Role: ?
Episode: 2.20 (59)        Airdate: 2/27/57
Commercial Recording: None known

Series Notes: (CBS; 30m; 9/20/55-9/25/56; ABC 30m; 10/17/56-9/25/58; 102 episodes)
Dramas based on the lives of Navy servicemen

Guest Cast:
DeForest Kelley, Jacqueline Scott

Episode Summary: ?

Sources: Classic TV Archive website; Contemporary Theater, Film & Television

Episode Summary:
Itinerant bookseller Rafe rolls into town to find it empty except for the sheriff, dangling dead from the end of a rope. Three thugs appear to taunt him and then take him to the stable, where they have all the townspeople penned up. It appears that Brill and his gang came to town to rob a shipment of some kind, some of the men fought, and Brill’s young brother was killed. Brill took the women and children hostages to get the men disarmed and into the stable; now he demands that the bookseller determine who shot his brother, and will kill them a few at a time until he finds out. Sherm (Kelley) thinks he knows who actually shot the boy, but doesn’t want to say - it might have been any of several of them. When Brill returns to take two men to kill, he chooses an old man and Dave Maxon; Dave rushes him and is shot. They take the old man out and shoot him. On Rafe’s suggestion, the men make a snare, lure the two guards into it and get their weapons. Rafe goes to Brill in the bar, claiming to know who did it, but stalling until the others get their with guns; they all come in shooting and take the gang. Rafe leaves town as the townspeople prepare to hang Brill and his men.

Notes:
Kelley gets just a few emphatic scenes.

Sources: viewing; Lentz (1997); Brooks & Marsh

Episode Summary:
WWII. The submarine Spearfish, captained by Dempsey (Kelley) is patrolling near Luzon, Philippines. The boys are looking forward to leave in Australia, and teasing their 33-year-old captain as to his ability to keep up with them, when they receive orders to pick up VIPs at Corregidor (thenceforth referred to as “The Rock”). They can only go 40 miles submerged before they have to recharge batteries and get air, and they have to dive deep to avoid a Japanese patrol earlier than they planned. They begin to suspect a trap, but the captain continues, having to go deep. They prepare to destroy the “secret material” aboard, then surface. The signal seems wrong and they get the guns ready, then figure it out: “Hey, you all...” They begin charging up while they take 25 people, including 13 female nurses, on board; some of the men leer, some worry about bad luck. A patrol boat arrives, forcing them to dive before they are fully charged. They run along the edge of the U.S. mine field to escape the patrol, then go to silent running. Trying to charge again, this time they have to dive from a destroyer while the women try to adjust to the cramped quarters. There are only 4 bunks available, accomodating 12 of them in rotation. The captain gallantly gives his bunk to the 13th woman, who drew the floor. Once they reach safe waters, they learn that Corregidor has surrendered. The captain orders dresses for the women brought aboard for them to arrive in splendor.

For Trekkers:
To emphasize the heat in the submarine, Kelley is dressed in nothing but shorts, a bill cap and his pinky ring for most of this one. Kinda fun to see his manly chest on display... especially remembering his response to a Trek fan who once asked him why he never took his shirt off in the series: "We weren't allowed to make the Captain jealous."

Sources: viewing; Brooks & Marsh

Role: * Morgan Earp (marshal)
Released: 5/30/57
Director: John Sturges
Writer: Leon Uris
From article "The Killer" by George Scullin
Producer:Hal Wallis

Plot Summary:
Classic western which spends most of its time developing convoluted relationships among the characters leading up to the big showdown.
      The first part of the movie sets up the friendly foe relationship between Dodge City's Marshal Wyatt Earp and gambler/gunfighter Doc Holliday, made reckless by his consumption. In Fort Griffin, Texas, Wyatt ends up rescuing Holliday from a lynch mob, but warns him to stay out of Dodge. When Holliday not only shows up in Dodge but asks for money, Wyatt decides to let him stay as long as there are "no guns, no knives and no killings." Despite conflicts about how they treat the women in their lives -- Wyatt jails Holliday's gambler friend Laura Denbow just on general principles, and Holliday treats his own gal Kate so badly that she leaves him for Johnny Ringo -- the two form a successful partnership chasing train robbers and rescuing the town from marauding cowboys. Wyatt romances Laura, and makes plans to give up his guns, marry her and move to California. Just then, he gets a telegram from his brother Virgil, marshal of Tombstone, asking for help against the Clanton gang; when he goes, Laura leaves him. Holliday, despite increasing illness, insists on joining him. Morgan (Kelley) arrives from Deadwood, and the Earps are all assembled in Tombstone. They drive the Clantons out once, but the Clantons gun down young James Earp, and the showdown is on. The remaining Earps and Holliday march through the streets four abreast to the appointed meeting at the OK Corral, where there is a long shoot-out that ends with all the Clanton side dead and the three Earps wounded. After Wyatt guns down Billy, the last to die, he tosses his star on the body. Wyatt bids Holliday farewell, unsuccessfully urging him to go to a hospital, and heads off to California in hopes of finding Laura.

