Hill was particularly busy in the so-called "Golden Age" of live TV drama, appearing in such offerings as "The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti" in 1960, where he portrayed Bartolomeo Vanzetti. "When I first became an actor, there were two young actors in New York: Marlon Brando and Steven Hill," said Martin Landau, who later became Hill's castmate in the first season of "Mission: Impossible". Landau went on to admit, "A lot of people said that Steven would have been the one, not Marlon. He was legendary. Nuts, volatile, mad, and his work was exciting."