The Andy Griffith Show (1962)

With a bona fide hit on their hands, having debuted at #7 in the Nielsen ratings in its first season, producers Sheldon Leonard and Aaron Ruben decided not to tinker with the formula that shot their new comedy series into the top 10, recycling familiar plot lines during 1962 as the program finished its second season and started its third. We have two stories about Andy not believing his son Opie and then having to learn the hard way that his mistrust is misplaced in the Season 2 episode "The Keeper of the Flame" (January 8. 1962) and the Season 3 opener "Mister McBeevee" (October 1, 1962). The last episode of 1962, "One-Punch Opie" (December 31, 1962) seems headed in the same direction when Andy catches Opie holding a pile of apples after another boy has just broken a street lamp with one and then run off. Andy's first inclination is to assume that Opie is the one who broke the street lamp, since he is the only one standing there and the lamp has clearly been broken by an apple, but when Andy asks him if he did it and Opie says he did not, Andy asks him who did. Opie, as in previous episodes, refuses to "rat out" the bad actor, but Andy seems to have finally learned his lesson from past episodes and does not therefore blame Opie but instead tells him to round up the other boys for a talk at the jailhouse. While this episode appears to show Andy's personal growth in taking his son's word, it also recycles Barney's trait of thinking he is an expert on everything, an opinion he seems unable to change despite being proven wrong repeatedly. The episode begins with Barney chastising Andy for allowing Opie to go fishing before finishing his chores at the jailhouse, as if childless Barney is more knowledgeable about child-rearing than an actual father, and when the boys later show up at the jailhouse for Andy's talk, Barney insists on following up with his own lecture about the dangers of criminal mischief leading to a life of crime, which not surprisingly ends with him locking himself in a jail cell, an error he seemingly cannot help repeating over and over. When Opie later confronts the apple thrower, a new boy in town who acts like a bully, and gets him to back down, thereby breaking the bully's influence over Opie's friends, Barney tries to take part of the credit by claiming that his lecture at the jailhouse also played a role in the boys' change of allegiance. 

Barney's behavior here exactly repeats his performance in "A Medal for Opie" (February 12, 1962) in which Barney attempts to coach Opie in sprinting technique when he learns that Opie will be competing in the annual Sherriff's Boys Track and Field Day. When Opie comes in dead last in the sprint and sulks that the other boys took his medal, Andy has a heart-to-heart talk with him, explaining that he needs to learn to lose graciously because life is going to have many let-downs and that he is disappointed in him for behaving so poorly. Opie finally relents and tells his father that he doesn't want to be a disappointment to him. But Barney tries to take credit for Opie's change of heart by claiming that his pretending to be upset that he didn't get the raise he requested convinced Opie that he was behaving foolishly. True to Barney's character, when Andy shows Barney the official letter rejecting his raise request, Barney reacts the same way he did when he was only pretending minutes earlier, showing that Opie has far more maturity than Barney does.

Barney's inflated sense of self also repeatedly makes him an easy mark for experienced criminals, another lesson he seems to never learn. In "Jailbreak" (February 5, 1962) he is convinced that he can get hardened bank robber Clarence "Doc" Malloy to confess who his accomplice is by pretending to be a convict himself, forgetting that a framed newspaper article with his picture hangs on the jailhouse wall, which tips off Malloy about Barney's true identity and allows him to dupe Barney into letting him out of his cell and then taking his gun to escape. He is likewise fooled into letting pickpocket Sheldon Davis go free in "Guest of Honor" (February 26, 1962) after the latter is randomly chosen Mayberry Guest of Honor and then uses his position to fleece local businesses. In "Aunt Bee, the Warden" (March 12, 1962) he attempts to rehabilitate the Gordon moonshine gang by giving them children's craft kits to learn a skill, failing to anticipate that the convict with the metal-working kit would use it to make a key to unlock his cell. He confides in jewel thief C.J. Hasler in "Andy and Barney in the Big City" (March 26, 1962) who tells Barney he is a newspaper reporter after Barney tells him he suspects that the hotel detective is a jewel thief. Under the ruse of checking to see if the alleged thief has robbed the room of a wealthy woman with a jewel box full of trinkets, Hasler gets Barney to help him enter the room where he empties the jewel box when Barney is preoccupied. Only Andy's good luck of having seen Hasler's photo in a book of mug shots at police headquarters allows him to foil Hasler's attempted getaway. But perhaps Barney's worst mistake is being tricked by actual reporter Jean Boswell, sent by her CEO to dig up dirt on Andy as revenge for dragging him to Mayberry to pay a speeding ticket that he tried to blow off, in "Andy on Trial" (April 23, 1962). By flattering his ego, Boswell gets Barney to dish about all the times Andy has bent the law in going easy on the citizens of Mayberry, which leads to an official hearing by the State's Attorney office resulting in Andy's suspension. When Barney is called as chief witness against Andy at the trial, he finally realizes he has been duped and staunchly defends Andy's methods, saying that despite his tendencies to be too strict, Andy has taught him you sometimes have to govern by the heart rather than by the book. Fortunately, Andy is restored to his position, but Barney's lesson to himself doesn't last long because he later brags to Thelma Lou that he made the state's attorney look like a fool. Nor does he seem any smarter in "Convicts-at-Large" (December 10, 1962) when the leader of three escaped female convicts grabs his gun and takes him hostage after he and Floyd are lured into a cabin when they run out of gas on their way back from a fishing trip. Don Knotts' masterful portrayal of Barney's foibles was why he deservedly won 5 Emmy Awards, but by 1962 The Andy Griffith Show skirted awfully close to overusing their top asset in having Barney's antics dominate nearly half the episodes.

Fortunately, the program had other characters to occasionally give Barney a break as the center of attention. During the 1962 episodes we get a couple of deeper dives into the character of lovable lush Otis Campbell in the aforementioned "Aunt Bee, the Warden" and more specifically "Deputy Otis" (May 7, 1962). In a December 29, 1962 TV Guide feature story on Hal Smith, the actor revealed that originally his character was meant for a single appearance, but producer Aaron Ruben was so impressed by Smith's comic drunk routine that he indicated there could be more work for him on the series, and indeed there was. In "Bailey's Bad Boy" (January 15, 1962) Otis is upset when he shows up at the jailhouse for his usual Saturday night stay only to find rich young speeder Ronald Bailey occupying his cell. After Bailey is moved to another cell, Otis still can't get to sleep and has Barney sing him a lullaby. In "Aunt Bee, the Warden," Otis finds his cell occupied again, this time by the Gordon Gang. Deciding that they can't put him in the same cell with some of the gang who think he turned them in and might harm him, Andy decides to send Otis to his house where Aunt Bee puts him to hard labor much more demanding than the coddled life he has enjoyed at the jailhouse. Here we see yet more evidence of Otis as the docile drunk because even though he complains bitterly about his workload, he is easily cowed into doing as he is told. After the Gordon Gang escapes due to Barney's failed rehabilitation effort, Andy decides to send them to his house and Aunt Bee's firm discipline, only they refuse to get out of the squad car, having already heard about "Bloody Mary" as she has come to be known. However, we learn even more about Otis' character in "Deputy Otis" in which he is anxious about a visit from his brother and sister-in-law because he has been using jailhouse stationery to write letters to them, giving them the impression that he works for Andy. Rather than sternly forcing Otis to face reality, Andy allows him to become a temporary deputy if he will agree to go sober during the time of his brother's visit. As it turns out, Otis' brother is the same kind of drunk Otis is, but after seeing Otis in such a reputable position, he promises to go sober himself. Though Andy tells Barney that it is unlikely Otis will continue his life of sobriety, getting his brother to dry out is a positive result of letting Otis pretend to be a deputy.

