The 2019 DVD release of syndicated newspaper drama anthology
Deadline comes with an agenda--an
attempt to restore the respect and trust once afforded the news media. The copy
on the back of the DVD case says that films for the series were recently
rediscovered in a New Jersey garage where they had been stored for nearly 60 years.
But the impetus to restore and release them is clearly tied to more current
events:
"to remind us of a time when
newspaper reporters were revered as heroes and the guardians of truth and
justice. Reporters are the first line of defense of the principles rooted in
our Constitution and protected under the first amendment. They uphold
everything our civil society stands for. At a time when print news media is
rapidly disappearing and news reporters are being vilified as 'enemies of the
people,' Deadline has emerged from
hibernation and is making its home video debut."
Additionally, the booklet provided in the DVD reprints the
Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics and contains short,
half-page sections on "Journalism in 1959 vs. Today 2019,"The State
of Newsprint Today," "The Dominance of the Internet and 'Fake
News,'" "The Journalistic Code of Ethics," and "Five Core
Principles of Journalism." While it is certainly a worthy endeavor to
promote ethical journalism rather than the partisan propaganda that seems to
dominate a sizable chunk of today's "news" media, it's highly
unlikely that the resurrection of a forgotten TV series from 60 years ago is
going to move the needle in the right direction to any measurable
degree--especially when the series was seen by so few when it first aired.
Because
Deadline
was a syndicated series rather than a network offering, it could be seen only
in those markets that chose to buy and broadcast it. It should also be noted
that assigning air dates to individual episodes is a bit imprecise because each
station that aired the series chose when to air those episodes, meaning they could
air on different dates when shown on different stations. The air dates included
in the DVD booklet (which match those listed on imdb.com) are provided for only
25 of the series' 39 episodes. The other 14 supposedly aired sometime in 1960. The
1959 air dates for the first 16 episodes appear to sync with the schedule for
WPIX in New York City, as a review for the first episode, "The Victor
Riesel Story," ran in the September 18, 1959 edition of the
New York Daily News and mentioned that
the episode aired on WPIX the night before. The undated 1960 episodes could
have aired once a week on the same schedule and synced up with the episodes that
are given specific 1960 air dates, up until the last two episodes, which the
booklet claims aired on January 8, 1961 and February 4, 1961. It would have
been odd for WPIX to air the first 37 of 39 episodes in weekly order and then
delay the last two over six months into the following year, so it is unclear
where these air dates came from. However, in reviewing my personal collection
of 1960
TV Guide issues, which come
from a variety of geographical regions (for example, Eastern New England,
Western New England, North Carolina, etc.), I discovered that the series' final
episode, "Smoke Screen," aired in Chicago on June 9, 1960, which is
the same date it would have aired on WPIX had they stuck to a once-a-week
showing without any breaks for the 39 episodes. And the previous episode,
"Wetback," would have aired on June 2, 1960 rather than January 8,
1961 if this schedule had been followed. (I do not own the May 28 - June 3,
1960 Chicago issue of
TV Guide to
verify this.)
More important than setting this chronology straight is the
fact that of the 10 different
TV Guide
regional editions out of the 21 copies I own for January - June 1960, only two
of them--Chicago and Southern Ohio--have
Deadline
included in their listings. This means that perhaps over half the country never
had the chance to see the series when it first aired. All of which means the
market for the DVD release would seem remarkably small, possibly limited to
vintage TV buffs or historians, because so few people would be drawn to it to
renew fond memories of having seen it when it first aired.
Another factor against the show's popularity and acceptance
is the plethora of newspaper-based series that had gone before. While there
seemed no limit to how many different western series TV viewers would tolerate
at the time, the newspaper drama angle had been explored extensively, as
Douglass K. Daniel recounts in the first chapter of his book about a later
newspaper-based series,
Lou Grant: The
Making of TV's Top Newspaper Drama. And Daniel even leaves out one of
Deadline's predecessors--
The Walter Winchell File (sometimes
billed as
Crime Reporter in
TV Guide listings)--which ran from
1957-59 and followed an anthology format based on real newspaper stories,
though limited to
Winchell's one newspaper,
The
New York Daily Mirror rather than
Deadline's
use of papers from across the country. Winchell's series benefitted from his
celebrity status as host, whereas
Deadline
chose as its host veteran character actor
Paul Stewart, who had a prolific
career in film and television already to that point as well as being a key
player in
Orson Welles' famed Mercury Theatre productions but was hardly a
household name. Stewart also acted in 12 of the episodes, usually as the
reporter who ferrets out the story, and while there are a number of other now
famous actors who appear over the course of the series, such as
Peter Falk,
Frank Sutton,
Diane Ladd,
Sydney Pollack, and
George Maharis, they had not yet
made a name for themselves at the time the series was shot and aired. So the
series also lacked the draw of big-name guest stars one might see on other,
higher-profile network shows.
As for the episodes themselves, the program often plays like
a police procedural, with half of the stories being murder cases. But on
Deadline, as on defense attorney dramas
like
Perry Mason and
Lock Up, the police rarely solve the
murders and seem more bent on going for an easy conviction, even if it is the
wrong person. In "The Accusing Finger," the police are perfectly
happy to believe waiter Hovic when he claims that Frank Reller shot and killed
the owner of the bar where he worked, even though bartender Schneider had a
closer look and even fought with the killer but would not say that it was
Reller. After Reller has served 12 years of a life sentence for murder, the
arresting officer Bernie Davis feels guilty enough to contact reporter
Ed
Mowery to dig into the case and prove that Reller is innocent. In other words,
the police are unwilling to correct their own mistake and must rely on a
journalist to bring belated justice. A similar story plays out in "The
Face of a Thief" in which police Cpl. Johnny Masters is convinced that
handyman George Norman is a serial bank robber just because he is wearing
clothes similar to those described by a bank teller who was recently held up. Even
when the "evidence" turns out to be coincidental rather than
condemning--such as Norman getting his car repainted at the suggestion of a
mechanic instead of because he was trying to hide from the police or the bank
teller witness having misidentified suspects before--Masters refuses to be
convinced of Norman's innocence. Only when reporter
Ray Fulton is able to
produce the out-of-town woman for whom Norman was working when the robbery was
committed, thereby providing him with an airtight alibi, is Masters willing to
concede that Norman is not the bank robber.
The reporters on
Deadline
often act more like hard-boiled police detectives than the police do, such as
in "The Case of the Stranger"
in which reporter
Harry Romanoff is the one who smells a rat when
butcher Alfred Stagg claims that his wife was attacked by a stranger with a gun
who shot her and whom Stagg subsequently shot after wrestling the gun away from
him. Romanoff, rather than police Det. Eddie Larkin, is the one who runs down
the identity of the stranger as an alcoholic who never carried a gun but who would
do just about anything for a drink, then investigates the room behind the
butcher shop, where Stagg has been sleeping since the murder, and finds a photo
inscribed to him by a woman named Lorene, with whom it turns out Stagg had been
having an affair. Romanoff finally pieces together the evidence that Stagg was
secretly drawn to "loose women" like Lorene and felt trapped in his
marriage to pregnant wife Elsie, so he hired the stranger to pretend to
threaten her so that he would have an opportunity to kill her and be free. The
notes on this episode included in the DVD booklet point out that the real-life
Romanoff was notorious for tricking subjects by posing as a police officer,
lawyer, or other official in order to get the information he needed for his
story.
