearances in movies and TV shows between 1943 and
1987, though some 60 of his early appearances were uncredited at the time.
Amongst the biggest movies he appeared in are High Noon, The Robe, The Big Heat, The Wild One, Cleopatra, True Grit, and Patton. His TV career began in 1950 on The Roy Rogers Show and he had scores of appearances under his belt
before being cast as Lt. Weston and appearing in all 78 episodes of Lock Up.
After Lock Up
finished its run, he continued the frequent TV appearances including a turn as
Colonel Von Klaus on three episodes of Get
Smart and a regular role as Capt. Aaron William Andrews on The Partners in 1971-72. His TV
appearances continued only for another couple of years, but he had occasional
film roles up until Off the Mark in
1987. He passed away at age 73 on August 16, 1994.
A more extensive biography of Doucette can be found here: http://www.jimnolt.com/johndoucetteP1.htm
Joan Granville
Not much has been published about Granville, other than her
date and location of birth--November 28, 1928 in New York City--her death 45
years later, January 3, 1974 in Hollywood, and her filmography, which began
with an appearance on the TV show Sergeant
Preston of the Yukon in 1956. However, she was also married for a time to
actor Morgan Jones, who starred on The
Blue Angels, and she became a prominent talent agent after her acting
career. She had a few roles in feature-length films, including an uncredited
appearance in the Jimmy Piersall biopic starring Anthony Perkins, Fear Strikes Out, in 1957, and another
uncredited appearance in The Ghost and
Mr. Chicken almost a decade later, but most of her work was in television.
Her turn as Herbert Maris' young secretary Miss Brent on Lock Up was her only regular role; she appeared in 14 of the show's
78 episodes. She also had two appearances each on Highway Patrol and Gunsmoke
as well as single appearances on a host of others, the last being a 1966
episode of That Girl.
Olive Carey
Born in New York City in 1896, Olive Fuller Golden began
appearing in films at the age of 18 during the silent era in 1914, beginning
with Tess of the Storm Country. She
retired two years later and married actor Harry Carey, 18 years her senior. Her
son Harry Carey, Jr. also became a well-established actor, and Olive returned
to the screen in 1931 in Trader Horn,
though her second stint in films lasted only another 4 years. But when her
husband passed away in 1947, she made a third go at it and stayed active until
the mid 1960s, with her last appearance coming in the 1966 exploitation flick Billy the Kid vs. Dracula.
She was responsible for the acting career of John Wayne, as
she was the one who sent him for a screen test to some friends of hers in the
industry. When word came back that young Marion Morrison was good looking
enough but that he had an odd walk and was thus not actor material, Carey
continued to support him. He repaid her backing by casting her as an extra in
many of his big films, including The
Searchers. She died March 13, 1988 at the age of 92.
Notable Guest Stars
Season 1, Episode 15, "The Manly Art of Murder": Tom
Brown (starred in Ann of Green Gables,
Bachelor of Arts, and Gentle Julia and played Lt. Rovacs on Mr. Lucky, Al Weeks on General Hospital, and Ed O'Connor on Gunsmoke) plays sports reporter Art
Davies. James Phillbrook (starred in The
Thin Red Line, The Drums of Tabu,
and Sound of Horror and played Zack
Malloy on The Islanders, Steve Banks
on The Investigators, and Paul Belzer
on The New Loretta Young Show) plays
boxer Jimmy Stockton. Helen Walker (starred in Brewster's Millions, Call
Northside 777, and Impact) plays
Stockton's neighbor Margaret Benedict. Steve London (Agent Jack Rossman on The Untouchables) plays lion tamer Ray
Baldwin.
Season 1, Episode 17, "His Father's Footsteps": Robert
F. Simon (shown on the right, played Dave Tabak on Saints and
Sinners, Gen. Alfred Terry on Custer,
Frank Stephens on Bewitched, Uncle
Everett McPherson on Nancy, Capt.
Rudy Olsen on The Streets of San
Francisco, and J. Jonah Jameson on The
Amazing Spiderman) plays businessman Martin Reeves. Paul Carr (Bill Horton
on Days of Our Lives, Casey Clark on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Ted
Prince on Dallas, and Martin Gentry
on The Young and the Restless) plays his
son Paul. Joey Faye (Myer in Mack and
Myer for Hire) plays arcade owner Choppy.
