Early in its 4th season Wagon
Train experienced an existential crisis at the peak of its popularity: it's
top-billed star Ward Bond suffered a fatal heart attack in November 1960 while
making a promotional appearance at a Dallas Cowboys football game. The
producers moved quickly to sign up veteran character actor John McIntire to
take his place even though there were still a few episodes filmed with Bond
that had not yet aired. McIntire was credited in 5 episodes, beginning with
"The Jeremy Dow Story" (December 28, 1960) before ever appearing on
camera. But replacing Bond was not the only crisis facing the series: Even
before Bond's death co-star Robert Horton had already decided to leave the
series after his 5-year contract expired at the end of Season 5, in May, 1962.
They began planting the seeds for his replacement by bringing on former college
basketball player Denny Scott Miller as a second scout for the wagon train,
Duke Shannon, who first appeared in one of Bond's last episodes to air,
"Weight of Command" (January 25, 1961). And yet in spite of these
personnel changes, or perhaps because of the curiosity they engendered, the
series became even more popular, moving from the #2 spot in the ratings for
1960-61 to the very top spot in 1961-62. In a cover story for the June 24, 1961
issue of TV Guide, Horton was very
critical of the direction the series had taken since its beginning. He bemoaned
the increased use of stock footage and less time spent on location to save
money; he criticized the fact that his character Flint McCullough was sometimes
given speeches and put in situations directly at odds with his go-it-alone
personality, such as the episode "The Prairie Story" (February 1,
1961) in which he essentially gives the same speech Bond did in the previous
episode when a member of the train runs off on their own and he can't spare
anyone to go chase them down and bring them back. He also criticized the
scripts as being too soft, talky, and soap opera-ish. Perhaps not surprisingly
for a Hollywood leading man, he considered the best script of the season to
have been "The Odyssey of Flint McCullough" (February 15, 1961) in
which he single-handedly rescues a blind grandfather and his grandchildren
after their family is massacred by Indians and adds to their brood a lost
Indian orphan, teaching the white children not to hate the Native American boy
just because his skin is the same color as their parents' murderers.
The aforementioned episode and several others aired during
1961 constitute a deliberate effort by the show's producers to rebuild the
brand in the wake of all its personnel turmoil. As discussed in our post on the
1960 episodes for the series, Wagon Train
presented an over-arching narrative about the people who "settled"
the west, with all their trials and imperfections. Native Americans do not come
off well in this story, often serving as one of many obstacles to white western
expansion, though the producers do acknowledge the devastating effect of manifest
destiny in the year's final episode "Clyde" (December 27, 1961) when
we are told how the many wagon trains and western settlers who crossed the
prairies effectively wiped out the Native American's primary resource--the
buffalo. Still, with their series at a cross-roads, the producers focused on
origin stories of the principal characters to bolster viewers' attachment to
the program. For the departing Bond they revisited the two-part Seth Adams
story from Season 1 by introducing a look-alike character for Adams' one true
love Rainey Webster in "The Beth Pearson Story" (February 22, 1961),
with the same actress, Virginia Grey, brought back for both roles. This episode
also retells the story of how Adams, Bill Hawks, and Charlie Wooster first met
and became lifelong friends serving in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Though he successfully romances and is ready to marry Beth Pearson, Adams
finally makes a Freudian slip in calling her Rainey when he is overly tired,
revealing that the romance was merely his attempt to recapture a long-lost love
rather than truly loving the woman in front of him.
McCullough's character also traces his roots in several 1961
episodes, some of which contradict each other. From his origin story during
Season 2, the series has depicted the orphaned McCullough as having been raised
and mentored by legendary scout Jim Bridger. He reunites with this father
figure in "The Jim Bridger Story" (May 10, 1961) when Bridger is
working for U.S. Army General Jameson, who commandeers McCullough's wagon train
to rescue a regiment of soldiers trapped on a mountain by a band of Utes.
McCullough has his saint-like reverence for Bridger shattered because he does
not agree with forcing civilians to serve a military cause against their will.
McCullough is finally able to convince Jameson that the civilians must be
allowed to make their own choice, and when Jameson backs off and shows some
compassion, the citizens are ready to aid the soldiers who offer them
protection year-round. Once the tension is eased, Bridger and McCullough are
able to resume friendly relations as well. But in "The Artie Matthewson
Story" (November 8, 1961), Shannon finds a wounded old woman whose wagon
has been overturned and who claims to be Flint's adoptive mother. McCullough
rushes to Angie Matthewson's side and agrees to carry out her final wish before
she dies--find her natural-born son Artie and make sure he hasn't backslid into
his earlier criminal ways. Horton certainly has a point that episodes such as
this have a soap opera-ish flavor, never mind the contradiction that McCullough
was raised by Angie Matthewson rather than Jim Bridger.