In "Pig Woman" it is
reporter
Gerald Gunthrop, not police Sheriff Baker, who provides a Perry
Mason-like withering cross examination of accomplice Louise to get her to
confess that her boss murdered handyman Muley after learning the old man had
made her the beneficiary of his life insurance policy.
However, for some semblance of balance, we get one story in
which the reporter gets it wrong--"Suspicion of Murder"--in which
San Francisco Chronicle reporter
Bernice
Freeman is duped by murder suspect Larry Ellis who once worked for her as a
reporter 10 years before in Marin County. Freeman allows her memories of good
times with Ellis to cloud her judgment in automatically believing that he is
innocent, even though the victim's wife has identified him and witnessed the
murder herself. Only when Freeman continually presses Ellis to remember where
he was and what he was doing at the time of the murder does she finally realize
that he has been lying to her. Ironically, it is her benevolent treatment of
Ellis that finally gets him to admit to committing the murder because he says
he can't allow his misdeed to ruin her career as a journalist.
Another episode that breaks the usual mold of a tidy
conclusion after 30 minutes of drama is "Old Man Lost" in which
Boston VA hospital patient and World War II veteran Charles W. Jamison cannot
remember who he is or much of anything about his past, other than his name, his
age, and that he is an American. After reporter
Don Hogan gets multiple
anonymous letters claiming that Jamison is an enemy spy, he tries to help
Jamison remember any details he can about his past. Though he does make
progress in getting Jamison to seem to recall the ship on which he served and
that he spent his youth in England, Hogan can never find any corroborating
evidence or witnesses to solidify Jamison's memories. The episode ends with
host Paul Stewart saying that Jamison still does not remember any more about
himself than was portrayed in the episode and making a plea for any viewers who
might recognize or remember him to step forward with any information they might
have. Again, considering how few people would have seen this episode, and
apparently none in New England where Jamison was hospitalized, it seems
unlikely that Stewart's plea would have been answered.
Two more episodes worth noting center around one of the
hottest political topics of today--immigration. And both of them end with
satisfying conclusions that could never happen in today's partisan gridlock. In
"To Move a Mountain"
Newark
Star-Ledger reporter
John McDowell learns that two Burmese nursing students
are about to be deported because their visas have expired, and returning to
their home country will mean certain death because of their opposition to the
ruling party. But McDowell recognizes from their names that they are the same
two women who nursed him back to health when he was wounded while serving with
Merrill's Marauders in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Even though he
is told at every turn that nothing can be done to help them despite their being
Bronze Star recipients for their service to countless wounded Americans during
the War, McDowell continues to write about the women's fate in his column and to
pressure members of Congress until a bill is passed just before Congress goes
on recess to allow the women to remain in the U.S. In "Wetback"
San Diego Union reporter
Gene Fuson goes
undercover as a Mexican immigrant to experience first-hand the desperation and
abuse immigrants face in trying to reach the United States just to make a better
life for their families. Though immigrants have been demonized in today's
political climate as criminals who will destroy this country, the villains in
this episode are the smugglers who will steal and kill from the immigrants they
promise to help across the border without a shred of compassion for their
victims' suffering. Ironically, Paul Stewart narrates at the end of the episode
that Fuson's reporting led to a crackdown on the smuggling rings that brought
illegal immigration down to just a "trickle," something that will
never happen in today's politics because actually fixing the problem would
eliminate one party's leverage in stoking their voters' rage. Yes,
Deadline does still hold some valuable
lessons for those who are open to hear them. Unfortunately, the number of open
minds in today's America are as few as the number who remember this television
series from when it first aired.
The dramatic opening and closing theme, as well as the
scores for individual episodes, were composed by
Wladimir (sometimes spelled
Vladimir)
Selinsky, who was born in Kiev in what is now Ukraine on February 15,
1910, though his family soon
moved to
Berlin. A child prodigy on the violin, Selinsky composed and conducted as a
child, and at age 15 his family moved again to the United States. Selinsky won
a scholarship to Julliard, but rather than pursuing the career as a violin
soloist that he had originally intended, he was forced to take work on Broadway
as a concert master and assistant conductor after his father became too ill to
support the family. In the 1930s he moved to composing for radio programs on
CBS and NBC such as
Helen Hayes'
Textron
Theatre and
Helen Hayes Theatre
in addition to educational programs. In the 1940s he hosted his own program,
Strings in Swingtime, on NBC and
released 78 rpm albums on the Columbia record label. By the early 1950s he
began working on scoring for television, initially on drama anthologies such as
Lux Video Theatre (for which he was
also musical director),
Ponds Theater,
and
Kraft Theatre. He also composed
library music for Video Moods, Inc., some of which was used in
Ed Wood's
notoriously bad sci-fi feature film
Plan
9 From Outer Space. His work as musical director on the newspaper-based
drama anthology TV series
The Big Story
from 1949-59 made him an obvious choice for the same role on
Deadline. During this time he was one of
several
Deadline contributors to work
on the
Beverly Garland TV crime drama
Decoy
for which he also served as musical director. By the mid-1960s Selinsky had
moved into daytime soap operas, serving as musical director on
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing from
1967-73 and on
A World Apart in
1970-71. He also composed for a few TV movies in the 1970s, including
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann,
Something Evil,
Miles to Go Before I Sleep, and
Valley
Forge. His last credit was for the 1981 TV movie
Family Reunion, which starred Bette Davis. Selinsky died from heart
disease at the age of 74 on September 6, 1984.
The complete series has been released on DVD by Film Chest Media.
The Actors
Paul Stewart
The great Orson Welles credited Paul Stewart with getting
him his first break in radio at a time when Welles kept auditioning for parts
that he never got until Stewart introduced him to director
Knowles Entrikin.
Paul Stewart was born
Paul Sternberg in Manhattan on March 13, 1908, the son of
a textile salesman and credit agent. After studying law at Columbia University
for two years, Stewart won the 1925 Belasco Theatre Tournament and decided on
an acting career. He made his Broadway debut in 1930 in
Subway Express, but two years later moved to Cincinnati to join the
staff at radio station WLW, the same station where
Fred Smith had created the
popular and influential news series
The
March of Time. Stewart spent a little more than a year learning all aspects
of the radio trade, not only acting but also writing, directing, and producing,
after which he moved back to New York as a permanent member of the
March of Times crew. After Stewart
helped Welles get his first radio acting job on
The American School on the Air, he recommended Welles to director
Homer Fickett, and Welles was then added to the repertory group that produced
The March of Time. In 1937 Stewart
helped found the radio actors union American Federation of Radio Artists. After
Stewart played a variety of supporting roles behind Welles as the lead in the
radio drama
The Shadow, Welles helped
return the favors Stewart had bestowed upon him by selecting Stewart as his
associate producer when he moved his Mercury Theatre group from the stage to
radio in 1938. In this role Stewart acted in a number of Mercury broadcasts and
also helped write as well as act in the company's most famous performance of
The War of the Worlds. In 1939 Stewart
married singer and actress
Peg LaCentra, who had been the featured vocalist in
Artie Shaw's first orchestra. Although he made his feature film debut in an
uncredited part in
Ever Since Eve in
1937, his movie career really began when Welles selected him to play the title
character's wily valet Raymond in
Citizen
Kane in 1941. Stewart spent most of the war years serving in the Office of
War Information narrating documentaries and under actor
John Houseman at the
Voice of American radio program. He was recruited by the Treasury Secretary to
create radio programs to spur the sale of war bonds as well as producing and
acting in episodes of the radio program
Cavalcade
of America. During this time he also appeared in a few more feature films,
including
Johnny Eager and
Mr. Lucky. After the War, he went to
work for Paramount Pictures, not only acting but also directing, producing, and
conducting screen tests. Among his many credits in the late 1940s through the
mid-1950s are
The Window,
Twelve O'Clock High,
Deadline U.S.A.,
The Bad and the Beautiful,
Kiss
Me Deadly, and
The Cobweb. He
made his television debut in a 1949 episode of
The Ford Theatre Hour and
continued making occasional appearances on similar drama anthologies over the
next half decade. In 1954-55, Stewart directed and starred in the syndicated
series
Top Secret. In the later
1950s, he continued appearing in feature films such as
The Wild Party,
Top Secret
Affair, and
King Creole in addition
to guest spots on anthology series like
Playhouse
90,
Climax!,
Panic!, and
Alcoa Theatre.
