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Brushfire!

1962

DirectorJack Warner, Jr.
ProducerJack Warner, Jr.
Production CompanyObelisk Productions, Paramount Pictures
Release DateFebruary 21st, 1962
CastJohn Ireland (Jeff), Everett Sloane (Chevern), Carl Esmond (Martin), Howard Caine (Vlad), Al Avalon (Tony), Jo Morrow (Easter), Maria McClay (Lin Chan)

Brushfire! is a low budget black-and-white jungle warfare adventure exploitation film produced, directed and co-written by Jack Warner, Jr the only son of Jack L. Warner of Warner Bros.. Warner planned on making two more films under his Obelisk Productions company but they were never produced. It was filmed at the time of the beginning of American involvement in Viet Nam and Laos brushfire conflicts.

Maria McClay as Lin Chan with her husband Chevern (Everett Sloane).

John Ireland as Jeff and Everett Sloane as Chevern play two American World War II veterans who have settled as farmers in a Southeast Asian nation. When a group of guerillas under the leadership of Martin (Carl Esmond) and Vlad (Howard Caine) abduct a young American couple, Tony (Al Avalon) and Easter (Jo Morrow) Banford the two vets use their expertise in jungle warfare and their familiarity with the land to destroy the guerillas and rescue the couple.

Maria plays Lin Chan, Chevern’s wife. When he explains to her that he wants to help Jeff rescue the American couple she tells him that she may not wait for him and leave with their children.

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Bachelor Father

1957-1962

Bachelor Father follows the adventures of Bentley Gregg (John Forsythe), a wealthy bachelor attorney living in Beverly Hills who assumes the responsibility of raising his niece, Kelly (Noreen Corcoran), after her parents died in an automobile accident. Other members of the cast included houseboy Peter Tong (Sammee Tong), teenage neighbor and Kelly’s on and off boyfriend, Howard Meechum (Jimmy Boyd), Kelly’s best friend, Ginger Farrell (Bernadette Withers) and Jasper, the dog.

John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran and Sammee Tong.

This sitcom premiered on CBS in 1957 before moving to NBC for the third season in 1959. The series’ fifth and final season aired in ABC in 1961/2. The series was based on “A New Girl in His Life,” which aired on General Electric Theater on May 26, 1957. It is the only primetime series ever to run in consecutive years on the three major television networks, ABC, CBS and NBC.

Episodes

S05 E22 – Summer Romance (1962)

While in Yellowstone both Bentley and Peter find themselves in the company of attractive and interesting women, Loretta Prentice, who manages the waitresses, and lepidopterist Lin Sing (Maria McClay).
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87th Precinct

1961-1962

Manhattan’s 87th precinct forms the backdrop for this grim and gritty American crime and police drama based on the long-running series of novels by Ed McBain. The storylines focus on neighborhood crime, and the lives of the officers of the 87th and their families: Det. Steve Carella (Robert Lansing) and his deaf/mute wife; rookie Det. Bert Kling (Ron Harper); long-time veteran Det. Roger Havilland (Gregory Walcott) and the wryly philosophical Det. Meyer Meyer (Norman Fell).

Episodes

S01 E24 – Square Cop (1962)

Maria plays Mary, a shop clerk and reluctant eye witness to a murder, being interviewed by the detectives. Understandably she is rather worried about retribution from the mob and about having to go to court and testifying in public.
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S01 E24 – Square Cop (1962)

87th Precinct

DirectorJames Sheldon
ProducerWinston Miller, Boris D. Kaplan
Production CompanyHubbell Robinson Productions, Revue Studios, MCA TV
AiredMarch 12th, 1962, NBC
CastRobert Lansing (Det. Steve Carella), Ron Harper (Det. Bert Kling), Gregory Walcott (Det. Roger Havilland), Norman Fell (Det. Meyer Meyer), Lee Tracy (Otto Forman), Jack Hogan (Johnny Forman), Dennis McCarthy (Joe), Paul Genge (The Lieutenant), Paul Smith (Ed), Victor Creatore (Edward), Faye Nuell (Millie Haines), Allen Jung (Mike), James Hong (Mike II), Maria Tsien McClay (Mary), Gene Roth (Cassidy), William Bakewell (Mr. Somers), Dorothy Kingston (Mrs. Somers)
Maria McClay as shop clerk Mary being grilled by Det. Steve Carella (Robert Lansing) and Det. Roger Havilland (Gregory Walcott).

Veteran patrolman Pat Forman, who is due to retire in a few days, is out on the beat showing the ropes to his replacement, Eddie Haines. A jangling burglar alarm sends them running to a
supermarket where Eddie is gunned down by the fleeing thief. What does Pat Forman know and how is he involved in this crime?

Maria plays Mary, a shop clerk and reluctant eye witness to a murder, being interviewed by the detectives. Understandably she is rather worried about retribution from the mob and about having to go to court and testifying in public. The detectives try to reassure her.

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S05 E22 – Summer Romance (1962)

Bachelor Father

DirectorEarl Bellamy
ProducerEverett Freeman
Production CompanyBachelor Productions, Revue Studios (later Universal Television)
AiredFebruary 20th, 1962, ABC
CastJohn Forsythe (Bentley Gregg), Noreen Corcoran (Kelly Gregg), Sammee Tong (Peter Tong), Allison Hayes (Loretta), Maria Tsien McClay (Lin Sing), Gary Clarke (Bruce Dalton)
Maria McClay as lepidopterist Lin Sing making the aquaintance of Sammee Tong, as house boy Peter Tong.

Bentley (John Forsythe) and Peter (Sammee Tong) panic when they hear from Kelly (Noreen Corcoran), who is waitressing in Yellowstone, and who informs them she’s getting married. They immediately head to the park to put a stop to her wedding to budding forest ranger Bruce Dalton (Gary Clarke).

While in Yellowstone both Bentley and Peter find themselves in the company of attractive and interesting women, Loretta Prentice (Allison Hayes), who manages the waitresses, and lepidopterist Lin Sing (Maria McClay). All three couples independently decide to spend some time in a near by mountain lodge, leading to all manners of confusion and hijinks and an encounter with a large bear.

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