Newcomer John McIntire gets two origin-story episodes in
1961. McIntire's first appearance on the program was as Andrew Hale in a 1959
episode in which Adams asks him to temporarily take over leadership of the
train when Adams falls ill. In his new role as Bond's replacement, McIntire
becomes Christopher Hale, whom we first meet in "The Christopher Hale
Story" (March 15, 1961) when Flint finds him sitting on what is left of
his burnt homestead's porch after Indians massacred his family while he was
away leading another wagon train west. Prior to finding him Flint and the
others had learned that their parent company had assigned notorious wagon
master Jud Benedict to lead their train (no explanation is given for what
prompted this assignment or what has happened to Adams). Hale is still dazed
when he is brought back to camp, but when the others learn that he is
Christopher Hale, noted wagon master, they urge him to rescue them from
Benedict's iron grip and then install him as permanent wagon master once Benedict
is run off. We learn more of the Hale family's fate in "The Janet Hale
Story" (May 31, 1961) in which Hale's wife Janet (played by McIntire's
real-life wife Jeanette Nolan) insists on accompanying Hale on his last wagon
train journey to California, where they will settle, only to fall ill along the
way and force the Hales to pick a different spot in the middle of Indian
country for their final homestead. Hale feels compelled to carry through on his
obligation to lead the train to California, leaving his wife and children
behind with a brother and his wife. Despite assurances from a friendly Indian
chief that they can settle on his land in peace, a younger renegade leader
ignores the promise and leads the massacre that leaves Hale alone when Flint
finds him.
Future lead scout Duke Shannon also gets his story told in
"The Duke Shannon Story" (April 26, 1961) in which his
gold-prospecting father Henry is a member of Hale's wagon train and wanders off
with Charlie Wooster to mine a legendary vein not far from the path traveled by
the train. Duke shows up shortly thereafter and is accompanied by Bill Hawks on
a search to bring the two old fools back. But a pair of greedy eavesdroppers
have also trailed the elder Shannon and Wooster to the mine, and after finding
that it has already been cleaned out attempt to blow up Henry and Wooster
inside the mine. Hawks and Duke dispatch the villains with bullets, but Henry
passes away after he and Charlie have escaped out a back entrance, the elder
Shannon dying peacefully at having correctly found the legendary mine, even if
it was empty. This turn of events leaves Duke without a family, and Hawks and
Hale agree that he would be a good addition to their wagon train, accepting him
into their virtual family.
Which brings us to the common thread that binds these
characters--they are all adult orphans in a sense, with no attachments, no
spouses, not even a steady girlfriend among them. Any romance they might strike
up is doomed. Attempts to settle down and give up their traveling are foiled.
Though they have committed no murder, they seem sentenced like the Biblical
Cain to wander the earth for the rest of their existence. Though they cross the
country from Missouri to California each season, they never seem to get
anywhere personally. In his TV Guide
interview Horton complained that his character was "a traffic cop
directing guest stars through the show." Perhaps the producers should have
recognized that their focus on the stories of their principal characters drove
the series to its highest ratings ever rather than reverting to a formula more
akin to the drama anthology series of the 1950s, which had long since faded in
popularity. After Horton's departure, the series fell to #25 for 1962-63 and
then out of the top 30 for its last two seasons.
The Actors
For the biographies for Ward Bond, Robert Horton, Terry
Wilson, and Frank McGrath, see the 1960 post for Wagon Train.
John McIntire
Born in Spokane, Washington, McIntire grew up on a ranch in
Montana where his lawyer father told him tales of the many Native American
leaders he met as commissioner of Indian affairs. The young McIntire also rode
broncos, winning a national competition at age 16. These experiences would
later serve him well in his many western roles over a career that included 100
films and starring roles on several TV series. He graduated high school in
Santa Monica, attended USC for two years, and then worked as a seaman traveling
the world before coming back and settling into radio drama and as the host of
The March of Time. While working in
radio in 1935 he met and married actress Jeanette Nolan, and the two remained
married for 56 years, until his death, and appeared in many films and TV
programs together, sometimes playing a couple. At age 40 he moved from radio
into feature films, first appearing as a radio announcer in
The Hucksters in 1947. The following
year he established himself as a supporting character actor in the
Jimmy
Stewart crime drama
Call Northside 777.
