BUS STOP - THE TV SERIES - 10 RARE SHOWS

Bus Stop aired on ABC from October 1, 1961, until March 25, 1962, 
starring Marilyn Maxwell as Grace Sherwood, the owner of a bus station 
and diner in the fictitious town of Sunrise in the Colorado Rockies. The program was adapted from William Inge's play, Bus Stop and later movie 
which starred Marilyn Monroe. Inge was a script consultant for the series, 
which followed the lives of travelers passing through the bus station and the diner. 


Maxwell's co-stars were Richard Anderson as District Attorney 
Glenn Wagner, Rhodes Reason as Sheriff Will Mayberry, Joan Freeman as 
waitress Elma Gahrigner, Bernard Kates as Ralph the coroner, and 
Buddy Ebsen as Virge Blessing.

The quality of this set varies from show to show

ROOM WITHOUT A KEY - guest Howard Duff

PUT YOUR DREAMS AWAY - guest Gary Merrill

AFTERNOON OF A COWBOY - guest Steve Cochran and Dean Stockwell

ORDEAL OF KEVIN BROOKE - guest Mark Stevens & Patricia Owens

ACCESSORY BY CONSENT guest Jack Warden

THE LION WALKS AMONG US guest Fabian as an axe-wielding serial killer

SWEET SUCCESS guest James Whitmore

AND THE PURSUIT OF EVIL guest Keenan Wynn and James MacArthur

SUMMER LIGHTNING guests Steve Forrest and Beverly Garland

I KISS YOUR SHADOW guests George Grizzard, Alfred Ryder, and Joanne Linville.

The series finale, "I Kiss Your Shadow," is a story of a man crushed by the memory of his wife's death in an automobile accident.

In his book Danse Macabre, Stephen King nominated this episode as "...the single most frightening story ever done on TV." King wrote that Bus Stop was "...a straight drama show,... The final episode, however, deviated wildly into the supernatural



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