Season 1, Episode 18, " The Case of Corporal Newman":
Jeremy Slate (starred in The Sons of
Katie Elder, The Devil's Brigade,
and True Grit and played Larry Lahr
on The Aquanauts) plays Army man
Blake Newman. Karen Kupcinet (Carol on The
Gertrude Berg Show) plays his friend's girlfriend Mary Anne Hunter. Vinton
Hayworth (shown on the left, played Magistrado Carlos Galindo on Zorro,
Oren Slauson on Lawman, Mr.
Sutherland on Hazel, Dr. Faber on Green Acres, and Gen. Winfield Schaeffer
on I Dream of Jeannie) plays Maris'
old Army buddy Col. MacGinnis. Jean Carson (Rosemary on The Betty Hutton Show) plays bar piano player Carol Moody.
Season 1, Episode 19, "Never Bet the Odds": Charles
Davis (Tennyson on The Wild, Wild West)
plays boxing trainer Artie Manning. Mike Keene (Captain Dan Coffin on Harbormaster) plays Catholic priest
Father Dugan.
Season 1, Episode 20, "The Case
of Frank Crotty": James Drury (The Virginian on The Virginian and Captain Spike Ryerson on Firehouse) plays former hood and current policeman and law student
Frank Crotty. Leonard Nimoy (shown on the right, played Mr. Spock on Star
Trek, Paris on Mission: Impossible,
and Dr. William Bell on Fringe), plays
gang member Nino Baselicce. Don Eitner (Dr. Richard Winfield on Dynasty) plays an unnamed gang member. Tom
London (starred in Six-Shootin' Sheriff,
Song of the Buckaroo, and Riders in the Sky) plays a nightwatchman.
Victor Rodman (Dr. Sam Rinehart on Noah's
Ark) plays Maris' old college Dean Waldron. Joyce Meadows (Stacy on Two Faces West) plays Crotty's
girlfriend Diane Powell.
Season 1, Episode 21, "Dead Man's Shoes": Ted
Knight (shown on the left, played Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler
Moore Show, Roger Dennis on The Ted
Knight Show, and Henry Rush on Too
Close for Comfort) plays TV anchor Fred Prescott. Dayton Lummis (Marshal
Andy Morrison on Law of the Plainsman) plays
station co-owner George Stoddard. Helen Walker (see "The Manly Art of
Murder" above) plays station co-owner Janice Horton.
Season 1, Episode 22, "Strange Summons": John
Gallaudet (Chamberlain on Mayor of the
Town, Judge Penner on Perry Mason,
and Bob Anderson on My Three Sons) plays
safe company owner Marty Metcalfe.
Season 1, Episode 23, "Murder Plays It Cool": Carol
Thurston (Emma Clanton on The Life and
Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays band singer Jenny Larson. Ralph Taeger (Mike
Halliday on Klondike, Patrick Malone
on Acapulco, and Hondo Lane on Hondo) plays trumpet player Mike
Driscoll.
Season 1, Episode 24, "Election Night": Jeanne
Bates (Nurse Wills on Ben Casey) plays
murder victim's sister Charlotte Lawrence.
Season 1, Episode 25, "Poker Club": John Vivyan (shown on the right, played Mr.
Lucky on Mr. Lucky and Lepke
Buchalter on The Lawless Years) plays
former tennis star Tony Alden. John Carradine (starred in Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath,
House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula, The Ten Commandments, and Sex
Kittens Go to College and played Gen. Joshua McCord on Branded) plays aging actor James Carew. Cyril Delevanti (Lucious
Coin on Jefferson Drum) plays Carew's
dresser George.
Season 1, Episode 26, "The Trigger": Douglas
Kennedy (starred in Adventures of Don
Juan, I Was an American Spy, and Jack McCall, Desperado and played
Marshal Steve Donovan on Steve Donovan,
Western Marshal and Sheriff Fred Madden on The Big Valley) plays businessman Gavin Bledsoe. Barbara Collentine
(Charlotte on Nichols) plays the
murder victim's widow Ellen Farrell.
Season 1, Episode 27, "Murder Is a Gamble": John
Archer (starred in King of the Zombies,
White Heat, Destination Moon, and Blue
Hawaii) plays traveling businessman Mark Clayton. Paul Sorenson (Andy
Bradley on Dallas) plays collection
agent Leo.