The 1950s were a fertile period for his film work in features such as
The Asphalt Jungle,
A Lion Is in the Streets, and
The
Phenix City Story, but he also branched out in villainous roles in a trio
of
Anthony Mann-directed westerns--
Winchester
'73,
The Far Country, and
The Tin Star. His television career
started in 1956 with a series of drama anthology appearances before landing a
starring role as Lt. Dan Muldoon in the first season of
Naked City. According to author
James Rosin in his book
Naked City: The Television Series,
McIntire grew dissatisfied with the rigors of a weekly television series based
in New York while his family was out west and asked out of his contract, but
according to a 1961
TV Guide interview,
McIntire said, "I really did not care for that type of role." The
producers decided to have his character killed off in the 1959 episode
"The Bumper" and replaced by
Horace McMahon as Lt. Mike Parker. After
an active 1960 that saw him appearing in feature films such as
Psycho (with Nolan),
Elmer Gantry,
Dean Martin &
Tony
Curtis'
Who Was That Lady?, and
Elvis
Presley's
Flaming Star, as well as
guest appearances on
Peter Gunn,
Overland Trail, and
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he quickly returned to regular TV roles
as Pa Canfield in the short-lived Civil War drama
The Americans and as Ward Bond's replacement on
Wagon Train, a role he would retain
until the series' end in 1965.
Guest spots on TV series like
Daniel Boone,
The Fugitive, and
Bonanza
would fill the next couple of years until he replaced another suddenly departed
regular,
William Bickford, playing his brother Clay Grainger on
The Virginian from 1967 until that
series' final episode in 1970. Around the same time he began appearing in a
number of Walt Disney productions, first as the character Whit White on the
Wonderful World of Color serial
Gallegher Goes West and its follow-up
The
Mystery of Edward Simms, then as Father Boudreau on
Bayou Boy. He and Nolan then voiced
characters in the Disney animated features
The
Rescuers and
The Fox and the Hound.
He continued regular TV guest spots through the 1970s and '80s on shows like
Love American Style,
Charlie's Angels, and
Dallas and had his last regular role as
Dutch McHenry on the single-season
Shirley Jones vehicle
Shirley in 1979-80. Feature film work continued as well with roles
in
Herbie Rides Again,
Rooster Cogburn, and
Cloak & Dagger, with his last credit
coming in the 1989
Tom Hanks comedy
Turner
& Hooch. He passed away two years later from emphysema and cancer at
the age of 83 on January 30, 1991.
Denny Scott Miller
Dennis Linn Miller was born in Bloomington, Indiana where
his father was a physical education instructor at Indiana University. Miller
and his brother
Kent played basketball from an early age and after stops in
Silver Spring, Maryland and Baldwin, New York, the family moved to Los Angeles,
where the 6'4" Denny and Kent were recruited by
John Wooden and given full
scholarships to UCLA. Working as a furniture mover during his senior year,
Denny was spotted by a talent scout on Hollywood Boulevard and signed to a
contract with MGM, which first put him in an uncredited part in
Some Came Running before casting him in
the lead role in the 1959 feature
Tarzan,
a slapped-together affair that spliced in old footage from
Johnny Weissmuller
Tarzan movies. He filled the following year with a half dozen guest appearances
on TV westerns such as
Have Gun -- Will Travel,
The Rifleman,
Laramie,
Overland Trail, and
Riverboat
before being cast as scout Duke Shannon on
Wagon
Train, making his debut in one of Ward Bond's last episodes, "Weight
of Command."
Miller stayed with Wagon
Train through the end of its 7th and penultimate season. He then was cast
as Juliet Prowse's husband Mike McCluskey's in the 1965-66 comedy Mona McCluskey, which lasted only a
single season. The remainder of his career was spent doing guest appearances on
TV shows from Gilligan's Island, Death Valley Days, and Ironside to The Incredible Hulk, Magnum,
P.I., and Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman,
He appeared 4 times as Max Flowers on Dallas
and 3 times as Sheriff Owen Kearney on Lonesome
Dove: The Series. He gave a memorable turn as Hollywood cowboy actor
"Wyoming" Bill Kelso in Blake Edwards' 1968 comedy The Party and had supporting roles in Doomsday Machine and Buck and the Preacher in the 1970s. He
also portrayed the yellow rain-slickered Gorton's fisherman in TV commercials
for over a decade and all-purpose spray foam character Big Wally. Other than
the 2005 western-star reunion feature Hell
to Pay (which included James Drury, Peter Brown, and Lee Majors), Miller's
acting career ended in 1996. He published an autobiography Didn't You Used to Be--What's His Name? and an
anti-obesity/pro-exercise manual Toxic
Waist?...Get to Know Sweat! In January 2014 he was diagnosed with ALS and
died on September 9th the same year at the age of 80.
