In our post on the 1960 episodes, we discussed the foundingof Tales of Wells Fargo and its quickrise to fame, reaching #3 on the Nielsen charts in its first full season andcontinuing in the top 10 at #7 the following season, but despite star and 50%owner Dale Robertson's maneuvering to oust aging creator Nat Holt and replacehim with Earle Lyon beginning in Season 5, the fleeting success of the seriesseems to be a case of the rising tide of westerns lifting all boats rather thanWells Fargo finding popularitybecause of its own merits. The program first appeared mid-season in March 1958,a season in which 9 of the top 30 programs were westerns. For the 1958-59season, the high-water mark for westerns in which Wells Fargo placed #3, there were 14 westerns in the top 30--even Sugarfoot made the list at #21. By1959-60, when Wells Fargo dippedslightly to #7, the waters had begun to recede as only 11 westerns cracked thetop 30. The competition also begin to get tougher as popular programs like Rawhide and Maverick entered the fray. And though it did not crack the top 30in its initial season, there would soon be a new sheriff in town--Bonanza, which stood out not only forits all-male quartet cast but more importantly because it was a 1-hour westernin color. By 1960-1961 Wells Fargohad faded out of the top 30 and Bonanzaentered at #17, while the top 30 contained only 8 westerns. It's clear wherethe direction of the genre was heading. When perennial top-rated Gunsmoke expanded from a 30-minute to1-hour format while still remaining black-and-white for the 1961-62 season, itlost its top spot to Wagon Trainwhile Bonanza vaulted to #2. Only 6westerns made the top 30 that season.
The problem for WellsFargo was that it had no distinguishing feature that set it apart fromothers of its ilk, and the attempts by its producers to change its downwardtrajectory were the same techniques used on other programs with similarunsuccessful results. For the Wells FargoSeason 5 episodes that aired in 1961 with Lyons at the helm, the producersattempted to pair the wholesome Jim Hardie with colorful characters and historicalfigures to spur interest. For the latter technique, they brought on famouspugilist John L. Sullivan in "The Hand That Shook the Hand" (February6, 1961) in a yarn in which we do not actually see Sullivan box, but heaccidentally injures a hustling prankster while in a drunken stupor and thenvows to give up his violent career until he learns that his victim hasmiraculously recovered. The episode makes Hardie largely a bystander in theinterchange between two colorful characters and places him in the town where itall happens with the lame explanation that he is between assignments. In otherwords, the story has nothing to do with his working for Wells Fargo.
Late in Season 5, the producers bring back two colorfulcharacters featured in episodes from 1960, perhaps figuring that if they provedpopular before then they can work their magic again. "The RepentantOutlaw" (May 29, 1961) marks the return of Edgar Buchanan's scofflaw DocDawson, who gets mixed up in the robbery of an army payroll that Hardie issupposed to be escorting when the leader of an outlaw gang escapes but iswounded, which sends his henchman searching for a doctor to remove the bulletand Dawson is the only "doctor" they can find. The following episode,"A Quiet Little Town" (June 5, 1961), brings back Hardie frenemy WadeCather, played by John Dehner, when Hardie, again not on official business,shows up in the small town where his friend Marshal Dave Prescott was murderedand discovers that Cather is now serving as the town's marshal with the lame explanationthat Prescott once saved his life, so he took the job to find out who killedhim and now is worried that the same men will kill Hardie. Having to jazz up astory with colorful characters like Dawson and Cather only makes painfullyobvious that the star of the show is too bland to attract and keep viewers.
Since the tactics employed in Season 5 did not raise Wells Fargo in the ratings, theproducers tried throwing in the kitchen sink when it came to Season 6--theyexpanded the program to 60 minutes, shot it in color, added a new openingsequence and theme, and introduced a supporting cast of 5 new regularcharacters. Since Dale Robertson was an avid horse enthusiast, his characterJim Hardie buys himself a horse ranch and hires housekeeper and horse trainerJebediah Gaine. The widow he buys the ranch from, Ovie Swenson, lives at theranch next door with her two attractive daughters, one an adult school teacherand the other a vivacious teenage tomboy. NBC tried the same approach in attemptingto revive Laramie during the 1961-62season: though it had always been a 1-hour program, they added color and a newcast of supporting characters. Adding characters from older and youngerdemographics than the main star was an attempt to attract more viewers fromthose audience segments. Wells Fargoadditionally decided to give Hardie a younger, more hot-headed sidekick byintroducing the character of Beau McCloud, played by Jack Ging, in the season'sfirst episode "Casket 7.3" (September 30, 1961). But as Ging soondiscovered, the show was still all about Hardie and Dale Robertson. Robertsonhimself once commented that he was not a fan of either the "adult"westerns like Gunsmoke or the kiddiewesterns that dominated the early 1950s and that he envisioned Wells Fargo as more of an entire-family-orientedprogram. This middle-of-the-road mentality perhaps explains why Wells Fargo in Season 6 tried to be allthings to all demographics--roughly half the 1961 episodes revolve aroundHardie's ranch and the town Gloribee, while the other half have Hardie andMcCloud on the road tending to Wells Fargo business. Thus, it tried toincorporate both the home-bound format of shows like Bonanza, The Rifleman,and Gunsmoke with the wandering heroformat of programs like Cheyenne, Have Gun -- Will Travel, and Maverick. Though the cast added twoattractive young women as possible romantic interests for Hardie, he treatsthem more like sisters and thus no sparks fly.
Ging quickly grew tired of being Robertson's glorifiedwaterboy and broke his contract, disappearing after the 13th episode, but thiswas actually an opportunity to make better use of iconic character actorWilliam Demarest, who had been reduced to the role of buffoonish clown throughthe first third of Season 6. The final 1961 episode, "Trackback"(December 30, 1961), attempts to correct that one-dimensional portrayal byhaving his character Jeb Gaine go through an existential crisis as the resultof reaching his 60th birthday and feeling that he was all washed up, or atleast considered so by Hardie and the Swensons. He is able to reclaim hisself-worth by using his experience and brains to send the outlaws trying tobreak a colleague out of the Gloribee jail right into Hardie's arms.
