Editing Richard Basehart (section)

===Television===
From 1964 to 1968, Basehart played the lead role, Admiral Harriman Nelson, on [[Irwin Allen]]'s first foray into science-fiction television, ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea''.<ref name="Krebs nytimes2" />

Basehart appeared in the pilot episode of the television series ''Knight Rider'' as billionaire Wilton Knight. He is the narrator at the beginning of the show's credits.<ref>{{cite web |last=Nuthall |first=Paul |date=August 31, 2014 |title=Remembering Richard Basehart |url=http://www.knightriderarchives.com/news/2014/08/31/remembering-richard-basehart/ |access-date=July 22, 2019 |publisher=Knight Rider Archives}}</ref> He accepted the [[Adolf Hitler|lead role]] in the 1962 film ''[[Hitler (1962 film)|Hitler]]''. He appeared in "[[Probe 7, Over and Out]]", an episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'',<ref>{{cite web |last=Rubin |first=Steve |date=November 29, 2017 |title=November 29 in Twilight Zone History: Celebrating the 1963 premiere of 'Probe 7, Over and Out' |work=SYFY WIRE |url=https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/november-29-in-twilight-zone-history-celebrating-the-1963-premiere-of-probe-7-over-and-out |access-date=July 22, 2019 |publisher=[[Syfy Wire]]}}</ref> ''[[Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)|Hawaii Five-O]]'', and as Hannibal Applewood, an abusive schoolteacher in ''[[Little House on the Prairie (TV series)|Little House on the Prairie]]'' in 1976. In 1972, Basehart appeared in the ''[[Columbo (TV series)|Columbo]]'' episode "Dagger of the Mind", in which [[Honor Blackman]] and he played a husband-and-wife theatrical team who accidentally kill Sir Roger Haversham, the producer of their rendition of Macbeth.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sabin |first1=Roger |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CoT2BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA59 |title=Cop Shows: A Critical History of Police Dramas on Television |last2=Wilson |first2=Ronald |last3=Speidel |first3=Linda |last4=Faucette |first4=Brian |last5=Bethell |first5=Ben |date=2015 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |isbn=978-0-7864-4819-7 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |page=59}}</ref>

Basehart made a few TV movies, including ''[[Sole Survivor (1970 film)|Sole Survivor]]'' (1970) and ''[[The Birdmen]]'' (1971). Both were based on true stories during [[World War II]].