The Andersonville Trial

The Andersonville Trial
Genre	Drama
Written by	Saul Levitt (play)
Directed by	George C. Scott
Starring	Cameron Mitchell William Shatner Jack Cassidy
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Lewis Freedman Morris Chapnick (associate producer) Edith Hamlin (supervising producer)
Production company(s)	Community Television of Southern California
Distributor	PBS
Release
Original network	PBS
Original release	May 17, 1970

The Andersonville Trial was a television adaptation of a 1959 hit Broadway play by Saul Levitt, presented as an episode of PBS's on May 17, 1970 as part of the anthology series Hollywood Television Theatre.

The play was based on the actual 1865 trial of Henry Wirz, played by Richard Basehart, commander of the infamous Confederate Andersonville prison, where thousands of Union prisoners died of exposure, malnutrition, and disease. A notable cast included William Shatner as the Chief JAG Prosecutor Norton Parker Chipman, Jack Cassidy (who was nominated for an Emmy) as Wirz's defense counsel, Cameron Mitchell as Lew Wallace, a Union general and the future author of Ben-Hur, and Buddy Ebsen as a Georgia physician called in to testify about the fate of many of the Union prisoners.

The cast included three actors who had appeared opposite Shatner in Star Trek: The Original Series: Harry Townes, who played Col. Chandler, was "Reger" in The Return of the Archons, Whit Bissell, who played Dr. Ford, was "Mr. Lurry" in The Trouble with Tribbles, and Ian Wolfe, who was "Septimus" and "Mr. Atoz" in "Bread and Circuses" and "All Our Yesterdays", respectively, was a member of the trial board.

...
Wikipedia