"McClory made two appearances on NBC's "Bonanza," as Mark Connors in the 1962 episode "The Tall Stranger" and as Professor James Aloysuis McCarthy in the 1963 comedic episode "Hoss and the Leprechauns".In 1965, McClory was cast as the poet Joaquin Miller, with June Lockhart (who had played his wife in the "Perry Mason" episode "The Case of the Scandalous Sculptor") in the role of Ina Coolbrith, first poet laureate of California, in the episode "Magic Locket" of the syndicated western series, "Death Valley Days", hosted by Ronald W. Reagan.