Notable Guest Stars
Season 4, Episode 15, "The Earl Packer Story": Ernest
Borgnine (shown on the left, starred in From Here to
Eternity, Bad Day at Black Rock, Marty, The Dirty Dozen, and The
Poseidon Adventure and played Lt. Commander Quinton McHale on McHale's Navy, Joe Cleaver on Future Cop, Dominic Santini on Airwolf, and Manny Cordoba on The Single Guy) plays bounty hunter Earl
Packer. Edward Binns (starred in 12 Angry
Men, North by Northwest, Heller in Pink Tights, and Judgment at Nuremberg and played Roy
Brenner on Brenner and Wally Powers
on It Takes a Thief) plays former
legendary lawman Bill Strode.
Season 4, Episode 16, "The Patience Miller Story":
Rhonda Fleming (shown on the right, starred in
Spellbound,
The Spiral Staircase,
Out of the Past,
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,
The Great Lover,
The Eagle
and the Hawk,
Serpent of the Nile,
Inferno, and
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral) plays pacifist widow Patience Miller.
Michael
Ansara (appeared in
Julius Caesar,
The Robe,
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and
Harum Scarum, played Cochise on
Broken
Arrow and Deputy U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart on
The Rifleman and
the Law of
the Plainsman, and voiced General Warhawk on
Rambo) plays Arapahoe chief North Star.
Bart Braverman (Bobby
"Binzer" Borso on
Vega$,
Roy on
The New Odd Couple, and Dr.
Bhandari on
Mowgli: The New Adventures of
the Jungle Book) plays his son Evening Star.
Morgan Woodward (see the
biography section for the 1960 post on
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays his right-hand man Chief Spotted Horse.
Karyn Kupcinet (Carol on
The Gertrude
Berg Show) plays one of his wives Brown Robin.
E.J. Andre (Eugene Bullock
on
Dallas) plays Indian mission agent
Mr. Wise.
Jason Robards, Sr. (father of Jason Robards) plays Arapahoe elder
White Hawk.
Season 4, Episode 17, "The Sam Elder Story": Everett
Sloane (shown on the left, starred in Citizen Kane, The Lady From Shanghai, and Lust for Life and provided the voice for
Dick Tracy on The Dick Tracy Show)
plays former Union Army officer Sam Elder. Ray Stricklyn (Dr. James Parris on The Colbys and Senator Pickering on Wiseguy) plays his second-in-command
Sgt. Frank Perks. Roger Mobley (Homer "Packy" Lambert on Fury) plays boy soldier Ty Anderson. Walter
Coy (Zoravac on Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
and the narrator on Frontier) plays grieving
father Ben Allen. Adrienne Marden (Mary Breckenridge on The Waltons) plays his wife Lila. Roberta Shore (Laura Rogan on Walt Disney Presents: Annette, Henrietta
Gogerty on The Bob Cummings Show, and
Betsy Garth on The Virginian) plays his
daughter Millie.
Season 4, Episode 18, "Weight of Command":
Tommy
Rettig (Jeff Miller on
Lassie) plays 16-year-old
first-time buffalo hunter Billy Gentry.
Jeanne Bates (Nurse Wills on
Ben Casey) plays his mother Hester.
Richard
Crane (Rocky Jones on
Rocky Jones, Space
Ranger, Dick Preston on
Commando
Cody, Sky Marshal of the Universe, and Lt. Gene Plehn on
Surfside 6) plays greenhorn Dan Foster.
Nancy
Rennick (Patty Johnson on
Rescue 8)
plays his wife Judith.
Clancy Cooper (see the biography section of the 1960
post on
Lawman)plays wagon master Joe
Henry.
Jan Arvan (Nacho Torres on
Zorro
and Paw Kadiddlehopper on
The Red Skelton
Hour) plays Indian scout Charlie.
Season 4, Episode 19, "The Prairie Story":
Beulah
Bondi (shown on the right, starred in
Trail of the Lonesome
Pine,
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,
Our Town,
It's a Wonderful Life, and
The
Life of Riley) plays elder stateswoman Grandma Bates.
Virginia Christine (was
the Folger's Coffee woman in commercials, starred in
The Mummy's Curse,
The
Killers, and
Night Wind, and played
Ovie Swenson on
Tales of Wells Fargo)
plays hysterical traveler Clara Reynolds.
Jack Beutel (starred in
The Outlaw,
Best of the Badmen, and
Jesse
James' Women and played Deputy Jeff Taggart on
Judge Roy Bean) plays her husband Jack.
Jan Clayton (starred in
Sunset Trail,
The Wolf Hunters, and
This
Man's Navy and played Ellen Miller on
Lassie)
plays piano-playing traveler Charity Kirby.
Diane Jergens (appeared in
Teenage Rebel,
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 newlywed Sally Miller.
Mickey
Sholdar (Steve Morley on
The Farmer's
Daughter) plays her son Garth.