Andy likewise agrees to cover up for barber Floyd Lawson in "Floyd, the Gay Deceiver" (November 26, 1962), an episode structured very much like "Deputy Otis." In Floyd's case, he has misled a woman he met through a lonely hearts magazine pen-pal program into believing that he is a wealthy business owner. When she writes that she will be visiting Mayberry soon, Floyd at first threatens to leave town, but Andy finally agrees to let him pose as his fictional self by using the house of a wealthy Mayberry family that is away on vacation. The deception comes off awkwardly with Andy pretending to be Floyd's son until Andy discovers that the woman is herself a con artist who makes a living deceiving wealthy single men. But when he sees that Floyd is worried sick about breaking the woman's heart, Andy decides to keep her secret from Floyd to avoid spoiling his illusion. Elsewhere, Floyd comes off somewhat similar to Barney--vain and gullible, though lacking in Barney's unwarranted self-confidence. In "The Bookie Barber" (April 16, 1962) Floyd is easily hoodwinked into allowing another man rent a chair in his barbershop, failing to notice that the supposed barber has the same clients showing up almost daily because he is actually a bookie and they are his bagmen. After Andy tells Barney his suspicions about their true business, Barney tries to expose them by dressing in drag to pose as a woman who wants to place a bet on a horse race, the first of two Barney-in-drag episodes. And Floyd assumes Barney's know-it-all attitude about romance and marriage in "Andy and Opie, Bachelors" (October 22, 1962), warning Andy that his new girlfriend Peggy McMillan is setting him up for a proposal when she keeps offering to cook and tend house for him while Aunt Bee is away visiting relatives. To Andy's discredit, he actually listens to Floyd and tries rebuffing Peggy, almost spoiling their relationship until he finally has a frank talk with her and she assures him she has no ulterior motive.

And Aunt Bee gets more fleshing out in the previously covered "Aunt Bee, the Warden" in which she shows herself as a no-nonsense tamer of men, as well as "Wedding Bells for Aunt Bee" (April 2, 1962), and "The Bed Jacket" (December 10, 1962). In "Wedding Bells," Aunt Bee allows her friend Clara to persuade her that Andy will never remarry as long as she is living with him out of deference to her, so she agrees to be courted by uncouth and somewhat disgusting dry cleaner Fred Goss. Andy finally recognizes that Bee is not happy at the prospect of marrying Goss and assures her that she is not standing in his way, even offering to smoothly break off the engagement by pretending that Bee is planning to wear a dress to their next dance that has all the features that Goss, as a dry cleaner, hates. In "The Bed Jacket" we again see Bee timidly putting herself second when she can't bring herself to tell Andy what she really wants for her upcoming birthday, a frilly and perhaps frivolous bed jacket she saw in the window of the local fashion shop. Trying to maintain a front of practicality and not wanting any bother on her expense, Bee's subtle hints about the bed jacket fail to connect with Andy, who instead gets her a more practical gift of glass jars for preserves, while Mayor Stoner misreads her attempt to get him to mention the bed jacket to Andy and instead buys it for his own wife. Andy only realizes his mistake when Clara comes over to see Bee's new bed jacket on her birthday, and he is able to postpone her visit while he rushes over to Stoner's house to make a deal for what Bee really wants. Her portrait as a self-effacing servant of others is yet another realistically drawn character that makes The Andy Griffith Show one of television's truly exceptional comedies.

Season 3 saw the introduction of three new characters to Mayberry--the aforementioned Mayor Stoner, new girlfriend Peggy McMillan, and the first appearance of auto mechanic Gomer Pyle. Stoner's arrival was necessitated by the death of Dick Elliott in late 1961. While Elliott's Mayor Pike was a wishy-washy politician whose opinion mimics whoever spoke to him last, Parley Baer renders Mayor Stoner, as his name implies, a hardened, opinionated know-nothing with a mean streak and no sense of humor. We first meet him in "Andy and the New Mayor" (October 15, 1962) when he calls Andy to his office and wants to review every aspect of his work as well as make changes, such as having Andy and Barney carry guns. When he learns that Andy is allowing farmer Jess Morgan to interrupt his jail sentence for running a still in order to go home to bring in his crop, he threatens to report Andy to the governor. And when Morgan does not show up by 5:00 after his three-day leave is up, despite Andy assuring Stoner that Morgan would come back willingly, Stoner insists on going with Andy and Barney to Morgan's farm to forcibly bring him back only to find him up in a tree refusing to come down. Stoner assumes that Morgan is being recalcitrant and rushes over to the tree to try to force him down, not realizing because of the brush around the tree that there is a bear at its foot keeping Morgan pinned above. Andy gets the last word in with Stoner after the bear shreds his clothes and jumps in their patrol car, but Stoner's mood has not improved when he next appears in "The Cow Thief" (October 29, 1962), calling in a state forensics expert after he feels that Andy is not acting quickly enough to solve a series of cow thefts. Rather than letting Andy handle things his way, Stoner again feels he must demonstrate his leadership by taking over with the forensics expert Upchurch and setting up nightly patrols. As with "Andy on Trial" Barney's loyalty to Andy is tested as he seems more impressed with Upchurch's supposed advanced techniques rather than Andy's instincts. Upchurch jumps to the false conclusion, based on the tracks leading away from the cow pen, that a gang has been stealing the cows, but Andy correctly figures out that there are no cow tracks leading away from the pen, meaning that the thief had put shoes on the cow to make its tracks appear human and throw off the investigator. Of course, Stoner never admits his error or offers any compliments to Andy for his deft solving of the case. He remains antagonistic to Andy in "The Bed Jacket" when Andy and Opie appear to catch a lot of fish from the same spot where Stoner hasn't caught any, and when Andy suggests his good fortune is due to his fishing pole, Stoner tries to buy it off him and cannot understand why Andy won't sell it. When Stoner discovers that Andy needs the bed jacket Aunt Bee wants which Stoner bought for his wife, he forces Andy to trade his prize fishing pole for it, which Andy explains to Opie he was happy to do since the pleasure he will get from seeing Aunt Bee happy outweighs any pleasure he would get from using the fishing pole. But Stoner's meanness does not go unpunished because his wife gets word that he bought the bed jacket and assumes he got it for another woman, bringing Stoner to Andy's door pleading with him to tell his wife what really happened since she won't believe him. In Richard Kelly's book The Andy Griffith Show, Sheldon Leonard remarks that they did not consider Stoner a central character like Otis and Floyd and that Parley Baer was not kept on retainer so that if he was unavailable when they were shooting an episode where Andy interacts with the mayor, they would just find another actor. Baer would appear in only 7 episodes as Stoner, all in Season 3.