In 1959 he was tabbed to direct and star in another syndicated series,
Deadline, whose episodes aired from
1959-60.
In the 1960s, Stewart's work shifted
more heavily to television, guest starring on series such as
The Asphalt Jungle,
Cain's Hundred, and
Breaking
Point. He also directed episodes for a number of series including
Checkmate,
The Twilight Zone,
The Defenders, and
Going My Way. As
an actor. he took 3 turns as Dr. Giuseppe Muretelli on
Dr. Kildare in 1964 and played the supporting role of Paul Grant on
the short-lived 1966 thriller series
The
Man Who Never Was, which starred
Dana Wynter and
Robert Lansing. That same
year he began getting voice work on animated series such as
The Super 6 and provided the voice of
Mightor on the 1967 series
Moby Dick and
the Mighty Mightor. In the latter 1960s he had supporting roles in the
feature films
In Cold Blood,
Jigsaw, and
How to Commit Marriage . In the 1970s he worked primarily in
television as guest star on series such as
Gunsmoke,
Mod Squad,
Ironside,
Mannix,
The Name of the Game,
Columbo, and
The Rockford Files, to name but a few. He suffered a heart attack
while working on the 1974 feature film
Bite
the Bullet, but he returned to work thereafter appearing in features such
as
Opening Night,
The Return of the Pink Panther, and
S.O.B. and television series such as
Lou Grant,
Texas,
Remington Steele,
and
MacGyver, which would be his last
acting credit during his lifetime in 1985. He passed away from heart failure at
the age of 77 in 1986 but would make one last appearance when Welles'
unfinished feature film
The Other Side of
the Wind, filmed in the 1970s, was finally released in 2018.
Notable Guest Stars
Season 1, Episode 1, "The Victor Riesel Story":
Logan
Field (appeared in
Pier 5, Havana,
Three Came to Kill,
Blacula, and
Halloween 4: The
Return of Michael Myers) plays engineer Fred Lowry.
Diane Ladd (shown on the left, multiple
Oscar and Emmy nominee, mother of Laura Dern, appeared in
The Wild Angels,
The Rievers,
Chinatown,
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore,
Wild at Heart, and
Primary
Colors and played Kitty Styles on
The
Secret Storm, Belle Dupree on
Alice,
Sally Druse on
Kingdom Hospital,
Helen Jellicoe on
Enlightened, and
Neil O'Brien on
Chesapeake Shores) plays
his wife Judy.
Larry Haines (appeared in
The
Odd Couple and
The Seven-Ups and
played Stu Bergman on
Search for Tomorrow,
Max Wilson on
Phyl & Mikhy,
Sidney Sugarman on
Another World, and
Neil Warren on
Loving) plays newspaper
columnist Victor Riesel.
Lucy Prentis (Lt. Wilma Deering on
Buck Rogers) plays his secretary Betty .
Russell Hardie (appeared in
Stage Mother,
The Band Plays On,
Meet Nero Wolfe,
Fail Safe, and
The Group)
plays mob lawyer Matthew Gordon.
Simon Oakland (starred in
Psycho, West Side Story, and
Follow
That Dream and played Tony Vincenzo on
Kolchak:
The Night Stalker, Brig. Gen. Thomas Moore on
Black Sheep Squadron, and Sgt. Abrams on
David Cassidy - Man Undercover) plays a mob eavesdropper.
Season 1, Episode 2, "State Scandal":
Frank
Overton (shown on the right, starred in
Desire Under the Elms,
To Kill a Mockingbird, and
Fail-Safe and played Major Harvey
Stovall on
12 O'Clock High) plays Illinois
State Auditor Harlow Cane.
Natalie Core (Sister Maggie on
Hell Town) plays his secretary Anita.
Hal Cooper (Gus on
The Courtship of Eddie's Father and
directed multiple episodes of
Love,
Sidney,
Gimme a Break!,
Empty Nest,
Dear John, and
The Powers
That Be) plays the state treasurer.
Ralph Bell (radio actor who was married
to actresses Pert Kelton and Patricia Roe, played Capt. Roderick Turner and
Miguel Torres on
The Edge of Night)
plays the
Chicago Daily News editor.
John
Boruff (Commander Swift on
Rod Brown of
the Rocket Rangers and wrote multiple screenplays on
Guiding Light and
Days of Our
Lives) plays Granite City banker Farr.
Season 1, Episode 3, "Pick-Up":
Roy Poole (shown on the left, appeared
in
Experiment in Terror,
Up the Down Staircase,
Sometimes a Great Notion, and
Mandingo and played Dr. Alex Gordon on
The Secret Storm, Dr. Jerry Stevens on
As the World Turns, Al Skerba Driscoll
on
A Flame in the Wind, Paul Koslo on
The Edge of Night, and Chester Quick
on
Search for Tomorrow) plays traveling
children's book salesman Jim Bailey.
Bibi Osterwald (Sophie Steinberg on
Bridget Loves Bernie) plays former
carnival dancer Helen Berry.
Morgan Sterne (Tony Grey on
A Flame in the Wind and Keith Wilson on
The Doctors) plays newspaper reporter Vern Lichliter.
Ted Osborne (host
of radio program
Suspense, appeared
in
A Girl With Ideas,
Buried Alive, and
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum) plays medical examiner Dr. Tully.
Paula
Trueman (Julie Peterson on
The Goldbergs)
plays bookstore owner Lydia Burns.
Richard X. Slattery (Sgt. John McKenna on
The Gallant Men, Capt. John Morton on
Mister Roberts, and Capt. Buckner on
CPO Sharkey) plays a police sergeant.
Season 1, Episode 4, "The Neon Touch":
Robert
Dowdell (shown on the right, see the biography section for the 1962 post on
Stoney Burke) plays newspaper reporter Wallace Beene.
Frederic
Downs (Quentin Andrews on
First Love
and Hank Wilson on
Days of Our Lives)
plays Alexandria police Capt. Ryman.
Ivor Francis (Harry Larson on
Days of Our Lives, Kenneth Dragen on
Room 222, and Carson Brookhaven on
Dusty's Trail) plays Oklahoma City dance
studio owner Mr. Billig.
Eleanor Ayer (niece of Zero Mostel, former model,
friend of Susan Strasberg) plays one of his instructors Cathie Allen.