Season 4, Episode 20, "Path of the Serpent":
Noah
Beery, Jr. (see the biography section for the 1960 post on
Riverboat) plays legendary mountain man Ruddy Blaine.
Jay
Silverheels (shown on the left, appeared in
The Prairie,
Key Largo,
Broken Arrow,
The Pathfinder,
The Legend of the Lone Ranger, and
The Lone Ranger (1956) and played Tonto
on
The Lone Ranger) plays his
Shoshone sidekick The Serpent.
Paul Birch (Erle Stanley Gardner on
The Court of Last Resort, Mike Malone on
Cannonball, and Capt. Carpenter on
The Fugitive) plays U.S. Army fort
commander Sgt. Bart Huntington.
Robert Harland (Deputy Billy Lordan on
Law of the Plainsman, Jack Flood on
Target: The Corruptors, and Sgt. Older
on
The Rookies) plays his
second-in-command Cpl. Clay Taylor.
Melinda Plowman (Linda Kelly on
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show)
plays Huntington's daughter Penelope.
Season 4, Episode 21, "The
Odyssey of Flint McCullough": Henry Hull (starred in Little Women, Werewolf in
London, Great Expectations, High Sierra, and The Fountainhead) plays destitute grandfather Gideon Banning. Michael
Burns (Howie Macauley on It's a Man's
World and later played Barnaby West on Wagon
Train) plays one of his grandchildren Homer.
Season 4, Episode 22, "The Beth Pearson Story":
Virginia
Grey (shown on the right, appeared in
Uncle Tom's Cabin,
The Women,
Another Thin Man,
Mr. and
Mrs. North, and
Stage Door Canteen
and played Clara Appleby on
The Red
Skelton Hour) plays widow Beth Pearson.
Johnny Washbrook (Ken McLaughlin on
My Friend Flicka) plays her son Ron.
Del
Moore (appeared in
The Errand Boy,
The Nutty Professor, and
The Big Mouth and played Cal Mitchell on
Bachelor Father and Alvin on
Life With Elizabeth) plays disgruntled
traveler Johnson.
Season 4, Episode 23, "The Jed Polke Story":
John Lasell
(Dr. Michael Shea on
As the World Turns
and Dr. Peter Guthrie on
Dark Shadows)
plays former Union traitor Jed Polke.
Joyce Meadows (Lynn Allen on
The Man and the Challenge and Stacy on
Two Faces West) plays his wife Rheba.
Dennis
Holmes (Mike Williams on
Laramie)
plays their son Carlton.
Willard Waterman (Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve on
The Great Gildersleeve and Mac Maginnis
on
The Real McCoys) plays former
Union Army doctor Allison Day.
Morgan Woodward (see "The Patience Miller
Story" above) plays former Union soldier Walt Keene.
Ron Hayes (see the
biography section for the 1960 post on
Bat Masterson) plays former Union soldier Ross Amber.
Perry Lopez (starred in
Mister Roberts,
Taras Bulba,
Kelly's Heroes,
and
Chinatown and played Joaquin
Castaneda on
Zorro) plays former
Union soldier Jeff.
Frank Gerstle (Dirk Gird on
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and voiced Raseem on
The Banana Splits Adventure Hour) plays
wagon traveler Otto.
Season 4, Episode 24, "The Nancy Palmer Story":
Audrey
Meadows (shown on the far left, played Alice Kramden on
The
Honeymooners and
The Jackie Gleason
Show, Iris Martin on
Too Close for
Comfort, and Maggie Hogoboom on
Uncle
Buck) plays southern scam artist Nancy Palmer.
Jack Cassidy (shown on the left, Tony
Award-winning father of David and Shaun Cassidy and husband of Shirley Jones,
played Oscar North on
He & She)
plays her husband Dan.
Harry Lauter (Ranger Clay Morgan on
Tales of the Texas Rangers, Atlasande on
Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, and Jim Herrick on
Waterfront) plays former Confederate soldier Will Davidson.
Elisha
Cook, Jr. (starred in
The Maltese Falcon,
The
Big Sleep,
The Great Gatsby (1949), and
The
Killing and played Francis "Ice Pick" Hofstetler on
Magnum P.I.) plays traveler Lem Salters.
Vivi Janiss (Myrtle Davis on
Father Knows Best) plays his wife.
Roger Mobley (see "The Sam Elder Story"
above) plays his son Freddie.
Bern Hoffman (Sam the bartender on
Bonanza) plays immigrant traveler
MacGregor.
Jeanne Bates (see "Weight of Command" above) plays his
wife.
Lauren Perreau (sister of Gigi Perreau and Peter Miles) plays his
daughter Doreen.