Notes:
Kelley has just a few small scenes. As the Earps gather at Virgil's, Morgan objects to Wyatt's friendship with Holliday; Virgil's wife castigates Morgan for coming to be killed. In the big shoot-out, Morgan is wounded and Holliday drags him to comparative safety.

This was Kelley's second of three versions of The OK Corral story. He had played Ike Clanton in the You Are There version, and in the Star Trek episode "Spectre of the Gun" the McCoy character would find himself cast as Tom McLowery in the deadly illusion. Kelley liked to say he was "anxiously waiting to do it as a musical." Kelley stated at a Trek convention that Hal Willis, the producer of this movie, had seen him do Ike and wanted to cast him in that role but he had a schedule conflict and ended up as Morgan.

Kelley was seriously injured during the shootout scene - he landed badly on his rifle and tore the cartilage along his ribs, and then Douglas dragged him for a ways and flopped on top of him. After the scene, the director complimented Kelley on the authenticity of the pained noises he was making, then sent him to the hospital when he found he really couldn't get up. When he was back at the hotel on painkillers, Jack Elam fetched him down to the fancy hotel club (where the ordinary actors were not usually allowed) for dinner with Sturgess, Lancaster and Ireland. He got up to pay the bill and suddenly had a reaction to the injury and passed out; he woke with Burt Lancaster holding a spittoon for him while he vomited.

For Trekkers:
Lancaster has a line, "To hell with logic; he was my brother!" - too bad it wasn't Morgan's...

Sources: viewing; Internet Movie Database; Guyer 1992; video box notes Reviews: NYT 5/30/57; Variety 5/15/57

Role: ?
Episode: 1.12           Airdate: 6/18/57 (L.A.)
Commercial Recording: None known

Episode Summary: Not viewed. From Classic TV Archive website:
"Men from the Sheriff's office try to free a youth trapped in an abandoned oil derrick. The boy has been injured in the fall and the police work feverishly to save the boy's life."

Sources: Classic TV Archive website; Terrace (1986); Ultimate Mystery website

Role: *** Peter Harris
Episode: ?           Airdate: 8/04/57
Commercial Recording:
“Old-Time Radio’s Greatest Shows” from Radio Spirits.

Episode Summary:
Peter Harris is an agent always on the lookout for new talent, and offended by the show-business slang term “fleshpeddler” for his trade. To please his wife, he goes to a carnival and is so taken with the ventriloquist act of Alexander Wilson and his dummy Oliver that he determines to book him. Wilson refuses, and Bernice, the Bearded Woman, repeatedly warns him off, finally explaining that Wilson is crazy -- he thinks he killed a woman -- and he must stay with his own carnie folk. Peter persists, now wanting to help Wilson. Wilson refuses again, but then calls him late in the night asking Peter to come meet him. When Peter arrives at the trailer, Oliver the dummy is revealed to be a midget, the son of the woman Wilson killed when she laughed at his love. Oliver destroyed all evidence of the murder so that the law wouldn’t give Wilson the easy death of hanging, and he could torture him with guilt at his own leisure. Oliver shoots Wilson, but just as he takes aim at Peter, Bernice’s dim-witted, knife-throwing brother Arthur nails the midget.

Notes:
Though the twist ending wasn’t really much of a surprise, there is some good writing in this little show, and it is quite a nice vehicle for Kelley.
     The narrator (William Robson) states that Kelley is “presently being seen as Morgan Earp in Gunfight at the OK Corral."
     The tape also includes: “The Man Who Couldn’t Die” from Inner Sanctum Mysteries, 02/12/46 and “A Matter of Odds” from The Whistler, 05/11/52.
     In a 1982 interview with Alan Asherman, Alan states that Kelley played a ventriloquist whose dummy came to life, and Kelley responds that it was “The Whistler.” They are both presumably mis-remembering. This has to be “Fleshpeddler.”

