Episode # 6222 HEY, RUBE
Original airdate: 2-18-63
In this suspenseful episode, Ralph Frazer (played by Victor Buono), a mentally unbalanced man who has lost his daughter in a terrible accident, takes a liking to Christine Massey’s youngest daughter, Maria (played by Tracy Stafford). He believes Maria is actually his own missing daughter and terrorizes the Massey household by threatening to take Maria... until Christine can talk him out of his delusion.
Victor Buono was an American actor, comic, and briefly a recording artist known for playing the villain King Tut on the television series Batman (1966-1968) and musician Edwin Flagg in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), the latter of which earned him Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations.
Buono was a busy actor from his late teens until his death at age 43 and, with his large size and sonorous voice, he made a career of playing men much older than he was.
Though Buono had a vast body of work in movies, he also had extensive television appearances to his credit; one was in the recurring role of Count Manzeppi in The Wild Wild West. He also played unrelated characters in that series' premiere episode and in the second and final Wild Wild West reunion movie More Wild Wild West (1980).
Buono was found dead at his home in Apple Valley, California on New Year's Day 1982. He died of a sudden massive heart attack. He is entombed with his mother, Myrtle, in Greenwood Memorial Park in San Diego, but his name is not inscribed on the crypt.
Norman Leavitt (Elwyn ) was born on December 1, 1913 in Lansing, Michigan, as Norman Turner Leavitt. He was known for performances on series such as Off Limits (1952), Trackdown (1957) and The Wild Wild West (1965).
Leavitt had been retired for many years and living in Solvang, California when he died on December 11, 2005 in Solvang.
Ila Britton (playing Helen Frazer) was born on November 22, 1916 in Hillsborough County, Florida, as Ila Albritton. She was an actress known for Flight (1958), The Untouchables (1959) and The New Loretta Young Show (1962). She died on January 30, 2000 in Los Angeles, California.
Directed by Norman Foster
Written by Pauline Stone and Mike Cosgrove
Sustaining Cast:
Christine Massey Loretta Young
Paul Belzer James Philbrook
Maria Tracy Stratford
Supporting Cast:
Ralph Frazer Victor Buono
Elwyn Norman Leavitt
Helen Frazer IIa Britton
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