Med Flory (played clarinet in the Ray Anthony orchestra and
founded and plays alto sax in the group Super Sax, appeared in
Gun Street,
The Nutty Professor (1963), and
The
Gumball Rally, and played Sheriff Mike McBride on
High Mountain Rangers) plays King City Sheriff Giles.
Season 4, Episode 25, "The Christopher Hale Story":
Lee Marvin (shown on the right, starred in
The Big Heat,
Bad Day at Black Rock,
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,
Cat Ballou,
The Dirty Dozen, and
Paint
Your Wagon and played Det. Lt. Frank Ballinger on
M Squad) plays notorious wagon master Jud Benedict.
L.Q. Jones (Beldon
on
The Virginian, Sheriff Lew Wallace
on
The Yellow Rose, and Nathan Wayne
on
Renegade) plays his gunman Lenny.
William
Demarest (appeared in
Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm,
Mr. Smith Goes to
Washington,
The Lady Eve,
The Devil and Miss Jones,
Stage Door Canteen,
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, and
That Darn Cat! and played William Harris on
Love and Marriage, Mr. Daly on
Make
Room for Daddy, Jeb Gaine on
Tales of
Wells Fargo, and Uncle Charlie O'Casey on
My Three Sons) plays older traveler Mr. Hennessey.
Claire Carleton
(Nell Mulligan on
The Mickey Rooney Show
and Alice Purdy on
Cimarron City)
plays his wife.
Wesley Lau (Lt. Andy Anderson on
Perry Mason and Master Sgt. Jiggs on
The Time Tunnel) plays traveler Stevens.
Nancy Rennick (see
"Weight of Command" above) plays his wife.
Season 4, Episode 26, "The Tiburcio Mendez Story":
Nehemiah Persoff starred in
The Wrong Man,
Al Capone and
Some Like It Hot) plays notorious bandito Tiburcio Mendez.
Lisa
Gaye (Gwen Kirby on
How to Marry a
Millionaire) plays his daughter Alma.
Leonard Nimoy (shown on the left, played Mr. Spock on
Star Trek, Paris on
Mission: Impossible, and Dr. William Bell on
Fringe) plays her fiance Joaquin Delgado.
Orville Sherman (Mr.
Feeney on
Buckskin, Wib Smith on
Gunsmoke, and Tupper on
Daniel Boone) plays miner Smathers.
Season 4, Episode 27, "The Nellie Jefferson Story":
Janis Paige (shown on the right, appeared in
Of Human Bondage,
Cheyenne, Romance on the High Seas,
Silk
Stockings, and
Please Don't Eat the
Daisies and played Jan Stewart on
It's
Always Jan, Kate Lanigan on
Lanigan's
Rabbi, Auntie V on
Eight Is Enough,
Nettie McCoy on
Gun Shy, Blanche
Riddle on
Baby Makes Five, Catherine
Hackett on
Trapper John, M.D., Aunt
Iona Huntington on
General Hospital,
and Minx Lockridge on
Santa Barbara)
plays legendary theatrical performer Nellie Jefferson.
H.M. Wynant (Frosty on
Batman and Ed Chapman on
Dallas) plays her manager Bart Haskell.
Don
Megowan (Captain Huckabee on
The
Beachcomber) plays her former husband Sean Hennessey.
Dennis Rush (Howie
Pruitt on
The Andy Griffith Show)
plays young traveler Homer.
Season 4, Episode 28, "The Saul Bevins Story":
Rod
Steiger (shown on the left, starred in
On the Waterfront,
Oklahoma!,
The Pawnbroker,
The Brothers
Karamazov,
Doctor Zhivago, and
In the Heat of the Night) plays blind doctor
Saul Bevins.
Vivi Janiss (see "The Nancy Palmer Story" above) plays his
sister Martha.
Charles Herbert (David Barker on
The Donna Reed Show and Peter McCauley on
Men Into Space) plays his son Job.
Willard Waterman (see "The
Jed Polke Story" above) plays prejudiced traveler Andrew Harley.
Rachel
Ames (Audrey Hardy on
General Hospital)
plays his daughter Jane.
Season 4, Episode 29, "The Joe Muharich Story":
Akim
Tamiroff (starred in
The Lives of a
Bengal Lancer,
The Way of All Flesh,
For Whom the Bell Tolls,
Touch of Evil, and
Ocean's 11) plays immigrant farmer Joe Muharich.
Robert Blake (shown on the right, played
Mickey in over 30 Our Gang shorts and Little Beaver in 23 westerns, starred in
Black Rose,
Pork Chop Hill,
The Purple
Gang,
In Cold Blood,
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, and
Electra Glide in Blue, and played Det.
Tony Baretta on
Baretta and Father
Noah Rivers on
Hell Town) plays hot-headed
gunslinger Johnny Kamen.
