Alcoa Premiere#ep16

Each episode presented a new story, with no overriding theme to the series as a whole. While some episodes were light entertainment, and at least one variety show was aired, the dramatic episodes often offered powerful stories on painful or controversial subjects as opposed to classic drama. The series showcased writers such as Ray Bradbury, Howard Rodman, Ernest Kinoy, Donald S. Sanford, Alfred Bester, and Gene L. Coon, amongst others. The program also featured actors such as James Stewart, John Wayne, Charlton Heston, James Whitmore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Arthur Kennedy and Ray Milland. Both Stewart and Wayne appeared in an episode directed by John Ford, "Flashing Spikes".{{IMDb title|0055989|"Alcoa Premiere", S2.E1, "Flashing Spikes"}}

The premiere telecast, "People Need People" starred Lee Marvin and Arthur Kennedy. Alex Segal was its director.

Several Alcoa Premiere episodes were actually pilots for TV shows, often produced by other hands and picked up as anthology episodes by Alcoa. Most of these pilots went no further than their appearance on Alcoa Premiere, but three series (Channing, Wide Country {{Citation needed |date=September 2023}}, and McHale's Navy{{cite book |last1=Irvin |first1=Richard |title=Film Stars' Television Projects: Pilots and Series of 50+ Movie Greats, 1948-1985 |date=September 11, 2017 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-2843-1 |page=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5K40DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Alcoa+Premiere%22+ABC&pg=PA9 |access-date=September 16, 2023 |language=en}}) were developed from the pilot films shown on this anthology series.{{Citation needed |date=September 2023}}

One first-season episode ("The Jail") had been produced with the intention of airing as an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, but was shown on Alcoa Premiere instead. The episode was written by Ray Bradbury and produced by the AHP crew, with Hitchcock credited as executive producer of the aired episode.{{Citation needed |date=September 2023}}

During its first season, the show was broadcast on Tuesday evenings at 10:00 pm. The show moved to Thursday evenings at the same time for its second season.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&dq=%22Alcoa+Premiere+Dramatic+Anthology%22&pg=PA27 |first1=Tim |last1=Brooks |author-link1=Tim Brooks (historian) |first2=Earle |last2=Marsh |year=2007 |edition=9 |title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present |pages=27–28 |publisher=Ballantine Books |location=New York |isbn=978-0-345-49773-4 |access-date=2024-07-10 }}

The anthology was nominated for 14 Emmy Awards during its two-year run.O'Neil, Thomas (2000). The Emmys (3rd ed.). New York: Berkley Publishing Group. {{ISBN|0-399-52611-0}}.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 1

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = People Need People

|Aux1 = Henry F. Greenberg

|Aux2 = Lee Marvin, James Gregory, Arthur Kennedy

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|10|10}}

|ShortSummary = Dr. Harry Wilmer has just 10 days to prove his radical method of treating violent war veterans will work.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 2

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = The Fugitive Eye

|Aux1 = Charlotte Jay (story)
John Marcus (teleplay)

|Aux2 = Charlton Heston, Leo G. Carroll

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|10|17}}

|ShortSummary = Paul Malone wakes up in a forest to find an empty limousine, a dead chauffeur and three unsavory characters staring at him.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 3

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = The Fortress

|Aux1 = Wallace L. Brown (story)
John Kneubuhl (teleplay)

|Aux2 = Lloyd Bridges, Philip Ahn, James Shigeta

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|10|24}}

|ShortSummary = Shot down during the Korean War, Lt. Brown is held captive in a basement where the light is never turned off. They won't treat his mangled leg unless he gives his captors a confession.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 4

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = Moment of Decision

|Aux1 = Stanley Ellin (story)
Larry Marcus, Porter Putnam, K.H. Lindsay (teleplay)

|Aux2 = Fred Astaire, Maureen O'Sullivan

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|11|7}}

|ShortSummary = Hugh Lozier asks for help from a mysterious man to deal with his obnoxious neighbors.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 5

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = Family Outing

|Aux1 = Howard Rodman

|Aux2 = Lin McCarthy, Nancy Olson, Michael Burns

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|11|14}}

|ShortSummary = Six astronauts have been trained for the first one-man space flight and the day of the final choice has arrived.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 6

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = The Witch Next Door

|Aux1 = Ernest Kinoy

|Aux2 = Susan Gordon, James Whitmore

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|11|28}}

|ShortSummary = The Collins family has a mysterious next-door neighbor and she seems to have cast a spell on young Julie Collins.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 7

