Friday, June 21, 2019

Naked City (1961)


After its reboot in the Fall of 1960, Naked City began getting noticed, at least in the pages of TV Guide, in the spring of 1961 as regular reviewer Gilbert Seldes gave an ambivalent critique of the ground-breaking police drama in the April 8 cover issue. Seldes' assessment was that the show had segments of brilliance mixed with portions that didn't make sense, making each episode somewhat disjointed, but his real criticism was that he didn't buy in to the series' main premise of exploring the psychology of the criminal mind and what drives someone to kill. In particular he calls out the early 1961 episode "A Hole in the City" (February 1, 1961), which casts Robert Duvall as ruthless psychopath Lewis Nunda who leads a gang to hold up an armored car and in the ensuing chase with the police is forced to hole up in the apartment of his Aunt Florence. As the episode unfolds, we learn that Aunt Florence was Lewis' inspiration to pursue a life of crime because his father indoctrinated him to put her on a pedestal of wealth and gentility after she married a successful businessman. When her husband died, she was left destitute and had to move from her stately manor into her present squalid flat, also having to give up her piano, which Lewis' father maintained was a sign of refinement. A young, naive Lewis tried to buy her a new one with only $28 stolen from money his parents had set aside to buy his sister a new dress, only to learn that a piano costs much more than that. So now that he has made off with $65,000 from an armored car, he wants to give her his share to finally restore the symbol of her refinement, only she wants no part of it. She goes on to shatter his illusion by telling him that her husband was cruel and miserly and that his father's ideal of wealth and having it made was an illusion because her married life was miserable. Though reviewer Seldes feigns not to understand what drives Nunda to murder as he brutally shoots an old man residing in the same apartment building and tosses him down a staircase as a sign to the police not to come any farther, the episode makes very clear Lewis has an unwavering drive to restore his exalted aunt to her rightful position at the top of society. When he learns that his father's ideal was a sham, rather than retaliating, he deliberately makes a dash out onto the roof of the apartment building, knowing he will be gunned down, and even yells at the police to hurry up and finish him because the world is nothing, at least his world is. This episode shows why Naked City was different from every other police drama of its time and why it is still held in high regard today. Rather than the rote police procedurals of series such as M Squad which shows the police as tough defenders of justice and the criminals as just plain rotten reprobates, Naked City sought to explain, not defend or exonerate, the twisted logic behind the criminal's thought process. This attempt at understanding no doubt threatened those who conflate understanding with approval, but it is clear in this episode that Lewis Nunda is only to be pitied for being so mixed up, not blameless.

Seldes also claims to be confused about protagonist Nicholas Ross in "Murder Is a Face I Know" (January 11, 1961), remarking "you never know why a well-established family man gets into a boat and kills five men." Actually, the episode makes very clear that Ross is a professional assassin and has been for many years, a trade that he keeps hidden from his high school basketball-playing son, but his wife, who was promised long ago by her husband that he was leaving his life of crime, is not surprised when thugs show up later and ransack her apartment looking for him. The episode's primary purpose is to show that people are not one dimensional--that a hardened assassin can also be a loving father and devoted family man. This refusal to adhere to traditional black-and-white depictions of crime and humanity challenged long-held beliefs by conservatives such as Seldes but also proved exciting to viewers who agreed that such traditional conceptions were too simplistic.

Which is not to say that Naked City doesn't also occasionally portray a criminal who is inexplicably bad, such as murderous private security guard Al Buxley in "The Day the Island Almost Sank" (June 14, 1961), but more often the criminals are driven to their acts out of desperation rather than pure greed or the sadistic pleasure of doing harm. In one of the series' most admired episodes "Ooftus Goofus" (December 13, 1961) perpetually ignored grocery clerk George Bick resorts to an escalating series of pranks accompanied by letters to the editor signed "Ooftus Goofus" because his wife won't give him the time of day and is spending them into poverty. In "Take and Put" (June 21, 1961) family maid Irma Mahoney and her employer, trust-fund-squanderer Aubrey Hacker, develop an elaborate scheme to maintain their lavish lifestyle by temporarily stealing a fine piece of jewelry from one of their party guests, hocking it with a local jeweler, investing the advance money in the stock market, and after making a tidy return, getting the jewelry out of hock and having it anonymously returned to its rightful owner. And in "The Day It Rained Mink" (February 15, 1961) second-rate mink seller William Saxer teams up with coat-lining salesman Maxwell Ronan and his mistress, fur coat model Estelle Reeves, to heist a million dollars worth of mink coats from upscale designer Warfield so that Saxer can finally finance his own shop and Estelle can finally leave the world of modeling where she is ogled and propositioned by sleazy buyers. Bick comes off as the most sympathetic of the above-mentioned characters, the others not so much, but all of their actions are a response to pain of one sort or another.

As mentioned in our post for the 1960 episodes of Naked City, the series provides little to no back story for its trio of police heroes Lt. Mike Parker, Det. Adam Flint, and Det. Frank Arcaro, but in the 1961 episodes we occasionally get a glimpse of the pain they experience in performing their duties. Flint gets the worst of it in "Bullets Cost Too Much" (January 4, 1961), when he visits a neighborhood bar to try to persuade its owner to stop staying open so late and a trio of masked robbers enter, put a gun to the bartender's neck, and empty the cash register. But while they are doing so, a dog belonging to one of the bar regulars approaches one of the thieves and attacks him, so he kicks the dog in response. The bar patron, inebriated as he usually is, does not recognize the danger of the situation and confronts the thief, who shoots him dead. Flint watches the murder unfold and thinks about drawing his gun, having the advantage of surprise since he is a plain-clothes detective not known to the thieves, but knows that if he does the bartender at least will be killed and possibly other customers, so he keeps his weapon holstered and later has to endure an onslaught of criticism for being "cowardly." He comes in for particularly brutal treatment from the drunk man's widow, a mean alcoholic herself, when he tries to explain to her why he didn't draw his gun to try to save her husband. Flint again experiences tremendous guilt and anguish in "The Fault in Our Stars" (March 22, 1961) when he has a police woman go undercover as an aspiring actor to try to collect evidence from another actor suspected for a string of murders, only to have the suspect figure out that she is a plant and murder her, too. Parker and Arcaro experience remorse when they compromise key evidence in "Tombstone for a Derelict" (April 5, 1961) because their mistake allows a gang of swastika-wearing misguided youths to continue their killing spree against defenseless derelicts. The police detectives on Naked City are not infallible superheroes who always get their man--they make mistakes just like the rest of us.

