If it were cast today, Tales
of Wells Fargo might depict crooks and con men working inside the fabled
company that began as a guaranteed transportation venture based out of San
Francisco, but in the 1950s American television landscape, Wells Fargo agents
were the good guys. The series ran for 6 seasons on NBC from 1957-62, the first
five as a 30-minute black-and-white program with a single star--Dale Robertson
playing special agent Jim Hardie, who travels alone throughout the west usually
investigating robberies and murders perpetrated against the assets and agents
of his employer. In this role, Hardie is a kind of combination private
detective and lawman. The format and stories are hardly distinctive in the
western TV genre, overlapping with earlier and later series such as Stories of the Century, Cheyenne, Pony Express, and Shotgun Slade, but due to Robertson's folksy charm and beefcake good looks, it shot
to #3 in the ratings during its initial season and still placed #7 in its
sophomore year before falling out of the top 30 in its final four seasons. The
series was conceived by producer Nat Holt, who had directed Robertson in his
first credited film role in Fighting Man
of the Plains, and was based very loosely on the career of Fred J. Dodge,
who worked as a special undercover agent for Wells Fargo in the 1870s and 1880s throughout the west
before settling in Texas in 1890 and working openly for the company from then
on. The television character Jim Hardie, however, always openly announces his
role as a Wells Fargo agent, many times preceded by his reputation when he
enters a town to work on a case, though he occasionally goes undercover
impersonating someone else, such as imprisoned killer Bill Stampel in the
episode "The Canyon" (February 1, 1960) and wanted horse thief
Rattlesnake Jim in the episode "Vasquez" (May 16, 1960).
Holt and his writers also expanded Hardie's chronological
reach beyond Dodge's by setting some episodes as early as 1865, when the
real-life Dodge was only 11 years old, and had him encounter real-life western
legends that Dodge never dealt with, while avoiding one of Dodge's closest
friends, Wyatt Earp, since the latter was then the star of another western
series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp,
on a competing network--ABC. The real-life Fred Dodge had even helped Earp land
a job with Wells Fargo in Tombstone, Arizona, where he would later have his
famous shoot-out at the O.K. Corral. But in the fictional world of Jim Hardie, the
episode "Escort to Santa Fe" (December 19, 1960) depicts Hardie
assigned to escort Mexican President Benito Juarez to a meeting with U.S.
officials in Santa Fe on the day that President Abraham Lincoln was
assassinated. The episode "Cole Younger" (January 4, 1960) tries
placing Hardie in the midst of the famous James-Younger Gang botched robbery of
the North Minefield, Minnesota bank, which led to Younger's capture and
imprisonment, though the real-life Dodge had no involvement in the event. Likewise,
in the highly chauvinistic episode "Pearl Hart" (May 9, 1960), Hardie
helps capture the notorious female stagecoach robber by playing on her vanity,
which Hardie says all women are guilty of, by luring her into a shooting
contest in Deming, New Mexico since she is so proud of her skill. After he
bests her and takes her to Tucson for trial, he narrates that after serving a
light sentence she went straight and even got married. The story of the real
Pearl Hart is a bit more complicated, having married an alcoholic, abusive
husband when she was 16, sending her two children to live with her mother in
Ohio while she pursued various occupations, even possibly operating a brothel,
and eventually turning to stagecoach robbery ostensibly to support her
then-ailing mother. She was actually acquitted of the robbery but later
arrested for tampering with the U.S. mail, escaped from prison but later
recaptured in Deming, and after serving her sentence in Yuma Prison was later
charged with receiving stolen property while running a Kansas City cigar store
but acquitted of that charge as well. Needless to say, the arc of her real-life
story did not follow the tidy redemptive trajectory depicted on Tales of Wells Fargo, but this episode's
version is consistent with the overall moral sermonizing found elsewhere in the
series.
"Frightened Witness" (December 26, 1960) depicts
an eye witness to a murder being unwilling to testify against the perpetrator
after being threatened by the perpetrator's gang members. However, after being
shamed by his young son as a coward and then receiving a lecture from Hardie
about what society would look like if killers were allowed to walk free without
repercussion, the witness decides to stand up to the bullies threatening him
and is so invigorated by his new-found backbone that he pummels one of the
bullies in a fistfight. In "The Bride and the Bandit" (December 12,
1960) a former saloon girl posing as a schoolteacher who hopes to marry an
upstanding Wells Fargo agent receives admonishment from Hardie to let the agent
make the decision about whether her past is a deal-breaker rather than
pretending to be something she's not and then running away once her cover is
blown. And in another highly chauvinistic episode, Hardie literally takes over
his knee and spanks precocious 17-year-old Stephanie Carrie in "A Study in
Petticoats" (October 17, 1960) after she relentlessly tries to get him to
marry her and then lies to her brothers, claiming that he took advantage of her
when they were alone, in order to try to force a shotgun marriage upon him. After
he administers the spanking, the brothers thank him and say they should have
done the same a long time ago. Granted, the paternalistic tone of Tales of Wells Fargo was fairly common
for the era but also helps demonstrate why this series failed to stand out from
its competition.
