edgarblythe- Pinky Lee. Damned if I know how I pulled him out of my memory bank. Haven't thought about him in eons!
http://geocities.com/mrviewmaster/pinky/pinky.htm
It were Pinky all right. I saw him in the Fresno parade one year. At the time my sole focus was on Hopalong Cassidy, who rode in it also, so I barely acknowledged Pinky.
Peter Lorre and Steve McQueen played in a strange story about a gambler in an Alfred Hitchcock episode. What was the name of the story?
Which program featured Bruce Dern and Pat Butram, plus a fine actress whose name eludes me; Bruce wanders onto the farm and gets hired by Pat to pick fruit. He begins a terror campaign against the wife by first murdering her pet squirrel.
Damned if I know. Don't have the foggiest!
This was the single program that established Dern as a superb character actor.
edgarblythe- Was this part of a series, or a single TV drama?
Then you know it was an episode of a series that featured a different cast and storyline each week. In the end, the wife murdered Pat Butram and called the cops to tell them the drifter (Dern) just killed her husband. You knew he was going to get the chair for it.
I can't give many more hints.
And the name of the show is The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
This network show was stopped in mid airing because Fabian was too convincing in the part of a killer.
Qualifier: It may not have been stopped in every city it aired. The episode was regarded as the probable reason the show was abruptly canceled.
The program in question was based on a popular play.
And, all you hundreds of eager respondents, the answer is . . .