One of the most poignant and probing episodes of the series is the Season 3 offering "Which Is Joseph Creeley?" (November 15, 1961) which depicts the retrial of a man convicted for the slaying of a jeweler and the crippling of his wife. After his capture by Flint and his conviction, Creeley passes out in his jail cell and when he is examined by a medical professional is discovered to have a tumor pressing on his brain. The ensuing operation to remove the tumor also removes Creeley's memory for the past 10 years, including the murder for which he has been incarcerated. The post-operative Creeley has become a docile man who recoils at the crime he is told that he has committed and agrees that if he actually committed it he should suffer the consequences. But his defense attorney argues that the post-operative Creeley is a different person and that his murderous actions before surgery were the result of the tumor pressing against his brain, making him not guilty by reason of insanity. Flint agrees with the defense attorney's argument and testifies on Creeley's behalf. During one of the breaks in the trial, Flint and his fiance Libby have a serious discussion about what constitutes guilt and the necessity of rendering a verdict, despite one's ambivalence in cases such as this one, to preserve the system of justice that holds society together. The episode is remarkable because it ends without the viewer ever learning the jury's verdict in Creeley's retrial but perhaps even more so because it depicted a killer afflicted by a brain malady a full 5 years before Charles Whitman's murderous rampage from the University of Texas Tower--yet another example of why Naked City was a crime drama ahead of its time.

The Actors

For the biographies of Paul Burke, Horace McMahon, Harry Bellaver, and Nancy Malone, see the 1960 post for Naked City.

William Cottrell

Born June 6, 1918 in Medford, Oregon, Cottrell was raised in the Rogue River area of Oregon and graduated from the University of Oregon, after which he stayed in the area for 6 years acting in and directing the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He later relocated to Hollywood and became an acting student of Charles Laughton. According to fellow actor and Laughton student William Phipps, Cottrell managed to pass himself off to younger, more naive aspiring actors as an acting guru and ran his own workshop. But one day in 1947 when Cottrell and Phipps were both acting in Laughton's production of Bertold Brecht's Galileo, Laughton dropped in on Cottrell's acting studio and basically took it over. Phipps speculates that Laughton may have felt some guilt over this, as he was instrumental in launching Cottrell's film career even though he didn't think much of his skill as an actor. Ironically, Cottrell's first feature film appearance was an uncredited part in the 1948 version of The Naked City. His first credited role was in Laughton's 1949 feature The Man on the Eiffel Tower, and he appeared two years later in another Laughton feature The Strange Door. Besides appearing in the 1947 TV movie Pastoral, his first real TV role was in a 1952 episode of the drama anthology Schlitz Playhouse, though he had scarcely one TV appearance per year before Naked City. He did, however, find bit parts in such notable feature films as Titanic, Julius Caesar, and Donovan's Brain. His only recurring television role was as the 65th Precinct lab technician, often (though not always) named Freddie.

After Naked City he had only one appearance on The Defenders in 1963 and two TV movies in 1963 and 1983. At some point he returned to Medford because he died there June 14, 2001 at the age of 83.

Robert Dryden

Born in New York City on February 8, 1917, Dryden had a prolific and lengthy career as a voice actor in radio, beginning as early as 1938. He made his Broadway debut that same year in The Hill Between. Though he played a variety of supporting roles, often playing multiple characters in a single episode, he also had a few recurring radio roles such as cabbie Harry the Hack on Big Town in the 1940s and police St. Maggio on Call the Police. He found regular work on anthology series such as Gangbusters,  I Love a Mystery, and Studio One as well as bit parts on big-name series such as Superman, The Shadow, and The Mysterious Traveler. He first broke into TV in 1955 in supporting roles on Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, I Spy, and Producers' Showcase. His first feature film role came in 1957 playing a mobster in Four Boys and a Gun. Even though television was supplanting radio by the late 1950s, Dryden continued to find more work in the latter, regularly appearing on series such as CBS Radio Workshop, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and The Couple Next Door. He also had a brief recurring role on 17 episodes of The Edge of Night in 1957-58. After two generic appearances on the first iteration of Naked City in 1959, Dryden appeared 12 more times as the unnamed police surgeon in the rebooted series between 1960-62.

After Naked City, Dryden continued to work mostly in radio on revival series such as Theatre Five, The National Lampoon Radio Hour, and The CBS Radio Mystery Theater. He found occasional television work on shows such as Route 66, The Defenders, and made 10 appearances on Jackie Gleason's late 1960s reboot of The Honeymooners. Dryden also found voicework on commercials for Life Savers and in dubbing English voices for Sergio Leone westerns such as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West. By the mid-1970s his feature film work centered on wacky comedies such as Man on a Swing, Foreplay, and The Happy Hooker. He died from Parkinson's disease in Englewood, New Jersey on December 16, 2003 at the age of 86.

Notable Guest Stars

Season 2, Episode 10, "Bullets Cost Too Much": Dick York (Tom Colwell on Going My Way and Darrin Stephens on Bewitched) plays physician Dr. Charles Colano. Johnny Seven (Lt. Carl Reese on Ironside) plays his criminal brother Paul. James Caan (shown on the left, starred in Brian's Song, The Godfather, Freebie and the Bean, The Godfather, Part II, Funny Lady, Rollerball, Misery, and Bottle Rocket and played Ed Deline on Las Vegas, Sy Berman on Magic City, and Terry Gannon, Sr. on Back in the Game) plays Paul's accomplice Marty Feketi. Bruce Dern (starred in The Wild Angels, Hang 'Em High, Support Your Local Sheriff!, Silent Running, Coming Home, and Nebraska and played E.J. Stocker on Stoney Burke and Frank Harlow on Big Love) plays their accomplice Nicky. Jean Stapleton (starred in Damn Yankees, Bells Are Ringing, and Up the Down Staircase and played Edith Bunker on All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place and Jasmine Sweibel on Bagdad Cafe) plays bar owner Mrs. Ferguson. Albert Henderson (Officer Dennis O'Hara on Car 54, Where Are You?) plays her bartender. Paul Hartman (Albie Morrison on The Pride of the Family, Charlie on Our Man Higgins, Emmett Clark on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D., and Bert Smedley on Petticoat Junction) plays regular bar patron Rummy Brent. Betty Field (starred in Of Mice and Men, Victory, The Great Gatsby (1949), Picnic, Bus Stop, Birdman of Alcatraz, and Coogan's Bluff) plays his wife Mrs. Brent. Barbara Lord (mother of Patrick Warburton) plays Charles Colano's nurse girlfriend Dee Vale. Sally Gracie (Pat Steel on The Nurses and Martha Allen on The Doctors) plays a female prisoner at the precinct.