Sources: tape; Asherman 1988

Episode Summary:
Ballinger is called in to assist with a manhunt for escaped convict Pete Wokowlski, who has murdered a driver for his clothes. Pete’s mother gives no information, stating that her son Peter is dead. Pete’s “good kid” brother Stephen gets a phone call from Pete, tapped by Miller, stating “Pete Loves Mary.” Ballinger tries to get Stephen to cooperate, with no luck. Ballinger is ordered to bring Stephen in, but refuses - he insists the Stephen has to stay free to lead them to Pete, and he contacts Pete’s old girlfriend, Mary, now a society wife, who refuses to help. Miller keeps a watch on Stephen while Ballinger tries to talk to him again, and they lose him. Pete meets Stephen in the park by a bench on which he had carved "Pete Loves Mary," gives him money he has stolen, and tells him to hire a car and come back for him. Ballinger goes to see the mother again, learns about the bench accidentally, and he and Miller stake it out. They catch Stephen, set up roadblocks and collect Pete. Pete has gotten a gun and uses Ballinger as a hostage to get through the roadblock. He orders Stephen to pull over so he can kill Ballinger; Stephen argues that he doesn’t have to kill him, there is a tussle, Stephen gets a gun and shoots Pete.

Notes: Not much of a role for Kelley, but nice suits...

Sources: viewing; Brooks & Marsh;Guyer, 1993

Role: Joe Enright
Episode: ?           Airdate: 10/11/57
Commercial Recording: None known

Episode Summary: Not viewed. From TV Guide for a re-run of the episode on Dec 20 1966:
"Skipper Joe Enright blames himself for his sub's failure."

Note: Kelley apparently reprised this role in the later episode "The Archerfish Spits Straight" (1958)

Episode Summary:
Ballinger encounters Hazel, a bar girl who has sometimes helped him with cases, leaving a jewelry store in an upscale part of town. Suspicious, he has owner Sazzano check the tray of diamond rings she was looking at. All is in order, and Hazel explains to Ballinger that she is going to be married. They part amiably, but Ballinger wonders why Hazel isn't happier about her marriage. He sees her with a surly fellow whom he follows into Becker's bar, where he learns that the guy hates cops and is shaking down Hazel's intended, a former safe-cracker now trying to go straight. Ballinger sneakily gets the guy's fingerprints on a shot glass and finds that he is criminal Joe Mazzerin. Ballinger and Miller (Kelley) set up an encounter with Mazzerin in the bar, in which Miller is apparently shot dead by Ballinger. This lets Ballinger run off with Mazzerin and eventually take on the job of cracking the safe at Sazzano's for a diamond heist. The third man in the job turns out to be Sazzano, planning on a little insurance fraud. A scuffle ensues, which Ballinger wins. Hazel's fiancé is sent to a hospital to straighten out. Newlan wants to book Hazel as an accessory but Ballinger talks him out of it.

Notes:
Kelley has one fun scene playing the obnoxious "bad cop," letting Ballinger knock him across the bar and playing dead. He shows up again briefly, nursing a sore jaw and worrying about Ballinger's safety.

Sources: viewing; Brooks & Marsh; Classic TV episode guide.

Notes:
Pretentious fool is an unusual role for Kelley and rather entertaining. He only has a couple of scenes, but they are crucial to the story.
Dead Again: Gut-shot at three feet while trying to disarm an outlaw. Tsk, tsk.

Sources: viewing; Lentz (1997); Brooks & Marsh

Role: * Southern Officer
Released: 12/20/57
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Writer: Millard Kaufman
From 1948 novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr.
Producer:David Lewis
Notes: MGM; 182m; color
Commercial Recording:
MGM Screen Epics

Role: Merriweather
Episode: 1.14           Airdate: 12/26/57
Commercial Recording: None known

Episode Summary: Not viewed. From Lentz (1997):
"The Fifth Cavalry is challenged to a boxing match by the nearby Seventh Cavalry. Captain Adams accepts because he believes Sergeant Bullock can win. The champion of the Seventh turns out to be an English ex-professional."

Sources: Lentz (1997)