Nicholas
Pryor (appeared in
Man on a Swing,
The Happy Hooker,
The Gumball Rally,
Damien:
Omen II,
Airplane!, and
Risky Business and played Johnny Ellis
on
The Secret Storm, Tom Baxter on
Another World, Ken Alexander on
The Nurses, Paul Bradley on
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, Lincoln
Tyler on
All My Children, Jeffrey
Trout n
Eight Is Enough, Jack
Feldspar on
The Bronx Zoo, Chancellor
Milton Arnold on
Beverly Hills 90210,
and Victor Collins on
Port Charles)
plays spoiled rich kid Roy Huntley.
Paul Lipson (Swanson on
The Doctors) plays Alexandria
businessman Radin.
Season 1, Episode 5, "Extortion":
Donald Briggs (shown on the left, see
the biography section for the 1962 post on
The Lucy Show) plays FBI agent Staley.
Daniel Keyes (the Caretaker on
Dark Shadows and Winston Croft on
The Doctors) plays tax accountant Jason.
Frances Chaney (appeared in
The
Underworld Story,
The Seven-Ups,
and
Life With Mikey and played Jeanne
Culpepper on
The Edge of Night) plays
reporter's wife Betty Azbell.
Truman Smith (appeared in
The Phenix City Story,
The
Montecarlo Story, and
The Group)
plays Montgomery, AL physician Dr. John Maynard.
Season 1, Episode 6, "The Accusing Finger":
Gerald
Hiken (cousin of Nat Hiken, appeared in
Uncle
Vanya,
The Goddess,
Invitation to a Gunfighter, and
Reds) plays murder suspect Frank Reller.
Jim Boles (appeared in
The Ghost and Mr.
Chicken,
The Trouble With Angels,
Angel in My Pocket,
The Love God?, and
The Apple Dumpling Gang and
played Joe on
One Man's Family)
plays his father.
Lee Bergere (shown on the right, played George on
Hot
L Baltimore and Joseph Anders on
Dynasty)
plays
New York World-Telegram
reporter Ed Mowery.
Dana Elcar (appeared in
Fail
Safe,
The Boston Strangler,
The Maltese Bippy, and
The Nude Bomb and played D.A. Andrew
Murray on
The Edge of Night, Dr. Zack
Fuller on
The Doctors and the Nurses,
Sheriff George Patterson on
Dark Shadows,
Lt. Shiller on
Baretta, Col. Thomas
A. Lard on
Black Sheep Squadron, and
Peter Thornton on
MacGyver) plays bartender
Schneider.
Louis Guss (Uncle Bennie on
The
Man in the Family) plays waiter Hovic.
Martin Rudy (Carl Wilson on
As the World Turns) plays District
Attorney Sherman.
Joseph Sullivan (Reverend Blakeley on
The Doctors) plays police officer Bernie Davis.
Season 1, Episode 7, "Flight 169--Mass Murder":
Gene
Lyons (shown on the left, played Steve Rockwell on
Woman With a
Past and Commander Dennis Randall on
Ironside)
plays newspaper reporter Zeke Scher.
Lonny Chapman (appeared in
East of Eden,
Baby Doll,
The Birds, and
The Reivers and played Frank Malloy
on
For the People) plays fellow
reporter George McWilliams.
Mark Rydell (directed
The Reivers,
The Cowboys,
On Golden Pond, and
The Rose) plays airplane bomber Frank
Robert Evans.
Raymond Bramley (John Randolph on
Doorway to Danger and Major Clements on
Martin Kane) plays
Denver
Post city editor Willard Haselbush.
Ethel Remey (Mrs. Bigelow on
Golden Windows and Elsie Miller Franklin
on
Guiding Light) plays electronics
shop owner Mrs. Jackson.
Lou Gilbert (appeared in
Viva Zapata!,
Requiem for a
Heavyweight, and
The Great White Hope)
plays Crimley shop owner Sam.
Season 1, Episode 8, "The Case of the Stranger":
James
Patterson (appeared in
Lilith,
In the Heat of the Night, and
Silent Night, Bloody Night) plays butcher
Alfred Stagg.
Jean Mowry (Susan Ames on
The
Secret Storm) plays his wife Elsie.
Gail Garnett (shown on the right, Grammy-winning popular
singer who appeared in
Tribute,
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, and
My Big Fat Greek Wedding) plays his
mistress Lorene.
Leona Powers (Mrs. Leeds on
Martin Kane, Mrs. Bixby on
My
Son Jeep, and Thelma Turner on
As the
World Turns) plays Elsie's mother Mrs. Reider.
Joseph Julian (Joe on
As the World Turns and Wilbur Strake on
Dark Shadows) plays
Chicago Tribune reporter Harry Romanoff.
Lee Richardson (appeared
in
Middle of the Night,
Brubaker,
Prince of the City,
Prizzi's
Honor, and was the narrator in
Network)
plays police Det. Eddie Larkin.
Stuart Germain (Mr. Sims on
Search for Tomorrow) plays an unknown
transient.
Ruth Manning (Judy Stassen on
Guiding
Light) plays Mrs. Nielsen, butcher shop customer.
Season 1, Episode 9, "Charm Boy":
George Maharis (shown on the left, see
the biography section for the 1961 post on
Route 66) plays pick-up artist Dan Joyce.
Joanne Linville (Amy Sinclair on
The Guiding Light) plays his wife Peg.
Joyce
Van Patten (appeared in
I Love You, Alice
B. Toklas!,
Mame,
The Bad News Bears,
St. Elmo's Fire, and
The
Falcon and the Snowman and played Janice Turner Hughes on
As the World Turns, Clara Kershaw on
Young Dr. Malone, Claudia Gramus on
The Good Guys, Iris Chapman on
The Mary Tyler Moore Hour, Helen Marsh
on
All My Children, and Maureen
Slattery on
Unhappily Ever After)
plays waitress Miss Watkins.
Walter Brooke (appeared in
The Graduate,
Tora! Tora! Tora!, and
The Nude Bomb and played Henry Forsythe
on
The Young Marrieds, D.A. Frank
Scanlon on
The Green Hornet, Mr.
Gibson on
Bright Promise, and
Clarence Johnson on
The Waltons)
plays Boulder, CO District Attorney Ed Rhodes.
Rochelle Oliver (Barbara Lamont
on
The Best of Everything and Judge
Grace Larkin on
Law & Order)
plays college student Nancy Markham.
Ed Bryce (Capt. Steve Strong on
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, Professor
Philip Stallings on
As the World Turns,
Bill Bauer on
Guiding Light, and
Patrick Donovan on
Loving) plays Dan
Joyce's brother-in-law Sam Weaver.
Ethel Remey (see "Flight 169--Mass
Murder" above) plays evidence-finder Millie Ross.
Season 1, Episode 10, "Old Man Lost":
Edgar Stehli
(shown on the right, appeared in
Executive Suite,
The Cobweb,
The Brothers Karamazov, and
Atlantis:
The Lost Continent and played Connolly and Mr. Keys on
The Edge of Night) plays amnesia victim Charles Jamison.
David J.
Stewart (Dr. Paul Brown on
Young Doctor
Malone) plays his physician Dr. Marsh.
Season 1, Episode 11, "The Human Storm":
Simon
Oakland (see "The Victor Riesel Story" above) plays rioting inmate
leader Jack Lyons.
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 violence-minded
inmate Al Bax.