Aging is a pervasive theme in the 1961 episodes of Wells Fargo. Beginning with the Season 5tale "The Has-Been" (January 16, 1961) which includes a former starvocalist hallucinating about his deceased wife and former performing partner,the series dwells on characters who are past their prime or trying to make upfor past transgressions. "Moment of Glory" (May 1, 1961) features agrandfather trying to impress his young grandson with fabricated fictions ofhis being an undercover government agent who has tangled with the likes of theClanton Gang at the OK Corral. "The Lobo" (May 8, 1961) centersaround retired outlaw Sam Horne trying to get his young daughter situated in aproper school in Santa Fe while fending off attempts to force him back to hiscriminal ways. "John Jones" (June 26, 1961) features another formeroutlaw who returns to the town where his former partners have becomerespectable citizens in an attempt to blackmail them after his own fortuneshave turned sour. "A Fistful of Pride" (November 18, 1961) focuses onformer boxing champion Bonzo Croydon trying to make a comeback to keep custodyof his daughter and win back his estranged wife. And "Defiant at theGate" (November 25, 1961) concerns aging robber Matt Blackner trying toprovide an inheritance for his daughter whom he neglected for 20 years byentrusting her with $48,000 he stole and stiffed his former partners for.Perhaps the producers sensed that WellsFargo was also past its prime and needed to prepare for the hereafter.
But while they may have made the right call in givingDemarest a bigger, more well-rounded role after Ging's departure, their biggestmistake for Season 6 was moving the program from its Monday night time slot toSaturday night opposite Perry Mason.Lyons, in an interview with the Western Clippings web site, lays the blame forthe show's cancellation at the feet of new Universal Studios chief LewWasserman and his desire to cut costs, claiming that Wells Fargo was still doing respectably well in ratings. But between1960-61 and 1961-62 Perry Masonjumped from #16 to #5 in the ratings. Some of that increase may have come atthe expense of The Roaring 20s, whichwas cancelled in January 1962 and was replaced with two even more forgettable30-minute programs--the animated Calvinand the Colonel and the family sit-com Roomfor One More, neither of which survived past the end of the season. But Perry Mason's climb may have also beenaided by its new NBC neighbor, which tried to be every kind of western underthe sun and wound up riding off into the sunset in 1962.
The new Season 6 theme for Tales of Wells Fargo was written by Harry Warren, one of the mostsuccessful songwriters of the Great American Songbook. Born Salvatore AntonioGuaragna on December 24, 1893 in Brooklyn, Warren was one of 11 children of anItalian bootmaker, whose accordion was his first instrument. By age 14 he wasplaying drums professionally and dropped out of school two years later. By 1915he was working for Vitagraph Motion Picture Studios not only performing administrativetasks but also playing mood music on the piano for the performers, eventuallyworking his way up to assistant director before entering the U.S. Navy in 1918,which is when he began writing songs. He is credited with some 800 compositions,500 of which were published, and 21 of which reached #1 on Your Hit Parade. Among his better-known works are "I Only HaveEyes for You," "You'll Never Know," "There Will Never BeAnother You," "Lullaby of Broadway," "JeepersCreepers," "Chattanooga Choo-Choo," "You're Getting to Be aHabit With Me," "That's Amore," and "At Last." He wasnominated for 11 Oscars and won 3 for "Lullaby of Broadway" (1935),"You'll Never Know" (1943), and "On the Atchison, Topeka and theSanta Fe" (1945). On television, he composed the themes for The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and The Californians, and his songs showedup frequently on programs such as 77Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, and Surfside 6. He was the director of themusic publishing rights organization ASCAP from 1929 to 1932, and was electedto the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971. He died 10 years later at age 87 onSeptember 22, 1981.
The Actors
For the biography of Dale Robertson, see the 1960 post on Tales of Wells Fargo.
William Demarest
Carl William Demarest was born February 27, 1892 in St.Paul, Minnesota, the son of a second-hand furniture salesman. His family movedto New Jersey when he was a child and he formed an act playing cello with histwo brothers (his older brother Rube also became an actor in films) at localresort hotels. He then began performing solo as a dancer and comedian as wellas a professional boxer under the name Battling McGovern before joining theU.S. Army during World War I. After the war he found fame working invaudeville, particularly after forming an act with his first wife EstelleColette, whom he married in 1923 (she was 6 years older than he and had a childfrom a previous marriage), billing themselves Demarest and Colette. Fromvaudeville he moved on to Broadway and eventually Hollywood, though he failedan initial screen test for Jack Warner in 1926. But by the following year heappeared in no fewer than 16 features and shorts, including the first talkieshort, A Night at Coffee Dan's, andthe first talkie feature, The Jazz Singer,though he was not credited in the latter. He appeared in 7 more films in 1928but was not fond of Hollywood and returned to vaudeville until his comedy actwas billed during an intermission between two Mae West films in 1933, promptinghim to remark "If Mae West and Paramount are going to put me out of thevaudeville business, I'll go back to Hollywood and join Paramount." In1935 he appeared in the first of six films with Fred MacMurray, Hands Across the Table. In 1939 heappeared in Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goesto Washington and the following year appeared in the first of eight films directedby Preston Sturges, The Great McGinty.He would go on to appear in Sturges' best known works such as The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, and TheMiracle of Morgan's Creek. By 1943 he was such a fixture in Hollywoodplaying golden-hearted curmudgeons that he had a cameo playing himself in Stage Door Canteen and did the same twoyears later in Duffy's Tavern. In1946 he received his lone Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for hisrole as Al Jolson's fictional mentor Steve Martin in The Jolson Story, a role he would reprise in Jolson Sings Again in 1949. By the late 1950s when his feature filmroles began diminishing, he moved into television starring as crochety musicpublisher William Harris in Love andMarriage which lasted only 18 episodes before cancellation in late January1960. He appeared 6 times as Mr. Daly on TheDanny Thomas Show between 1957-61, and was added to the cast of Tales of Wells Fargo as Jeb Gaine at thebeginning of Season 6 in the fall of 1961.
After Wells Fargowas cancelled, Demarest's TV appearances were sparse, but he managed a fewhigh-profile feature film roles in Son ofFlubber, Viva Las Vegas, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and That Darn Cat! before he was tapped forthe biggest TV role of his career--succeeding William Frawley on My Three Sons as former seaman UncleCharlie O'Casey, which he played for the remaining duration of the series from1965-72. He received an Emmy nomination for this role in 1968, but after My Three Sons, Demarest largely retiredto Palm Springs, except for an occasional guest spot on McMillan and Wife or ElleryQueen, a couple of TV movies, and an appearance in The Wild McCullochs and WonTon Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood. He busied himself running his owncharitable foundation and hosting a yearly golf tournament in Palm Springs, andin 1979 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He contractedprostate cancer and suffered from pneumonia before dying from a heart attack onDecember 27, 1983 at the age of 91.