Season 2, Episode 11, "Murder Is a Face I Know": Theodore Bikel (shown on the right, starred in Moulin Rouge, The Defiant Ones, A Dog of Flanders, My Fair Lady, and The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! and played Marin Dimitrov on Falcon Crest) plays assassin Nicholas Ross. Keir Dullea (starred in David and Lisa, The Thin Red Line, Bunny Lake Is Missing, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and De Sade and played Dr. Mark Jarrett on Guiding Light, Devon on The Starlost, and Dr. Steven Meye on The Path) plays his son Joseph. David Doyle (Ted Atwater on The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Walter Fitzgerald on Bridget Love Bernie, John Bosley on Charlie's Angels, Frank Macklin on Sweet Surrender, and was the voice of Grandpa Lou Pickles on Rugrats) plays Joseph's basketball coach Dan Moore. Malachi Throne (Martin Phelps on Ben Casey, False Face on Batman, Noah Bain on It Takes a Thief, The Narrator on Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp, Ted Adamson on Search for Tomorrow, and The Narrator on Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light) plays a hood.

Season 2, Episode 12, "Landscape With Dead Figures": Myron McCormick (shown on the left, starred in No Time for Sergeants and The Hustler) plays painter Albert Blakely. Alfred Ryder (appeared in T-Men, Hamlet(1964), Hotel, and True Grit) plays his cousin Carl. Robert Emhardt (Sgt. Vinton on The Kids From C.A.P.E.R.) plays sanitarium director Wolfgang Krode. Roger C. Carmel (Roger Buell on The Mothers-in-Law) plays sanitarium orderly Fitch. Conrad Nagel (starred in Little Women (1918), What Every Woman Knows, Lawful Larceny, and Tess of the D'urbervilles) plays art gallery owner Darrington. Dabney Coleman (starred in North Dallas Forty, 9 to 5, Tootsie, and The Beverly Hillbillies (1993) and played Dr. Leon Bessemer on That Girl, Merle Jeeter on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Fast Eddie Murtaugh on Apple Pie, Bill Bittinger on Buffalo Bill, Slap Maxwell on The Slap Maxwell Story, Otis Drexell on Drexell's Class, Jack "Madman" Buckner on Madman of the People, Burton Fallin on The Guardian, Jack Atwell and Bill Rose on Courting Alex, Dr. Bart Jacobs on Heartland, and Commodore Louis Kaestner on Boardwalk Empire) plays a Bellevue resident doctor.

Season 2, Episode 13, "A Hole in the City": Robert Duvall (shown on the right, starred in To Kill a Mockingbird, Bullitt, True Grit, MASH, The Godfather, The Godfather -- Part II, The Eagle Has Landed, and Apocalypse Now and played Augustus McRae on Lonesome Dove) plays gang leader Lewis Nunda. Lou Antonio (Barney on The Snoop Sisters, Det. Sgt. Jack Ramsey on Dog and Cat, and Joseph Manucci on Makin' It and directed episodes of The Partridge Family, The Rockford Files, Chicago Hope, and Boston Legal) plays fellow gang member Al Machias. Sylvia Sidney (starred in An American Tragedy, The Miracle Man, Madame Butterfly, Sabotage, Blood on the Sun, and Les Miserables (1952) and played Binnie Baylor on Morningstar/Eveningstar and Clia on Fantasy Island) plays Nunda's aunt Florence. Ed Asner (appeared in The Satan Bug, The Slender Thread, The Venetian Affair, El Dorado, Change of Habit, They Call Me Mr. Tibbs!, JFK, and Up! and played Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, and Lou Grant, Sam Waltman on Off the Rack, Principal Joe Danzig on The Bronx Zoo, Walter Kovacs on The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, George Lahti on Hearts Afire, Gil Jones on Thunder Alley, Carl Dobson on The Closer, Art Barnett on Center of the Universe, Wilson White on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Patrick on The Line, Hank Greziak on Working Class, and Dr. Wasserman on Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays) plays police Lt. Vincent Busti. Godfrey Cambridge (starred in Watermelon Man, Cotton Comes to Harlem, and The President's Analyst) plays a parking garage attendant. Judith Lowry (appeared in The Trouble With Angels, Cold Turkey, and The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds and played Sally "Mother" Dexter on Phyllis) plays an elderly apartment building resident. Richard X. Slattery (Sgt. John McKenna on The Gallant Men, Capt. John Morton on Mister Roberts, and Capt. Buckner on CPO Sharkey) plays a policeman.
Season 2, Episode 14, "The Well-Dressed Termite": Norma Crane (shown on the near left, appeared in Tea and Sympathy, They Call Me Mr. Tibbs!, and Fiddler on the Roof and played Rayola Dean on Mister Peepers) plays actress Lily Braden. Jack Klugman (shown on the far left, starred in 12 Angry Men, Days of Wine and Roses, and I Could Go on Singing and played Alan Harris on Harris Against the World, Oscar Madison on The Odd Couple, Dr. Quincy, M.E. on Quincy, M.E., and Henry Willows on You Again?) plays her estranged husband Sam. Mitchell Ryan (appeared in Monte Walsh, High Plains Drifter, Electra Glide in Blue, Magnum Force, and Lethal Weapon and played Burke Devlin on Dark Shadows, Capt. Chase Reddick on Chase, Dan Walling on Executive Suite, Dr. Blake Simmons on Having Babies, Cooper Hawkins on The Chisholms, Anthony Tonell on Santa Barbara, Frank Smith on General Hospital, and Edward Montgomery on Dharma & Greg) plays electrician Marty Minters. Fred J. Scollay (Mitchell Hobart on Dr. Kildare and Judge Andrew Barsky on Law & Order) plays his partner Joe Corley. Philip Abbott (starred in Sweet Bird of Youth and played Arthur Ward on The F.B.I., Dr. Alex Baker on General Hospital, and Grant Stevens on The Young and the Restless) plays Sam Braden's business partner Charles Alvis. House Jameson (host of Inner Sanctum and played Nathan Bunker on The Doctors) plays financial business owner Mr. Williams. Dick Van Patten (appeared in Charly, Snowball Express, Freaky Friday, High Anxiety, and Spaceballs and played Nels Hansen on Mama, Sgt. Nelson Higgenbottom on The Partners, Max Mathias on The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Friar Tuck on When Things Were Rotten, Tom Bradford on Eight Is Enough, and Floyd Graham on WIOU) plays a carhop.

Season 2, Episode 15, "The Day It Rained Mink": Keenan Wynn (starred in Annie Get Your Gun, Royal Wedding, Angels in the Outfield, The Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber, Dr. Strangelove, The Great Race, and Point Blank and played Kodiak on Troubleshooters, Williard "Digger" Barnes on Dallas, Carl Sarnac on Call to Glory, and Butch on The Last Precinct) plays coat-lining producer Maxwell Ronan. Abbe Lane (shown on the right, singer and one-time wife of Xavier Cugat) plays model Estelle Reeves. Sorrell Booke (D.A. Ira Newton on The Guiding Light and Boss Hogg on The Dukes of Hazzard) plays fur coat rental owner Uncle George. 