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = The Breaking Point

|Aux1 = Bob Barbash

|Aux2 = Brian Keith, Brad Dexter, Mary Murphy

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|12|5}}

|ShortSummary = An ex-convict seems to be guilty of murder until the cop realizes that only the victim's wife profits from his death.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 8

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = Delbert, Texas

|Aux1 = Peter Tewksbury, James Leighton

|Aux2 = David Wayne, Florence MacMichael

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|12|12}}

|ShortSummary = Frank and Ruth Willoughby are determined to find out why their son's college grades have suddenly dropped.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 9

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = End of a World

|Aux1 = David Karp

|Aux2 = Robert Loggia, Andrew Prine, Russell Johnson

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|12|19}}

|ShortSummary = The events leading up to the Sarajevo Assassination in 1914 of Archduke Ferdinand which triggered World War I are seen through the eyes of three men.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 10

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title = The Cake Baker

|Aux1 = Peggy Shaw, Lou Shaw

|Aux2 = Shelley Winters, Ed Nelson

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|12|26}}

|ShortSummary = A housewife is always daydreaming even on the night her young daughter runs away from home.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 11

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = Pattern of Guilt

|Aux1 = Helen Nielsen

|Aux2 = Ray Milland, Joanna Moore

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|1|9}}

|ShortSummary = A reporter covers a series of murders all perpetrated against spinsters.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 12

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = The Hour of the Bath

|Aux1 = Donald S. Sanford

|Aux2 = Robert Fuller, Barbara Luna

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|1|16}}

|ShortSummary = American agricultural expert Henry Detweiler is a prisoner of Vietnam under sentence of death.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 13

|EpisodeNumber2 = 13

|Title = The Jail

|Aux1 = Ray Bradbury

|Aux2 = John Gavin, Bettye Ackerman, Barry Morse

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|2|6}}

|ShortSummary = In this future time a young man is charged with an offense against the state and marshaled into a huge building crammed with banks and banks of computers. These computers absorb and assess the evidence, circumstances and facts in his case -- and all of them are operated by one master button-pusher. Originally intended as an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and shot, directed and produced by the AHP crew. Hitchcock is credited as executive producer of this episode.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 14

|EpisodeNumber2 = 14

|Title = Mr. Easy

|Aux1 = Matt Taylor (story)
James Brewer, Claude Binyon (teleplay)

|Aux2 = Fred Astaire, Joanna Barnes

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|2|13}}

|ShortSummary = Andrew Whitbeck is bored with his successful business and decides to chuck it all and "enjoy himself" by becoming a cartoonist -- which is more demanding than he realizes.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 15

|EpisodeNumber2 =15

|Title = The Man With A Shine On His Shoes

|Aux1 = Prentiss Combs

|Aux2 = Henry Hull, Peter Helm

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|2|20}}

|ShortSummary = An elderly drifter decides to get work on the town newspaper because he believes he is the greatest typesetter in the world.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 16

|EpisodeNumber2 = 16

|Title = The Doctor

|Aux1 = Robert Yale Libott

|Aux2 = Richard Kiley, Cloris Leachman

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|2|27}}

|ShortSummary = A doctor stops to give aid to an injured man, and is shortly thereafter hit with a $100,000 malpractice suit.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 17

|EpisodeNumber2 = 17

|Title = Of This Time, Of This Place

|Aux1 = Lionel Trilling (story)
Larry Marcus (teleplay)

|Aux2 = Henry Jones, Jason Evers

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|3|6}}

|ShortSummary = A college teacher's new job is made difficult by a brilliant, but uncompromising, student. This is the pilot for the eventual 1963/64 series Channing, which starred both Jones and Evers.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 18

|EpisodeNumber2 = 18

|Title = Second Chances

|Aux1 = Harold Swanton

|Aux2 = Cliff Robertson, Earl Holliman, Andrew Prine

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|3|13}}

|ShortSummary = Hoby Dunlap was acquitted of treason during the Korean War, but Hoby's efforts to enter a rodeo contest are blocked by officials who fear audiences won't come see a "traitor". This episode became the pilot for the 1963-64 NBC series Wide Country{{Citation needed |date=August 2024}} .