Jack Ging
Jack Lee Ging was born in Alva, Oklahoma on November 30,1931. Both sets of grandparents had participated in the Cherokee Strip Land Runof 1893. His parents divorced when he was young, which led to him living withvarious relatives due to his mother's unusual work hours as a waitress. For atime he attended boarding school in Santa Fe, New Mexico but eventuallyreturned to Oklahoma when his mother became ill. He attended the University ofOklahoma, where he played for three years on the football team and scored atotal of 5 touchdowns during a career that included an appearance in the 1954Orange Bowl. After graduation he briefly played professionally with theEdmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League before enlisting and servingfour years in the Marines. After being honorably discharged, Ging decided topursue an acting career after seeing Tyrone Power in a theatrical productionand received a recommendation for an acting coach from Power. He studied atSandy Meisner's Playhouse in New York and by 1958 made his first TV appearanceon episodes of The Rough Riders and Highway Patrol. That year also markedthe first of 8 appearances on McKenzie'sRaiders in various generic lieutenant roles. His military background alsocame in handy in his first feature film appearance in Rally Round the Flag, Boys! with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodwardalso released in 1958. He landed his first starring role in the 1960 feature Tess of the Storm Country opposite DianeBaker, followed by another military role in Sniper'sRidge in 1961 while also guest starring on TV programs such as The Twilight Zone, Bat Masterson, and This ManDawson. His role as reformed Confederate sympathizer Beau McCloud on Season6 of Tales of Wells Fargo was hisfirst named recurring role, but it lasted only 13 episodes. Though DaleRobertson, as a fellow Oklahoman, had lobbied for Ging to be cast as hisyounger sidekick, Ging later recalled in an interview on the Western Clippingsweb site that despite the show being expanded to an hour, it was still allRobertson's show, and Ging's character didn't have much to do--"I was justholding Dale Robertson's horse." So Ging says he just left the show andwas suspended for six months for breaking his contract, but he says since hewas being represented by MCA they managed to smooth things over.
The next season he was cast in his longest-running recurringtelevision role as young psychiatrist Dr. Paul Graham on The Eleventh Hour co-starring Wendell Corey, which ran two seasonsfrom 1962-64, during which Ging also crossed over the role of Graham on a 1963episode of Dr. Kildare. His actingcredits for the next few years were sparse, but the multi-talented athlete Gingalso excelled at golf, winning a Crosby golf tournament, as well as tennis,winning the Clint Eastwood Celebrity Tennis tournament. He played for sometimesthousands of dollars on golf-course bets with the likes of Dean Martin andJames Garner. In 1967 he appeared on a two-part The Magical World of Disney film that was spun off into the featureMosby's Marauders and the followingyear appeared in the first of three Clint Eastwood films--Hang 'Em High, which would be followed by Play Misty for Me and HighPlains Drifter. In 1970 he made the first of seven appearances as Lt. DanIves on Mannix, the last coming in 1974.Other guest spots in the 1970s included appearances on The Six Million Dollar Man, TheBionic Woman, and Kojak. In 1979he played Det. Chuck Morris on the Brenda Vaccaro series Dear Detective, which was canceled after 4 episodes. His nextrecurring role was playing Lt. Ted Quinlan on the Vietnam vet adventure series Riptide, appearing 30 times over 3seasons before his character was killed off, which gave him the opportunity toplay Gen. Harlan "Bull" Fulbright 6 times during Season 4 of The A-Team with Fulbright also gettingkilled off by the end of the season. His last recurring role came as ChiefHollings in the Palm Springs-based Connie Sellecca vehicle P.S. I Luv U in 1991-92. His last acting credit came in a 1994episode of Wings. At age 88, he isbelieved to be living in the Los Angeles area with his third wife Sharon RamonaThompson.
Virginia Christine
Virginia Christine Ricketts was born in Stanton, Iowa, acommunity largely of Swedish immigrants, including her mother, on March 5,1920. With both parents being musicians, Christine studied piano and wonstatewide honors while in high school in vocal and instrumental music. But herreal passion was acting, and at age 17 she won a nationwide drama competitionthe same year her family moved to Los Angeles, where she then attended UCLA.While in college she began working as a voice actor on radio, but her biggestbreak came when she met German-born character actor Fritz Feld, 20 years hersenior, and the couple married in 1940. Two years later Feld directed Christinein a Los Angeles theatrical production of HeddaGabler to which he invited representatives from the major movie studios,resulting in a contract with Warner Brothers for Christine. She made herfeature film debut supporting Errol Flynn in Edge of Darkness playing a Norwegian peasant girl named,ironically, Miss Olson. Though she was given a lead role in Truck Busters opposite Richard Travisthat same year, Warner Brothers dropped her after only a year, but she signedwith Universal Studios, appearing in the western The Old Texas Trail and playing a female mummy alongside LonChaney, Jr. in The Mummy's Curse. Bythe mid-1940s she supplemented her film work with radio appearances on programssuch as Romance, Gunsmoke, and Fort Laramie.She had a supporting role in the 1946 film noir classic The Killers and also appeared in the Don Siegel remake in 1964. In1950 she had her first role in a film produced by Stanley Kramer, The Men, which was also Marlon Brando'sdebut. Thereafter Kramer would use her often in pivotal roles in classics suchas Cyrano de Bergerac, High Noon, Not as a Stranger, Judgmentat Nuremberg, and Guess Who's Comingto Dinner? Other notable feature films included Dragnet, The Cobweb, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, andElvis Presley's Flaming Star. Hertelevision debut came with three appearances on the crime drama Front Page Detective in 1951. By themid-1950s her television appearances outnumbered her feature film roles as shehad multiple guest spots on the original Dragnet,Alfred Hitchco*ck Presents, andanthology series such as Science FictionTheatre and Studio 57. Her roleas widow Ovie Swenson on the final season of Tales of Wells Fargo was the only recurring TV role of her career,but not her best known because beginning in 1960 she began appearing as helpfulneighbor Mrs. Olson on commercials for Folgers coffee, a series that wouldcontinue for 21 years and invite parodies by everyone from Johnny Carson andJackie Gleason to Ann-Margaret. Her hometown of Stanton, Iowa converted thelocal water tower into a giant coffee pot in her honor.
Her workload did not diminish with the cancellation of Tales of Wells Fargo in 1962; shecontinued to find frequent guest-star work on Perry Mason, Wagon Train,The Virginian, and The F.B.I. through the remainder of the1960s. Things finally began to slow down as Christine entered her 50s in the1970s with occasional appearances on Nannyand the Professor, Ironside, and Kojak. In the late 1970s and early 1980sshe called on her past experience in radio drama to provide voice work on theTV series Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Dooand The Puppy's Further Adventures.Her last on-screen appearance was in a 1986 episode of The Insiders. In retirement she was made honorary mayor ofBrentwood, volunteered for Planned Parenthood, and judged the annual AmericanCollege Theatre Festival. Her husband of 53 years passed away in 1993, andChristine followed him three years later on July 24, 1996 at the age of 76.