Like Otis Campbell, Gomer Pyle's first appearance in "The Bank Job" (December 24, 1962) was originally intended as a one-time gig when the bank manager summons the auto mechanic to bring an acetylene torch to free Barney, who has locked himself inside the bank vault. Of course, Gomer would go on to become a regular Mayberry character who proved just as successful when he was spun off into his own program, Gomer Pyle: U.S.M.C. Such was not the case for Andy's new Season 3 girlfriend Peggy McMillan, played by Joanna Moore. As we mentioned in our post on the 1961 episodes, Kelly documents in his book that finding the right female companion for Andy Griffith the actor and Andy Taylor the character was difficult in large part because of Griffith's awkwardness around women and playing romantic scenes. After Elinor Donahue asked to be let out of her contract after Season 1, Sheldon Leonard comments in Kelly's book that they felt Taylor had to have a girlfriend to avoid being taken for a homosexual. Kelly appears mistaken when he lumps Sue Ane Langdon into the same basket as Elinor Donahue in failed Andy Taylor girlfriends--Langdon appeared in only one episode as county health official Mary Simpson in "Three's a Crowd" (April 9, 1962). But a few weeks earlier another actress, Julie Adams of The Creature From the Black Lagoon fame, played county nurse Mary Simpson in "The County Nurse" (March 19, 1962) who needs Andy's help convincing an ornery farmer to get his tetanus shot. Though Andy never goes on a date with the first Mary Simpson, he is clearly attracted to her and mentions this to Barney, but seems to have a steady relationship with the second Mary Simpson which is constantly interrupted by Barney who hasn't a clue that he is an intruder. Peggy McMillan was obviously meant for bigger things because Moore received cover photos on two Sunday newspaper TV supplements in the fall of 1962, a publicity coup that wouldn't have been afforded to a one-off character role. However, Andy's relationship with Peggy runs into numerous problems right from the start, beginning with "Andy's Rich Girlfriend" (October 8, 1962) when he learns to his surprise that she is from a wealthy and sophisticated background. Rather than seeing this as a chance for new experiences, Andy feels inferior and out of place when they dine at a French restaurant and he is sickened at the thought of eating escargot. Instead of facing his problem, Andy takes the immature approach of avoiding her until he accidentally runs into her one evening when both go out to the lake to ponder their problems while skimming stones, as they had done on their first date, and are able to patch things up. Next Andy falls prey to Floyd's mistaken warning about Peggy trying to snare him in "Andy and Opie, Bachelors" mentioned above. In her third appearance, "Barney Mends a Broken Heart" (November 5, 1962), Andy again childishly gets into a fight with Peggy when an old male friend of hers shows up unexpectedly on an evening when she is scheduled for a date with Andy. Rather than rolling with the changes, Andy storms off, and Barney ineptly tries to take his mind off being jilted by fixing him up with a friend of Thelma Lou's who hates the guitar and then the friend of a woman he met in Mount Pilot with a jealous and violent boyfriend. In Peggy's final appearance, "Opie's Rival" (December 3, 1962) Opie resorts to deception to create conflict between Andy and Peggy after feeling that he was being left behind. Though Opie helps patch everything up after Andy assures him that he will always be his son and have his love, the character of Peggy would not return, and Andy's attentions would shift to Opie's teacher Helen Crump late in Season 3, a match that Griffith found more compatible both on and off screen. While Andy's treatment of Peggy is not always commendable, depicting his character as less than perfect is yet another reason why The Andy Griffith Show is held in such high regard. Mayberry may have come to represent an idealized fantasy community not found anywhere on earth, but its inhabitants ring as true to life as those we encounter in our real hometowns every day.

The Actors

For the biographies of Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Frances Bavier, Howard McNear, Hal Smith, Betty Lynn, and Hope Summers, see the 1961 post on The Andy Griffith Show. For the biography of Parley Baer, see the 1961 post on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.

Joanna Moore

Born Dorothy Joanne Cook on November 10, 1934 in Parrott, Georgia, Moore suffered her first tragedy at age 7 when her mother and younger sister were killed in an auto accident that also severely injured her father. He died a year later, and initially Moore went to live with her grandmother. But when her grandmother became too feeble to care for her, she was adopted by a wealthy family in Americus, Georgia and changed her name to Joanna. At age 16 she married teenager Willis Moore, but soon divorced him and went on to attend Agnes Scott College near Atlanta, where she said all the female students' top priority was finding a husband. Moore moved to California in 1955 after winning a beauty contest and was noticed at a cocktail party by producer Al Zugsmith, resulting in a screen test and a contract with Universal Pictures. She made her TV debut in a 1956 episode of Lux Video Theatre and the following year had her first feature film leading role playing opposite George Nader in the crime drama Appointment With a Shadow. Meanwhile she had married fellow actor Don Oreck in February 1956 but divorced him the following year. She had steady work appearing on more TV anthology series as well as a string of mostly supporting film roles, including a small part in Touch of Evil, and another headlining spot opposite Arthur Franz in the 1958 sci-fi horror flick Monster on the Campus. It was around this time that Moore was signed to a personal contract with Alfred Hitchcock, appearing 4 times on his TV program Alfred Hitchcock Presents, but Moore had the contract dissolved because she objected to Hitchcock's demands for changing her appearance. Beginning in 1959 she began to find more work in television with guest appearances on The Real McCoys, The Rifleman, Bat Masterson, and Riverboat. Around 1960 she went completely deaf due to otosclerosis but continued acting by learning to lip-read. She finally had surgery in 1962 to restore hearing in one ear. That year she also had two of her more memorable roles as prostitute Miss Precious in Walk on the Wild Side and playing a southern belle opposite Elvis Presley in Follow That Dream. She also suffered a serious gash on her leg while filming an episode of Route 66 that left a permanent scar. However, her memorable roles earlier in the year led her to be cast as nurse Peggy McMillan, Sheriff Andy Taylor's newest love interest, in the fall of 1962 beginning Season 3 of The Andy Griffith Show.

After her 4 appearances on The Andy Griffith Show, Moore played opposite Fred MacMurray in Son of Flubber and appeared in episodes of The Virginian, Perry Mason, and Hawaiian Eye, all in 1963. That year she also married for the third time to actor Ryan O'Neal, with whom she had daughter Tatum and son Griffin. Her marriage to O'Neal has been described as tempestuous, and the couple split in 1966 with the divorce becoming final the following year. Moore continued working regularly both during the marriage and thereafter, but the divorce had a lasting negative impact on her, driving her into a deep depression that led her to abuse alcohol and amphetamines. In Tatum O'Neal's autobiography many years later, she observed about her mother, "some women survive divorce, some don't. She turned to pills and alcohol to soothe the pain." Eventually her substance abuse problems began to affect her work and in 1970 she checked herself into the Camarillo State Hospital to deal with her amphetamine addiction. But even after being released, alcohol continued to be a problem--she was arrested multiple times for DUI and later lost three fingers on one hand during an auto accident. By 1971 she lost custody of her children, and after Tatum became an Oscar-winning actor herself at age 10, she helped support her mother when Moore's acting roles dried up in the mid-1970s. In 1975 Moore married roofing contractor Garry Reeves, but like her other marriages, it didn't last long with a divorce following in 1976, the year she made her last TV series appearances in episodes of The Blue Knight and Petrocelli. In 1977 Tatum bought her mother a condominium in Palm Springs. In 1980 Moore appeared in the TV movie Scout's Honor, and her last feature film appearance came 4 years later in an Australian movie Run Chrissie Run! In 1996, Moore, a lifelong cigarette smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer. Tatum bought her a house in Indian Wells, California, where she died November 22, 1997 at age 63.

Notable Guest Stars

Season 2, Episode 13, "The Farmer Takes a Wife": Alan Hale, Jr. (shown on the left, played Biff Baker on Biff Baker U.S.A., Casey Jones on Casey Jones, and The Skipper on Gilligan's Island) plays amorous farmer Big Jeff Pruitt.

Season 2, Episode 14, "The Keeper of the Flame": Everett Sloane (see the biography section for the 1961 post on The Dick Tracy Show) plays moonshining farmer Jubal Foster. Flip Mark (Flip Rogers on Lassie, Brook Hooten on Guestward Ho!, and Larry Walker on Fair Exchange) plays the leader of Opie's secret club.

Season 2, Episode 15, "Bailey's Bad Boy": Bill Bixby (shown on the right, played Charles Raymond on The Joey Bishop Show, Tim O'Hara on My Favorite Martian, Tom Corbett on The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Anthony Blake on The Magician, Dr. David Banner on The Incredible Hulk, and Matt Cassidy on Goodnight, Beantown) plays spoiled rich kid Ronald Bailey. Jon Lormer (Harry Tate on Lawman, Sam Watkins on The Real McCoys, various autopsy surgeons and medical examiners in 12 episodes of Perry Mason, Simon Benjamin on The Young Marrieds, and Judge Irwin A. Chester on Peyton Place) plays produce farmer Fletch Dilbeck. 

Season 2, Episodes 16, "The Manicurist": Barbara Eden (shown on the left, starred in Flaming Star, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, Ride the Wild Surf, and Harper Valley P.T.A. and played Loco Jones on How to Marry a Millionaire, Jeannie on I Dream of Jeannie, Stella Johnson on Harper Valley P.T.A., Barbara McCray Gibbons on A Brand New Life, and Lee Ann De La Vega on Dallas) plays manicurist Ellen Brown. Frank Warren (Officer Simpson on Highway Patrol) plays grocer Art Crowley. Cheerio Meredith (Lovey Hackett on One Happy Family) plays Mayberry old timer Emma Watson.

