"Coronet Blue"

[oldmanradio]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvof8Hvm3B0

 

[bpatrick]

If Herb Brodkin had just been able to get Frank Converse
to come back and do a final episode answering all the hanging
questions; particularly, just who was Michael Alden anyway?

 

[RadioJunkieMike]

Wow: I was just thinking about this show last week. I specifically remember an episode with Dick Clark (making his dramatic acting debut, I think) as a sleazy record-company exec. His biggest artist is killed in an accident and he makes a fortune releasing posthumous singles that all shoot to the top of the charts. And then the big reveal in the last act is that the singer isn't really dead -- Clark has been keeping him prisoner in the basement of his mansion, forcing him at gunpoint to record new songs! I often wonder if Elvis (or Jim Morrison) saw that episode...

 

[Markieo]

Wow: I was just thinking about this show last week. I specifically remember an episode with Dick Clark (making his dramatic acting debut, I think) as a sleazy record-company exec. His biggest artist is killed in an accident and he makes a fortune releasing posthumous singles that all shoot to the top of the charts. And then the big reveal in the last act is that the singer isn't really dead -- Clark has been keeping him prisoner in the basement of his mansion, forcing him at gunpoint to record new songs! I often wonder if Elvis (or Jim Morrison) saw that episode...

Dick Clark made his dramatic acting debut in 1960 in "Because They're Young", featuring Duane Eddy and Bobby Rydell.

 

[Hal Erickson]

Clark had already played dramatic roles on two TV series, BURKE'S LAW and PERRY MASON.





-SPOILER ALERT-
In both cases, he was revealed to be a murderer.

 

[onairb]

in fact, Clark was the guilty party on the final episode of 'Perry Mason', 'The Case of the Final Fade-Out'.