Frank Campanella (appeared in
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight,
Heaven Can Wait (1978),
The
Flamingo Kid, and
Dick Tracy and
played Mook the Moon Man on
Captain Video
and His Video Rangers and Paczka on
Skag)
plays inmate Collazzo.
Philip Sterling (Rafe Carter on
Somerset and
Another World,
Dr. Winston Croft on
The Doctors,
Michael Brimm on
City of Angels,
Reverend George Booth on
As the World
Turns, Dr. Simon Weiss on
St.
Elsewhere, and Judge Truman Ventnor on
Sisters)
plays inmate Johnson.
Bill Zuckert (Arthur Bradwell on
Mr. Novak and Chief Segal on
Captain
Nice) plays Jackson State Prison Warden Collins.
Fred J. Scollay (Reverend
Samuel Shafer on
The Doctors, Mitchell
Hobart on
Dr. Kildare, Dr. John
Carpenter and Lobo Haines on
The Edge of
Night, Arthur Kendricks on
Search for
Tomorrow, Charlie Hobson on
Another
World, and Judge Andrew Barsky on
Law
& Order) plays head guard Grimes.
Bernard Fein (Pvt Gomez on
The Phil Silvers Show) plays hostage
guard Garvey.
Season 1, Episode 12, "Hot Stuff":
Jayne Heller (shown on the right, played Althea
Dennis Bigby on
The Brighter Day)
plays
Philadelphia Daily News fashion
reporter Trudy Prokop.
Noah Keen (Det. Lt. Carl Bone on
Arrest and Trial) plays her editor.
Raymond Bramley (see
"Flight 169--Mass Murder" above) plays department store owner Mr.
Tyler.
Ralph Bell (see "State Scandal" above) plays shoplifting ring
leader Roy Hudson.
Ethel Everett (Rose Brando on
As the World Turns) plays his partner Anna.
Season 1, Episode 13, "The Face of a Thief":
Milton Selzer (shown on the left, played Parker on
Get Smart,
Jake Winkelman on
The Harvey Korman Show,
Abe Werkfinder on
The Famous Teddy Z,
and Manny Henry on
Valley of the Dolls)
plays police Cpl. Johnny Masters.
Paul Stevens (appeared in
Exodus,
The Mask,
Advise &
Consent, and
Battle for the Planet of
the Apes and played Dr. Paul Fuller on
The
Nurses and Brian Bancroft on
Another
World) plays Sharon, PA newspaper reporter Ray Fulton.
Leo Penn (father of
Sean, Chris, and Michael Penn, played Dr. David McMillan on
Ben Casey, and had at least 87 directing
credits including 19 episodes of
Ben
Casey, 11 episodes of
Bonanza, 18
episodes of
Marcus Welby, M.D., and
27 episodes of
Matlock) plays robbery
suspect George Norman.
Lois Nettleton (Sue Kramer on
Accidental Family, Joanne St. John on
In the Heat of the Night, and Evelyn on
Crossing Jordan) plays his girlfriend Peg.
David Clarke (Abel
Bingley on
The Waltons and Tiso
Novotny on
Ryan's Hope) plays bank
teller Neely.
Len Wayland (Phil Gordon on
First
Love, Chick Buchanan on
A Time to
Live, Dr. Buck Weaver on
From These
Roots, Mr. Gray on The
Doctors,
Phil Elliott on
Love Is a Many Splendored
Thing, Capt. Tom Clagett on
Sam,
and Vern Hutchings on
Generations)
plays a police officer.
Dana Elcar (see "The Accusing Finger" above)
plays a jailer.
Season 1, Episode 14, "Murderess":
Mary K. Wells
(shown on the right, played Lorelei Kilbourne on
Big Town, Ellie
Crown on
Love of Life, Sandra Talbot
Dennis on
The Brighter Day, Nola
Hollister on
The Secret Storm, Louise
Cole on
As the World Turns, Louise
Capice on
The Edge of Night, and
Hannah Cord on
Return to Peyton Place
and wrote 1200 episodes of
All My
Children) plays reporter's wife Helen Saldana.
Robert Dryden (Oliver
Barbour on
The Edge of Night) plays
her husband's editor Monkton.
Paul Larson (Jack Haskell on
Guiding Light and Ernie on
One
Life to Live) plays police Det. Martin.
Bob O'Connell (bartender Bob Rooney
on
Dark Shadows) plays abusive
husband Wesley Conego.
Eugene Peterson (Noel Penn on
Love of Life, Ned Blackman on
The
Greatest Gift, Peter Larkin on
Days
of Our Lives, and Dr. Merrill Weller on
Medical
Center) plays a pesky reporter.
Joe Warren ( Alex Lockwood on
The Secret Storm, Phil Gordon on
First Love, Joe Steinmetz on
Car 54, Where Are You?, Senator Dickson
on
Dallas, and Larry Colby on
All My Children) plays another pesky
reporter.
Sam Gray (Mr. Fisher on
The Doctors,
Jacob Weber on
One Life to Live, and Judge
deCourcy on
Ryan's Hope) plays the
jail clerk.
Season 1, Episode 15, "Chain Reaction":
Eugene
Peterson (shown on the left, see "Murderess" above) plays Hiroshima bombing veteran Pete
Morgan.
Don Hastings (The Video Ranger on
Captain
Video and His Video Rangers and
The
Secret Files of Captain Video, Jack Lane on
The Edge of Night, and Dr. Bob Hughes on
As the World Turns) plays his brother Johnny.
Sarah Hardy (Lyddy
Benson on
From These Roots and Jean
Sawyer on
Days of Our Lives) plays Johnny's
wife Betty.
Frank Schofield (Craig Reynolds on
A Flame in the Wind, Bill Malloy on
Dark Shadows, Arthur Rysdale on
The
Secret Storm, and Philip Matson on
Somerset)
plays prosecuting District Attorney Francis Moore.
Edward Holmes (Willy Bryan
on
The Edge of Night) plays the Avoka,
TX sheriff.
Walter Brooke (see "Charm Boy" above) plays VA
psychiatrist Dr. Edward Nicholas.
Frederic Downs (see "The Neon
Touch" above) plays a VA records clerk.
Season 1, Episode 16, "Clean Kill":
Craig Curtis
(shown on the right, played Greg Selby on
The Clear Horizon and
Max Matthews on
The Young Marrieds)
plays teenage neatnik Jackie Kramer.
Jan Miner (appeared in
The Swimmer,
Lenny, and
Mermaids and
played Marge Dreyfuss on
Paul Sand in
Friends and Lovers) plays his Aunt Alma.
Luis Van Rooten (appeared in
The Hitler Gang,
Champion, and
Operation
Eichmann and played Knobby Walsh on
The
Joe Palooka Story) plays police Lt. Collins.
Sid Raymond (the voice of Baby
Huey in numerous cartoon shorts and on
The
Baby Huey Show) plays a waiter.
Season 1, Episode 17, "Lonely Hearts Killer":
John
Gibson (Ethelbert on
Crime Photographer,
the chaplain on
The Phil Silvers Show,
and Joe Pollock on
The Edge of Night)
plays lonely hearts predator Fred Thompson.
Barnard Hughes (shown on the left, appeared in
Hamlet,
Midnight Cowboy,
TRON,
and
The Lost Boys and played Dr.
Bruce Banning on
Guiding Light,
Wilfred Hollister on
The Secret Storm,
Mr. Barton on
As the World Turns, Dr.
