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Richard Kiley | ... |
Charlie Webb
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(10 episodes, 1953-1961)
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Betsy Palmer | ... |
Anne Gaines
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(9 episodes, 1954-1960)
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Hans Conried | ... |
Arthur Bannister
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(7 episodes, 1954-1963)
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Jeff Donnell | ... |
Eva Dulaney
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(7 episodes, 1954-1962)
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Edward Andrews | ... |
Charlie Anders
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(7 episodes, 1954-1960)
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Mona Freeman | ... |
Lucy Chalmers
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(7 episodes, 1960-1962)
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Patty Duke | ... |
Kathy
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(6 episodes, 1958-1962)
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Jack Carson | ... |
Enoch McCabe
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(6 episodes, 1954-1962)
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Joseph Sweeney | ... |
Priest
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(6 episodes, 1954-1960)
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Biff McGuire | ... |
Gil Wayne
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(6 episodes, 1956-1963)
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Cathleen Nesbitt | ... |
Cissie Hampshire
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(6 episodes, 1956-1963)
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Larry Blyden | ... |
Doc Randolph
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(6 episodes, 1958-1962)
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Barry Morse | ... |
Jeremy Penlove
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(6 episodes, 1958-1961)
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Robert Lansing | ... |
Jim Walton
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(6 episodes, 1959-1963)
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Diana Lynn | ... |
Felicia
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(5 episodes, 1954-1961)
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Nehemiah Persoff | ... |
D'Arnault-Olivier
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(5 episodes, 1955-1958)
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Faye Emerson | ... |
Dorothy Hilton
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(5 episodes, 1953-1961)
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Teresa Wright | ... |
Allie Gulliver
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(5 episodes, 1954-1962)
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Geraldine Brooks | ... |
Betty Coogan
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(5 episodes, 1954-1961)
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June Lockhart | ... |
Edith Sealey
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(5 episodes, 1954-1959)
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Lori March | ... |
Billy
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(5 episodes, 1954-1958)
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Frank Overton | ... |
Al
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(5 episodes, 1954-1957)
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Alexander Clark | ... |
Bernard
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(5 episodes, 1955-1960)
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Peter Mark Richman | ... |
John West
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(5 episodes, 1956-1962)
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John McGovern | ... |
Henry Powers
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(5 episodes, 1956-1961)
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Ruth White | ... |
Sister St. Anne
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(5 episodes, 1958-1963)
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Gene Hackman | ... |
Ed
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(5 episodes, 1959-1962)
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Glenda Farrell | ... |
Edna Huntington
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(5 episodes, 1960-1963)
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Live drama series that was one of the best TV shows ever shown. Over 200 live plays covering all aspects of society were shown.
A fine live early TV version of Mark Harris' novel. Given the limitations of a television studio,and doing a show "live",this is a bona fide homerun! Newman is great as Henry "author" Wiggen's,star lefthanded pitcher for the NY Mammoths,who takes the teams dying 3rd string catcher under his wing. Newman does a great adlib at the programs opening when he tosses a scrap of paper towards a wastebasket and misses,saying: "Hell of a pitcher I am,I can't even hit the trash can!"
That scrap of paper is the ONLY miss in this fine dramatization of one of the great baseball novels ever written. Too bad nobody has ever filmed the other two novels in Harris' trilogy about Henry Wiggens!And Newman i