The Twilight Zone (1963) (TV)
- Starring as Johnson in "Valley of the Shadow"
- The TV Series originally ran from 1959 to 1964. Rod Serling hosted a bizarre and always twisted half hour story about anything you could possibly imagine.
- In this episode Philip Redfield (Ed Nelson) is a reporter who stops for gas, and encounters the small town of Peaceful Valley, where machines can create ham sandwiches out of thin air and make dogs disappear or come back to life. Having learned the secrets of a miraculous power source Redfield thinks they should share this with the world, but the town elders give him a choice: stay forever or die.
- Johnson answers the door when Redfield is looking for his dog that literally disappeared. Johnson makes the dog reappear with an electronic device and then acts if nothing happened in the first place.

Gunsmoke (1962) (TV)
- Starring as Davit in "Quint Asper Comes Home"
- Based on the radio series of the same name, Gunsmoke was network television's first "adult" western. The series debuted in 1955; and ran for 20 years. James Arness starred as Matt Dillon, marshal of Dodge City, Kansas. (the role was originally offered to John Wayne).
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