Bus Stop(1961)

series - first aired/released 1961-10-01 - audience 10.0

Drama

Directed by Arthur Hiller, Don Medford, Don Siegel, Felix E. Feist, Francis D. Lyon, James B. Clark, John Newland, Joseph Pevney, Lamont Johnson, Richard L. Bare, Robert Altman, Stuart Rosenberg, Ted Post

Bus Stop is a 26-episode American drama which 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 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.