Season 1, Episode 28, "Death and Texas": Buddy
Ebsen (shown on the left, played Sgt. Hunk Marriner on Northwest
Passage, Jed Clampett on The Beverly
Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones on Barnaby
Jones, and Roy Houston on Matt
Houston) plays Texas oilman Curly Simmons. L.Q. Jones (Beldon on The Virginian, Sheriff Lew Wallace on The Yellow Rose, and Nathan Wayne on Renegade) plays his partner Tex. Paul
Garner (Mousie on Surfside 6) plays scammer
Dave Lamb.
Season 1, Episode 29, "The Locket": Mary Anderson
(starred in Bahama Passage, The Song of Bernadette, and Lifeboat and played Catherine Harrington
on Peyton Place) plays family nurse
Fran Gibson. Andrea King (starred in God
Is My Co-Pilot, My Wild Irish Rose,
and I Was a Shoplifter) plays her
blind patient Helen Anderson. King Moody (Starker on Get Smart) plays Gibson's former criminal accomplice Norm Hanlin.
Season 1, Episode 30, "The Trouble Cop": Frank
Warren (Officer Simpson on Highway Patrol
and Art Crowley on The Andy Griffith Show)
plays bookmaker Tack Stanley. Edson Stroll (Virgil Edwards on McHale's Navy) plays accused policeman
Mike Jackson.
Season 1, Episode 31, "First Prize for Murder": Bert
Remsen (shown on the right, played Detective Lawrence on Peyton Place,
Mr. Pell on Gibbsville, Mario on It's a Living, and Jack Crager on Dynasty) plays millionaire's son Brian
Carter. Anna-Lisa (Nora Travers on Black
Saddle) plays his fiancé Ann Mahler. Jack Reitzen (Chopstick Joe on Terry and the Pirates and Flores on Not for Hire) plays hired killer Willie.
Season 1, Episode 32, "The Case of Lt. Weston": Lyle
Talbot (starred in 20,000 Years in Sing
Sing, Miracle on Main Street, Murder Is My Business, Batman and Robin(1949), and Plan 9 From Outer Space and played The
Brain on Dick Tracy, Baylor on Commando Cody: Sky Master of the Universe,
Al Simon on The George Burns and Gracie
Allen Show, Paul Fonda on The Bob
Cummings Show, and Joe Randolph on The
Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet) plays Cedar Wells Sheriff Doan. Ken Drake
(Bragan on Not for Hire) plays lodge
manager Swanson. Dick Geary (played various scuba divers and law enforcement
officers in 13 episodes of Perry Mason)
plays Detective Johnson. Johnny Seven (Lt. Carl Reese on Ironside) plays fired cop Gil Breslow.
Season 1, Episode 33, "Society Matron": Neil
Hamilton (shown on the left, played Commissioner Gordon on Batman)
plays social bigwig Craig Mitchell. Kathie Browne (Angie Dow on Hondo) plays his mistress Yvonne Madison.
Anna Lee (starred in King Solomon's Mines,
How Green Was My Valley, Flying Tigers, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The
Sound of Music, and In Like Flint
and played Lila Quartermaine on General
Hospital) plays Mrs. Mitchell. Richard Bakalyan (starred in The Delicate Delinquent, The Cool and the Crazy, Juvenile Jungle, Hot Car Girl, Paratroop
Command, and The Computer Wore Tennis
Shoes) plays hood Spook Chambers.
Season 1, Episode 34, "Last Chance": Art Baker (host
of You Asked for It) plays an unnamed
prison warden. Jan Shepard (Nurse Betty on Dr.
Christian) plays prime witness Miss Langley.
Season 1, Episode 35, "Mind Over Murder": John
Eldredge (starred in The Woman in Red,
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan, and The Black Cat and played Harry Archer on
Meet Corliss Archer) plays research
Professor Sheldon Whitehead. Douglas Dick (Carl Herrick on Waterfront) plays lab assistant Brian Clark. Cyril Delevanti (see
"Poker Club" above) plays night man Emil Hansen.
Season 1, Episode 36, "So Shall Ye Reap": George
Cisar (shown on the right, played Sgt. Theodore Mooney on Dennis the
Menace and Cyrus Tankersley on TheAndy Griffith Show and Mayberry
R.F.D.) plays bartender Joe. Harry Bellaver (Det. Frank Arcaro on Naked City) plays former boxer The
Champ. Marjorie Bennett (Birdie Brockway on Lassie
and Mrs. Kenny on The Many Loves of Dobie
Gillis) plays a woman squeezing tomatoes at a fruit stand. Don Eitner (see
"The Case of Frank Crotty" above) plays murder suspect Duke Joyce.
