Alcoa Premiere - Season 2

Alcoa Premiere - Season 2
Alcoa Premiere - Season 2
1962
Drama
TV Season
Season 2 - Hosted by famous dancer and actor Fred Astaire, this series presented a new drama with each week's episode. Unlike some of the earlier drama series, which tended either toward classics or toward light subject matter, this series often had powerful stories about painful or controversial subjects. Many big names got involved with this series, including actors like Charlton Heston and Lee Marvin, directors like John Ford, and writers like Ray Bradbury.
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Directed by:
Herschel Daugherty, Bernard Girard, John Newland, Alan Crosland Jr.Writers:
Larry Marcus, Alvin BoretzStarring:
Keir Dullea, Fred AstaireThe son of an Austrian immigrant, Fred Astaire entered show business at age 5. He was successful both in vaudeville and on Broadway in partnership with his sister, Adele Astaire. After Adele retired to marry in 1932, Astaire headed to Hollywood. Signed to RKO, he was loaned to MGM to appear in Dancing Lady (1933) before starting work on RKO's Flying Down to Rio (1933). In the latter film, he began his highly successful partnership with Ginger Rogers, with whom he danced in 9 RKO...(imdb)
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Flashing Spikes (1962)
- S2E1
An old major league baseball player who has been thrown out of the game for bribery befriends a young ballplayer.
Million Dollar Hospital (1963)
- S2E29
Young Dr. Grant (William Shatner) answers a medical-journal ad offering a "rewarding practice" for $1,000,000, but the run-down emergency hospital he finds hardly seems a lucrative enterprise.
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Directed by:
Herschel Daugherty, Bernard Girard, John Newland, Alan Crosland Jr.Writers:
Larry Marcus, Alvin BoretzStarring:
Keir Dullea, Fred AstaireThe son of an Austrian immigrant, Fred Astaire entered show business at age 5. He was successful both in vaudeville and on Broadway in partnership with his sister, Adele Astaire. After Adele retired to marry in 1932, Astaire headed to Hollywood. Signed to RKO, he was loaned to MGM to appear in Dancing Lady (1933) before starting work on RKO's Flying Down to Rio (1933). In the latter film, he began his highly successful partnership with Ginger Rogers, with whom he danced in 9 RKO...(imdb)
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