Joe Bogert on
Doc, Max Merlin on
Mr. Merlin, Francis Cavanaugh on
The Cavanaughs, and Buzz Richman on
Blossom) plays Sunshine Friendship Club
owner Mr. Sherwin.
Martha Greenhouse (appeared in
Up the Down Staircase,
Bananas,
and
The Stepford Wives) plays Thompson's
landlord.
Season 1, Episode 18, "Return to Murder":
Stewart
Bradley (Lt. Danton on
Days of Our Lives)
plays social worker Dave Simmons.
Gilbert Green (appeared in
Homicidal,
Experiment in Terror,
Executive
Action, and
Norma Rae) plays
San Francisco Examiner reporter Stuart
McClure.
Joseph Walsh (Davy Corbin on
Martin
Kane and The Kid on
Danger) plays
teenage gang warlord Hammer.
Jan Norris (shown on the right, appeared in
Middle of the Night,
Splendor
in the Grass, and
The Explosive
Generation and played Irene Hoff on
It's
a Man's World) plays his girlfriend Fay.
David Winters (Spike on
Love of Life and Charles West on
Atom Squad) plays rival gang member Vic
the Shiv.
Seymour Cassell (appeared in
Juke
Box Racket,
Faces,
Minnie and Moskowitz,
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie,
Dick Tracy (1990),
Rushmore, and
The Royal
Tennenbaums and played Lt. Mickey Schwartz on
Under Suspicion, Jack O'Shea on
Good
Company, Candy Casino on
Tracey Takes
On..., and Pops on
Heist) plays a
Flyers gang member.
Jay Barney (Bruce McKee on
First Love) plays police Lt. Holland.
Season 1, Episode 19, "Scramble":
Edgar Stehli
(see "old Man Lost" above) plays gas station owner Jack Wade.
Ed
Bryce (see "Charm Boy" above) plays
Sherman Democrat reporter Matt Conklin.
Sydney Pollack (shown on the left, Oscar
winner, directed
They Shoot Horses, Don't
They?,
The Way We Were,
Absence of Malice,
Tootsie, and
Out of Africa)
plays Air Force base officer Charlie White.
Matt Crowley (Samuel Thomas on
The Man Behind the Badge, Commissioner
Bucky O'Donnell on
Naked City, and
the Lakeview Chief of Police on
The Edge
of Night) plays ice cream shop owner Fred.
John Karlen (Danny Boy Delaney
on
The Doctors, Jock Porter on
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, Willie
Loomis on
Dark Shadows, Sharkey
Primrose on
Hidden Faces, Harvey
Lacey on
Cagney & Lacey, and Lt.
Sam Akers on
Snoops) plays a drunk
airman.
Joseph Boley (Charlie on
Love Is
a Many Splendored Thing) plays menswear shop proprietor Jess.
James Ray (Judge
Frank Leeds on
Falcon Crest) plays an
Air Force NCO.
Peter Helm (younger brother of actress Anne Helm) plays a rookie
airman. Eddie Applegate (Richard Harrison on
The Patty Duke Show) plays a whistler in the ice cream shop.
Season 1, Episode 20, "Massacre":
Fredd Wayne
(Sgt. Bill Hollis on
Code 3) plays
known killer Frank Gilgo.
Eileen Ryan (mother of Sean, Chris, and Michael Penn)
plays his girlfriend Betty.
Alan Manson (appeared in
The Rain People,
Bang the
Drum Slowly, and
Cafe Society (1995),
and played Ken Emerson on
The Edge of
Night) plays hunting lodge owner Alex Martin.
Lester Rawlins (shown on the right, played Arthur
Rysdale on
The Secret Storm, Orin
Hillyer on
The Edge of Night, and
Spencer Smith on
Ryan's Hope) plays police
Lt. Wallace.
Lesley Woods (Evelyn Dark on
The
Edge of Night, Miriam Bentley on
A
Flame in the Wind, Vivian Gentry on
The
Nurses, Andrea Whiting on
Search for
Tomorrow, Isabel Jones on
Bright
Promise, Zoe Tate on
Return to Peyton
Place, Betty Wilson on
All My
Children, Alma Miller on
Falcon Crest,
and Grandma Helen Logan on
The Bold and
the Beautiful) plays wife of missing man Mrs. Seaford.
William Johnstone (Judge
James T. Lowell on
As the World Turns)
plays
San Francisco Call Bulletin
reporter John Keyes.
Season 1, Episode 21, "The Blue Dahlia":
Bernard
Kates (Lalley on
The Asphalt Jungle,
Ben Scott on
Guiding Light, and
Arthur Saxton on
Where the Heart Is)
plays young soldier Danny Vlasco.
Shirley Ballard (shown on the left, Miss California 1944, wife
of actor Jason Evers, script supervisor on
Mad
Max and continuity supervisor on
Water
Under the Bridge and
The Sullivans)
plays nightclub singer Mary Lawlor.
Frank Overton (see "State
Scandal" above) plays Vlasco's base commander Capt. J.J. McGee.
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 McGee's first sergeant.
Mason Adams (Dr. Carl Westheimer
on
Love of Life, Judge Halstad on
Where the Heart Is, Dr. Frank Prescott
on
Another World, Charlie Hume on
Lou Grant, Gordon Blair on
Morningstar/Eveningstar, and Everett
Daye on
Knight & Daye) plays second
Sgt. Rossoff.
Season 1, Episode 22, "Checkmate":
Arthur Storch
(shown on the far right, appeared in
The Strange One,
The Mugger,
Girl of the Night, and
The
Exorcist) plays married college student George Manners.
Irene Dailey (Liz
Matthews on
Another World) plays his
wife Elaine.
Michael Constantine (shown on the near right, appeared in
The Last Mile,
The Hustler,
The Reivers, and
My Big Fat Greek Wedding and played Jack Ellenhorn on
Hey, Landlord, Principal Seymour Kaufman
on
Room 222, Judge Matthew Sirota on
Sirota's Court, and Gus on
My Big Fat Greek Life) plays beauty shop
owner Russ.
John Kellogg (Jack Chandler on
Peyton
Place) plays
San Francisco Examiner
reporter Ed Montgomery.
John Gibson (see "Lonely Hearts Killer"
above) plays his photographer Bob Bryant.
Rudy Bond (appeared in
A Streetcar Named Desire,
Miss Sadie Thompson,
On the Waterfront,
Run Silent Run Deep,
Because
They're Young, and
The Godfather)
plays police Lt. Bill Frrazer.
Penney Parker (Terry Williams on
The Danny Thomas Show and Maybelle
Jackson on
Margie) plays high school
student Roberta Simmons.
Season 1, Episode 23, "Jail Break":
Michael Strong
(shown on the left, appeared in
Dead Heat on a
Merry-Go-Round,
Point Blank, and
Patton and played Oliver Barbour and
Dick Appleman on
The Edge of Night
and Sgt. Clark on
Our Private World)
plays prison inmate Ray Storren.
Al Lewis (see the biography section for the
1961 post on
Car 54, Where Are You?)
plays fellow inmate Gus Fletcher.
Gilbert Green (see "Return to
Murder" above) plays prison warden E.J. Stone.
Will Kulava (Charlie
Kingman on
Primus) plays Stone's
inmate secretary Kenny Wilson.