Season 1, Episode 37, "Sentenced to Die": Angie
Dickinson (shown on the left, starred in Rio Bravo, Ocean's Eleven (1960), Point Blank, Sam Whiskey, and Big Bad Mama
and played Sgt. Suzanne Anderson on Police
Woman, Cassie Holland on Cassie &
Co., and Josie Ito on Wild Palms)
plays murder suspect's wife Betty Nelson. Jean Willes (starred in 5 Against the House, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Desire Under the Elms, and The FBI Story) plays murder victim's
widow Agnes Walker. William Bryant (McCall on Combat!, President Ulysses S. Grant on Branded, Col. Crook on Hondo,
Lt. Shilton on Switch, and the
Director on The Fall Guy) plays murder
victim's nephew Ralph Walker. Peggy Maley (starred in The Lady Says No, The Wild
One, Human Desire, and The Guns of Fort Petticoat) plays
Ralph's girlfriend Verna.
Season 1, Episode 38, "Voice of Doom": Claudia
Barrett (starred in Robot Monster)
plays carnival knife-thrower's target May. Buddy Douglas (Buddy Morris on On the Air) plays carnival little person
Admiral Adam.
Season 1, Episode 39, "The Blood Red Ruby": John
Hubbard (starred in One Million, B.C.,
The Mummy's Tomb, and What's Buzzin', Cousin? and played Mr.
Brown on The Mickey Rooney Show, Col.
U. Charles Barker on Don't Call Me
Charlie, and Ted Gaynor on Family
Affair) plays murder suspect John Van Der Berg. Victor Rodman (see
"The Case of Frank Crotty" above) plays his brother Tony. Dean Harens
(SAC Bryan Durant on The F.B.I.)
plays John's brother-in-law Gordon Cooke.
Season 2, Episode 1, "The Case of Joe Slate": Lon
Chaney, Jr. (shown on the right, starred in The Wolfman, Of Mice and Men, High Noon, The Ghost of Frankenstein,
The Curse of Dracula, Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, and many
others, and played Chief Eagle Shadow on Pistols
'n' Petticoats and Chingachgook on Hawkeye
and the Last of the Mohicans) plays Sheriff Jeremy Davies. Don Ross (appeared
31 times on Dragnet in a variety of
roles) plays restaurant owner Noah Hawkins. Barbara Collentine (see "The
Trigger" above) plays his wife Mary.
Season 2, Episode 2, "The Case of Dan Gray": Donna
Douglas (shown on the left, played Barbara Simmons on Checkmate
and Elly Mae Clampett on The Beverly
Hillbillies) plays socialite Gloria Larkley. Harry Cheshire (Judge Ben
Riley on Buffalo Bill, Jr. and Judge
Traeger on Lawman) plays science
company owner Ned Stevens. Bob Jellison (Waldo Binney on The Life of Riley and Bobby the Bellboy on I Love Lucy) plays fashion photographer Mr. Phineas.
Season 2, Episode 3, "The Skid Row Story": Lloyd
Corrigan (starred in A Girl, a Guy, and a
Gob, Hitler's Children, Captive Wild Woman, The Bandit of Sherwood Forest, and Son of Paleface and played Papa Dodger on Willy, Wally Dipple on The
Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Uncle Charlie on Happy, and Professor McKillup on Hank) plays halfway house resident Barney Klein. Connie Gilchrist (starred
in Tortilla Flat, A Letter to Three Wives, and Long John Silver and played Purity Pinker
on The Adventures of Long John Silver)
plays cafe owner Molly Niessen. Raymond Hatton (starred in Oliver Twist (1916), The
Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Lord Jim,
played Marshal Sandy Hopkins in 28 westerns and Rusty Joslin in 7 other
westerns, and played The Mole on Dick
Tracy) plays a retired judge called Judge.