Season 2, Episode 16, "Button in the Haystack": Albert Salmi (shown on the left, played Yadkin on Daniel Boone and Pete Ritter on Petrocelli) plays ex-con service station attendant Lennard Brewer. Peggy Ann Garner (appeared in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Pied Piper, Jane Eyre, Daisy Kenyon, and Thunder in the Valley) plays his wife Edie. Doris Rich (Ma Kettle on The Egg and I) plays service station patron Mrs. Jassy. Joe Warren (Officer Joe Steinmetz on Car 54, Where Are You? and Senator Dickson on Dallas) plays suspicious father Sean Ross. Robert Weil (appeared in The Hot Rock, The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three, Broadway Danny Rose, and Moonstruck) plays gun seller Nesvady. Mitchell Ryan (see "The Well-Dressed Termite" above) plays foundry worker Overton.

Season 2, Episode 17, "Shoes for Vinnie Winford": Dennis Hopper (shown on the right, starred in Giant, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Sons of Katie Elder, Cool Hand Luke, Hang 'Em High, Easy Rider, The Osterman Weekend, Blue Velvet, and Hoosiers and played Smith on Flatland, Col. Eli McNulty on ­E-Ring, and Ben Cendars on Crash) plays rich boy Vinnie Winford. Meg Mundy (appeared in Eyes of Laura Mars, Ordinary People, and Fatal Attraction and played Mona Croft on The Doctors and Eugenia von Voynavitch on All My Children) plays his mother Rosalind. Hildy Brooks (appeared in The Iceman Cometh, Islands in the Stream, The Rose, and White Palace) plays dance hostess Ruby Redd. Sylvia Miles (appeared in Murder, Inc., Midnight Cowboy, and Wall Street and played Jackie Diamond on All My Children) plays dance hostess Jenny Barr. Bill Lazarus (Jack Woods on Calucci's Department and Frosty on The Bad News Bears) plays Bellevue psychiatrist Dr. Lawrence Cragg.

Season 2, Episode 18, "The Deadly Guinea Pig": Viveca Lindfors (starred in Adventures of Don Juan, Dark City, King of Kings, The Way We Were, and Stargate and played Hannah von Frankenstein in Frankenstein's Aunt) plays European celebrity Lulu Kronen. George Voskevec (appeared in The Iron Mistress, 12 Angry Men, BUtterfield 8, and The Boston Strangler and played Petar Skagska on Skag and Fritz Brenner on Nero Wolfe) plays German musician Prof. Johan von Bunow. Barry Morse (shown on the left, starred in When We Are Married, Mrs. Fitzherbert, Daughter of Darkness, No Trace, and The Shape of Things to Come and played Lt. Philip Gerard on The Fugitive, Mr. Parminter on The Adventurer, Alec Marlowe on The Zoo Gang, and Prof. Victor Bergman on Space: 1999) plays former Nazi Dr. Paul Multer. Mike Kellin (appeared in At War With the Army, The Wackiest Ship in the Army, The Boston Strangler, and Midnight Express and played C.P.O. Willie Miller on The Wackiest Ship in the Army) plays restaurant worker Anton. Peter Turgeon (Mr. Arnold on General Hospital and Dr. Dave Woodward on Dark Shadows) plays talk-show host Bob Tower. 

Season 2, Episode 19, "Vengeance Is a Wheel": Ben Piazza (George Benton on The Waverly Wonders, Walt Driscoll on Dallas, Dr. Rawlings on Santa Barbara, and Dr. Charles Hampton on Dynasty) plays Italian shipworker Nino Licosa. Paul Stevens (appeared in Exodus, The Mask, Advise & Consent, and Battle for the Planet of the Apes and played Brian Bancroft on Another World) plays his brother Mario. Frank Marth (Lt. Phil Parker on The Young and the Restless and General Worth on The Dirty Dozen) plays warehouse thief Albert Garvin. Brett Somers (shown on the right, wife of Robert Klein and Jack Klugman, played Blanche Somers-Madison on The Odd Couple and Gertrude Lade on The New Perry Mason) plays Garvin's wife. 

Season 2, Episode 20, "The Fault in Our Stars": Roddy McDowell (shown on the left, starred in Man Hunt, How Green Was My Valley, My Friend Flicka, Lassie Come Home, Thunderhead - Son of Flicka, Macbeth, Cleopatra, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and Planet of the Apes and played The Bookworm on Batman, Galen on Planet of the Apes, Dr. Jonathan Willoway on The Fantastic Journey, and Bon Chance Louie on Tales of the Gold Monkey) plays aspiring actor Donnie Benton. Alvin Epstein (Philip Manning on The Doctors) plays theatrical director Elliot Kesbek. Bruce Dern (see "Bullets Cost Too Much" above) plays his lead actor Hollis. Patricia Bosworth (Cindy Clayton on Concerning Miss Marlowe and Lyn Wilkens Warren on The Edge of Night) plays undercover policewoman Betty Harkness. Mary Fickett (Sally Smith and Dr. Karen Lovell on The Edge of Night, Liz Thorpe on The Nurses, and Ruth Martin on All My Children) plays Houston-based director Norma Sutter. Harvey Jason (appeared in The Specialist, The Gumball Rally, and Lost World: Jurassic Park, was a regular performer on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, and played Bhundi on Bring 'Em Back Alive) plays the emcee in a beatnik coffee bar.

Season 2, Episode 21, "Tombstone for a Derelict": Robert Redford (shown on the right, starred in Barefoot in the Park, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, and All the President's Men) plays misguided radical Baldwin Larne. William Hinnant (Bruce Carter on Pete and Gladys) plays his cohort Freddie. Donald Gantry (Dr. Joe Thompson on The Doctors) plays cohort Charlie. Dal Jenkins (Poet on The Young Marrieds) plays cohort Josh. Polly Rowles (see the biography section for the 1961 post on The Defenders) plays Larne's mother. Sam Capuano (Lou on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) plays Assistant DA Anthony Angelo. Dan Morgan (Riggs on Dark Shadows) plays a street cleaner.

Season 2, Episode 22, "A Memory of Crying": Luther Adler (shown on the left, appeared in House of Strangers, M (1951), D.O.A., and Absence of Malice) plays former high-powered attorney Willard Manson. Susan Oliver (Ann Howard on Peyton Place) plays his wife Jessica. Philip Abbott (see "The Well-Dressed Termite" above) plays their doctor. Betty Field (see "Bullets Cost Too Much" above) plays Jessica's mother Pauline Kater. Frieda Altman (Mrs. Miller on Search for Tomorrow) plays florist Mrs. Howard. Thomas A. Carlin (Father Tracey on Search for Tomorrow) plays Manson's son Willard Manson, Jr. 