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 19

|EpisodeNumber2 = 19

|Title = The Tiger

|Aux1 = John Durham, Harold Swanton

|Aux2 = Gary Merrill, Keir Dullea

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|3|20}}

|ShortSummary = Someone is trying to kill Jim Hunter -- quite possibly, one of his daughter's boy friends.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 20

|EpisodeNumber2 = 20

|Title = Seven Against the Sea

|Aux1 = Albert Aley

|Aux2 = Ernest Borgnine, Gary Vinson

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|4|3}}

|ShortSummary = During WWII, a stranded group of American PT boat crewmen hide out on a remote South Pacific island controlled by the Japanese Navy. This drama served as a pilot for the eventual 1962-66 comedy series McHale's Navy, which starred Borgnine.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 21

|EpisodeNumber2 = 21

|Title = A Very Custom Special

|Aux1 = Phillip Shuken

|Aux2 = J. Pat O'Malley, True Ellison

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|4|10}}

|ShortSummary = On the night of his daughter's debutante party, a man is wiped out by the 1929 stock-market crash.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 22

|EpisodeNumber2 = 22

|Title = All My Clients Are Innocent

|Aux1 = Jameson Brewer, Jack Finney

|Aux2 = Barry Morse, Vic Morrow, Joan Staley

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|4|17}}

|ShortSummary = Convinced that a wife can ruin a career, San Francisco criminal lawyer Max McIntire tries to stop his partner's marriage. Pilot for an unsold series, produced by Ralph Edwards.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 23

|EpisodeNumber2 = 23

|Title = Rules of the Game

|Aux1 = Alvin Boretz

|Aux2 = Hugh O'Brien, Bethel Leslie

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|5|1}}

|ShortSummary = A newspaper editor discovers a man he helped to send to the electric chair was innocent.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 24

|EpisodeNumber2 = 24

|Title = Cry Out in Silence

|Aux1 = Fred Remington (story)
Alvin Boretz (teleplay)

|Aux2 = Celeste Holm, David McLean

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|5|15}}

|ShortSummary = After having her larynx removed due to cancer, a woman struggles to learn to speak again.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 25

|EpisodeNumber2 = 25

|Title = A Place to Hide

|Aux1 = John Hawkins, Ward Hawkins

|Aux2 = Joan Hackett, Dean Stockwell

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|5|22}}

|ShortSummary = The nervous nature of a new housekeeper arouses the suspicions of her employers.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 26

|EpisodeNumber2 = 26

|Title = The Boy Who Wasn't Wanted

|Aux1 = John Hawkins, Ward Hawkins

|Aux2 = Dana Andrews, Billy Mumy

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|6|5}}

|ShortSummary = After arresting a burglar, a police detective feels responsible for the welfare of the robber's young son.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 27

|EpisodeNumber2 = 27

|Title = It Takes a Thief

|Aux1 = Arthur Miller (story)
Oscar Millard (teleplay)

|Aux2 = Edward Andrews, Constance Ford

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|6|19}}

|ShortSummary = A robbery victim worries that he'll be in serious trouble if the police find out about one particular item stolen from his safe.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 28

|EpisodeNumber2 = 28

|Title = The Time of the Tonsils

|Aux1 = Bob Corcoran, Jerry Layton

|Aux2 = Eddie Albert, Butch Patrick

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|6|26}}

|ShortSummary = An orphanage director takes two children to have their tonsils out, and discovers that his must go too.

}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 29

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = Flashing Spikes

|Aux1 = Frank O'Rourke (story)
Jameson Brewer (teleplay)

|Aux2 = John Wayne, James Stewart, Jack Warden

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|10|4}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 30

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = Guest in the House

|Aux1 = Philip MacDonald (story)
James Gunn (teleplay)

|Aux2 = Fred Astaire, Susan Gordon, Lloyd Bochner

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|10|11}}

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 31

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = The Long Walk Home

|Aux1 = Everett Freeman

|Aux2 = Lin McCarthy, Nancy Rennick

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|10|18}}

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 32

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = The Voice of Charlie Pont

|Aux1 = Douglas Fairbairn (story)
Halsted Welles (teleplay)

|Aux2 = Bradford Dillman, Diana Hyland, Robert Redford

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|10|25}}

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 33

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = Mr. Lucifer

|Aux1 = Alfred Bester

|Aux2 = Fred Astaire, Elizabeth Montgomery

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|11|1}}

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 34

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = The Masked Marine

|Aux1 = Robert Leckie (story)
John Kneubuhl, Joseph Petracca (teleplay)

|Aux2 = Harry Guardino, James Caan

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|11|8}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 35

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = Ordeal in Darkness

|Aux1 = William McGivern, Richard Fielder

|Aux2 = Keir Dullea, Richard Conte

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|11|15}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 36

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = Whatever Happened to Miss Illinois?

|Aux1 = Alvin Boretz

|Aux2 = Carol Lynley, Anthony George, Arch Johnson

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|11|22}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 37