Diana Douglas (Mary Claire Thurmond Morgan on
Three Steps to Heaven, Lily Chernak
Donnelly on
Love Is a Many Splendored
Thing, Annie Andersen on
The Cowboys,
Martha Evans on
Days of Our Lives,
and Professor Tyler on
The Paper Chase)
plays reporter's wife Mrs. McCormick.
Season 1, Episode 24, "Mad Bomber":
Bill Zuckert
(see "The Human Storm" above) plays
New York Journal American editor Eddie Mahar.
John Kellogg (see
"Checkmate" above) plays reporter Paul Schoenstein.
Donald Briggs (see
"Extortion" above) plays reporter Sam Day.
John Cecil Holm (shown on the right, playwright
whose plays were adapted into the feature films
Three Men on a Horse,
Blonde
Inspiration, and
Best Foot Forward,
wrote screenplays for
Broadway Television
Theatre,
Kraft Theatre, and
Playhouse 90) plays bomber George
Metesky.
Sam Gray (see "Murderess" above) plays reporter Guy
Richards.
Season 1, Episode 25, "Character Witness":
Andrew
Prine (shown on the left, starred in
The Miracle Worker,
The Devil's Brigade,
Bandolero!, and
Chisum and played Andy Guthrie on
The Wide Country, Dr. Roger Helvick on
Dr. Kildare, Timothy Pride on
The
Road West, Dan Costello on
W.E.B.,
and Wayne/Wyatt Donnelly on
Weird Science)
plays steel mill worker Steve Rostov.
Lanna Saunders (Ellen Dennis Williams on
The Brighter Day and Marie Horton on
Days of Our Lives) plays his girlfriend
Holly Webster.
Peter Brandon (Bruce Jamison on
Days of Our Lives and Frank Andrews on
Another World) plays
Johnstown
Democrat reporter Leo Sheridan.
Kevin Coughlin (T.R. Ryan on
Mama) plays Sheridan as a boy.
Beulah
Garrick (Viola Renfield on
Guiding Light)
plays Rostov's sister Kate.
Season 1, Episode 26, "Dumb Kid":
Malcolm Brodrick
(Pete Marriott on
The Marriage) plays
newspaper copy boy Fred Wegner, Jr.
Jada Rowland (shown on the right, played Amy Ames Britton on
The Secret Storm, Dr. Susan Burke
Stewart Baxter Stewart on
As the World
Turns, Janine/Jennie on
Sesame Street,
and Nurse Carolee Simpson Aldrich on
The
Doctors) plays his girlfriend Kathy.
James Dukas (appeared in
The St. Louis Bank Robbery,
Pretty Boy Floyd,
Brubaker and played Carl Manning on
The Doctors) plays sadistic robber Dave.
Crahan Denton (appeared in
The Parent Trap,
Birdman of Alcatraz, and
To
Kill a Mockingbird) plays an auto mechanic.
Sid Stone (commercial announcer
on Milton Berle's
Texaco Star Theater)
plays a traveling salesman.
Season 1, Episode 27, "A Story for Christmas":
Robert Lansing (shown on the left, see the biography section for the 1961 post on
87th Precinct) plays
Washington Post reporter William Key.
Avra
Petrides (Marjorie on
Smith's Point)
plays diner waitress Flora Adams.
Chris Gampel (Dr.Taylor on
Our Private World) plays her boss Mr.
Ellis.
Doris Rich (Ma Kettle on
The Egg
and I and Mrs. Doane on
Three Steps
to Heaven) plays her landlady Mrs. Franklin.
Beatrice Pons (see the
biography section for the 1961 post on
Car 54, Where Are You?) plays hospital nurse Annie.
John Napier (Cliff Williams
on
Search for Tomorrow, Rev. Ken
Cleveland on
Dr. Kildare, and Jerry
Barnes on
Days of Our Lives) plays a
con man.
Season 1, Episode 28, "Birthday Present":
Harry
Holcombe (shown on the right, appeared in
The Fortune Cookie,
The Unsinkable Molly Brown,
Foxy Brown,
Escape to Witch Mountain, and
Empire
of the Ants and played Malcolm Overton on
The Road of Life, Frank Gardner on
Search for Tomorrow, Doc Benson on
My Mother the Car, Mr. Kendricks on
Barefoot in the Park, and Dr. J.P. Martin on
Bonanza) plays Wichita, KS District Attorney Tom.
John McGovern (Dr.
Wallace on
The Doctors and the Nurses)
plays murder suspect's father Mr. Linden.
Alice Yourman (Laura Grant on
Guiding Light, Mrs. Wilson on
The Brighter Day, and Anita Borkowitz on
The Edge of Night) plays his wife.
Alfred
Sandor (Barney West on
The Edge of Night
and Raymond Shaw on
The Young Doctors)
plays the Wichita medical examiner.
Mitzi McWhorter (first wife of actor Wayne
Rogers) plays coffee shop waitress Mickey.
Season 1, Episode 29, "Suspicion of Murder":
Edith
Meiser (radio drama author who co-created
The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and
The
New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) plays
San Francisco Chronicle reporter Bernice Freeman.
Jason Evers (shown on the left, starred
in
The Brain That Wouldn't Die,
House of Women,
The Green Berets, and
Escape
From the Planet of the Apes and played Pitcairn on
Wrangler, Prof. Joseph Howe on
Channing,
and Jim Sonnett on
The Guns of Will Sonnett)
plays murder suspect Larry Ellis.
Crahan Denton (see "Dumb Kid" above)
plays the Nevada City sheriff.
Jim Boles (see "The Accusing Finger"
above) plays his deputy.
Jan Miner (see "Clean Kill" above) plays murder
victim's widow Mrs. Lindley.
Season 1, Episode 30, "Thesis for Murder":
John
McLiam (shown on the right, appeared in
Cool Hand Luke,
In Cold Blood,
Sleeper,
The Missouri Breaks,
and
First Blood) plays Phoenix police
Lt. Mike Goucher.
Vincent Gardenia (appeared in
Murder Inc.,
Bang the Drum
Slowly,
Death Wish,
Heaven Can Wait, and
Moonstruck and played Frank Lorenzo on
All in the Family, Ray Stoller on
Breaking Away, and Murray Melman on
L.A. Law) plays the
Arizona Republic editor.
Richard Kronold (Det. Dutton on
Naked City) plays car salesman Tom
Franklin.
Season 1, Episode 31, "Exposure":
Pat Englund
(shown on the left, daughter of actress Mabel Albertson, niece of actor Jack Albertson, and sister
of producer George Englund) plays photography studio owner Lorraine Delahaye.
Felice
Orlandi (appeared in
The Harder They Fall,
The Pusher,
Bullitt,
They Shoot Horses,
Don't They?, and
The Long Riders
and played Pierre Dumont on
Santa Barbara)
plays ex-con shadow owner Arnie Bauer.
Henrietta Moore (Peggy Gordon on
First Love) plays studio phone
saleswoman Carol.
Carl Low (Dr. Hadley and Ken Jacobson on
The Secret Storm, Martin Sider on
The Edge of Night, Charley Beckwith on
Another World, and Dr. Bob Rogers on
Search for Tomorrow) plays
The
Columbus Citizen editor.
Warren J. Kemmerling (Dr. Joe Hendricks on
Days of Our Lives and Judge Rense on
How the West Was Won) plays attorney Bob
Hamilton.