Season 2, Episode 23, "New York to L.A.": Frank Sutton (shown on the near right, appeared in Marty, Town Without Pity, and The Satan Bug and played Eric Raddison on Tom Corbett, Space Cadet and Sgt. Vince Carter on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) plays psychopath Franklin Maquon. Robert Blake (shown on the far right, played Mickey in over 30 Our Gang shorts and Little Beaver in 23 westerns, starred in Black Rose, Pork Chop Hill, The Purple Gang, In Cold Blood, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, and Electra Glide in Blue, and played Det. Tony Baretta on Baretta and Father Noah Rivers on Hell Town) plays his brother Knox. Martin Balsam (starred in 12 Angry Men, Psycho, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Catch-22 and played Dr. Milton Orliff on Dr. Kildare and Murray Klein on Archie Bunker's Place) plays psychologist Caldwell Wyatt. Ed Asner (see "A Hole in the City" above) returns as Lt. Vincent Busti. Oliver McGowan (Harvey Welk on Empire) plays attorney Oscar Keswick. Noah Keen (Det. Lt. Carl Bone on Arrest and Trial) plays L.A. Assistant DA Smith. Than Wyenn (Licenciado Piña on Zorro)  plays L.A. Judge Horst Lakewood. Jon Lormer (Harry Tate on Lawman, various autopsy surgeons and medical examiners in 12 episodes of Perry Mason, and Judge Irwin A. Chester on Peyton Place) plays a minister. 

Season 2, Episode 24, "A Very Cautious Boy": Peter Falk (shown on the left, starred in Robin and the 7 Hoods, Murder by Death, and The Cheap Detective and played Daniel O'Brien on The Trials of O'Brien and Columbo on Columbo) plays karate student Lee Staunton. Ruth White (appeared in To Kill a Mockingbird, Hang 'Em High, Charly, Midnight Cowboy, and The Reivers and played Bessie Bookbinder on The Magic Cottage) plays restaurant owner Mama Ganoulian. William Hansen (appeared in Birdman of Alcatraz, Fail-Safe, and Willard) plays her husband Joe. Macha Meril (fashion model, author, production company mogul, appeared in Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed, Anatomy of a Marriage, and Belle du Jour and was married to composer Michel Legrand) plays lounge singer Gaby Duclos.

Season 2, Episode 25, "Economy of Death": Sam Jaffe (shown on the right, starred in Lost Horizon, Gunga Din, The Asphalt Jungle, and Ben-Hur and played Dr. David Zorba on Ben Casey) plays Hungarian refugee locksmith Lazslo Lubasz. Leonardo Cimino (Alexei Vartova on Ryan's Hope) plays fraudster Miklos Konya. Sandor Szabo (Carl Manheim on December Bride) plays respected citizen Gyula Jansa. Lila Skala (appeared in Call Me Madam, Lilies of the Field, Charly, and Flashdance and played Mrs. Dunbar on The Brighter Day, Madme Garstel on Valiant Lady, Magda Leshinsky on Search for Tomorrow, Mrs. Hoffman on Guiding Light, and Rose Welinski on As the World Turns) plays Lubasz's best friend's wife Anna Bognar. Bettye Ackerman (Dr. Maggie Graham on Ben Casey, Ann Frazier on Bracken's World, and Nurse Marsh on Medical Center) plays Anna's daughter-in-law Susan.

Season 2, Episode 26, " C3H5(NO3)3": Hume Cronyn (shown on the left, starred in Shadow of a Doubt, Lifeboat, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Cleopatra, and Cocoon and played Ben Marriott on The Marriage) plays high school chemistry teacher Henry Joseph Fallon. J.D. Cannon (Dr. Kevin McAllister on The Doctors and the Nurses, D.A. Ashley on The Defenders, Harry Briscoe on Alias Smith and Jones, and Chief Peter Clifford on McCloud) plays bomb squad member Tom Keary. Terry Carter (appeared in Foxy Brown, Benji, and Battlestar Galactica and played Pvt. Sugie Sugarman on The Phil Silvers Show, Sgt. Joe Broadhurst on McCloud, and Colonel Tigh on Battlestar Galactica) plays his partner Jack Lubin. Brandon Maggart (Buddy on Sesame Street, George Elliot on Jennifer Slept Here, Lou Waters on Brothers, and Mike Donovan on Chicken Soup) plays drunken sailor Petty Officer Turnbull. Charles Tyner (appeared in Cool Hand Luke, The Cheyenne Social Club, Harold and Maude, and The Longest Yard and played Howard Rodman on Father Murphy) plays a hotel manager.

Season 2, Episode 27, "Make-Believe Man": Nehemiah Persoff (starred in The Wrong Man, Al Capone and Some Like It Hot) plays deposed South American dictator Carlos Roldan. Remo Pisani (played the bartender on Bonanza) plays co-conspirator Juan Perez. Chester Morris (shown on the right, see the biography section for the 1960 post on Diagnosis:Unknown) plays Bowery alcoholic Frank Manfred. Eduardo Ciannelli (see the biography section for the 1960 post on Johnny Staccato) plays revolution financier Don Miguel Cordura. Jay Novello (Juan Greco on Zorro and Mayor Mario Lugatto on McHale's Navy) plays school teacher Juan Menguado. Leonardo Cimino (see "Economy of Death" above) plays revolutionary Julio Varraco. Sam Gray (Judge deCourcy on Ryan's Hope and Judge Manuel Leon on Law & Order) plays 65th Precinct Officer Sam Gode. Epy Baca (Jose on The Doctors) plays a low-rent building manager.

Season 2, Episode 28, "To Dream Without Sleep": Lois Nettleton (shown on the left, played Sue Kramer on Accidental Family, Joanne St. John on In the Heat of the Night, and Evelyn on Crossing Jordan) plays secretary Fran Burney. Fred J. Scollay (see "The Well-Dressed Termite" above) plays her date Al Horner. Bibi Osterwald (appeared in Parrish, The World of Henry Orient, Bank Shot, and Caddyshack II and played Sophie Steinberg on Bridget Loves Bernie and Nanny McTavish on General Hospital) plays Horner's colleague's wife Sylvia. Joe Warren (see "Button in the Haystack" above) plays a hospital staff surgeon. Kip McArdle (Ann Kelly on The Edge of Night) plays a diner waitress. Dortha Duckworth (Rowena Standish on Somerset) plays landlady Mrs. Lowell. 

