Pollard had his earliest screen roles in television, with multiple appearances in programs broadcast during 1959. He had two roles in episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents": "Appointment at Eleven", a minor part as a shoeshine boy and as Herpetologist H. Eidelpfeiffer in "Anniversary Gift". Pollard also portrayed Homer McCauley, the dramatic lead, in a television adaptation of William Saroyan's novel "The Human Comedy", narrated by Burgess Meredith, and broadcast as an episode of the "DuPont Show of the Month". That same year Pollard appeared in David Hedison's 16-segment NBC espionage TV series "Five Fingers" in the episode "The Unknown Town".