Doodles Weaver (narrated Spike Jones' horse-racing
songs and hosted
A Day With Doodles)
plays drunkard Efen Dirkin.
Kelton Garwood (Beauregard O'Hanlon on
Bourbon Street Beat and Percy Crump on
Gunsmoke) plays his brother Claude.
Susan Silo (Rusty on
Harry's Girls
and prolific voice actor on shows such as
The
Fonz and the Happy Days Gang,
James
Bond, Jr., and
Where's Waldo?)
plays Johnny's girlfriend Betty Whittaker.
Tristram Coffin (Lt. Doyle on
The Files of Jeffrey Jones and Capt. Tom
Rynning on
26 Men) plays her father.
Stacy Harris (see the biography section for the 1960 post on
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays
the Cottonwood sheriff.
William Mims (see the biography section for the 1960
post on
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp)
plays his Deputy Fisk.
Ken Mayer (Maj. Robbie Robertson on
Space Patrol) plays Cottonwood troublemaker Jonesy.
Season 4, Episode 30, "The Duke Shannon Story":
Frank
McHugh (appeared in
The Front Page,
The Crowd Roars,
One Way Passage,
A Midsummer
Night's Dream,
Going My Way, and
State Fair and played Willis Walter on
The Bing Crosby Show) plays gold
prospector Henry Shannon.
Maudie Prickett (Cassie Murphy on
Date With the Angels, Miss Gordon on
The Jack Benny Program, and Rosie on
Hazel) plays traveler Ethel.
Season 4, Episode 31, "The Will Santee Story":
Dean
Stockwell (shown on the left, starred in
Anchors Aweigh,
Gentleman's Agreement,
Kim,
Sons
and Lovers, and
Dune and played
Dr. Rudy Devereux on
Dr. Kildare,
Admiral Al Calavicci on
Quantum Leap,
John Stern on
Street Gear, Frank
DiMeo on
The Tony Danza Show, Edward
Shefflied on
JAG, and John Cavil on
Battlestar Gallactica) plays murderer's
son Will Santee.
Virginia Christine (see "The Prairie Story" above)
plays his mother Amanda.
Millie Perkins (starred in
The Diary of Anne Frank,
Wild
in the Country,
Wild in the Streets,
and
Wall Street and played Gladys
Presley on
Elvis, Jane Sumner on
Knots Landing, Irene Otis on
Any Day Now, and Rebecca Kaplan on
The Young and the Restless) plays Santee's
love interest Jessie McDermott.
Jocelyn Brando (Marlon Brando's sister) plays
her mother Agnes.
Harry Von Zell (the announcer on
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and
The George Burns Show and played Frank Curtis on
Bachelor Father) plays her father Fred.
John Crawford (appeared in
Zombies of the
Stratosphere,
John Paul Jones,
Exodus, and
The Americanization of Emily and played Chief Parks on
Police Woman and Sheriff Ep Bridges on
The Waltons) plays actor Edwin Booth.
Dal McKennon (see the biography section for the 1961 post on
87th Precinct) plays Juniper Creek
townsman Lee.
Season 4, Episode 32, "The Jim Bridger Story":
Karl
Swenson (Lars Hanson on
Little House on
the Prairie) plays legendary scout Jim Bridger.
John Doucette (shown on the right, see the
biography section for the 1960 post on
Lock Up) plays U.S. Army Gen. Jameson.
Hank Brandt (Leonard Waggedorn on
Julia, Morgan Hess on
Dynasty, and Dr. Aaron Kranzler on
Santa Barbara) plays objecting traveler
Gray Beddoe.
Francis de Sales (Lt. Bill Weigand on
Mr. & Mrs. North, Ralph Dobson on
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Sheriff Maddox on
Two Faces West, and Rusty Lincoln on
Days of Our Lives) plays objecting
traveler Mark Anders.
Nestor Paiva (Theo Gonzales on
Zorro) plays U.S. Army Sgt. Hoag.
Glenn Strange (played
Frankenstein's monster in
House of
Frankenstein,
House of Dracula,
and
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
and played Sam Noonan on
Gunsmoke)
plays army Capt. Fox.
Season 4, Episode 33, "The Eleanor Culhane":
Felicia
Farr (shown on the left, starred in
3:10 to Yuma,
Onionhead,
Hell Bent for Leather,
Kiss
Me, Stupid, and
Charley Varrick)
plays Flint's former girlfriend Eleanor Culhane.
John Lasell (see "The Jed
Polke Story" above) plays her husband Riker.
Russell Thorson (Det. Lt.
Otto Lindstrom on
The Detectives and
William Kennerly on
Peyton Place)
plays Riverford Sheriff Ed Harris.
