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John Newland (23 November 191710 January 2000; age 82) was an actor and director who directed the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "Errand of Mercy".

The Star Trek producers were well-satisfied with his work and wanted to hire him for other episodes, however, Newland was unavailable due to his busy schedule. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One)

Newland began an acting career in 1949. Over the course of the next decade, he amassed over a hundred television guest appearances, ten small movie roles, and a number of directorial credits, before moving behind the camera in the early sixties. He spent the next twenty years there, rounding out his career with several late eighties producer credits.

In front of the camera, he is perhaps best known as the host of the late 1950s supernatural anthology television series Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond and its late 1970s follow-up, The Next Step Beyond.

Between 1963 and 1965, Newland directed 22 episodes of the medical drama series Dr. Kildare, and in 1965, 24 episodes of the primetime soap opera Peyton Place. In 1966-67, he directed 18 out of 21 episodes of the spy series The Man Who Never Was, which starred Robert Lansing and was cancelled after a single season.

He also directed episodes of series such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (with David Armstrong), Hawaii Five-O (with William Smithers and Pilar Seurat), Night Gallery (with Joel Grey), Fantasy Island (starring Ricardo Montalban, with John Schuck, Ronnie Cox, Tony Young, Len Felber, and Monty O'Grady), and Wonder Woman (with Robert Sampson, Marc Alaimo, and Ike Eisenmann).

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