William Woodson (the narrator on
Dick
Tracy,
The Americans,
The Invaders,
Battle of the Planets, and
Centurions,
voiced J. Jonah Jameson on
Spider-Man
and
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, and played Sgt. Ed Blankey on
This Man Dawson) plays studio assistant
Chester Price.
Season 1, Episode 32, "Pig Woman":
Nancy Franklin
(shown on the right, Daytime Emmy-winning writer for
Guiding
Light, also wrote for
The Doctors,
Loving, and
Another World, played Ann Waite on
One Man's Family, Barbara Ferra on
The Doctors, and Mrs. MacGruder on
One Life to Live) plays diner waitress Louise.
Bernie Grant (Steve
Burke on
One Life to Live) plays
Oneonta Star reporter Gerald Gunthrop.
Wallace
Rooney (Andrew Winters on
The Doctors
and Tim Butterfield on
Lou Grant)
plays police Sheriff Baker.
Season 1, Episode 33, "To Move a Mountain":
Frank
Sutton (shown on the left, 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
Newark Star-Ledger reporter
John McDowell.
Steve Franken (see the biography section for the 1960 post on
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis) plays newspaper
copy boy Pete.
Sam Gray (see "Murderess" above) plays New Jersey
House Representative F. Rodino.
Allen Nourse (Roger Harper on
The Edge of Night and Dr. George
Richards on
The Doctors) plays the
U.S. Senate Whip.
David Clarke (see "The Face of a Thief" above)
plays an apartment building superintendent.
Season 1, Episode 34, "One Tall, One Short":
Malachi Throne (shown on the right, played 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,
The Narrator on
Visionaries: Knights of
the Magical Light, and Morgan Rutherford on
All My Children) plays prison mail room clerk Frank Sully.
Mickey
Freeman (Pvt. Fielding Zimmerman on
The
Phil Silvers Show) plays his partner Robertson.
Ben Yaffee (Mr. Hansen on
The Doctors) plays diner counterman
Webli.
Edward Holmes (see "Chain Reaction" above) plays Boise police
Capt. Jenks.
William Redfield (appeared in
Hamlet,
Duel at Diablo,
The Fantastic Voyage,
The Hot
Rock, and
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest and played Jimmy Hughes on
Jimmy
Hughes, Rookie Cop and Wyn Strafford on
Kitty
Foyle) plays
Idaho Daily Statesman
reporter Clayton Darrah.
Mel Ruick (Dr. Barton Crane on
City Hospital and Paul Kennedy on
First Love) plays business leader Murchison.
Season 1, Episode 35, "The Cave":
Christopher
Walken (shown on the left, starred in
Annie Hall,
The Deer Hunter,
Heaven's Gate,
The Dead Zone,
A View to a Kill,
The Milagro Beanfield War, and
Pulp Fiction and played Burt on
Severence and Frank Sheldon on
The Outlaws (2021)) plays spelunker
Martin Stern.
Mickey Freeman (appeared in
Onionhead,
Up Periscope, and
Splendor in the Grass and played The
Culhane on
Dundee and the Culhane and
Yannuck on
The Secret Empire) plays
his partner Ralph Brower.
Richard McMurray (appeared in
The Swimmer,
Zig Zag, and
Raging Bull and played Jake Steel on
The Nurses and Dr. Mel Bailey on
Days of Our Lives) plays police Lt.
Cunningham.
Robert Burr (Tom Donnelly on
Love
Is a Many Splendored Thing and Paul Raven on
Love of Life) plays police Trooper Smith.
Loretta Leversee (Eleanor
on
The Aldrich Family and Miss Probst
on
The Doctors and the Nurses) plays reporter's
wife Eunice Billeter.
Frank Tweddell (Pa Kettle on
The Egg and I) plays police Sheriff Gregg.
Season 1, Episode 36, "The Two Ounce Trap":
Lou Polan
(appeared in
Murder, Inc.,
Hamlet (1964), and
The Seven-Ups) plays
Columbus
Citizen reporter Paul Quick.
Gregory Morton (Mr. Wainwright on
Peyton Place and Walter Williams on
Ben Casey) plays alcoholic "rest
home" owner Sid Ellis.
Telly Savalas (shown on the right, starred in
Cape Fear,
The Birdman of
Alcatraz,
The Dirty Dozen, and
Kelly's Heroes and played Mr. Carver on
Acapulco and Lt. Theo Kojak on
Kojak) plays Health Commissioner Walter
Anders.
Henderson Forsythe (played the House Detective on
Hotel Cosmopolitan, Martin Sprode on
The Edge of Night, Jim Benson on
From These Roots, Dr. David Stewart on
As the World Turns, Barnett Lutz on
Eisenhower & Lutz, and Grandpa Jack Garrett on
Nearly Departed) plays Ellis recruit
Charley Tanner.
Michael Wager (Jonas Roving on
Ryan's Hope) plays Ellis patient Frank Collins.
Patricia Bosworth
(Cindy Clayton on
Concerning Miss Marlowe,
Fran Merrill on
Young Dr. Malone, and
Lyn Wilkens Warren on
The Edge of Night)
plays Collins' wife Vera.
Season 1, Episode 37, "The Last Knockout":
Alfred
Ryder (appeared in
T-Men,
Hamlet (1964),
Hotel, and
True Grit)
plays boxing trainer and bar owner Vinnie Moran.
Michael Conrad (Lt. Macavan on
Delvecchio and Sgt. Phil Esterhaus on
Hill Street Blues) plays his fighter
Baby Joe Burns.
Fred J. Scollay (shown on the left, see "The Human Storm" above) plays
Oregon Journal reporter Ed Reid.
James
Dukas (see "Dumb Kid" above) plays police Sgt. Casey.
Season 1, Episode 38, "Wetback":
Martin E. Brooks
(shown on the right, played Paul Raven on
Love of Life, Skip
Curtis on
The Secret Storm, Dr.
Everett Moore on
Search for Tomorrow,
Deputy D.A. Chapman on
McMillan and Wife,
Dr. Rudy Wells on
The Six Million Dollar
Man and
The Bionic Woman, Dr.
Arthur Bradshaw on
General Hospital,
Edgar Randolph on
Dallas, and Mike
Snow on
Hunter) plays
San Diego Union reporter Gene Fuson.
Ford
Rainey (see the biography section for the 1961 post on
Window on Main Street) plays Border Patrol agent Frank Lowman.
Malachi
Throne (see "One Tall, One Short" above) plays immigrant smuggler
Capitan.
Johnny Seven (Lt. Carl Reese on
Ironside)
plays Capitan's assistant Pedro.
Norman Rose (the narrator on
Police Story (1952) and
The Big Story, and played Alex Gura on
The Edge of Night, Dr. Marcus Polk on
One Life to Live and
All My Children, and the Minister on
Search for Tomorrow) plays desperate
immigrant Juan.
Simon Oakland (see "The Victor Riesel Story" above)
plays one of Capitan's coyotes.
Season 1, Episode 39, "Smoke Screen":
Joe Helgeson
(Price on
The Man Behind the Badge)
plays
Erie Dispatch reporter Arthur.
Logan
Field (see "The Victor Riesel Story" above) plays the Erie fire
captain.
Ruth Manning (shown on the left, see "The Case of the Stranger" above) plays the
mother of a suspected arsonist Mrs. Thomas.
Edward Holmes (see "Chain
Reaction" above) plays a fire scene witness.