Season 2, Episode 29, "A Kettle of Precious Fish": Albert Dekker (starred in The Man in the Iron Mask, Beau Geste, Dr. Cyclops, The Killers, Gentlemen's Agreement, East of Eden, Kiss Me Deadly, Suddenly Last Summer, and The Wild Bunch) plays manufacturing CEO Sam Grafton. Russell Collins (appeared in Niagara, Miss Sadie Thompson, Raintree County, and Fail-Safe and played Owen Sharp on Many Happy Returns) plays his partner Joseph Peavey. Woodrow Parfrey (appeared in Planet of the Apes, Dirty Harry, and Papillon and played Holmes on Iron Horse) plays timid board member George Butterwick. George Mitchell (Cal Bristol on Stoney Burke) plays board member Al Spangler. Anthony Dawson (appeared in Dial M for Murder, Midnight Lace, Dr. No, From Russia With Love, and Thunderball) plays board member Mike Grundy. Carl Frank (Uncle Gunnar Gunnarson on Mama) plays board member John Forks. William Daniels (appeared in Two for the Road, The Graduate, Oh, God!, and Reds and played Carter Nash/Capt. Nice on Captain Nice, Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth Kitteridge on The Nancy Walker Show, the voice of K.I.T.T. on Knight Rider, Dr. Mark Craig on St. Elsewhere, George Feeny on Boy Meets World and Girl Meets World, and Dr. Craig Thomas on Grey's Anatomy) plays board member Herbert Grafton. James Luisi (shown on the right, appeared in The Tiger Makes Out, Ben, and Norma Rae and played Philip Wainwright on Another World, Lt. Doug Chapman on The Rockford Files, Lt. Marciano on The Renegades, Ben Clark on Santa Barbara, and Duke Johnson on Days of Our Lives) plays criminal statistician Mark Andrew. Gerald Hiken (cousin of Nat Hiken, appeared in Uncle Vanya, The Goddess, Invitation to a Gunfighter, and Reds and played Katz the Butcher on Car 54, Where Are You?) plays gang member Doc Frayley. Joanna Roos (Althea Raven and Sarah Dale on Love of Life and Alma Miller on As the World Turns) plays Peavey's wife Martha. Anna Minot (Martha Wilson and Mrs. Regan on As the World Turns) plays boat captain's wife Amy Bexley. Michael Baseleon (Dr. Tony Perelli on General Hospital and Slade on Flamingo Road) plays a Coast Guard sailor. George L. Smith (Detective Ernie Cadman on The Doctors and Patrick Donovan on Loving) plays a doctor.

Season 2, Episode 30, "Sweet Prince of Delancey Street": James Dunn (Earl Morgan on It's a Great Life) plays janitor Peter Wilkin. Jan Miner (Ann Williams on Crime Photographer) plays his wife Rosie. Robert Morse (starred in The Matchmaker, The Loved One, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?, and A Guide for the Married Man and played Robert Dickson on That's Life, Edwin O'Malley on City of Angels, and Bertram Cooper on Mad Men) plays his son Richy. Dustin Hoffman (shown on the left, starred in The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Straw Dogs, Papillon, All the President's Men, Kramer vs. Kramer, Rain Man, and Tootsie and played Chester Bernstein on Luck and Giovanni on Medici) plays Richy's friend Leonard Stenton. Herb Voland (appeared in The Shakiest Gun in the West, The Love God?, and Airplane! and played Fred Hammond on Love on a Rooftop, Neil Oglivie on Arnie, and Gen. Crandell Clayton on M*A*S*H) plays mechanic Charley Bates. 

Season 2, Episode 31, "The Day the Island Almost Sank": Paul Hartman (see "Bullets Cost Too Much" above) plays convention attendee Ben Stringfellow. Roger C. Carmel (see "Landscape With Dead Figures" above) plays private security guard Al Buxley. Conrad Bain (Dr. Charles Weldon on The Edge of Night, Dr. Arthur Harmon on Maude, Phillip Drummond on Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, and Hello, Larry, and Charlie Ross on Mr. President) plays city official Miller. Mickey Freeman (shown on the right, played Pvt. Fielding Zimmerman on The Phil Silvers Show) plays taxi driver Ervin Wolinsky. Sam Capuano (see "Tombstone for a Derelict" above) returns as Assistant DA Anthony Angelo. Sam Gray (see "Make-Believe Man" above) returns as Officer Sam Gode. Robert Weil (see "Button in the Haystack" above) plays a prisoner in police custody.

Season 2, Episode 32, "Take and Put": Roland Winters (played Charlie Chan in 6 feature films, appeared in Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, Follow the Sun, Cash McCall, and Blue Hawaii, and played J.R. Boone, Sr. in Meet Millie and Leonard J. Costello on My Brother the Angel) plays trust fund inheritor Aubrey Hacker. Nancy Carroll (starred in The Wolf of Wall Street (1929), The Devil's Holiday, and The Woman Accused and played Alice Aldrich on The Aldrich Family) plays his wife Bernice. Joyce Builfant (shown on the left, played Mary Gentry on Tom, Dick and Mary, Mrs. Marsha Patterson on The Bill Cosby Show, Peggy Wilson on Love Thy Neighbor, Marjorie Martin on Big John, Little John, Marie Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Miriam Willoughby on Flo, and Emily Wallace on Weird Science) plays their daughter Constance. William Hinnant (see "Tombstone for a Derelict" above) plays their son Willis. Mildred Natwick (appeared in Yolanda and the Thief, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Quiet Man, The Trouble With Harry, and Barefoot in the Park and played Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson on The Snoop Sisters) plays their maid Irma Mahoney. Erik Rhodes (appeared in The Gay Divorcee, Charlie Chan in Paris, A Night at the Ritz, Top Hat, and Mysterious Mr. Moto) plays jeweler Gardell. Peter Turgeon (see "The Deadly Guinea Pig" above) plays stockbroker Thomas Vale. Joe Silver (appeared in Shivers, You Light Up My Life, and Deathtrap and played Max Spier on Coronet Blue, Jack Stewart on Fay, and Elliott Silverstein on Ryan's Hope) plays Assistant DA Ketton.

Season 3, Episode 1, "Take Off Your Hat When a Funeral Passes": Lee J. Cobb (shown on the right, starred in Call Northside 777, On the Waterfront, 12 Angry Men, Exodus, and Coogan's Bluff and played Judge Henry Garth on The Virginian and David Barrett on The Young Lawyers) plays informant Paul Delito. Geraldine Fitzgerald (starred in Wuthering Heights, Dark Victory, Three Strangers, The Pawnbroker, and Arthur and played Helen Eldridge on Our Private World and Violet Jordan on The Best of Everything) plays his estranged wife Brigid. Tommy Norden (Bud Ricks on Flipper) plays their son Paul, Jr. Alfred Ryder (see "Landscape With Dead Figures" above) plays Brigid's brother John Birge. Joseph Campanella (Dr. Ted Steffen on The Doctors and the Nurses, Brian Darrell on The Bold Ones: The Lawyers, Lew Wickersham on Mannix, Ed Cooper on One Day at a Time, Hutch Corrigan on The Colbys, Harper Deveraux on Days of Our Lives, Joe on That's Life, Judge Joseph Camp on The Practice, and Jonathan Young on The Bold and the Beautiful) plays 65th Precinct Det. Dutton. Thomas A. Carlin (see "A Memory of Crying" above) plays priest Father Meyler. 

