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The series continued to feature the talents of veteran and emerging actors over the ensuing years, including Cliff Robertson, John Cassavetes, Brandon deWilde, Cornel Wilde, Agnes Moorehead, Jack Carson, Walter Slezak and Gary Merrill. Child actor Flip Mark made his television debut as Robbie Adams in the 1959 episode "Another Day Another Dollar".
Another child actor, Dennis Holmes, prior to joining the cast of Laramie appeared as Davey Morris in the 1959 episode, "The Night of the Kill."
Tyler MacDuff, a guest star on various television Westerns, appeared as Rod Tilton in the 1962 episode "Blues for a Hanging".
Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors remains one of the Alcoa Theatre's best-known presentations.
"333 Montgomery" (June 13, 1960) starred DeForest Kelley in the pilot episode of an unsold series written by Gene Roddenberry. It was based on the book Never Plead Guilty by San Francisco criminal lawyer Jake Ehrlich. Kelley acted in three separate pilots for Columbia, and the studio decided to try him in a lead and sent him to meet Roddenberry. Kelley and Roddenberry went to San Francisco to meet Ehrlich, who chose him for the lead. This event was crucial to Kelley's career because it introduced him to Roddenberry, later resulting in his Star Trek role.
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