“A Lion Walks Among Us” (from Bus Stop). 1961. 60 min.
Teleplay by Ellis Kadison, from the novel The Judgment, by Tom Wicker. With Fabian, Diane Foster, Richard Anderson, Philip Abbott. The director’s presentation of pop star Fabian as a psychopathic murderer was so provocative in its day that it led to a Congressional Investigation of violence in broadcast television. Courtesy The Paley Center for Media and Twentieth Century Fox.
"Together" (from Alfred Hitchcock Presents). 1958. 30 min.
Teleplay by Robert C. Dennis. With Joseph Cotten, Christine White, Sam Buffington. This melodrama about a murderer trapped with his victim might be viewed as a rehearsal for the self-imposed containment of a President confronting his misdemeanors in Altman’s Secret Honor. Courtesy NBCUniversal.