While Hardie's character was unambiguously upright on
screen, Robertson's handling of the series behind the scenes, like Pearl Hart's
actual biography, is a little more complicated. Before the series got off the
ground, Nat Holt tried to sell Robertson on the idea of Wells Fargo for some time, but Robertson kept putting him off
because he considered himself too busy with his work on feature films. Eventually
Robertson felt he owed Holt a favor out of loyalty for having gotten him
started in his successful career, though he was also drawn to television's
shorter shooting schedule than that of feature films. To sweeten the deal Holt offered
Robertson 50% ownership of the series, and as the game show says, the price was
right. However, by the fifth season, according to an interview with Earle Lyon
on westernclippings.com, Robertson felt that Holt, then 67 years old, was
getting too old and forgetful to continue, so he invited Lyon to take over as
producer for the remainder of the series. Though Holt opposed the move,
Robertson, who was also an experienced horse trainer, got the backing of NBC
and the show's financial backer, Universal, and Holt was "put out to
pasture" with Lyon taking over in Season 5. However, Robertson himself
eventually was ousted as well, when, according to Lyon, Lew Wasserman took over
Universal and decided that Tales of Wells
Fargo, which had been expanded to an hour for its final season and was
being shot in color at a time when very few other series were, was too
expensive and canceled the series despite Robertson and Lyon wanting to
continue. Perhaps Robertson forcing Holt out was necessary as "just
business," but it hardly sounds like the kind of thing Jim Hardie would
have done.
The theme music for Tales
of Wells Fargo was composed by Stanley Wilson, who was profiled in the 1961
post for Ripcord.
Timeless Media Group has released the first two complete
seasons on DVD as well as a 6-disc Best of collection from the first five
seasons and a 22-episode collection from the final season. The series is also
currently airing on the Encore Westerns cable TV channel.
The Actors
Dale Robertson
Dayle Lymoine Robertson was born in Harrah, Oklahoma, 30
miles east of Oklahoma City and claimed to have Cherokee blood. He became an
accomplished rider of horses by age 10 and was training polo ponies a few years
later. In high school he starred in athletics and became a professional boxer
after high school while attending the Oklahoma Military Academy. He was
reportedly offered a lead role in the Columbia feature Golden Boy during this time but turned it down as he had no
interest in acting. Once the U.S. entered World War II he was commissioned as
an officer and stationed in Europe, where he was wounded twice and was awarded
the Bronze and Silver Star medals. However, while stationed in San Luis Obispo,
California, he and some friends decided to have photographs made to send home.
The photographer who took his picture made an enlargement and posted it in his
shop window, drawing the interest of numerous talent scouts. Taking the advice
given him by fellow Oklahoman Will Rogers, Jr., Robertson never took acting
classes in order to retain his natural folksiness. Many years later he said
that the only reason he got into acting was to earn enough money to buy a horse
ranch back in Oklahoma, which he eventually did. His first uncredited role came
in the 1948 feature The Boy With Green
Hair, and the following year he got his first on-screen credit playing
Jesse James in Fighting Man of the Plains.
By 1951 he had signed a 7-year contract with 20th Century Fox and was playing
leading roles in such films as Take Care
of My Little Girl and Golden Girl.
Later Robertson estimated that about 70% of his roles were in westerns, such as
The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Devil's Canyon, and Sitting Bull. He made his first television appearances on the drama
anthologies Studio 57 and Schlitz Playhouse in 1956. His second
appearance on the latter series was titled "A Tale of Wells Fargo,"
which essentially served as the pilot for the series he would help create, own,
and star in the following year, Tales of
Wells Fargo.