Season 2, Episodes 17, "The Jinx": John Qualen (shown on the right, appeared in The Three Musketeers(1935), His Girl Friday, The Grapes of Wrath, Angels Over Broadway, Casablanca, Anatomy of a Murder, and A Patch of Blue) plays alleged jinx Henry Bennett. Clint Howard (Ron Howard's brother, played Stanley on The Baileys of Balboa, Mark Wedloe on Gentle Ben, Steve on The Cowboys, Googie on Gung Ho, and Mimmer on Space Rangers) plays a little boy at the square dance social.

Season 2, Episode 18, "Jailbreak": Ken Lynch (see the biography section for the 1961 post on Checkmate) plays Chief Inspector of State Police Horton. Allan Melvin (Cpl. Steve Henshaw on The Phil Silvers Show, Sgt. Snorkle on Beetle Bailey, Sgt. Charley Hacker on Gomer Pyle: U.S.M.C., Sam Franklin on The Brady Bunch, and Barney Hefner on All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place and was the voice of Magilla Gorilla on Magilla Gorilla, Drooper on The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, and Thun and King Vultan on Flash Gordon) plays bank robber Clarence "Doc" Malloy. Frank Warren (see "The Manicurist" above) returns as grocer Art Crowley. Fred Sherman (Tommy the tailor on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and Burt Purdy on Cimarron City) plays dry cleaner Fred Goss.

Season 2, Episode 20, "Barney and the Choir": Olan Soule (shown on the right, played Aristotle "Tut" Jones on Captain Midnight, Ray Pinker on Dragnet (1952-59), Cal on Stagecoach West, the Hotel Carlton desk clerk on Have Gun -- Will Travel, and Fred Springer on Arnie and voiced Batman on The All-New Super Friends Hour, Challenge of the Superfriends, The World's Greatest SuperFriends, and Super Friends) plays choirmaster John Masters.

Season 2, Episode 21, "Guest of Honor": Jay Novello (Juan Greco on Zorro and Mayor Mario Lugatto on McHale's Navy) plays conman Sheldon Davis. 

Season 2, Episode 22, "The Merchant of Mayberry": Sterling Holloway (shown on the left, starred in The Merry Widow, Career Woman, and A Walk in the Sun, did voice work for many Walt Disney films like Dumbo , Bambi, Alice in Wonderland, The Jungle Book and the voice of Winnie the Pooh in various titles, and played Waldo Binney on The Life of Riley and Buck Singleton on The Baileys of Balboa) plays traveling salesman Bert Miller. Will Wright (Mr. Merrivale on Dennis the Menace) plays store owner Ben Weaver. Sara Seegar (starred in The Last Curtain, Dead Men Tell No Tales, and The Music Man and played Eloise Wilson on Dennis the Menace) plays customer Katherine Palmer. Mary Lansing (later played Martha Clark on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D.) plays customer Mrs. Mason.

Season 2, Episode 23, "Aunt Bee the Warden": Orville Sherman (Mr. Feeney on Buckskin, Wib Smith on Gunsmoke, and Tupper on Daniel Boone) plays convict Bill Gordon. Mary Lansing (see "The Merchant of Mayberry" above) plays cake decorator Mary.

Season 2, Episode 24, "The County Nurse": Julie Adams (shown on the right, starred in The Creature From the Black Lagoon and played Martha Howard on The Jimmy Stewart Show, Ann Rorchek on Code Red, and Eve Simpson on Murder, She Wrote) plays county nurse Mary Simpson.

Season 2, Episode 25, "Andy and Barney in the Big City": Les Tremayne (starred in The War of the Worlds (1953), The Story of Ruth, The Slime People, and The Fortune Cookie and played Inspector Richard Queen in The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen) plays jewel thief C.J. Hasler. Allan Melvin (see "Jailbreak" above) plays hotel Detective Bardoli. Robert Carson (Mr. Maddis on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show) plays Police Commissioner Hedges. Arte Johnson (a regular performer on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and played Bascomb Bleacher, Jr. on Sally, Cpl. Lefkowitz on Don't Call Me Charlie, and Clive Richlin on Glitter) plays a hotel clerk. Peter Leeds (Tenner Smith on Trackdown and George Colton on Pete and Gladys) plays police Sgt. Nelson.

Season 2, Episode 26, "Wedding Bells for Aunt Bee": Fred Sherman (see "Jailbreak" above) returns as dry cleaner Fred Goss. 

Season 2, Episode 27, "Three's a Crowd": Sue Ane Langdon (shown on the right, played Kitty Marsh on Bachelor Father, Lillian Nuvo on Arnie, Rosie on Grandpa Goes to Washington, and Darlene on When the Whistle Blows) plays health official Mary Simpson.

Season 2, Episode 28, "The Bookie Barber": Herb Vigran (Judge Brooker on Gunsmoke) plays bookie Bill Medwin. Harry Swoger (Harry the bartender on The Big Valley) plays one of his bagmen. 

Season 2, Episode 29, "Andy on Trial": Roy Roberts (Capt. Simon P. Huxley on The Gale Storm Show, Admiral Rogers on McHale's Navy, John Cushing on The Beverly Hillbillies, Mr. Cheever on The Lucy Show, Frank Stephens on Bewitched, Norman Curtis on Petticoat Junction, and Mr. Botkin/Bodkin on Gunsmoke) plays publishing CEO J. Howard Jackson. Ruta Lee (shown on the left, appeared in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Funny Face, and Witness for the Prosecution and played Rona on 1st and Ten: The Championship and Pauline Spencer on Coming of Age) plays his reporter Jean Boswell. Robert Brubaker (Deputy Ed Blake on U.S. Marshal and Floyd on Gunsmoke) plays State's Attorney lawyer Roger Milton. Sally Mansfield (Vena Ray on Rocky Jones, Space Ranger) plays Jackson's secretary Miss Fenwick.

Season 2, Episode 30, "Cousin Virgil": Michael J. Pollard (shown on the right, starred in The Wild Angels, Enter Laughing, Bonnie and Clyde, Little Fauss and Big Halsey, and Scrooged and played Leonard on Leo & Liz in Beverly Hills) plays Barney's inept cousin Virgil. Rance Howard (father of Ron Howard and Clint Howard, played Henry Boomhauer on Gentle Ben and Dr. McIvers on The Waltons) plays a bus driver.

Season 2, Episode 31, "Deputy Otis": Stanley Adams (Lt. Morse on Not for Hire and Gurrah on The Lawless Years) plays Otis' brother Ralph Campbell. Amzie Strickland (Julia Mobey on Carter Country) plays Ralph's wife Verlene. Dorothy Neumann (Miss Mittleman on Hank) plays Otis' wife Rita.

Season 3, Episode 1, "Mr. McBeevee": Karl Swenson (shown on the left, played Lars Hanson on Little House on the Prairie) plays lineman Mr. McBeevee.

Season 3, Episode 2, "Andy's Rich Girlfriend": Warner Jones (see the biography section for the 1960 post on The Blue Angels) plays a second waiter at the French restaurant. 

Season 3, Episode 3, "Andy and the New Mayor": Roy Engel (shown on the right, played Doc Martin on Bonanza, the police chief on My Favorite Martian, and President Ulysses S. Grant on The Wild, Wild West) plays farmer Jess Morgan. Helen Kleeb (Miss Claridge on Harrigan and Son, Miss Tandy on Room 222, and Mamie Baldwin on The Waltons) plays his wife.

Season 3, Episode 5, "The Cow Thief": Malcolm Atterbury (shown on the left, starred in I Was a Teenage Werewolf, The Birds, and The Learning Tree and played John Bixby on Wagon Train and Grandfather Aldon on Apple's Way) plays recently released thief Luke Jensen. Jon Lormer (see "Bailey's Bad Boy" above) plays farmer Tate Fletcher. Ralph Bell (radio actor who was married to actresses Pert Kelton and Patricia Roe) plays state forensics expert William Upchurch.