Mary Jane Saunders
Born Mary Jayne Saunders in Pasadena, California on October12, 1943, Saunders was the daughter of an auto parts dealer and homemaker whosubmitted her picture at age 5 to a casting call advertised by ParamountStudios. Saunders was selected to play a 5-year-old girl in the 1949 Bob Hopeand Lucille Ball comedy Sorrowful Jones,which also included future Tales of WellsFargo castmate William Demarest. In 1950 she received third billing in theWilliam Holden comedy Father Is aBachelor and starred along with Ray Milland and Rosalind Russell in A Woman of Distinction. She made her TVdebut the following year with single guest spots on The Bigelow Theatre, BostonBlackie, and Front Page Detective,but her career would slow down for the rest of the decade with feature roles inThe Girl Next Door in 1953 and notanother full-length movie for 6 years in uncredited parts in The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker and Beloved Infidel. Meanwhile, she hadoccasional TV roles on The Loretta YoungShow, The Great Gildersleeve, andThe Danny Thomas Show, but she was averagingonly a single appearance per year until she landed the part of vivaciousteenager Mary Gee on the final season of Talesof Wells Fargo.
Television work picked up just a touch after Wells Fargo with guest spots on Wagon Train, The Donna Reed Show, My Three Sons, and Daniel Boone. But afterappearances on I Spy and Petticoat Junction in 1966, Saundersmarried professional baseball player Jay Johnstone, then a member of theCalifornia Angels, in 1967 and retired from acting. Johnstone played for nearly20 seasons on 8 different teams, including 3 World Series champions, and wasknown as a clubhouse prankster. He later worked as a radio announcer for theNew York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies and appeared in the first Naked Gun film.
Lory Patrick
Born Loretta Basham on April 8, 1938 in Beckley, WestVirginia, Patrick has become more famous for her marriages than her actingcareer. After beginning a career in modeling in Detroit and spending threeyears in New York studying acting, she broke into television in 1961 withappearances on The Loretta Young Showand The Case of the Dangerous Robinbefore being cast as Ovie Swenson's older daughter Tina on the final season of Tales of Wells Fargo. She appeared in 15episodes during the show's final season but found steady work thereafter withguest spots on Wagon Train, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and Laramie over the next two years. Shemade her feature film debut in 1964 in the teenage exploitation flick Surf Party, even receiving a credit onone song from the soundtrack album along with co-stars Jackie DeShannon andPatricia Morrow. She had three appearances as Nurse Betty Taylor in the finalseason of Dr. Kildare in 1965, butthen married irascible science fiction author Harlan Ellison on January 30,1966, a marriage that lasted less than two months. She had no acting creditsthat year but returned for single appearances on Bonanza and This Is the Lifeas well as an unnamed receptionist in the feature How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in 1967, thenretired from acting. Nothing has been published about what she did over thenext 6 years, but on June 2, 1973 she married actor Dean Jones, whom she hadplayed opposite in the 1961 episode "A Killing in Calico" (December16, 1961) of Tales of Wells Fargo.Jones and Patrick became born-again Christians, and he became a spokesman forCompassion International and later founded the Christian Rescue Fund to bringpersecuted Christians to safety. She wrote a best-selling religious book Hearing God. Jones passed away from Parkinson's Disease onSeptember 1, 2015, though Patrick is still living.
Steve Darrell
Born Daryl Eugene Horsfall in Osage, Iowa on November 19,1904, Darrell was one of four children and was still living with his parents asof the 1930 U.S. census. The following year he began his acting career byjoining the Trousdale Players in Des Moines, Iowa. At some point he moved westand made his feature film debut in anuncredited role as a gangster in the 1938 feature Angels With Dirty Faces. His first screen credit came the next yearin Code of the Secret Service andfrom that point on he found steady work in minor parts in a steady stream ofB-grade westerns and crime dramas. At the same time, he kept up a theatricalcareer, appearing in a Broadway production of The Barber Had Two Sons in 1943 and a Los Angeles production of Arsenic and Old Lace at the Beaux ArtsTheater in 1944. Perhaps his highest profile role in the 1940s was playingFrank James opposite Clayton Moore as Jesse James in the 1948 serial Adventures of Frank and Jesse James.Playing in support of Gene Autry in features such as Riders in the Sky and CowTown led to his television debut on TheGene Autry Show in 1950. As the 1950s progressed and the B-westerns faded,Darrell switched over to the suddenly popular western TV format on programssuch as The Lone Ranger, Annie Oakley, and The Adventures of Kit Carson. The more adult westerns of the later1950s also provided steady work on Cheyenne,The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp,and Wanted Dead or Alive. And in the1960s he continued showing up on Laramie,Wagon Train, and Shotgun Slade. His role as the Gloribee sheriff, who was eventuallynamed Hal Humphrey, on the final season of Talesof Wells Fargo was his only recurring role. Though he found a few moreguest spots afterward on The Virginian,Rawhide, and Gunsmoke, Darrell logged his last credit on a 1967 episode of Daniel Boone before succumbing to abrain tumor three years later at the age of 65 on August 14, 1970.
Notable Guest Stars
Season 5, Episode 15, "Border Rengades": JohnBeradino (shown on the left, former major league baseball player, played Special Agent Steve Danielson I Led 3 Lives, Sgt. Vince Cavellion The New Breed, and Dr. Steve Hardyon General Hospital) plays gunsmuggler Virgil McCready. Elaine Devry (daughter of a Disney animator who wasMickey Rooney's fourth wife) plays mine owner Carolyn Robbins.
Season 5, Episode 16, "Captain Scofield": DeForestKelley (shown on the right, played Dr. McCoy on Star Trek) playswounded army deserter Capt. Cole Scofield. William Keene (played variousreverends on The Andy Griffith Showand Mayberry R.F.D.) plays Bull Creekphysician Dr. Crosier. William Tannen (Deputy Hal Norton on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) playsarmy imposter Keenan.
Season 5, Episode 17, "The Has-Been": Adam West (shown on the left, played Det.Sgt. Steve Nelson on The Detectives,Bruce Wayne on Batman, Captain RickWright on The Last Precinct, Dr. NoahGoddard on Black Scorpion, and voicedMayor Adam West on Family Guy) plays formersoldier and renowned gunman Steve Draco. Andra Martin (former wife of TyHardin, starred in The Big Beat, The Thing That Couldn't Die, Up Periscope, and A Fever in the Blood) plays army widow Laura Halliday. J. PatO'Malley (see the biography section for the 1961 post on Frontier Circus) plays has-been singer Cedric Manning. Hal Needham(Hollywood's highest-paid stuntman who invented numerous stunt devices, was adouble for Richard Boone and Burt Reynolds, and directed Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper,and Cannonball Run) plays an unnamedoutlaw. Marshall Reed (Inspector Fred Asher on The Lineup) plays an army officer.