Season 2, Episode 4, "Flying High": Mary Webster (Rachel
Verinder on The Moonstone, Jill Reed
on Emergency-Ward 10, Anna on Circus, and Sarah Onedin on The Onedin Line) plays flight attendant
Jean Davis. Joan O'Brien (starred in The
Alamo and It'$ Only Money) plays stewardess
Claudia Scott. Dick Elliott (shown on the right, played Officer Murphy on Dick Tracy and Mayor Pike on The Andy Griffith Show) plays an unnamed bartender. Don Eitner (see "The
Case of Frank Crotty" above) plays co-pilot Tony. Esther Dale (starred in The Awful Truth, The Egg and I, Ma and Pa
Kettle, and Holiday Affair) plays
hotel proprietor Mrs. Raymond. Ross Elliott (Freddie the director on The Jack Benny Show and Sheriff Abbott
on The Virginian) plays bigamist
William Tyler.
Season 2, Episode 5, "The Beau and Arrow Case":
Jack Ging (Beau McCloud on Tales of Wells
Fargo, Dr. Paul Graham on The
Eleventh Hour, Lt. Dan Ives on Mannix,
Lt. Ted Quinlan on Riptide, and Gen.
Harlan "Bull" Fullbright on The
A-Team) plays archery range co-owner Tom Chambers. James Best (Sheriff
Roscoe P. Coltrane on The Dukes of
Hazzard) plays archery range co-owner Roy Duggan. Connie Hines (shown on the left, played Carol Post
on Mister Ed) plays Chambers' wife
Betty. Vince Barnett (Elmo on The AndyGriffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D.)
plays murder witness Grimes. George E. Stone (played The Runt in 8 Boston
Blackie movies and the court clerk 44 times on Perry Mason) plays racketeer Hardnose Devanin. Janet Nigh (Lorelei
Kilbourne on Big Town) plays murder
victim's secretary Miss Wilson.
Season 2, Episode 6, "The Frame Up": William
Bryant (see "Sentenced to Die" above) plays mobster Napoleon Gansey.
Nick Dennis (starred in A Streetcar Named
Desire, East of Eden, and Kiss Me Deadly and played Nick Kanavaras
on Ben Casey and Constantine on Kojak) plays murder suspect's best
friend Happy Masters. Susan Cummings (Georgia on Union Pacific) plays suspected murder accomplice Janet Florence.
Season 2, Episode 7, "The Seventh Hour": Frank Puglia
(starred in My Favorite Brunette, Road to Rio, and 20 Million Miles to Earth and played Bibo on To Rome With Love) plays day laborer Nicolo Donati. Robert Bice (Police
Capt. Jim Johnson on The Untouchables)
plays prison Warden Rogers. Robert Armstrong (starred in King Kong, The Son of Kong,
Framed, Dive Bomber, Blood on the Sun,
and Mighty Joe Young and played
Sheriff Andy Anderson on State Trooper)
plays ex-con Sam Ellender. Frank Gerstle (Dick/Dirk Gird/Gerd on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and the
voice of Raseem on The Banana Splits
Adventure Hour) plays gambling club owner Johnny Gibson. Len Lesser (Uncle
Leo on Seinfeld and Garvin on Everybody Loves Raymond) plays Gibson's
henchman Carl Kincaid. Lori Nelson (Greta Hanson on How to Marry a Millionaire) plays club camera girl Honey Evans.
Dean Harens (see "The Blood Red Ruby" above) plays film developer
Preston Forbes. Cyril Delevanti (see "Poker Club" above) plays Evans'
apartment building clerk.
Season 2, Episode 8, "The Sisters": Mala Powers (shown on the right, starred
in Cyrano de Bergerac, Rose of Cimarron, and Tammy and the Bachelor and played
Rebecca Boone on Walt Disney's Daniel
Boone and Mona on Hazel) plays future
divorcee Whitney Coleman. Diana Millay (Laura Collins on Dark Shadows) plays her sister Ellie Daniels. James Griffith (Aaron
Adams on Trackdown and Deputy Tom
Ferguson on U.S. Marshal) plays Ellie's
boyfriend Miles Turner.
Season 2, Episode 9, "Top Secret": Charles Maxwell
(Special Agent Joe Carey on I Led 3 Lives
and the voice of the radio announcer on Gilligan's
Island) plays murder suspect Allen Decker. John Zaremba (Special Agent
Jerry Dressler on I Led 3 Lives, Dr.
Harold Jensen on Ben Casey, Dr.