Season 3, Episode 6, "Barney Mends a Broken Heart": Josie Lloyd (shown on the right, played Nurse Roth on Dr. Kildare) plays Thelma Lou's friend Lydia Crossthwaite. Joyce Jameson (appeared in The Apartment, Tales of Terror, and The Comedy of Terrors) plays Barney's Mount Pilot date Skippy. Jean Carson (Rosemary on The Betty Hutton Show) plays Skippy's friend Daphne.

Season 3, Episode 7, "Lawman Barney": Orville Sherman (see "Aunt Bee the Warden" above) plays illegal produce peddler Matt. Alan Melvin (see "Jailbreak" above) plays his partner Neal. Norman Leavitt (Ralph on Trackdown) plays filling station owner Wally.

Season 3, Episode 8, "The Mayberry Band": Joseph Sirola (shown on the left, played Peter Nino on The Brighter Day, Jonathan Kaye on Hawaii Five-O, Dominick on The Magician, Tony Montefusco on The Montefuscos, and Sal Wolf on Wolf) plays rock 'n' roll band leader Freddy Fleet. Burt Mustin (see the biography section for the 1961 post on Leave It to Beaver) plays barbershop customer Jubal. Norman Leavitt (see "Lawman Barney" above) plays councilman Ralph.

Season 3, Episode 9, "Floyd, the Gay Deceiver": Doris Dowling (shown on the right, starred in The Lost Weekend, The Blue Dahlia, Bitter Rice, and Othello and played Irene Adams on My Living Doll) plays Floyd's pen pal Madelyn Grayson. 

Season 3, Episode 11, "Convicts-at-Large": Reta Shaw (shown on the left, played Flora McCauley on The Ann Sothern Show, Thelma on The Tab Hunter Show, Mrs. Stanfield on Oh, Those Bells, and Martha Grant on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir) plays prison-break leader Big Maude Tyler. Jean Carson (see "Barney Mends a Broken Heart" above) plays escaped convict Jalene Naomi Connors. Jane Dulo (Liz Murray on Hey, Jeannie!, WAC Pvt. Mildred Lukens on The Phil Silvers Show, Molly Turner on McHale's Navy, Agent 99's mother on Get Smart, Nurse Murphy on Medical Center, and Grandma Mildred Kanisky on Gimme a Break!) plays escaped convict Sally. Willis Bouchey (Mayor Terwilliger on The Great Gildersleeve, Springer on Pete and Gladys, and the judge 23 times on Perry Mason) plays returning cabin owner Charlie O'Malley.

Season 3, Episode 12, "The Bed Jacket": Mary Lansing (see "The Merchant of Mayberry" above) plays fashion store owner Mrs. Lukens. Dabbs Greer (see the biography section for the 1960 post on Gunsmoke) plays a hardware store clerk. 

Season 3, Episode 13, "The Bank Job": Charles Thompson (Tommy Magnuson on Peyton Place) plays bank security guard Asa Breeney. Jim Nabors (shown on the right, played Hank Smith on Valentine's Day, Gomer Pyle on Gomer Pyle: USMC, and Fum on The Lost Saucer) plays auto mechanic Gomer Pyle. Mary Lansing (see "The Merchant of Mayberry" above) plays beauty parlor customer Mrs. Rodenbach. Clint Howard (see "The Jinx" above) plays sandwich-eating little boy Leon.

Season 3, Episode 14, "One-Punch Opie": Richard Keith (Little Ricky Ricardo on I Love Lucy and The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour and later played Johnny Paul Jason on The Andy Griffith Show) plays Opie's friend Carter French. Kim Tyler (Kyle Nash on Please Don't Eat the Daisies) plays Opie's friend Billy Gray. Clint Howard (see "The Jinx" above) returns as sandwich-eating little boy Leon.

 

Cain's Hundred (1962)

As recounted in our post for the 1961 episodes of Cain's Hundred, the series appeared to be written off by critics early in its life as an Untouchables knock-off due to its mob-fighting crusader premise and its lineage as another creation of executive producer Paul Monash. But according to an interview with Robert Culp currently posted on the Archive of American Television web site (emmytvlegends.org/interviews/shows/cains-hundred), Monash considered the show's failure to win over viewers to be the fault of lead actor Peter Mark Richman. Culp recalls being hired to play an ambitious transportation company V.P. in the show's first 1962 episode "The Plush Jungle: Benjamin Riker" (January 2, 1962) and while still filming this episode he came up with the idea for the episode "The Swinger" (April 3, 1962), which he would write and star in toward the end of the series' run. After delivering an early draft of the teleplay to Monash, Culp insisted that he could continue reworking it to give Richman's character a larger role in the action, but Monash told him not to bother, that it was fine as it is, and intimated that he considered Richman's performance to be the reason for the show's failure. Other episodes that aired in 1962 exhibit a similar pattern in relegating the character of Nicholas Cain to a peripheral role in the plot's action. The Robert Altman-directed episode "The Left Side of Canada" (May 1, 1962) likewise leaves Cain with very little screen time, showing up in an early bar scene where unwitting mob accomplice Howard Douglas tries to convince him that the business he runs with known criminal John Maychin is legitimate, and then after the episode's primary action has happened he resurfaces to try to get lounge singer Jeanette to tell what she knows about Maychin. She refuses to talk, however, until her boyfriend and Maychin's nephew turns up dead. It's true that Richman's portrayal of Cain is a bit on the rigid side, but it's not entirely clear what else Monash objected to in his performance. His character's shortcomings are at least partly due to scripts that have him delivering sermons to accomplices who fail to see the world in black-and-white terms and his being hamstrung by legal requirements to produce evidence that will convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. Like Monash and his Untouchables past, Cain entered the crime drama arena with two strikes against him.

It's also clear that when the series failed to produce the desired ratings, Monash doubled down on his Untouchables pedigree rather than trying to distinguish the newer series from the older. In 1962 the series brought in two of The Untouchables biggest crime figures to serve as guest stars, with Bruce Gordon, who played mobster Frank Nitti in 28 episodes of The Untouchables over its 4-year run, hired to play a Las Vegas club owner in the aforementioned Cain's Hundred episode "The Swinger," and Neville Brand, who famously played Al Capone in the two-part Untouchables pilot and then reprised the role in another two-part 1961 episode "The Big Train," brought on to play smut peddler Milton Bonner in "The Debasers: Milton Bonner and Phillip Colerane" (January 16, 1962). Beginning with the March 6, 1962 episode "The New Order: Peter Long," the producers also tried to spice up the opening lead by having the theme score reworked and beginning each episode with clips of the guest stars, exactly as was then being done on The Untouchables. Two episodes later, they dropped the name of the primary villain from the title, essentially undercutting the original premise of the series. The producers may have correctly decided that including character names in the titles was not a draw since they were fictional, unlike on The Untouchables, but other successful programs like Wagon Train didn't seem to suffer from having their titles based on fictional characters.

In any case, all the tinkering didn't save the series, which is a shame because while not every episode was a gem, the best of the lot rank as highly as any other dramas being produced at that time. Many still have considerable resonance today. "Inside Track" (April 10, 1962) offers a surprisingly realistic and even cynical view of back-room politics. The plot is set in motion when race horse owner Charles Dennis decides to build his own race track after one of his horses is intentionally sabotaged in a race it was about to win. The lobbyist for crooked race track owner Ben Kilrea offers the horse's owner an opportunity to partner with his boss in a mutually profitable enterprise but is rebuffed. The two rivals then do battle through the state legislature as Dennis seeks to have his new race track approved for construction. The wining and dining of state representatives by both sides' lobbyists, the offer of company stock under the table to the committee chairman, and the threat of blackmail against another representative with a skeleton in her closet do not seem far-fetched at all. But perhaps most piercing is the discussion between Cain and Kilrea's lobbyist Dan Mullin in which the latter lays out the realities of the political world--lobbyists write the laws because the elected representatives are untrained to do so and the voters are too indifferent to care.