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = The Hands of Danofrio

|Aux1 = Larry Marcus (story)
James Gunn (teleplay)

|Aux2 = Joseph Campanella, Telly Savalas

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|11|29}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 38

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title = The Contenders

|Aux1 = James Lee

|Aux2 = Suzanne Pleshette, Signe Hasso, Ed Asner

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|12|6}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 39

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = The Way From Darkness

|Aux1 = Oscar Millard

|Aux2 = Shelley Winters, Joan Hackett

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|12|13}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 40

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = The Potentate

|Aux1 = William Fennerton (story)
David Karp (teleplay)

|Aux2 = Theodore Bikel, Milton Selzer

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|12|20}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 41

|EpisodeNumber2 = 13

|Title = Blues For a Hanging

|Aux1 = John Hawkins, Ward Hawkins (story)
John Hawkins (teleplay)

|Aux2 = Fred Astaire, Janis Paige

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|12|27}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 42

|EpisodeNumber2 = 14

|Title = Impact of an Execution

|Aux1 = Saul Levitt, Mark Rodgers

|Aux2 = Ralph Bellamy, Ruby Dee

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|1|3}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 43

|EpisodeNumber2 =15

|Title = Lollipop Louie

|Aux1 = Fred F. Finklehoffe

|Aux2 = Aldo Ray, Kurt Kasznar

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|1|10}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 44

|EpisodeNumber2 =16

|Title = The Glass Palace

|Aux1 = Gilbert Ralston

|Aux2 = Ricardo Montalbán, Anne Francis

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|1|17}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 45

|EpisodeNumber2 =17

|Title = Five, Six, Pick Up Sticks

|Aux1 = John T. Kelly

|Aux2 = Mickey Rooney, John Forsythe

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|1|24}}

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 46

|EpisodeNumber2 =18

|Title = George Gobel Presents

|Aux1 = Howard Leeds, Elton Packard

|Aux2 = George Gobel, Cliff Norton

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|1|31}}

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 47

|EpisodeNumber2 =19

|Title = The Hat of Sergeant Martin

|Aux1 = Gene L. Coon

|Aux2 = Claude Akins, Roger Perry

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|2|7}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 48

|EpisodeNumber2 =20

|Title = Blow High, Blow Clear

|Aux1 = Harold Swanton

|Aux2 = Tommy Sands, Jane Wyatt, Dan Duryea

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|2|14}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 49

|EpisodeNumber2 =21

|Title = Chain Reaction

|Aux1 = Mitchell Wilson

|Aux2 = Ralph Bellamy, Bradford Dillman

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|2|21}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 50

|EpisodeNumber2 =22

|Title = Hornblower

|Aux1 = C.S. Forester (story)
Donald Wilson (teleplay)

|Aux2 = David Buck, Nigel Green

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|2|28}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 51

|EpisodeNumber2 =23

|Title = Jeeney Ray

|Aux1 = Iris Dornfield (story)
Richard DeRoy, Iris Dornfield (teleplay)

|Aux2 = Brenda Scott, Joanna Moore

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|3|14}}

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 52

|EpisodeNumber2 =24

|Title = The Dark Labyrinth

|Aux1 = Lawrence Durrell (story)
Mark Rodgers (teleplay)

|Aux2 = Carroll O'Connor, Patrick O'Neal

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|3|21}}

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 53

|EpisodeNumber2 =25

|Title = Of Struggle and Flight

|Aux1 = Alvin Boretz

|Aux2 = Janice Rule, Jack Kruschen, Dabney Coleman

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|3|28}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 54

|EpisodeNumber2 =26

|Title = The Broken Year

|Aux1 = Richard P. Brickner (story)
John Furia, Jr. (teleplay)

|Aux2 = Keir Dullea, Shirley Knight

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|4|4}}

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 55

|EpisodeNumber2 =27

|Title = This Will Kill You

|Aux1 = William Fay

|Aux2 = Howard Morris, Ernest Borgnine

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|4|11}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 56

|EpisodeNumber2 =28

|Title = Million Dollar Hospital

|Aux1 = Oscar Millard, Larry Marcus

|Aux2 = Charles Bickford, William Shatner

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|4|18}}

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 57

|EpisodeNumber2 =29

|Title = The Town That Died

|Aux1 = Richard DeRoy, DeWitt Copp

|Aux2 = Dana Andrews, Gene Evans

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|4|25}}

}}

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Alcoa Premiere was filmed.

• The Alcoa Hour
• Alcoa Presents One Step Beyond

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• [http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/AlcoaPremiere_FredAstaire.htm Alcoa Premiere at CVTA with episode link]

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