Though his workload diminished in
the first few years after Wells Fargo
was canceled, appearing in a handful of feature films and a pair of TV movies,
he was soon back on television in a leading role as Ben Calhoun in Iron Horse, which ran for two seasons
from 1966-68. He followed that by replacing Robert Taylor as the host and
narrator of the syndicated series Death Valley Days during its final two seasons in 1969-70. His acting career
again went on hiatus through most of the 1970s except for a few TV movies, but
he returned to television as oil wildcatter Walter Lankershim on the first
season of Dynasty. The following year
he appeared 5 times as Frank Crutcher on Dallas,
and after another 5-year drought returned to a starring role in the short-lived
J.J. Starbuck in 1987-88. Thereafter
he had only a few credits--one on Murder,
She Wrote, another TV movie, and two appearances on Lloyd Bridges' series Harts of the West in 1993-94. He and his
fourth wife Susan settled on his long-sought horse ranch in Yukon, Oklahoma but
eventually sold it and moved to San Diego, where he died from complications
from pneumonia and lung cancer on February 27, 2013 at the age of 89.
Notable Guest Stars
Season 4, Episode 17, "Cole Younger": Royal Dano (appeared
in The Far Country, Moby Dick, and The Outlaw Josey Wales) plays notorious outlaw Cole Younger. Patty
Ann Gerrity (shown on the left, appeared in To Hell and Back,
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and The Trouble With Angels and played Alice
Holliday on This Is Alice) plays farmer's
daughter Inger Hegelund. House Peters, Jr. (Sheriff Jim Billings on Lassie) plays Hanska Falls Sheriff
Glisburn. Olan Soule (Aristotle "Tut" Jones on Captain Midnight, Ray Pinker on Dragnet
(1952-59), and Fred Springer on Arnie)
plays a telegrapher.
Season 4, Episode 18, "The Easterner": Gerald Mohr
(narrator on 19 episodes of The Lone
Ranger, Christopher Storm on Foreign
Intrigue, voice of Mr. Fantastic and Reed Richards on Fantastic 4) plays Boston lawyer Mulvaney. Joanna Moore (mother of
Tatum and Griffin O'Neal, appeared in Touch
of Evil, Son of Flubber, and Never a Dull Moment and played Peggy
McMillan on The Andy Griffith Show)
plays stage passenger Arlene Howard. S. John Launer (Marshall Houts on The Court of Last Resort and the judge
33 times on Perry Mason) plays a
Wells Fargo agent.
Season 4, Episode 19, "The Governor's Visit": Douglas
Kennedy (starred in Adventures of Don
Juan, I Was an American Spy, and Jack McCall, Desperado and played
Marshal Steve Donovan on Steve Donovan,
Western Marshal and Sheriff Fred Madden on The Big Valley) plays Wyoming outlaw Clancy. Mari Blanchard (shown on the right, starred
in Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Destry, Son of Sinbad, and She Devil
and played Kathy O'Hara on Klondike)
plays saloon owner Kitty Flambeau. Joan Staley (Playboy Playmate who appeared
in Cape Fear, Roustabout, Valley of the
Dragons, Johnny Cool, and The Ghost and Mr. Chicken and played
Hannah on 77 Sunset Strip and Roberta
Love on Broadside) plays saloon girl
Sally. Joan Granville (see the biography section for the 1960 post on Lock Up) plays saloon girl Tess. Tom
McKee (Comrade Laylock Brisson on I Led 3
Lives, Captain Davis on The
Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, and Fire Chief Tucker on Rescue 8) plays Wyoming sheriff Parker. Bob Steele (starred in Breezy Bill, Of Mice and Men, and The Big Sleep,
played Billy the Kid in 6 westerns and Tucson Smith in 19 others, and played
Trooper Duffy on F Troop) plays
Clancy henchman Cole. Quintin Sondergaard (see the biography section for the
1960 post on Tombstone Territory)
plays an unnamed Clancy henchman.
Season 4, Episode 21, "The Canyon":
Bruce Gordon (see the biography section for the 1961 post on The Untouchables) plays outlaw community
kingpin Len Garner. Andy Clyde (shown on the left, see the biography section for the 1960 post on The Real McCoys) plays outlaw community
resident Pop Brown. Jean Ingram (had an affair with James Edward Baker, aka
Father Yod of The Source Family, who was convicted of killing her husband in
1963) plays embezzlement suspect's daughter Jane Kimball.