Season 3, Episode 2, "Dead on the Field of Honor": Logan Ramsey (Warden Wilbur Poindexter on On the Rocks and Joseph Anthony on The Young and the Restless) plays misguided Southern gentleman Beau Choiseul. Cathleen Nesbitt (starred in Three Coins in the Fountain, An Affair to Remember, The Parent Trap, and Family Plot and played Agatha Morley on The Farmer's Daughter) plays his grandmother Helene. Ann Williams (shown on the left, played Dr. Maggie Fielding/Van Alen on The Doctors, Eunice Gardner on Search for Tomorrow, Margo Huntington on The Edge of Night, and Nurse Chastain on As the World Turns) plays his sister Vivienne. Jeremy Slate (starred in The Sons of Katie Elder, The Devil's Brigade, and True Grit and played Larry Lahr on The Aquanauts) plays Vivienne's boyfriend Chuck Mullord. Arlene Golonka (appeared in Penelope, The Busy Body, Hang 'Em High, and The In-Laws and played Millie Hutchins on The Andy Griffith Show and Millie Swanson on Mayberry R.F.D.) plays slapped girlfriend Alma Corgi. Joseph Campanella (see "Take Your Hat Off When a Funeral Passes" above) returns as Det. Dutton.

Season 3, Episode 3, "The Corpse Ran Down Mulberry Street": Nehemiah Persoff (see "Make-Believe Man" above) plays funeral parlor owner Dominic Venussi. Brenda Vaccaro (shown on the near right, starred in Midnight Cowboy, Going Home, Airport '77, and Capricorn One and played Sara Yarnell on Sara, Julia Blake on Paper Dolls, and Claire Rogers on Gypsy) plays his son's fiance Rosa Alloro. Sorrell Booke (see "The Day It Rained Mink" above) plays illegal immigrant Salvatore Rogero. Al Lewis (see the biography section for the 1961 post on Car 54, Where Are You?) plays hearse driver Harry McGoglan. Sally Gracie (see "Bullets Cost Too Much" above) plays waitress Gracie.
Season 3, Episode 4, "The Fingers of Henri Tourelle": Luther Adler (see "A Memory of Crying" above) plays fashion mogul Henri Tourelle. Robert Loggia (shown on the left, starred in The Greatest Story Ever Told, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Scarface, and Big and played T. Hewitt Edward Cat on T.H.E. Cat, Admiral Yuri Burkharin on Emerald Point, N.A.S., Nick Mancuso on Mancuso, FBI, Ben Benedict on Sunday Dinner, and Judge Thomas O'Neill on Queens Supreme) plays his brother Ben. Nina Foch (starred in The Return of the Vampire, The Cry of the Werewolf, An American in Paris, The Ten Commandments, and Spartacus and played Madeline on Bull) plays Henri's chief saleslady Maude Hutchinson. Jerome Cowan (starred in Shall We Dance, Victory, High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon, Miracle on 34th Street and many Blondie movies and played Collins on Not for Publication and John Larsen on The Tab Hunter Show) plays his comptroller Carl Terris. Michael Tolan (Dr. Alan Tazinski on The Doctors and the Nurses, Jordan Boyle on The Bold Ones: The Senator, and Dan Whitfield on The Mary Tyler Moore Show) plays his head designer Peter Merrell. Patricia Wheel (Peggy Reagan on Guiding Light and Elinor Crane on The Doctors) plays his secretary Carol Flaxman. Betty Walker (Polly Merriweather on The Doctors) plays the forelady of the sewing department. Louis Sorin (Cousin Simon on The Goldbergs) plays a presser at the fashion company. Richard Ward (appeared in Black Like Me, The Learning Tree, Mandingo, and The Jerk and played William Piper on Beacon Hill and Dewey on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) plays a packer.
Season 3, Episode 5, "A Wednesday Night Story": David Janssen (shown on the right, starred in To Hell and Back, Hell to Eternity, King of the Roaring '20's, The Green Berets, and The Shoes of the Fisherman and played Richard Diamond on Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Dr. Richard Kimble on The Fugitive, Jim O'Hara on O'Hara, U.S. Treasury, and Harry Orwell on Harry O) plays philandering husband Blair Cameron. Constance Ford (starred in A Summer Place, Home From the Hill, All Fall Down, and The Caretakers and played Ada Lucas Davis Downs McGowan Hobson on Another World) plays his wife Rhonda. Ulla Jacobsson (appeared in Crime and Punishment, Love Is a Ball, and Zulu) plays their Swedish nanny Karen Gunnarson. Sorrell Booke (see "The Day It Rained Mink" above) plays a private detective. Ernest Graves (Eliot Clark on The Brighter Day, Ed Parmalee on The Edge of Night, Dr. David Stewart on As the World Turns, Alex Bowden on Guiding Light, and Victor Dalby Lord on One Life to Live) plays Rhonda's first attorney. Murray Matheson (Felix Mulholland on Banacek) plays Rhonda's divorce attorney Colley.
Season 3, Episode 6, "The Tragic Success of Alfred Tiloff": Jack Klugman (see "The Well-Dressed Termite" above) plays lifelong failure Alfred Tiloff. Jan Sterling (shown on the left, starred in Johnny Belinda, Ace in the Hole¸ The Mating Season, 1984, and High School Confidential! and played Mildred Foss on Guiding Light) plays his wife Myrtle. Ruth White (see "A Very Cautious Boy" above) plays their neighbor Mary Nagler. Fred J. Scollay (see "The Well-Dressed Termite" above) plays kidnapped girl's uncle Marty Parlin. 

Season 3, Episode 7, "Which Is Joseph Creeley?": Martin Balsam (see "New York to L.A." above) plays convicted killer Joseph Creeley. Jack Kruschen (appeared in The War of the Worlds, The Apartment, Lover Come Back, and Freebie and the Bean and played Tully on Hong Kong, Sam Markowitz on Busting Loose, Papa Papadapolis on Webster, and Fred Avery on Material World) plays his defense attorney Dean Fairland. Murray Hamilton (appeared in No Time for Sergeants, Anatomy of a Murder, and The Hustler and played Steve Baker on Love and Marriage  and Capt. Rutherford T. Grant on B.J. and the Bear) plays prosecuting DA Matt Orman. Woodrow Parfrey (see "A Kettle of Precious Fish" above) plays Bellevue Hospital Dr. Manning Wirtz. Audra Lindley (shown on the right, played Laura Tompkins on From These Roots, Sue Knowles on Search for Tomorrow, Barbara Bennett on The Edge of Night, Liz Matthews on Another World, Amy Fitzgerald on Bridget Loves Bernie, Lillian on Fay, Janet Scott on Doc, and Helen Roper on Three's Company and The Ropers) plays Creeley's ex-wife Sheila Braden. Than Wyenn (see "New York to L.A." above) plays presiding Judge Aldous Henley. Stanley Brock (Bruno Bender on Barney Miller, Howie Hofstedder on Days of Our Lives, and Ivan Bronski on He's the Mayor) plays the court bailiff.