Season 5, Episode 18, "Town Against a Man": Val Avery(appeared in The Magnificent Seven, Papillon, and Donnie Brasco and played Lt. Al Costello on East Side/West Side) plays ranch owner Frank "Bully"Armstrong. Jackie Russell (shown on the right, played Peggy Connolly on The Joey Bishop Show) plays his pretty daughter Lorna. YvetteVickers (starred in Reform School Girl,Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, and Attack of the Giant Leeches) plays hisplain daughter Carol. Lurene Tuttle (appeared in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Ma Barker's Killer Brood, Psycho,The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, and TheFortune Cookie and played Doris Dunston on Father of the Bride and Hannah Yarby on Julia) plays Frank's sister Madie. Mark Tapscott (see the biographysection for the 1961 post on The Tall Man)plays wealthy banker Paul Warren. Michael Hinn (George Haig on Johnny Ringo) plays attorney LeoKinsman.
Season 5, Episode 19, "The Barefoot Bandit": DonC. Harvey (see the biography section for the 1961 post on Rawhide) plays Wells Fargo agent Al Wiley. Joan Marshall (SailorDuval on Bold Venture) plays fightmanager Lisa Lindsey. Paul Sorensen (Andy Bradley on Dallas) plays Bonanza Flats tough guy Chuck Kramer. George Selk (seethe biography section for the 1960 post on Gunsmoke)plays a telegraph messenger.
Season 5, Episode 20, "The Hand That Shook theHand": Claude Akins (shown on the left, played Sonny Pruett on Movin'On and Sheriff Elroy P. Lobo on B.Jand the Bear and on Lobo) playsrenowned pugilist John L. Sullivan. Vito Scotti (Jose on The Deputy, Capt. Gaspar Fomento on The Flying Nun, Gino on ToRome With Love, and Mr. Velasquez on Barefootin the Park) plays hustling prankster Abner Dabler. Thalmus Rasulala (starredin Cool Breeze, Blacula, Willie Dynamite,and Mr. Ricco and played Lt. JackNeal on One Life to Live, Bill Thomason What's Happening!!, Tangeneva on General Hospital, and Capt. Boltz on Dragnet (1989)) plays saloon cook George.
Season 5, Episode 21, "ThatWashburn Girl": Jack Nicholson (shown on the right, starred in Five Easy Pieces, Easy Rider,One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Chinatown, The Shining, and Terms of Endearmentand played Jaime Angel on Dr. Kildare)plays Wells Fargo worker's brother Tom Washburn. Anne Whitfield (Barbara Harrison Days of Our Lives) plays hisfiance Ruby Coe. Morris Ankrum (starred in RocketshipX-M, Invaders From Mars, Earth vs. The Flying Saucers, and The Giant Claw and played the judge 22times on Perry Mason) plays herex-con father Jonas. John Archer (father of Anne Archer, former husband ofMarjorie Lord, appeared in White Heat,Ten Thousand Bedrooms, Blue Hawaii, and How to Frame a Figg) plays gun salesman Dean Chase. Chubby Johnson(Concho on Temple Houston) playsstage driver Scotty.
Season 5, Episode 22, "The Diamond Dude": JamesMillhollin (Anson Foster on Grindl)plays New York jeweler Leroy Finch. Robert Middleton (Barney Wales on The Monroes) plays notorious thief BodieSeaton. Grant Sullivan (Brett Clark on PonyExpress) plays Seaton's associate Beam.
Season 5, Episode 24, "Fraud": Steve Brodie (seethe biography section for the 1960 post on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) playscrooked Mayor Walt Lawson. Sue Ane Langdon (shown on the left, played Kitty Marsh on Bachelor Father, Lillian Nuvo on Arnie, Rosie on Grandpa Goesto Washington, and Darlene on Whenthe Whistle Blows) saloon pianist Jessica Brown. Guy Stockwell (brother ofDean Stockwell, played Chris Parker on Adventuresin Paradise) plays her boyfriend Bob Guthrie. Gregg Palmer (see thebiography section for the 1961 post on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays Lawson's gunman Lupo. Michael Whalen (starredin White Fang, Career Woman, The LadyEscapes, Inside Story, and The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues) plays photographerAbel Boyce.
Season 5, Episode 25, "Stage From Yuma": BradDexter (shown on the right, starred in Macao, Between Heaven and Hell, and Run Silent, Run Deep) plays wantedoutlaw Bud Pierce. Kelly Thordsen (Colorado Charlie on Yancy Derringer) plays outlaw ringleader Rafe. Harry Harvey, Jr. (sonof Harry Harvey, and script supervisor and director on Mannix) plays outlaw Lew Walter. Tom Greenway (Sheriff Jack Bronsonon State Trooper) plays the Yumasheriff.
Season 5, Episode 26, "Prince Jim": Gina Gillespie(shown on the left, played Tess on Law of the Plainsman andMimi Scott on Karen) plays orphanCarol Butler. Kristine Miller (appeared in DesertFury, I Walk Alone, Too Late for Tears, and Young Daniel Boone and played MargaretJones on Stories of the Century)plays her aunt Ruth Hudson. Norman Leavitt (Ralph on Trackdown) plays drummer Willy Zane. Denny Scott Miller (see thebiography section of the 1961 post on Wagon Train) plays livery stable owner Stickson. Robert Sampson (Sgt. Walsh on Steve Canyon, Father Mike Fitzgerald on Bridget Love Bernie, and Sheriff TurkTobias on Falcon Crest) plays hisaccomplice Hal. Wally Brown (appeared in Notorious,The Left Handed Gun, and The Absent-Minded Professor and playedJed Fame on Cimarron City andChauncey Kowalski on The Roaring '20's)plays town drunk Charlie.
Season 5, Episode 27, "The Remittance Man": WilliamMims (see the biography section for the 1960 post on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays Blazing Rock Sheriff DanGillette. Yvonne Craig (shown on the right, starred in Gidget,High Time, Kissin' Cousins, Ski Party,and One Spy Too Many and playedBarbara Gordon, aka Batgirl, on Batmanand Grandma on Olivia) plays hisdaughter Libby. David Frankham (appeared in Returnof the Fly, Master of the World,and King Rat and played ReverendDaniels on The Bold and the Beautiful)plays her fiance Noel Briggs. Ron Soble (appeared in The Cincinnati Kid, True Grit,and Papillon and played Dirty Jim on The Monroes) plays bounty hunter GabeAdams. Henry Wills (Pernell Roberts' stunt double on Bonanza and the stunt coordinator on The High Chaparral) plays stage driver Wally.