The political system is also the backdrop in "Blood Money: Dave Malloy" (February 13, 1962) where the 30-year incumbent District Attorney Tully Johnson is being challenged by young reform candidate Jay Adams, who promises to clean up the city's vice, controlled by casino owner Dave Malloy. Except the choice is not so clear-cut: while Johnson has been on Malloy's payroll for decades, Adams is vying to take over not just the office but the payoffs as well, unbeknownst to his lily white campaign manager Sam Palmer. Malloy sees Adams as a promising young star who could rise to higher, statewide office, giving him a bigger field for his operations, but the savvy Johnson has learned a thing or two in his years in office and threatens to expose the upstart Adams and the man who is really backing him. The back-and-forth maneuvering in this political triangle eschews the usual good vs. evil melodrama that passes for political suspense on television. And Ed Begley, Sr. gives a sterling performance as the wily and still potent D.A.

The hypocrisy of so-called amateur college athletics is exposed in "A Creature Lurks in Ambush" (April 17, 1962) when sports fixer Vincent Pavanne needs some leverage to force his estranged nephew Rick Carter to return to St. Louis after promising his dying mobster brother that he would bring the boy back for one last visit. Rick's best friend Alec Benden is their university's star basketball player, so when all of Vincent's appeals to Rick's sense of family fail to get him to make the trip to see his father, Vincent tries to get Alec to shave 5 points during his team's next game to show Rick that his belief in black-and-white right and wrong is a fantasy. When he meets with Alec, Vincent makes the case that even though he is supposed to be an amateur, he is receiving room and board, free tuition, and a nominal yardwork job that pays him much more than what it is worth, essentially making him a professional ball player, just one who works for cheap wages considering how much money the university makes off him, allowing it to build a brand new million dollar gym. Vincent's argument makes a lot of sense, and even though Alec ultimately does the right thing, though Rick at first thinks otherwise, the falsehood of amateur college athletics has been exposed.

And finally the one episode that bears an uncanny resemblance to current events is "The Manipulator: Raymond Cruz" (January 30, 1962). It tells the story of a real estate "investor" who bankrolls a Neo-Nazi proselytizer to stir up unrest in a poor neighborhood to prompt the state legislature to condemn the district's property so that Cruz can then swoop in and buy it on the cheap. Racism becomes the leverage Cruz exploits, with complicity from bribable politicians, to fatten his bank account, all under the guise of civic improvement. Sound familiar? When television viewers and historians laud classic series such as The Twilight Zone and Star Trek for their bravery in tackling uncomfortable issues, they should also praise Cain's Hundred for the same bravery, or perhaps even greater bravery, because while the former series masked their treatment of sensitive topics behind the veil of science fiction or alternate realities, Cain's Hundred dealt with the same subjects bluntly out in the open. That bluntness, more than any shortcomings Peter Mark Richman may have had as a leading man, is why the series was and has been largely buried. Television viewers don't like a series that hits too close to home.

The Actors

For the biography of Peter Mark Richman, see the post for Cain's Hundred 1961.

Notable Guest Stars

Season 1, Episode 14, "The Plush Jungle: Benjamin Riker": John Larch (starred in The Wrecking Crew, Play Misty for Me, and Dirty Harry and wo played Deputy District Attorney Jerry Miller on Arrest and Trial, Gerald Wilson on Dynasty, and Arlen & Atticus Ward on Dallas) plays convicted felon Benjamin Riker. Harry Dean Stanton (appeared in Kelly's Heroes, Dillinger, Cool Hand Luke, Repo Man, Pretty in Pink, Alien, Paris, Texas and played Jake Walters on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) plays one of his hoods. Laurence Haddon (Mr. Brady on Dennis the Menace, Ed McCullough on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, the foreign editor on Lou Grant, Dr. Mitch Ackerman on Knots Landing, and Franklin Horner on Dallas) plays another of his hoods. Dan Seymour (Ferrari on Casablanca) plays a member of his board of directors Milano. Larry Gates (starred in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Some Came Running, and The Young Savages and played H.B. Lewis on Guiding Light) plays Amalgamated Transportation president Zales Yoder. Kathryn Givney (appeared in My Friend Irma, A Place in the Sun, Three Coins in the Fountain, Daddy Long Legs, and Guys and Dolls and played Grandma Collins on My Three Sons) plays his wife. Robert Culp (shown on the left, starred in Sunday in New York, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, and Breaking Point and played Hoby Gilman on Trackdown, Kelly Robinson on I Spy, Bill Maxwell on The Greatest American Hero, and Warren on Everybody Loves Raymond) plays his son Kurt. Vaughn Taylor (starred in Jailhouse Rock, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Psycho, and In Cold Blood and played Ernest P. Duckweather on Johnny Jupiter) plays Amalgamated's biggest client Harry Marstow. Sheila Bromley (Ethel Weiss on Hank) plays Marstow's wife Helen. Byron Morrow (Capt. Keith Gregory on The New Breed and Pearce Newberry on Executive Suite) plays Amalgamated board member Meyers. Tyler McVey (Gen. Maj. Norgath on Men Into Space) plays Amalgamated board member Eaton. 

Season 1, Episode 15, "Take a Number: Jack Garsell": Martin Balsam  (shown on the right, 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 numbers runner Jack Garsell. Sandy Kenyon (Des Smith on Crunch and Des, Shep Baggott on The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, and Reverend Kathrun on Knots Landing) plays his hit-man Waldo. Ron Foster (Officer Garvey on Highway Patrol) plays another hit-man Tom Brannon. Frank McHugh (appeared in The Front Page, The Crowd Roars, One Way Passage, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Going My Way, and State Fair and played Willis Walter on The Bing Crosby Show) plays bag man Wilbur Morton. Ross Elliott (Freddie the director on The Jack Benny Program and Sheriff Abbott on The Virginian) plays police Lt. Spencer. Alex Cord (Jack Kiley on W.E.B., Mike Holland on Cassie & Co., and Michael Coldsmith Briggs III on Airwolf) plays new operator Larry Rome. Harlan Warde (John Hamilton on The Rifleman and Sheriff John Brannan on The Virginian) plays federal D.A. Jerome Von. 

Season 1, Episode 16, "The Debasers: Milton Bonner and Phillip Colerane": Neville Brand (starred in D.O.A., The Mob, Stalag 17, Riot in Cell Block 11, and The Three Outlaws and played Al Capone on The Untouchables and Reese Bennett on Laredo) plays smut peddler Milton E. Bonner. Marsha Hunt (starred in Pride and Prejudice (1940), The Affairs of Martha, and Raw Deal and played Jennifer Peck on Peck's Bad Girl) plays his wife Gloria. Robert Vaughn (shown on the left, starred in Teenage Cave Man, The Magnificent Seven, The Towering Inferno, and Bullitt and played Capt. Ray Rambridge on The Lieutenant, Napoleon Solo on The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Harry Rule on The Protectors, Harlan Adams on Emerald Point N.A.S., Gen. Hunt Stockwell on The A-Team, and Albert Stroller on Hustle) plays P.R. mogul Phillip Colerane. Bek Nelson (Dru Lemp on Lawman and Phyllis Sloan on Peyton Place) plays his wife. Max Showalter (appeared in Niagra, The Music Man, Dangerous Crossing, Indestructible Man, The Monster That Challenged the World, and How to Murder Your Wife and played Gus Clyde on The Stockard Channing Show) plays his employee Grady Boyle. James Maloney (Jim on 21 Beacon Street) plays another employee Ken Lightner. John Marley (starred in Cat Ballou, Love Story, and The Godfather) plays police Lt. Gene Marcus. Marion Ross (Nora on Life With Father, Susan Green on The Gertrude Berg Show, Marion Cunningham on Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi, Emily Heywod/Hayward on The Love Boat, Sophie Berger on Brooklyn Bridge, Beulah Carey on The Drew Carey Show, and the voice of Mrs. Lopart on Handy Manny) plays the wife of Bonner's shipping manager Laura Harding. Henry Corden (Carlo on The Count of Monte Cristo, and Babbitt on The Monkees and did voicework on The Flintstones, Jonny Quest, The Atom Ant Show, The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, and Return to the Planet of the Apes) plays delivery man Harry Upson. Bartlett Robinson (Frank Caldwell on Mona McCluskey) plays newspaper editor Foster Fallon.

