Route 66: Narcissus on an Old Red Fire Engine


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Narcissus on an Old Red Fire Engine

Season 3, Episode 24

Lovelorn Linc sets about rehabilitating Janie Nickerson (Anne Helm), whose periodic journeys into an imaginary world have begun to lengthen. Nickerson: Alan Hale. Linc: Glenn Corbett. Mrs. Nickerson: Phyllis Hill.

repeat 1963 English HD Level Unknown
Adventure Action/adventure Crime Drama Suspense/thriller

Cast & Crew
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Martin Milner (Actor) .. Tod Stiles
Glenn Corbett (Actor) .. Linc
Anne Helm (Actor) .. Janie
Alan Hale (Actor) .. Mr. Nickerson
Phyllis Hill (Actor) .. Mrs. Nickerson
Pat Renella (Actor) .. Paul
Warren Kemmerling (Actor) .. Chief of Police
James O'hara (Actor) .. Bill Caldwell

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Martin Milner (Actor) .. Tod Stiles
Born: December 28, 1931
Died: September 06, 2015
Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Trivia: Red-headed, freckle-faced Martin Milner was only 15 when he made his screen debut in Life With Father (1947), and would continue to play wide-eyed high schoolers and college kids well into the next decade. His early film assignments included the teenaged Marine recruit in Lewis Milestone's The Halls of Montezuma (1951) and the obnoxious suitor of Jeanne Crain in Belles on Their Toes (1952). His first regular TV series was The Stu Erwin Show (1950-1955), in which he played the boyfriend (and later husband) of Stu's daughter Joyce. More mature roles came his way in Marjorie Morningstar (1957) as Natalie Wood's playwright sweetheart and in The Sweet Smell of Success (1957) as the jazz musician targeted for persecution by Winchell-esque columnist Burt Lancaster. Beginning in 1960, he enjoyed a four-year run as Corvette-driving Tod Stiles on TV's Route 66 (a statue of Milner and his co-star George Maharis currently stands at the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY). A longtime friend and associate of producer/director/actor Jack Webb, Milner was cast as veteran L.A.P.D. patrolman Pete Malloy on the Webb-produced TV weekly Adam-12, which ran from 1968 to 1975. His later TV work included a short-lived 1970s series based on Johan Wyss' Swiss Family Robinson. Later employed as a California radio personality, Martin Milner continued to make occasional TV guest appearances; one of these was in the 1989 TV movie Nashville Beat, in which he was reunited with his Adam-12 co-star Kent McCord. He made an appearance on the short-lived series The New Adam-12 and had recurring roles on shows like Life Goes On and Murder, She Wrote. Milner died in 2015, at age 83.
Glenn Corbett (Actor) .. Linc
Born: January 01, 1930
Died: January 16, 1993
Trivia: The son of a garage mechanic, Glenn Corbett was sent to live with his grandparents at the age of two. He later joined the Seabees and it was during his Navy years that he met his future wife, Judy, a speech major at Occidental College. With Judy's encouragement, Corbett began trying out for campus theatricals. His performance in Occidental's staging of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial led to his being signed by Columbia Pictures. After two year's worth of nondescript roles in films like The Mountain Road (1960) and Homicidal (1961), he landed the lead in the picturesque 1962 TV series It's a Man's World. Though the series lasted only 13 weeks, it gained enough of a cult following to assure Corbett's future stardom. In early 1963, he made a guest appearance as troublesome ex-G.I. Linc Case on the long-running series Route 66; by the fall of that year, he was appearing in that series on a weekly basis, as a replacement for defecting Route 66 star George Maharis. After the series ran its course in 1964, Corbett went on to co-star as Chance Reynolds in the prime-time Western The Road West, which lasted a single season (1966-1967). He kept busy in theatrical features, appearing with John Wayne in Chisum (1969) and Big Jake (1971), and starring in director Sam Fuller's West German-produced Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1972). He went on to play Paul Morgan during the 1983-1984 season of Dallas, returning to the role in 1988. In his last years, he occasionally worked as a dialogue director. Glenn Corbett died of lung cancer in 1993.
Anne Helm (Actor) .. Janie
Born: September 12, 1938
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario
Trivia: Lead actress, onscreen from 1955.
Alan Hale (Actor) .. Mr. Nickerson
Born: March 08, 1921
Died: January 02, 1990
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States
Trivia: The son of a patent medicine manufacturer, American actor Alan Hale chose a theatrical career at a time when, according to his son Alan Hale Jr., boarding houses would post signs reading "No Dogs or Actors Allowed." Undaunted, Hale spent several years on stage after graduating from Philadelphia University, entering films as a slapstick comedian for Philly's Lubin Co. in 1911. Bolstering his acting income with odd jobs as a newspaperman and itinerant inventor (at one point he considered becoming an osteopath!), Hale finally enjoyed a measure of security as a much-in-demand character actor in the 1920s, usually as hard-hearted villains. One of his more benign roles was as Little John in Douglas Fairbanks' Robin Hood (1922), a role he would repeat opposite Errol Flynn in 1938 and John Derek in 1950. Talkies made Hale more popular than ever, especially in his many roles as Irishmen, blusterers and "best pals" for Warner Bros. Throughout his career, Hale never lost his love for inventing things, and reportedly patented or financed items as commonplace as auto brakes and as esoteric as greaseless potato chips. Alan Hale contracted pneumonia and died while working on the Warner Bros. western Montana (1950), which starred Hale's perennial screen cohort Errol Flynn.
Phyllis Hill (Actor) .. Mrs. Nickerson
Born: January 01, 1920
Died: January 01, 1993
Trivia: Classically-trained dancer, and actress on stage, screen and television, Phyllis Hill got her start professionally dancing with the Metropolitan Opera ballet company and then joined the ballet corps at the Radio City Music Hall. From there she began playing dramatic roles in theater and this lead her to Broadway. Hill eventually became a performer in the international road-production of Rosalinda. Hill was a television actress in the mid 1950s and may be best remembered for playing Mrs. Dawson for many years on General Hospital. From the mid-'60s through the early '70s, Hill was also a regular on That Girl.
Pat Renella (Actor) .. Paul
Born: March 24, 1929
Warren Kemmerling (Actor) .. Chief of Police
Born: January 01, 1924
Died: January 03, 2005
Trivia: Character actor, onscreen from 1966.
James O'hara (Actor) .. Bill Caldwell
Born: September 11, 1927

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