Season 5, Episode 28, "The Jealous Man": Ed Nelson(Michael Rossi on Peyton Place, WardFuller on The Silent Force, and Sen.Mark Denning on Capitol) plays jealoushusband Andy Thorpe. Faith Domergue (starred in Cult of the Cobra, ThisIsland Earth, and It Came FromBeneath the Sea) plays his wife Kitty. John Zaremba (Special Agent JerryDressler on I Led 3 Lives, Dr. HaroldJensen on Ben Casey, Admiral Hardesyon McHale's Navy, Dr. Raymond Swainon The Time Tunnel, and Dr, HarlemDanvers on Dallas) plays his fatherHenry. Tommy Ivo (shown on the left, see the biography section for the 1961 post on The Donna Reed Show) plays his youngerbrother Lou.
Season 5, Episode 29, "Something Pretty": PeterWhitney (Sergeant Buck Sinclair on TheRough Riders and Lafe Crick on TheBeverly Hillbillies) plays prospector Moose Gilliam. James Seay (shown on the near right, see thebiography section for the 1960 post on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays easterner Banning. Leonard Nimoy (shown on the far right, played Mr.Spock on Star Trek, Paris on Mission: Impossible, and Dr. WilliamBell on Fringe) plays outlaw Coleman.Dennis Moore (Deputy Lee on Tombstone Territory) plays lawman Marshal Buxton.
Season 5, Episode 30, "Lady Trouble": RobertArmstrong (shown on the left, starred in King Kong, The Son of Kong, Framed, Dive Bomber, Blood on the Sun, and Mighty Joe Young and played Sheriff AndyAnderson on State Trooper) plays SaddleRidge Wells Fargo agent Jess Walden. Josephine Hutchinson (appeared in The Story of Louis Pasteur, Son of Frankenstein, Tom Brown's Schooldays, and North by Northwest) plays mining companyowner Agatha Webster. Barry Cahill (Capt. Curt Douglas on 12 O'Clock High and Buck Vernon on The Waltons) plays outlaw Stu Redmond. Terry Frost (Sgt. BruceMoore/Morse/Morris on Highway Patrol)plays a Wells Fargo guard.
Season 5, Episode 31, "Moment of Glory": EddyWaller (shown on the right, see the biography section for the 1961 post on Laramie) plays yarn-spinning Grandpa Charlie Bridger. Bryan Russell(brother of actress Jeannie Russell) plays his grandson Pete. Wallace Rooney (AndrewWinters on The Doctors) plays CalicoWells Fargo agent Mr. Bennett. Joel Ashley (Pvt. Boone on Boots and Saddles) plays rival stagecoach line owner Bart Dillon.
Season 5, Episode 32, "The Lobo": Jim Davis (shown on the left, played MattClark on Stories of the Century, WesCameron on Rescue 8, Marshal BillWinter on The Cowboys, and Jock Ewingon Dallas) plays wanted outlaw SamHorne. Claire du Brey (starred in TheWinged Mystery, The Magic Eye, Modern Love, and Jane Eyre (1934) and played Aunt Angela on Where's Raymond?) plays White Oaks Hotel proprietor Ma. CharlesWatts (Judge Harvey Blandon on Bachelor Father) plays White Oaks Wells Fargo agent Hi Walker. Chubby Johnson (see"That Washburn Girl" above) plays returns as stage driver Scotty.
Season 5, Episode 33, "Rifles for Red Hand": ZivaRodann (appeared in Forty Guns, The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, The Story of Ruth, and College Confidential and playedNefertiti on Batman) plays casino andsaloon owner Leah Harper. Stanley Adams (Lt. Morse on Not for Hire) plays gun smuggler Sam Tustin. Carleton G. Young (shown on the right, appearedin Queen of Burlesque, The Kissing Bandit, His Kind of Woman, and Hard,Fast and Beautiful! and played Harry Steeger on The Court of Last Resort) plays U.S. Army Capt. Rawlings. CleggHoyt (Mac on Dr. Kildare) plays trapperJebediah Skane.
Season 5, Episode 34, "Gunman's Revenge": HarryCarey, Jr. (starred in Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Mister Roberts, and The Searchers and played Bill Burnett on The Adventures of Spin and Marty) plays Yuma Wells Fargo employeePete Carter. Jennie Lynn (Jennie Baker on Loveand Marriage) plays his daughter Nell. Roy Wright (Callahan on The Islanders) plays his boss Neil Brand.Ollie O'Toole (Mr. Meeker on Circus Boy)plays Wells Fargo clerk Al Wiley. Robert Foulk (shown on the left, played Ed Davis on Father Knows Best, Sheriff Miller on Lassie, Joe Kingston on Wichita Town, Mr. Wheeler on Green Acres, and Phillip Toomey on The Rifleman) plays Yuma Sheriff Nolan.Chuck Connors (see the biography section for the 1960 post on The Rifleman) plays vengeful gunmanRocky Nelson. Helen Wallace (Nurse Lucy Webber on Dr. Kildare) plays judge's wife Mrs. Castro.
Season 5, Episode 35, "The Repentant Outlaw": EdgarBuchanan (shown on the right, played Uncle Joe Carson on The BeverlyHillbillies, Green Acres, and Petticoat Junction, Red Connors on Hopalong Cassidy, Judge Roy Bean on Judge Roy Bean, Doc Burrage on The Rifleman, and J.J. Jackson on Cade's County) plays huckster Doc Dawson.Lew Gallo (Major Joseph Cobb on 12O'Clock High and directed multiple episodes of That Girl, The Ghost and Mrs.Muir, Love American Style, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and The New Mike Hammer) plays capturedoutlaw Maxey. John Dennis (Dutch Schultz on The Lawless Years) plays his accomplice Red. Craig Duncan (Sgt.Stanfield/Banfield on Mackenzie's Raiders)plays army payroll Sgt. Morgan. Ralph Reed (see the biography section for the1960 post on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays a young swindler in the saloon.
Season 5, Episode 36, "A Quiet Little Town": JohnDehner (Duke Williams on The Roaring'20's, Commodore Cecil Wyntoon on TheBaileys of Balboa, Morgan Starr on TheVirginian, Cyril Bennett on The DorisDay Show, Dr. Charles Cleveland Claver on The New Temperatures Rising Show, Barrett Fears on Big Hawaii, Marshal Edge Troy on Young Maverick, Lt. Joseph Broggi on Enos, Hadden Marshall on Bare Essence, and Billy Joe Erskine on The Colbys) plays Hardie's old frenemyWade Cather. Shirley Ballard (shown on the left, Miss California of 1944, wife of Jason Evers,continuity supervisor on Water Under theBridge and The Sullivans) plays unhappymarshal's wife Meg Prescott. William Leslie (appeared in The Long Gray Line, Hellcatsof the Navy, Up Periscope, and Mutiny in Outer Space and was thenarrator on The Prosecutors: In Pursuitof Justice) plays banker Thorne Whitman.