Season 1, Episode 17, "The Schemer: William Norman": Paul Richards (appeared in Playgirl and Beneath the Planet of the Apes and played Louis Kassoff on The Lawless Years) plays mobster William Norman. Bert Freed (appeared in The Atomic City, The Cobweb, and Paths of Glory and played Rufe Ryker on Shane) plays syndicate watchman Dave Reed. Richard Kiley (appeared in Pickup on South Street, Blackboard Jungle, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and Patch Adams and played Joe Gardner on A Year in the Life and Jason DeWitt on The Great Defender) plays small-town D.A. Doug Crawford. Joan Taylor (see the biography section for the 1961 post on The Rifleman) plays his wife Nancy. Tom Greenway (Sheriff Jack Bronson on State Trooper) plays local Sheriff Clayton. Jack Hogan (shown on the right, starred in The Bonnie Parker Story, Paratroop Command, and The Cat Burglar and played Kirby on Combat!, Sgt. Jerry Miller on Adam-12, Chief Ranger Jack Moore on Sierra, and Judge Smithwood on Jake and the Fatman) plays local hustler Gil Grand. Stafford Repp (Chief O'Hara on Batman) plays a bartender.

Season 1, Episode 18, "The Manipulator: Raymond Cruz": Jacques Aubuchon (starred in The Silver Chalice, The Big Boodle, and The Love God? and played Chief Urulu on McHale's Navy) plays real estate kingpin Raymond Cruz. H.M. Wynant (Frosty on Batman and Ed Chapman on Dallas) plays his henchman Joe Anneau. Fritz Weaver (starred in Fail-Safe, The Maltese Bippy, Marathon Man, and The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) and played Hugo Marick on All My Children) plays Neo-Nazi preacher Martin Weir. George Voskovec (appeared in The Iron Mistress, 12 Angry Men, BUtterfirld 8, and The Boston Strangler and played Petar Skagska on Skag and Fritz Brenner on Nero Wolfe) plays Holocaust survivor Willy Brower. Karl Held (see the biography section for the 1961 post on Perry Mason) plays his son Emil. Arlene Martel (shown on the left, played Tiger on Hogan's Heroes and Spock's Vulcan bride on Star Trek) plays their neighbor Anna Vargaray. Renata Vanni (appeared in Pay or Die!, A Patch of Blue, and Fatso and played Rose Brentano on That Girl) plays her mother. Sidney Blackmer (starred in Kismet (1930), Little Caesar, The Count of Monte Cristo, Heidi (1937), High Society, and Rosemary's Baby and played Dr. Morgan Granger on Ben Casey) plays state representative Joseph Callan. Charles Aidman (narrator on the 1985-87 version of The Twilight Zone) plays representative Mike Ballantine.

Season 1, Episode 19, "Murder by Proxy: Earl Klegg": Charles McGraw (appeared in The Killers, Blood on the Moon, The Narrow Margin, and Spartacus and played Mike Waring on The Adventures of Falcon) plays convicted felon Earl Klegg. Leonard Nimoy (shown on the right, played Mr. Spock on Star Trek, Paris on Mission: Impossible, and Dr. William Bell on Fringe) plays his hit-man Ralph Tomek. Lee Farr (Lt. Jim Conway on The Detectives and was married to actor Felicia Farr) plays state investigator Harvey Dakes. Noah Keen (Det. Lt. Carl Bone on Arrest and Trial) plays state prosecutor John Bernard. Fay Spain (starred in Dragstrip Girl, Al Capone, and The Gentle Rain) plays murder victim's fiance Enid Laslo. 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 trade association bookkeeper Vic Fell. Juanita Moore (starred in Ransom!, The Girl Can't Help It, Imitation of Life, and The Singing Nun) plays cleaning woman Beatrice George. Regis Toomey (starred in Alibi, Other Men's Women, The Finger Points, His Girl Friday, and The Big Sleep and played Joe Mulligan on The Mickey Rooney Show, Lt. Manny Waldo on Four Star Playhouse, Lt. McGough on Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Bill Cochran on Shannon, Det. Les Hart on Burke's Law, and Dr. Barton Stuart on Petticoat Junction and Green Acres) plays district Judge Thomas Otto. John Zaremba (Special Agent Jerry Dressler on I Led 3 Lives, Dr. Harold Jensen on Ben Casey, Admiral Hardesy on McHale's Navy, Dr. Raymond Swain on The Time Tunnel, and Dr, Harlem Danvers on Dallas) plays a prison warden.

Season 1, Episode 20, "Blood Money: Dave Malloy": Don Rickles (shown on the left, legendary comedian who appeared in Run Silent, Run Deep, Muscle Beach Party, Bikini Beach, Beach Blanket Bingo, Kelly's Heroes, voiced Mr. Potato Head in all the Toy Story movies, and played Don Robinson on The Don Rickles Show, Otto Sharkey on C.P.O. Sharkey, and Al Mitchell on Daddy Dearest) plays casino owner Dave Molloy. Ed Begley, Sr. (starred in Sorry, Wrong Number, The Great Gatsby (1949), Deadline U.S.A., The Turning Point, 12 Angry Men, Sweet Bird of Youth, and Hang 'Em High and played Mr. Koppel on Leave It to Larry) plays incumbent District Attorney Tully Johnson. Larry Blyden (Joe Sparton on Joe & Mabel and Harry Burns on Harry's Girls) plays challenger Jay Adams. Everett Sloane (see the biography section for the 1961 post on The Dick Tracy Show) plays Adams' campaign manager Sam Palmer. Kathie Browne (Angie Dow on Hondo and was Darren McGavin's second wife) plays casino hostess Connie Agnew. Milton Selzer (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 card dealer George Forbes. Alfred Shelly (Carney on The D.A.'s Man) plays a police deputy. 

Season 1, Episode 22, "The New Order: Peter Long": Simon Oakland (shown on the right, 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 ex-con muscle man Walter Hayes. Chris Robinson (Sgt. Sandy Komansky on 12 O'Clock High, Rick Webber on General Hospital, and Jack Hamilton on The Bold and the Beautiful) plays his son Jack. Jesse White (appeared in Harvey, Bedtime for Bonzo, The Bad Seed, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad,Mad World, and The Reluctant Astronaut and played Mickey Calhoun on Private Secretary, Jesse Leeds on Make Room for Daddy, and Oscar Pudney on The Ann Sothern Show) plays Walter's loan-shark partner Rudy. Lin McCarthy (starred in Yellowneck, The D.I., and Face of a Fugitive and played Bill Talbot on Modern Romances) plays Walter's replacement Peter Long. Jack Ging (see the biography section for the 1961 post on Tales of Wells Fargo) plays federal agent Steve Strohm. Norman Grabowski (appeared in Girls Town, College Confidential, Sex Kittens Go to College, Roustabout, The Monkey's Uncle, and The Towering Inferno and played Padowski on Hank) plays Jack's friend Milt Gray. Harry Swoger (Harry the bartender on The Big Valley) plays Walter's debtor Vulner. Anne Helm (Molly Pierce on Run for Your Life) plays his daughter Rita. Stephen Pearlman (Murray Zuckerman on Husbands, Wives & Lovers) plays bartender Eddy.

