Alcoa Premiere The Jail

1962 · drama · science-fiction

6 Feb 1962 Director: Norman Lloyd Writer: Ray Bradbury Fred Astaire, John Gavin, James Barton, Barry Morse In this future time a young man was charged with an offense against the state and marshaled into a huge building crammed with banks and banks of computers. These computers would absorb and assess the evidence. Alcoa Premiere was hosted by Fred Astaire and presented a new drama with each week's episode. Unlike some of the earlier drama series, which tended either toward classics or toward light subject matter, this series often had powerful stories about painful or controversial subjects. Many big names got involved with this series, including actors like Charlton Heston and Lee Marvin, directors like John Ford, and writers like Ray Bradbury.