Season 5, Episode 37, "Bitter Vengeance": RichardHale (starred in Abilene Town, Kim, SanAntone, Red Garters, and To Kill a Mockingbird) plays alcoholicstage waystation owner Ben Martin. Phyllis Coates (shown on the right, played Alice McDokes in 18 shorts,starred in Outlaws of Texas, Man From Sonora, Superman and the Mole-Men, JungleDrums of Africa, and I Was a TeenageFrankenstein, and played Lois Lane on Adventuresof Superman, Gloria on The Duke,Madge Allen on Professional Father,and Clarissa Holliday on This Is Alice)plays his daughter Ruby.
Season 5, Episode 38, "John Jones": Justice Watson(J.W. Harrington on Holiday Lodge)plays former outlaw John Jones. Roy Barcroft (Col. Logan on The Adventures of Spin and Marty and Royon Gunsmoke) plays his former partnerClem Boland. Warren Oates (starred in Inthe Heat of the Night, The Wild Bunch,and Stripes and played VesPainter on Stoney Burke) playsBoland's son Chuck. Forrest Lewis (Mr. Peavey on The Great Gildersleeve) plays small-town Marshal Ezra.
Season 5, Episode 39, "The Dowry": Alan Napier (shown on the left, appearedin The House of the Seven Gables, Lassie Come Home, Joan of Arc, Marnie, The Loved One, and Batman: The Movie and played Gen. Steele on Don't Call Me Charlie and Alfred the butler on Batman) plays wealthy land owner Bertram Le Tour. Lisa Gaye (GwenKirby on How to Marry a Millionaire)plays his grand-daughter Michelle Bovarde. George Chandler (Mac Benson on Waterfront, Uncle Petrie Martin on Lassie, and Ichabod Adams on Ichabod and Me) plays riverboat Capt.Billy.
Season 6, Episode 1, "Casket 7.3": Howard Keel (shown on the right, starredin Annie Get Your Gun, Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, Seven Bridesfor Seven Brothers, Kismet, and Invasion of the Triffids and playedClayton Farlow on Dallas) plays formerConfederate sergeant Justin Brox. Suzanne Lloyd (Raquel Toledano on Zorro) plays his wife Christine. TorinThatcher (appeared in Great Expectations,The Crimson Pirate, The Robe, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, and Witness for the Prosecution) plays government agent AlexanderPrescott. Stephen Roberts (Stan Peeples on Mr.Novak) plays eastern head of Wells Fargo Mr. Nichols. Eve McVeagh (starredin High Noon, The Glass Web, and Tight Spotand played Miss Hammond on PetticoatJunction) plays Mrs. Russo, a guest at Brox's party. Norman Leavitt (see"Prince Jim" above) plays Matthew, a clerk aboard the Wells Fargoship.
Season 6, Episode 2, "The Dodger": Philip Carey (shown on the left, starredin I Was a Communist for the FBI, Insidethe Walls of Folsom Prison, CalamityJane, Mister Roberts, Dead Ringer, and Three For Texas and played Lt. Michael Rhodes on Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers, PhilipMarlowe on Philip Marlowe, Capt.Edward Parmalee on Laredo, and AsaBuchanan on One Life to Live) plays ex-conJay Squire. Claude Akins (see "The Hand That Shook the Hand" above) playshis "lieutenant" Harry Rakeover. Jon Lormer (Harry Tate on Lawman, Sam Watkins on The Real McCoys, the autopsy surgeon on Perry Mason, Simon Benjamin on The Young Marrieds, and Judge Irwin A.Chester on Peyton Place) plays generalstore proprietor Mr. Taylor. Paul Barselou (played various bartenders in 9episodes of Bewitched) plays barberand undertaker Happy.
Season 6, Episode 3, "Treasure Coach": RobertVaughn (shown on the right, starred in Teenage Cave Man, The Magnificent Seven, The Towering Inferno, and Bullitt and played Capt. Ray Rambridgeon The Lieutenant, Napoleon Solo on The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Harry Rule on The Protectors, Harlan Adams on Emerald Point N.A.S., Gen. HuntStockwell on The A-Team, and AlbertStroller on Hustle) plays outlaw BillyBrigode. Pat Crowley (Joan Nash on PleaseDon't Eat the Daisies, Georgia Cameron on Joe Forrester, Emily Fallmont on Dynasty, and Natalie DeWitt on TheBold and the Beautiful) plays his estranged wife Lydia. J. Pat O'Malley (see"The Has-Been" above) plays physician Dr. Cobb. Jocelyn Brando (MarlonBrando's sister, appeared in The Big Heat,The Ugly American, The Chase, and Mommie Dearest and played Mrs. Reeves on Dallas) plays his wife Frances.
Season 6, Episode 4, "Death Raffle": Gary Clarke (shown on the left, played DickHamilton on Michael Shayne, SteveHill on The Virginian, and Capt.Richards on Hondo) plays ex-con DaveyHewitt. Kelly Thordsen (see "Stage From Yuma" above) plays blacksmithSam Hobb. Bennye Getteys (Judith Potter on TheBrighter Day) plays Hobb's daughter Jessamie. William Tannen (see"Captain Scofield" above) plays banker Mr. Japes. Gregg Palmer (see"Fraud" above) plays Hewitt's former outlaw partner Steger. GrantSullivan (see "The Diamond Dude" above) plays Steger's accompliceDutch. Paul Bryar (Sheriff Harve Anders on TheLong, Hot Summer) plays railroad clerk Sam.
Season 6, Episode 5, "Tanoa": Richard Hale (see"Bitter Vengeance" above) plays aging Indian chief Pochalo. RodolfoAcosta (shown on the right, played Vaquero on The High Chaparral))plays his cousin Red Knife. Charles Watts (see "The Lobo" above)plays Wells Fargo executive Mr. Anderson. Hal Needham (see "TheHas-Been" above) plays an Indian brave. Sara Taft (Aunt Alex on The Young Marrieds) plays baking contestjudge Mrs. Forbes.
Season 6, Episode 6, "Mr. Mute": Vito Scotti (shown on the left, see"The Hand That Shook the Hand" above) plays Italian professionalclown Mr. Mute. Lyle Bettger (starred in TheVanquished, Destry, and The Fastest Guitar Alive and played SamLarsen on The Court of Last Resortand Harry Driscoll on The Grand Jury)plays train robber LaPorte. Ron Soble (see "The Remittance Man" above)plays his accomplice Frank Dorcus. Chubby Johnson (see "That WashburnGirl" above) plays Jeb Gaine antagonist Ernie.