Season 4, Episode 22, "Red Ransom": Frank DeKova (Chief
Wild Eagle on F Troop and Louis
Campagna on The Untouchables) plays Apache
renegade Joe Black. John Alderson (Sgt. Bullock on Boots and Saddles and Wyatt Earp on Doctor Who) plays Wells Fargo agent Clay Arvin. Sarah Selby (Aunt
Gertrude on The Hardy Boys: The Mystery
of the Applegate Treasure, Lucille Vanderlip on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Miss Thomas on Father Knows Best, and Ma Smalley on Gunsmoke) plays his wife Clara. Larry J.
Blake (the unnamed jailer on Yancy
Derringer and Tom Parnell on Saints
and Sinners) plays Apache chief Akana. Pat Hogan (Black Cloud on Brave Eagle) plays argumentative
townsman Todd Hoover. Grandon Rhodes (Mr. Vanderlip on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Dr. Stevens on Lassie, the judge 16 times on Perry Mason, and Dr. J.P. Martin on Bonanza) plays another townsman.
Season 4, Episode 23, "The Englishwoman": Adrienne
Hayes (shown on the right, played Brooke Bentley on General Hospital)
plays embezzlement suspect's daughter Vickie St. John. Wesley Lau (see the
biography section for the 1961 post on Perry Mason) plays Wells Fargo agent Hank. Frank Ferguson (Gus Broeberg on My Friend Flicka, Eli Carson on Peyton Place, and Dr. Barton Stuart on Petticoat Junction) plays the Morgan
sheriff. George Cisar (Sgt. Theodore Mooney on Dennis the Menace and Cyrus Tankersley on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry
R.F.D.) plays newspaper publisher Whitey Lawson. John Beradino (Special
Agent Steve Daniels on I Led 3 Lives,
Sgt. Vince Cavelli on The New Breed,
and Dr. Steve Hardy on General Hospital)
plays gunslinger Larry Wills. Mason Curry (Deke Tuttle on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir) plays general store owner Joe Jenson.
Season 4, Episode 24, "Forty-Four Forty": Peter
Whitney (Sergeant Buck Sinclair on The
Rough Riders and Lafe Crick on The
Beverly Hillbillies) plays stagecoach robber Big Duggin. Roy Barcroft (Col.
Logan on The Adventures of Spin and Marty
and Roy on Gunsmoke) plays stage
driver Tom Olsen. Nancy Hale (shown on the left, played Helen Carter on Whirlybirds) plays his daughter Myra. Sam Flint (Mr. Armstead on Father Knows Best and Judge Jewett on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays
Tucson doctor Ed Baylor. Owen Bush (Ben on Shane,
John Belson on Sirota's Court, and
Crimshaw on Our House) plays stage
manager Hank.
Season 4, Episode 25, "The Late Mayor Brown": John
Stephenson (shown on the right, see the biography section for the 1961 post on The Flintstones) plays River Oaks resident Miles Rogers. George
Mitchell (Cal Bristol on Stoney Burke)
plays River Oaks Marshal Dan Fogarty. Vic Perrin (the narrator on Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, the
control voice on The Outer Limits,
and did voicework on Jonny Quest, Star Trek, Scooby Doo, Where Are You?, and Mission:
Impossible!) plays thief Ben Locust. Gail Kobe (Penny Adams on Trackdown and Doris Schuster on Peyton Place and produced over 200
episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful)
plays late mayor's widow Kate Brown. Charles Cooper (starred in The Wrong Man and played the sheriff on Father Murphy and Judge Robert Boucher
on The Practice) plays Locust's
friend Sonny Boston.
Season 4, Episode 26, "Black Trail": Dianne Foster
(starred in Night Passage, The Last Hurrah, and The Deep Six) plays former actress
Elaine Griffon. Luis Van Rooten (appeared in The Hitler Gang, Champion,
and Operation Eichmann and played
Knobby Walsh on The Joe Palooka Story)
plays bank president Cyrus Wilson. Ron Soble (Dirty Jim on The Monroes) plays stagecoach robber Burch.
Season 4, Episode 27, "The Great Bullion Robbery":
Joyce Taylor (shown on the left, played Mary McCauley on Men Into Space) plays Wells Fargo agent's daughter Anne King. Robert Karnes (see the
biography section for the 1961 post on The Lawless Years) plays Weber Falls Marshal Emmett Clegg. Jan Merlin (Roger
Manning on Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
and Lt. Colin Kirby on The Rough Riders)
plays ex-con Johnny Hogan. Ed Kemmer (Commander Buzz Corry on Space Patrol, Paul Britton on The Secret Storm, and Dick Martin on As the World Turns) plays blacksmith Joe
Beecher.