Raymond Swain on The Time Tunnel, and
Dr. Harlen Danvers on Dallas) plays an
unnamed government agent. Roy Gordon (Andrew V. McMahon on The Millionaire) plays physicist manager Dr. Gordon. Andrea King
(see "The Locket" above) plays murder victim widow Mrs. Hunter. Ken
Drake (see "The Case of Lt. Weston" above) plays bait seller Stark.
Eddie Quillan (starred in The Grapes of
Wrath, Mandarin Mystery, Mutiny on the Bounty, and Hi, Good Lookin'! and played Eddie Edson
on Julia and Poco Loco on Hell Town) plays hotel manager Switzer.
Season 2, Episode 10, "Society Doctor": Clark
Howat (Dr. John Petrie on The Adventures
of Dr. Fu Manchu) plays Maris' physician Dr. Stanhope. Jackie Coogan (starred
in The Kid, Oliver Twist, A Boy of
Flanders, Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn and played Stoney
Crockett on Cowboy G-Men, Sgt. Barnes
on McKeever & the Colonel, and
Uncle Fester Frump on The Addams Family)
plays Stanhope friend Pinky Winthrop. June Vincent (starred in Here Come the Co-Eds, The Creeper, and The WAC From Walla Walla) plays his wife Katie. Adam Kennedy (Dion
Patrick on The Californians) plays former
champion swimmer Ben Tracy.
Season 2, Episode 11, "Number Please": John Litel
(shown on the left, starred in Back in Circulation, On Trial, Murder in the Blue Room, four Nancy Drew films, and eight Henry
Aldrich films and played the Governor on Zorro
and Dan Murchison on Stagecoach West)
plays banker Harvey Calder. Jean Carson (see "The Case of Corporal
Newman" above) plays murder victim widow Mrs. Bourne. Joan Taylor (starred
in Apache Woman, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, and 20 Million Miles to Earth and played Milly Scott on The Rifleman) plays Bourne's secretary
Lauren Bodret.
Season 2, Episode 12, "The Case of Alexis George":
Burt Reynolds (shown on the right, starred in Sam Whiskey,
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, The Longest Yard, and Smokey and the Bandit and played Ben
Frazer on Riverboat, Quint on Gunsmoke, Det. Lt. John Hawk on Hawk, Det. Lt. Dan August on Dan August, B.L. Stryker on B.L. Stryker, and Wood Newton on Evening Shade) plays pier handyman
Latchard Duncan. Sandra Warner (Pat Smith on Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) plays fortune teller Jeanne Johnson. Frank
Warren (see "The Trouble Cop" above) plays police Officer Charlie.
Season 2, Episode 13, "Concrete Coffin": John
Gallaudet (see "Strange Summons" above) plays alleged murderer Dan
Janis. Ellen Corby (Henrietta Porter on Trackdown
and Esther Walton on The Waltons) plays
former bookkeeper Amy Kraus. William Boyett (Sgt. Ken Williams on Highway Patrol and Sgt. MacDonald on Adam-12) plays construction company owner
Don Shaw.
Season 2, Episode 14, "Compulsive Killer": William
Schallert (shown on the left, played Justinian Tebbs on The
Adventures of Jim Bowie, Mr. Leander Pomfritt on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Martin Lane on The Patty Duke Show, Admiral Hargrade on Get Smart, Teddy Futterman on The
Nancy Walker Show, Carson Drew on The
Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, Russ Lawrence on The New Gidget, and Wesley Hodges on The Torkelsons) plays college professor Louis Hastings. Patricia
Medina (Margarita Cortazar on Zorro)
plays his wife Mrs. Hastings. Ralph Reed (Billy Clanton on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays college student Todd
Leslie.
Season 2, Episode 15, "Girls Wanted": Barbara Luna
(Maria on One Life to Live) plays maid
Angela Valez. Kasey Rogers (shown on the right, played Julie Anderson on Peyton Place and Louise Tate on Bewitched)
plays neighbor Mrs. Manning.
Season 2, Episode 16, "Diamond Dupe": Tyler McVey
(starred in Hot Car Girl, Night of the Blood Beast, and Attack of the Giant Leeches and played
Maj. Gen. Norgrath on Men Into Space)
plays union boss Conrad Reese. Kathie Browne (see "Society Matron"
above) plays undercover police Sgt. Hines. Harry Tyler (Steve Rhodes on Black Saddle) plays an unnamed
pawnbroker.
