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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Ive read somewhere that Raymond Burr had come in to try out for the role of Alexander Hamilton, but once Gardner saw he he said Burr was a perfect Mason. I have a biography of Raymond Burr on my TBR list (Hiding in Plain Sight: The Secret Life of Raymond Burr by Michael Seth Starr), so I'll have to read that to confirm what I just wrote, but the rest of the cast of the TV series had their own secrets, such as the year William Talman (Hamilton) disappeared from the show for a year. He'd been fired by the studio for fear his extra-curricular activities could reflect badly on his credibility as an actor playing a District Attorney when he was arrested by the police who caught him naked at a pot party. He was eventually rehired.
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1) Tom, have you been thinking about Broadway lately? We know you mean Hamilton Burger!
2) I read this many years ago: At the time Burr was starring in a CBS western radio show whose name escapes me (maybe Fort Laramie?). He tried out for the part of Burger, and to his surprise he was given the part of Mason. Since TV stars were able to arrange for actors to get occasional jobs on their shows, he announced the news to his radio colleagues, and said, "Gentlemen, we're all going to be rich!"