Season 4, Episode 28, "The Outlaw's Wife": Mike
Road (Marshal Tom Sellers on Buckskin,
Lt. Joe Switolski on The Roaring 20's,
and provided the voice for Race Bannon on Johnny
Quest and Ugh on Space Ghost)
plays robbery conspirator Clete. Patricia Huston (Addy Olson on Days of Our Lives and Hilda Brunschwager
on L.A. Law) plays robber's wife's
sister Marge Walker. Byron Morrow (Capt. Keith Gregory on The New Breed and Pearce Newberry on Executive Suite) plays a Wells Fargo agent.
Season 4, Episode 29, "The Town": Mary Webster (shown on the far right, appeared
in The Delicate Delinquent, Eighteen and Anxious, and Master of the World) plays Wolf Creek
heir Lucy Potter. Rhys Williams (shown on the near right, played Doc Burrage on The Rifleman) plays train passenger Jim Cook. Robert Foulk (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 Wolf Creek crook
Clem Fallon. Bert Remsen (Detective Lawrence on Peyton Place, Mr. Pell on Gibbsville,
Mario on It's a Living, and Jack
Crager on Dynasty) plays Fallon's
henchman Burkett. Robert B. Williams (postman Mr. Dorfman on Dennis the Menace and Barney on Hazel) plays a hotel clerk.
Season 4, Episode 30, "The Trading Post": Mort
Mills (shown on the left, played Marshal Frank Tallman on Man
Without a Gun, Sgt. Ben Landro on Perry Mason, and Sheriff Fred Madden on The
Big Valley) plays bounty hunter Chase Robson. Paul Langton (Leslie
Harrington on Peyton Place) plays trading
post manager Frisbee. Peter Leeds (Tenner Smith on Trackdown and George Colton on Pete
and Gladys) plays white man living among Indians Oscar Shipley. X Brands (Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah
on Yancy Derringer) plays Osage brave
Spotted Tail. Monte Blue (Sheriff Hollister on Sky King) plays his father Nicoma.
Season 4, Episode 31, "Dead Man's Street": Buddy
Ebsen (shown on the right, played Sgt. Hunk Marriner on Northwest
Passage, Jed Clampett on The Beverly
Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones on Barnaby
Jones, and Roy Houston on Matt
Houston) plays lawless patriarch Dan Ferguson. George Kennedy (starred in Charade, The Sons of Katie Elder, The
Dirty Dozen, Cool Hand Luke, and The Naked Gun and played MP Sgt. Kennedy
on The Phil Silvers Show, Father
Samuel Cavanaugh on Sarge, Bumper
Morgan on The Blue Knight, and Carter
McKay on Dallas) plays his son Joby. Robert
Bray (Simon Kane on Stagecoach West
and Corey Stuart on Lassie) plays his
son Alec. Kelly Thordsen (Colorado Charlie on Yancy Derringer) plays his son Amos. Barney Phillips (Sgt. Ed
Jacobs on the original Dragnet, Lt.
Sam Geller on Johnny Midnight, Lt.
Avery on The Brothers Brannagan, Doc
Kaiser on 12 O'Clock High, Mike
Golden on Dan August, and Fletcher
Huff on The Betty White Show) plays Wells
Fargo agent George Guinness. Wallace Ford (see the biography section for the
1960 post on The Deputy) plays Paradise,
CA marshal F.X. Murphy. Walter Sande (appeared in To Have and Have Not, A Place
in the Sun, and Bad Day at Black Rock
and played Capt. Horatio Bullwinkle on The
Adventures of Tugboat Annie and Papa Holstrum on The Farmer's Daughter) plays bartender Healey. Herbert Lytton
(Admiral Reynolds on McHale's Navy)
plays store owner Benson.
Season 4, Episode 32, "Threat of Death": Robert
Middleton (Barney Wales on The Monroes)
plays store owner Jason Kreegar. King Calder (Lt. Gray on Martin Kane) plays a Dobie resident. William Campbell (appeared in The High and the Mighty, Love Me Tender, Dementia 13, and Hush...Hush,
Sweet Charlotte and played Jerry Austin on Cannonball) plays Wells Fargo robber Johnny Crail. Elizabeth Allen
(shown on the left, played Laura Deane on Bracken's World,
Martha Simms on The Paul Lynde Show,
Capt. Quinlan on CPO Sharkey, and
Victoria Bellman on Texas) plays captive
half-breed Ilona. Virginia Sale (Selma Plout on Petticoat Junction and Green
Acres) plays another Dobie citizen.