Season 1, Episode 23, "The Cost of Living: Howard Judlow": David White (shown on the left, played Larry Tate on Bewitched) plays crime kingpin Howard Judlow. Ed Nelson (Michael Rossi on Peyton Place and Ward Fuller on The Silent Force) plays his hit-man Pete Stull. Walter Slezak (starred in Lifeboat, The Pirate, The Inspector General, Bedtime for Bonzo, and Dr. Copelius and played The Clock King on Batman) plays bail bondsman Arnie Grote. Susan Oliver (Ann Howard on Peyton Place) plays his assistant Kitty Bester. John Anderson (see the biography section for the 1960 post on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays D.A. Kenneth Drake. Ned Glass (MSgt. Andy Pendleton on The Phil Silvers Show, Sol Cooper on Julia, and Uncle Moe Plotnick on Bridget Loves Bernie) plays courthouse food kiosk clerk Eddie. 

Season 1, Episode 24, "Savage in Darkness": Harold J. Stone (John Kennedy on The Grand Jury, Hamilton Greeley on My World and Welcome to It, and Sam Steinberg on Bridget Loves Bernie) plays produce company owner Marty Emson. Barbara Eden (shown on the right, starred in Flaming Star, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, Ride the Wild Surf, and Harper Valley P.T.A. and played Loco Jones on How to Marry a Millionaire, Jeannie on I Dream of Jeannie, Stella Johnson on Harper Valley P.T.A., Barbara McCray Gibbons on A Brand New Life, and Lee Ann De La Vega on Dallas) plays his daughter Terri. Telly Savalas (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 narcotics kingpin Harry Rennick. Terry Becker (Chief Francis Ethelbert Sharkey on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) plays lounge owner Julius Lenke. Denver Pyle (Ben Thompson on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Grandpa Tarleton on Tammy, Briscoe Darling on The Andy Griffith Show, Buck Webb on The Doris Day Show, Mad Jack on The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, and Uncle Jesse on The Dukes of Hazzard) plays police chief Amos Trask. 

Season 1, Episode 25, "The Swinger": Robert Culp (see "The Plush Jungle: Benjamin Riker" above) plays lounge singer Hank Shannon. Bruce Gordon (shown on the left, see the biography section for the 1961 post on The Untouchables) plays Las Vegas club owner Marcus Jackson. Zina Bethune (Robin Lang on Guiding Light, Gail Lucas on The Doctors and the Nurses, and Barbara Sterling on Love of Life) plays his daughter Lucinda. George Macready (Martin Peyton on Peyton Place) plays syndicate organizer James Harrison. Sammy Davis, Jr. ("The Greatest Living Entertainer" starred in Porgy and Bess, Ocean's 11, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Sweet Charity, The Cannonball Run, and Cannonball Run II) plays himself. Ric Marlow (wrote the lyrics to "A Taste of Honey") plays Harrison thug Pete. Cyril Delevanti (Lucious Coin on Jefferson Drum) plays Shannon's butler Simon. 

Season 1, Episode 26, "Inside Track": Kent Smith (starred in Cat People, This Land Is Mine, Hitler's Children, Curse of the Cat People, Nora Prentiss, The Spiral Staircase, and The Fountainhead and played Dr. Robert Morton on Peyton Place and Edgar Scoville on The Invaders) plays race horse breeder Charles Dennis. Lloyd Bochner (Chief Inspector Neil Campbell on Hong Kong and Cecil Colby on Dynasty) plays his lobbyist William Hillier. Bernard Fein (Pvt Gomez on The Phil Silvers Show) plays rival race track owner Ben Kilrea. 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 Kilrea lobbyist Dan Mullin. Bethel Leslie (appeared in 15 episodes of The Richard Boone Show and played Claudia Conner on All My Children and Ethel Crawford on One Life to Live) plays state representative Frances Olney. Robert F. Simon (Dave Tabak on Saints and Sinners, Gen. Alfred Terry on Custer, Frank Stephens on Bewitched, Uncle Everett McPherson on Nancy, Capt. Rudy Olsen on The Streets of San Francisco, and J. Jonah Jameson on The Amazing Spiderman) plays committee chairman Leonard Yates. George Kane (Link Morrison on Love of Life) plays committee member George Crawford. S. John Launer (Marshall Houts on The Court of Last Resort and the judge 33 times on Perry Mason) plays speaker of the house Goode.

Season 1, Episode 27, "A Creature Lurks in Ambush": Ricardo Montalban (starred in The Kissing Bandit, On an Island With You, The Singing Nun, and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and played David Valerio on Executive Suite, Mr. Roarke on Fantasy Island, and Zach Powers on The Colbys) plays gambling fixer Vincent Pavanne. Ted de Corsia (Police Chief Hagedorn on Steve Canyon) plays his dying brother Ed. Robert Blake (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 Ed's son Rick Carter. Keir Dullea (shown on the left, 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 Rick's best friend and star basketball player Alec Benden. Fredd Wayne (Sgt. Bill Hollis on Code 3) plays gambler Marty. James Gavin (Sheriff Frank Madden on The Big Valley) plays Alec's basketball coach.

Season 1, Episode 28, "Women of Silure": Jack Klugman (shown on the right, 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 deported mobster Mike Colonni. Madlyn Rhue (Marjorie Grant on Bracken's World, Angela Schwartz on Fame, and Hilary Mason/Madison on Executive Suite) plays his wife Margarita Safa. Perry Lopez (starred in Mister Roberts, Taras Bulba, Kelly's Heroes, and Chinatown and played Joaquin Castaneda on Zorro) plays Colonni employee Nico Berengeri. Penny Santon (Madame Fatime in Don't Call Me Charlie, Madam Delacort on Roll Out, Mama Rosa Novelli on Matt Houston, Muriel Lacey on Cagney and Lacey, and Teresa Giordano on Life Goes On) plays Nico's mother. Gavin MacLeod (starred in Operation Petticoat, The Sand Pebbles, and Kelly's Heroes and played Joseph Haines on McHale's Navy, Murray Slaughter on Mary Tyler Moore and Rhoda, and Capt. Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat) plays undercover French agent Jean Douvin.

Season 1, Episode 29, "The Left Side of Canada": Harry Guardino (starred in Houseboat, Pork Chop Hill, The Five Pennies, Hell Is for Heroes, Madigan, Dirty Harry, and The Enforcer and played Danny Taylor on The Reporter, Monty Nash on Monty Nash, and Hamilton Burger on The New Perry Mason) plays real estate kingpin John Maychin. 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 his business partner Howard Douglas. Geraldine Brooks (Lou Carson on Faraday and Company and Angela Dumpling on The Dumplings) plays Howard's wife Joanna. Douglas Lambert (Walter Schiff on Inside Story) plays their son Johnny. Beverly Garland (shown on the left, played Casey Jones on Decoy, Ellis Collins on The Bing Crosby Show, Barbara Harper Douglas on My Three Sons, Dorothy "Dotty" West on Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Ellen Lane on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and Ginger on 7th Heaven) plays lounge singer Jeanette. 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 Maychin's nephew Eddie Light. Ted Knight (Ted Baxter on Mary Tyler Moore, Roger Dennis on The Ted Knight Show, and Henry Rush on Too Close for Comfort) plays a detective. Queenie Leonard (see the biography section for the 1961 post on Hazel) plays Maychin's maid.

Season 1, Episode 30, "Quick Brown Fox": Alex Nicol (starred in The Redhead From Wyoming, Heat Wave, and The Man From Laramie and played Van Lorn on The Law) plays star newspaper reporter Peter Fleming. Pat Crowley (Joan Nash on Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Georgia Cameron on Joe Forrester, Emily Fallmont on Dynasty, and Natalie DeWitt on The Bold and the Beautiful) plays homemaker columnist Holly Baker. Majel Barrett (Nurse Christine Chapel on Star Trek, was the voice of the computer on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager, and played Julianne Belman on Earth: The Final Conflict) plays her typist Grace Newberg. Hugh Sanders (starred in That's My Boy, The Pride of St. Louis, The Winning Team, and The Wild One) plays newspaper editor Roger Hove. Edward Binns (shown on the right, see the biography section for the 1961 post on Brenner) plays police Captain Lemoyne.