At age 25, Majors landed his first, although uncredited, role in Strait-Jacket (1964), as the cheating husband of a character enacted by Joan Crawford. After appearing in a 1965 episode of Gunsmoke, he starred later that year as Howard White in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, “The Monkey’s Paw – A Retelling”, based on the short story by W. W. Jacobs.