Season 4, Episode 33, "Dealer's Choice": Patricia
Barry (shown on the right, played Kate Harris on Harris Against the
World, Lydia McGuire on Dr. Kildare,
Adelaide Horton Williams on Days of Our
Lives, Peg English on All My Children,
and Sally Gleason on Guiding Light)
plays wealthy heir Phyllis Randolph. Frank Wilcox (see the biography section
for the 1961 post on The Untouchables)
plays her father. Robert Lowery (starred in Criminal
Investigator, Revenge of the Zombies,
The Navy Way, The Mummy's Ghost, and They
Made Me a Killer and played Big Tim Champion on Circus Boy and Buss Courtney on Pistols
'n' Petticoats) plays casino owner John Galena. Arthur Space (appeared in Black Beauty, The Cockeyed Miracle, and Target
Earth and played Herbert Brown on National
Velvet and Dr. Frank Weaver on Lassie)
plays Wells Fargo manager Arnold Porter. Robert Carson (Mr. Maddis on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show)
plays Wells Fargo agent Houseman Ward. Ann McCrea (Midge Kelsey on The Donna Reed Show) plays casino
hostess Sarah. Roy Gordon (Andrew V. McMahon on The Millionaire) plays card-playing Judge Donovan.
Season 4, Episode 34, "Pearl Hart": Beverly
Garland (shown on the left, played Casey Jones on Decoy, Ellis
Collins on The Bing Crosby Show,
Barbara Harper Douglas on My Three Sons,
Dorothy "Dotty" West on Scarecrow
and Mrs. King, Ellen Lane on Lois
& Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and Ginger on 7th Heaven) plays legendary outlaw Pearl
Hart. Michael Pate (starred in Face to
Face, Julius Caesar, Hondo, and Tower of London and played Chief Vittoro on Hondo and Det. Sgt. Vic Maddern on Matlock) plays her henchman Hogan. Stafford Repp (Brink on The New Phil Silvers Show and Chief
O'Hara on Batman) plays Deming, NM
sheriff Henry Roseboro. Jean Inness (see the biography section for the 1961
post on Dr. Kildare) plays his wife
Martha.
Season 4, Episode 35, "Vasquez": Cesare Danova (shown on the right, appeared
in Tender Is the Night, Cleopatra, Viva Las Vegas, Mean Streets,
and Animal House and played Actor on Garrison's Gorillas) plays famous
desperado Tiburcio Vasquez. Jack Reitzen (Chopstick Joe on Terry and the Pirates and Flores on Not for Hire) plays his henchman Moreno. Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr. (Luis
Valdez on Viva Valdez) player henchman
Chavez. Barbara Luna (Maria on One Life
to Live) plays Vasquez's lover Rosita. Stuart Randall (Sheriff Art Sampson
on Cimarron City, Al Livermore on Lassie, and Sheriff Mort Corey on Laramie) plays San Jose Sheriff Morris.
C. Lindsay Workman (see the biography section for the 1961 post on The Donna Reed Show) plays a
telegrapher.
Season 4, Episode 36, "Kid Brother": Larry Pennell
(shown on the left, see the biographical section for the 1961 post on Ripcord) plays Hardie's younger brother Ben. Henry Corden (Carlo on
The Count of Monte Cristo, and
Babbitt on The Monkees and did
voicework on The Flintstones, Jonny Quest, The Atom Ant Show, The Banana
Splits Adventure Hour and Return to
the Planet of the Apes) plays New Orleans police inspector Dupre. Allison
Hayes (see the biographical section for the 1960 post on Bat Masterson) plays saloon girl Marie. Kathie Browne (Angie Dow on
Hondo and was Darren McGavin's second
wife) plays saloon girl Madeleine. Joanna Lee (appeared in The Joker Is Wild, The Brain
Eaters, and Plan 9 From Outer Space
and wrote screenplays for The Flintstones,
My Three Sons, Gilligan's Island, Nanny and
the Professor, The Courtship of Eddie's
Father, and Room 222) plays
saloon girl Antoinette. Howard Caine (Schaab on The Californians and Maj. Wolfgang Hochstetter on Hogan's Heroes) plays the saloon
manager.
Season 4, Episode 37, "Man for the Job": Harold J.