Season 3, Episode 8, "Show Me the Way to Go Home": Burt Brinckerhoff (shown on the left, played Charles Shannon on Dr. Kildare and directed multiple episodes of Lou Grant, Nine to Five, Remington Steele, ALF, and 7th Heaven) plays disturbed young man Danny Keyling. Louise Albritton (starred in Son of Dracula, Her Primitive Man, The Egg and I, and Walk a Crooked Mile and played Maggie Marlowe on Concerning Miss Marlowe) plays his mother Elva. Lois Nettleton (see "To Dream Without Sleep" above) plays the object of his desire Marie Marianni. Celia Adler (half-sister of Luther Adler) plays a lost old woman. Jimmy Little (MSgt. Francis Grover on The Phil Silvers Show and Sgt. Jim McBride on Car 54, Where Are You?) plays 65th Precinct desk sergeant Max Higgins. Martha Greenhouse (Rose Henderson on Car 54, Where Are You?) plays a woman waiting at the precinct. Rose Gregorio (appeared in The Swimmer, Eyes of Laura Mars, and True Confessions and played Lorraine Jarrett on The Doctors, Dr. Doris Wagner on Another World, and Helen Hathaway on ER) plays a Puerto Rican woman. Charles Dierkop (Det. Pete Royster on Police Woman) plays a card player. Steve Bell (Dr. Quint Lowry on Dr. Kildare) plays a doctor.

Season 3, Episode 9, "The Hot Minerva": Glynis Johns (shown on the right, starred in The Sundowners, The Chapman Report, and Mary Poppins and played Glynis Granville on Glynis, Lady Penelope Peasoup on Batman, and Trudie Pepper on Coming of Age ) plays museum curator Miss Arlington. William Redfield (appeared in Hamlet, Duel at Diablo, The Fantastic Voyage, The Hot Rock, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) plays modern-day pirate Phillip Weaver. Gerald Hiken (see "A Kettle of Precious Fish" above) plays his sidekick Arthur Jarrell. Johnny Seven (see "Bullets Cost Too Much" above) plays gang leader Stitch. Mitchell Ryan (see "The Well-Dressed Termite" above) plays gang member Quale. Kurt Kasznar (appeared in Lovely to Look At, Kiss Me Kate, My Sister Eileen, and Casino Royale and played Alexander B. Fitzhugh on Land of the Giants) plays Greek financier Alcibaides Munos. Eugene Roche (appeared in Cotton Comes to Harlem, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Foul Play and played Frank Flynn on The Corner Bar, Jimmy Hughes on Good Time Harry, E. Ronald Mallou on Soap, Bill Parker on Webster, Luther H. Gillis on Magnum P.I., Pat Callahan on Lenny, I.F. Woolstein on Julie, and Eric, Jr. on Dave's World) plays an insurance agent. Brandon Maggart (see " C3H5(NO3)3" above) plays a young 65th Precinct detective. Sorrell Booke (see "The Day It Rained Mink" above) plays a doctor on Munos' yacht. Sharon Farrell (Polly Holloran on Saints and Sinners, Det. Lorrie Wilson on Hawaii Five-O, and Florence Webster on The Young and the Restless) plays one of Libby's fellow actors.

Season 3, Episode 10, "Requiem for a Sunday Afternoon": Jay Novello (see "Make-Believe Man" above) plays Italian immigrant shoemaker Antonio Scarzi. Marisa Pavan (shown on the near left, starred in What Price Glory, The Rose Tattoo, The Midnight Story, and Solomon and Sheba and played Chantal DuBujak on Ryan's Hope) plays his much younger wife Josephine. Burt Reynolds (shown on the far left, see the biography section for the 1960 post on Riverboat) plays Josephine's lover. Jeff Harris (Jenning Carson on The Edge of Night, co-created Diff'rent Strokes, and wrote multiple episodes of Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters, Operation Petticoat, and Detective School) plays weightlifter Fred. Sam Capuano (see "Tombstone for a Derelict" above) plays an unsympathetic priest. 

Season 3, Episode 11, "Ooftus Goofus": Mickey Rooney (shown on the right, starred in Captains Courageous, Boys Town, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Words and Music, Babyface Nelson, and Breakfast at Tiffany's as well as numerous Andy Hardy movies and played Mickey Mulligan on The Mickey Rooney Show, Mickey Grady on Mickey, Oliver Nugent on One of the Boys, Henry Dailey on The New Adventures of the Black Stallion, and Talbut on Kleo the Misfit Unicorn) plays overlooked grocery store clerk George Bick. Maureen Stapleton (Oscar-, Tony-, and Emmy-winning actress starred in Lonelyhearts, Bye Bye Birdie, Airport, Interiors, and Reds) plays his wife Abbie. Graham Jarvis (appeared in Alice's Restaurant, The Out of Towners, Cold Turkey, and Mr. Mom and played Charles Eiler on Guiding Light, Charlie Haggers on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Fernwood Tonight, and Forever Fernwood, Jack Felspar on Making the Grade, Bob Dyrenforth on Fame, and Charles Jackson on 7th Heaven) plays the grocery store manager. Sid Raymond (the voice of Baby Huey in numerous cartoon shorts and on The Baby Huey Show) plays a grocery store assistant manager. Louis Sorin (see "The Fingers of Henri Tourelle" above) plays an injured old man. Joe Warren (see "Button in the Haystack" above) plays grocery store worker Sam. Donald Briggs (appeared in Captains Courageous, The Hardys Ride High, and Men Against the Sky and played Eddie Collins on The Lucy Show) plays used car salesman Jerry Bagger.

Season 3, Episode 12, "Bridge Party": James Barton (appeared in The Shepherd of the Hills, Here Comes the Groom, Golden Girl, and The Misfits) plays retired postal worker Thomas Hale Dobbins. Ruth McDevitt (appeared in The Parent Trap, The Birds, Dear Heart, The Love God?, and Change of Habit and played Mom Peepers on Mister Peepers, Mrs. McMurtrie on The Doctors, Grandma Effie Hanks on Pistols 'n' Petticoats, and Emily Cowles on Kolchak: The Night Stalker) plays his wife Abbie. Albert Dekker (see "A Kettle of Precious Fish" above) plays railroad boss Herbert B. Warick. Fred Clark (shown on the left, appeared in Sunset Blvd., A Place in the Sun, How to Marry a Millionaire, and Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, and played Harry Morton on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and Dr. Roy Clyburn on The Beverly Hillbillies) plays his traffic manager Grainger. Dan Tobin (Terrance Clay on Perry Mason) plays head of his legal department Charles Banning. House Jameson (see "The Well-Dressed Termite" above) plays his lawyer Donald Chavers.

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