In 1959 , Bester adapted his 1954 story " Fondly Fahrenheit " to television as '' Murder and the Android '' . Telecast in color on October 18 , 1959 , the hour-long drama took place in the year 2359 amid futuristic sets designed by Ted Cooper . This '' NBC Sunday Showcase '' production , produced by Robert Alan Aurthur with a cast of Kevin McCarthy , Rip Torn , Suzanne Pleshette and Telly Savalas , was reviewed by syndicated radio-television critic John Crosby : '' Murder and the Android '' was nominated for a 1960 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and was given a repeat on September 5 , 1960 , the Labor Day weekend in which that Hugo Award was presented ( to '' The Twilight Zone '' ) at the World Science Fiction Convention in Pittsburgh . Bester returned to '' Sunday Showcase '' March 5 , 1960 , with an original teleplay , '' Turn the Key Deftly '' . Telecast in color , that mystery , set in a traveling circus , starred Julie Harris , Maximilian Schell and Francis Lederer
World Science Fiction Convention in Pittsburgh
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Alfred Bester