Stone (John Kennedy on The Grand Jury,
Hamilton Greeley on My World and Welcome
to It, and Sam Steinberg on Bridget
Loves Bernie) plays stagecoach shotgun messenger Phil Coughlin. Regis
Toomey (starred in Alibi, Other Men's Women, The Finger Points, His Girl
Friday, and The Big Sleep and played
Joe Mulligan on The Mickey Rooney Show,
Lt. Manny Waldo on Four Star Playhouse,
Lt. McGough on Richard Diamond, Private
Detective, Bill Cochran on Shannon,
Det. Les Hart on Burke's Law, and Dr.
Barton Stuart on Petticoat Junction
and Green Acres) plays Wells Fargo
agent Les Goslin. Ken Lynch (shown on the right, see the biography section for the 1961 post on Checkmate) plays prospective stage
robber Parker. Dennis Cross (see the biography section for the 1960 post on The Blue Angels) plays his partner Luke
Lambert.
Season 5, Episode 1, "Day of Judgement": John
Dehner (shown on the left, played Duke Williams on The Roaring
'20's, Commodore Cecil Wyntoon on The
Baileys of Balboa, Morgan Starr on The
Virginian, Cyril Bennett on The Doris
Day 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 vengeful Civil War
veteran Wade Cather. John Lupton (Tom Jeffords on Broken Arrow and Frank on Never
Too Young) plays wanted robber Eli Fisher. Doris Dowling (starred in The Lost Weekend, The Blue Dahlia, Bitter Rice,
and Othello and played Irene Adams on
My Living Doll) plays Fisher's lady
friend Verna.
Season 5, Episode 2, "Angry Town": Paul Birch
(Erle Stanley Gardner on The Court of
Last Resort, Mike Malone on Cannonball,
and Capt. Carpenter on The Fugitive)
plays Miles City Sheriff Paul Brick. Sydney Pollack (shown on the right, directed They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, The Way We Were, Absence of Malice, Tootsie,
and Out of Africa) plays his
brother-in-law Stan Riker. Paul Fix (see the biography section for the 1960
post on The Rifleman) plays Hardie's
old friend and physician Doc Howard. Guy Wilkerson (played Panhandle Perkins in
22 westerns) plays rancher Zeb Baker. Richard Tyler (appeared in It's in the Bag!, Father Was a Fullback, and Tea
and Sympathy and played Henry Aldrich on The Aldrich Family) plays posse member Chris Warren. Ed Prentiss
(Carl Jensen on The Virginian and Dr.
Ralph Dunbar on Days of Our Lives)
plays banker Harry Newhole.
Season 5, Episode 3, "Doc Dawson": Edgar Buchanan
(shown on the left, played Uncle Joe Carson on The Beverly
Hillbillies, 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 former outlaw and
new dentist Doc Dawson. Stanley Clements (Stanislaus "Duke"
Coveleskie in 6 Bowery Boys feature films) plays dead Wells Fargo driver's
brother-in-law Clyde Simpson. Don Haggerty (Jeffrey Jones on The Files of Jeffrey Jones, Eddie Drake
on The Cases of Eddie Drake, Sheriff
Dan Elder on State Trooper, and Marsh
Murdock on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays close family friend Joe Haynes. Douglas Spencer (appeared in The Thing From Another World, Shane, This Island Earth, River of
No Return, and The Diary of Anne
Frank) plays a Texas sheriff.
Season 5, Episode 4, "The Kinfolk": Richard
Jaeckel (see the biography section for the 1961 post on Frontier Circus) plays wanted killer Len Lassiter.
Season 5, Episode 5, "A Study in Petticoats": Whitney
Blake (shown on the right, see the biography section for the 1961 post on Hazel) plays jewelry owner Norma Hoover. Diane Jergens (appeared in
The Bob Mathias Story, Desk Set, High School Confidential!, and Island
of Lost Women and played Francine Williams on The Bob Cummings Show and Susie Jackson on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet) plays infatuated 17-year-old
Stephanie Carrie. Paul Genge (Lt. Burns on 87th Precinct) plays the Longshire Wells Fargo agent.
Season 5, Episode 6, "All That Glitters": Barbara
Stuart (shown on the left, played Bessie on The Great Gildersleeve,
Alice on Pete and Gladys, Bunny on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Peggy Ferguson on The McLean Stevenson Show, Marianne
Danzig on Our Family Honor, and Alice
on Huff) plays bank president Meg
Hollister. Ron Harper (see the biography section for the 1961 post on 87th Precinct) plays her brother Dan
Haskell. Ken Lynch (see "Man for the Job" above) plays ex-con
safecracker Joe Brass. Donna Corcoran (sister of Noreen Corcoran, appeared in Angels in the Outfield, Don't Bother to Knock, and Million Dollar Mermaid) plays his
daughter Helen. Robert P. Lieb (Harry Thompson on Hazel) plays Wells Fargo agent Sam Tubs.