Season 6, Episode 7, "Jeremiah": Albert Salmi (shown on the right, played Yadkinon Daniel Boone and Pete Ritter on Petrocelli) plays outlaw Jeremiah Logart.Nancy Gates (starred in The GreatGildersleeve, The Atomic City, The Member of the Wedding, and Some Came Running) plays his former henchman'swidow Amelia Cavendish. Bryan Russell (see "Moment of Glory" above)plays her son Jody. X Brands (Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah on Yancy Derringer) plays Logart associate Brock.
Season 6, Episode 8, "A Fistful of Pride": EddieAlbert (shown on the left, starred in Roman Holiday, Oklahoma!, The Teahouse of the August Moon, The Sun Also Rises, TheLongest Day, and The Longest Yardand played Larry Tucker on Leave It toLarry, Oliver Wendell Douglas on GreenAcres and Petticoat Junction, andFrank MacBride on Switch) plays formerboxing champion Bonzo Croydon. Barbara Stuart (Bessie on The Great Gildersleeve, Alice on Pete and Gladys, Bunny on GomerPyle, U.S.M.C., Wilma Winslow on TheQueen and I, Peggy Ferguson on TheMcLean Stevenson Show, Marianne Danzig on Our Family Honor, and Alice on Huff)plays his estranged wife Lucy. Gina Gillespie (see "Prince Jim" above)plays their daughter Cindy. Ed Nelson (see "The Jealous Man" above)plays up-and-coming boxer The Frisco Kid. David White (Larry Tate on Bewitched) plays his manager Dooley.H.M. Wynant (Lt. Bauer on The YoungMarrieds, Frosty on Batman, and Ed Chapman on Dallas) plays San Francisco gambler Carson. Dennis McCarthy (Dr.Sam Hodges on Cimarron City) playsGloribee bettor Willis. Harry Holcombe (appeared in The Fortune Cookie, TheUnsinkable Molly Brown, Foxy Brown,Escape to Witch Mountain, and Empire of the Ants and played FrankGardner on Search for Tomorrow, DocBenson on My Mother the Car, Mr.Kendricks on Barefoot in the Park,and Dr. J.P. Martin on Bonanza) playsthe Gloribee judge.
Season 6, Episode 9, "Defiant at the Gate": TomTully (starred in Destination Tokyo, The Lady in the Lake, The Turning Point, The Jazz Singer (1952), and TheCaine Mutiny and played Inspector Matt Grebb on The Lineup and Tom Starett on Shane)plays aging outlaw Matt Blackner. Gloria Talbott (shown on the right, starred in The Cyclops, Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, and I Married a Monster From Outer Space andplayed Moneta on Zorro) plays hisdaughter Narcissa. Frank Ferguson (Gus Broeberg on My Friend Flicka, Eli Carson on PeytonPlace, and Dr. Barton Stuart on PetticoatJunction) plays his former partner Deacon. L.Q. Jones (Beldon on The Virginian, Sheriff Lew Wallace on The Yellow Rose, and Nathan Wayne on Renegade) plays his former partnerStriker.
Season 6, Episode 10, "Man of Another Breed": WrightKing (shown on the left, see the biography section for the 1960 post on Wanted Dead or Alive) plays young robber Will Norris. RobertMiddleton (see "The Diamond Dude" above) plays homesteader CalebTimmons. Debra Paget (starred in BrokenArrow, Les Miserables, Prince Valiant, The Ten Commandments, Love MeTender, and Journey to the Lost City)plays his young wife Kate. Dee Pollock (Billy Urchin on Gunslinger) plays his son Arly. Willis Bouchey (Mayor Terwilligeron The Great Gildersleeve, Springeron Pete and Gladys, and the judge 23times on Perry Mason) plays agingWells Fargo agent Frank Danes. John Zaremba (see "The Jealous Man"above) plays a sheriff.
Season 6, Episode 11, "Kelly's Clover Girls": VirginiaField (appeared in Little Lord Fauntleroy,Thank You, Jeeves!, Stage Door Canteen, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)plays madame Kelly Green. Dawn Wells (shown on the right, played Mary Ann Summers on Gilligan's Island) plays her young understudy Molly. Lisa Gaye (see"The Dowry" above) plays her more experienced employee Sunset. MichaelPate (starred in Face to Face, Julius Caesar, Hondo, and Tower of Londonand played Chief Vittoro on Hondo andDet. Sgt. Vic Maddern on Matlock)plays wanted killer Paul Jennings Kalo. Hank Patterson (Fred Ziffel on Green Acres and Petticoat Junction and Hank Miller on Gunsmoke) plays transport driver Coleman Flagg. William Mims (see"The Remittance Man" above) plays trail boss Canby. Glenn Strange(see the biography section for the 1961 post on Gunsmoke) plays one of his drovers Sam Craiger. Phil Chambers (see"Gunman's Revenge" above) plays Wells Fargo agent Bill.
Season 6, Episode 12, "A Killing in Calico": DeanJones (shown on the left, starred in Jailhouse Rock, That Darn Cat!, The Ugly Dachshund, The LoveBug, The Million Dollar Duck, andBeethoven and played Ensign O'Tooleon Ensign O'Toole, Linc McCray on The Chicago Teddy Bears, and Jim Douglason Herbie, the Love Bug) plays outlawgunman Jamie Coburn. Patricia Breslin (Amanda Peoples Miller on The People's Choice, Laura Brooks on Peyton Place, and Meg Bentley on General Hospital) plays his wife Theresa.John Larch (starred in The Wrecking Crew,Play Misty for Me, and Dirty Harry and played Deputy DistrictAttorney Jerry Miller on Arrest and Trial,Gerald Wilson on Dynasty, and Arlen& Atticus Ward on Dallas) playsformer employer Birch Morgan. George Brenlin (Benny on General Hospital and Duke Dukowski on Adam-12) plays gun for hire Wolf. Byron Foulger (Mr. Nash on Captain Nice and Wendell Gibbs on Petticoat Junction) plays a telegrapher.Herb Vigran (Judge Brooker on Gunsmoke)plays a clothier.
Season 6, Episode 14, "Trackback": Leo Gordon (BigMike McComb on Maverick) plays wantedrobber Frank Lambert. Richard Rust (Hank Tabor on Sam Benedict and Jason Vining on General Hospital) plays his younger brother Wally. Morgan Woodward(shown on the right, see the biography section for the 1960 post on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays Frank's accomplice SteveTaggart. Edward Mallory (Bill Riley on MorningStar and Bill Horton on Days of OurLives) plays Gloribee deputy Ron.