Season 5, Episode 7, "Run for the River": Ron
Hayes (see the biography section for the 1960 post on Bat Masterson) plays Hardie's prisoner Ira Kyle. Bruce Gordon (shown on the right, see
"The Canyon" above) plays Red Bluffs Mayor Carl Orleans. Forrest
Taylor (starred in True Nobility, Big Calibre, Too Much Beef, and The Lost
Planet and played Doc Brannon on Man
Without a Gun) plays Ira's father Pop Kyle. William Boyett (Sgt. Ken
Williams on Highway Patrol and Sgt.
MacDonald on Adam-12) plays bank
clerk Bert.
Season 5, Episode 8, "Leading Citizen": Robert
Middleton (see "Threat of Death" above) plays San Tomas, TX
mayor/sheriff/judge Bodie Seaton. Wesley Lau (see "The Englishwoman"
above) plays outlaw Morgan Bates. Robert Carricart (Pepe Cordoza on T.H.E. Cat) plays Seaton henchman Coley
David.
Season 5, Episode 9, "The Killing of Johnny Lash":
Dennis Patrick (shown on the left, played Paul Stoddard on Dark
Shadows and Vaughn Leland on Dallas)
plays card dealer Nevada. Anne Helm (Molly Pierce on Run for Your Life) plays saloon showgirl Nell.
Season 5, Episode 10, "The Wade Place": Robert J. Wilke
(appeared in Best of the Badmen, High Noon, The Far Country, and Night Passage and played Capt. Mendoza
on Zorro) plays Wells Fargo manager
Mike Ross. Vaughn Taylor (starred in Jailhouse
Rock, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Psycho, and In Cold Blood and played Ernest P. Duckweather on Johnny Jupiter) plays store owner Seth
Wade. Russell Thorson (Det. Lt. Otto Lindstrom on The Detectives and William Kennerly on Peyton Place) plays his brother, saloon owner Joe Wade. William
Henry (appeared in Madame X, The Way of All Flesh, Mister Roberts, and The Alamo and played Andrew on The
Living Christ Series) plays outlaw Tracy Harkins. Marianna Hill (appeared
in Roustabout, Paradise, Hawaiian Style, The
Godfather: Part II, and High Plains Drifter
and played Rita on The Tall Man)
plays informant Maria.
Season 5, Episode 11, "Jeff Davis' Treasure": John
Dehner (see "Day of Judgement" above) returns as Wade Cather. John
McLiam (appeared in Cool Hand Luke, In Cold Blood, Sleeper, The Missouri Breaks,
and First Blood) plays robbery
accomplice Henry Moore. Leo Gordon (Big Mike McComb on Maverick) plays accomplice and blacksmith Adam Kemper. Paul Langton
(see "The Trading Post" above) plays accomplice Leo Summers.
Season 5, Episode 12, "The Bride and the Bandit": Myron
Healey (Doc Holliday on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays holdup man Tip Rollins. Dabbs Greer (shown on the right, see the
biography section for the 1960 post on Gunsmoke)
plays Wells Fargo agent Ben Wilson. Jan Clayton (starred in Sunset Trail, The Wolf Hunters, and This Man's
Navy and played Ellen Miller on Lassie)
plays former showgirl Ellen Stevens. Ellen Corby (Henrietta Porter on Trackdown and Esther Walton on The Waltons) plays hotel clerk Kate
Wiggam.
Season 5, Episode 13, "Escort to Santa Fe": Gregory
Walcott (see the biography section for the 1961 post on 87th Precinct) plays saboteur Kyle Gentry. Linda Lawson (shown on the left, played Renee on Adventures in Paradise, Pat Perry on Don't Call Me Charlie, Laura Fremont on Ben Casey, and Mrs. Paganini on That's Life) plays saloon girl Kate Fallon.
Season 5, Episode 14, "Frightened Witness": John
Milford (see the biography section for the 1960 post on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays captured killer Walt
Corbin. Garry Walberg (Police Sgt. Sullivan on Johnny Staccato, Sgt. Edward Goddard on Peyton Place, Speed on The
Odd Couple, and Lt. Frank Monahan on Quincy
M.E.) plays key witness Chris Matson. Michael Burns (Howie Macauley on It's a Man's World and Barnaby West on Wagon Train) plays his son Billy.
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