Renata Vanni (appeared in
Pay or Die!,
A Patch of Blue, and
Fatso
and played Rose Brentano on
That Girl)
plays Culhane housekeeper Inez.
Orville Sherman (see "The Tiburcio Mendez
Story" above) plays a Riverford bartender.
Hank Patterson (played Fred
Ziffel on
Green Acres and
Petticoat Junction and Hank on
Gunsmoke) plays a Riverford citizen.
Dennis McCarthy (Dr. Sam Hodges on
Cimarron
City and the lab technician on
87th Precinct) plays a man on the street.
Season 4, Episode 34, "The Chalice":
Lon Chaney,
Jr. (shown on the right, starred in
The Wolfman,
Of Mice and Men,
High Noon, The
Ghost of
Frankenstein,
The Curse of Dracula,
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, and
many others, and played Chief Eagle Shadow on
Pistols 'n' Petticoats and Chingachgook on
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans) plays perpetually unlucky
traveler Mr. Carstairs.
Richard Jaeckel (see the biography section for the 1961
post on
Frontier Circus) plays his
protege Barker.
Season 4, Episode 35, "The Janet Hale Story":
Jeanette
Nolan (shown on the left, starred in
Macbeth (1948),
The Big Heat,
Tribute to a Bad Man, and
The
Reluctant Astronaut, did voicework for
Psycho,
The Rescuers, and
The Fox and the Hound, and played
Annette Devereaux on
Hotel de Paree
and Holly Grainger on
The Virginian) plays
Chris Hale's wife Janet.
Robert Hyatt (Junior Morrison on
The Pride of the Family) plays her son Jeff.
Wendy Winkelman (younger
sister of Michael Winkelman on
The Real McCoys) player her daughter Marie.
Charles Aidman (narrator on the 1985-87
version of
The Twilight Zone) plays future
farmer Whit Martin.
Bethel Leslie (appeared in 15 episodes of
The Richard Boone Show and played
Claudia Conner on
All My Children and
Ethel Crawford on
One Life to Live)
plays his wife Helen.
Robert Warwick (starred in
Alias Jimmy Valentine,
The
Supreme Sacrifice,
The Heart of a
Hero, and
Against All Flags)
plays Indian chief Red Cloud.
X Brands (played Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah on
Yancy Derringer) plays an Indian
renegade leader.
Season 4, Episode 36, "Wagon to Fort Anderson":
Don
Rickles (shown on the right, legendary comedian who appeared in
Run
Silent, Run Deep,
Muscle Beach Party,
Bikini Beach,
Beach Blanket Bingo,
Kelly's
Heroes, voiced Mr. Potato Head in all the
Toy Story movies, and played Don Robinson on
The Don Rickles Show, Otto Sharkey on
C.P.O. Sharkey, and Al Mitchell on
Daddy Dearest) plays U.S. Army soldier Joe Carder.
Albert Salmi (Yadkin
on
Daniel Boone and Pete Ritter on
Petrocelli) plays his brother George.
Carol
Eve Rossen (Anna Kassoff on
The Lawless Years) plays deaf massacre survivor Fay Ellison.
Candy Moore (Chris
Carmichael on
The Lucy Show and
hosted
The Dream Girl of 1967) plays
her sister Sue.
Season 4, Episode 37, "The Ah Chong Story": Arnold
Stang (shown on the left, appeared in My Sister Eileen, The Man With the Golden Arm, and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, was the
voice of Herman the mouse in a string of Herman and Katnip cartoon shorts, the
voice of Top Cat on Top Cat, and
played Stanley Stubbs on Broadside) plays
Chinese cook Ah Chong. Frank Ferguson (Gus Broeberg on My Friend Flicka, Eli Carson on Peyton
Place, and Dr. Barton Stuart on Petticoat
Junction) plays a sheriff.
Season 4, Episode 38, "The Don Alvarado Story":
Michael
Forest (starred in
Ski Troop Attack,
Atlas, and
The Glory Guys and was the voice of Capt. Dorai on
Street Fighter II: V and Olympus on
Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue) plays Mexican
nobleman Julio.
David Faulkner (Dr. Pagano on
Ryan's Hope) plays his cousin Rudolfo.
Minerva Urecal (Dean
Bradey/Bradley on
The Ray Milland Show:
Meet Mr. McNulty, Ma Bowie on
The
Adventures of Jim Bowie, Tugboat Annie Brennan on
The Adventures of Tugboat Annie, and Mother on
Peter Gunn) plays the Alvarado housekeeper Maria.
Ed Nelson
(Michael Rossi on
Peyton Place and
Ward Fuller on
The Silent Force)
plays Mexican Sheriff Donovan.
Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr. (Luis Valdez on
Viva Valdez) plays the padre of the
Alvarado estate.
Season 5, Episode 1, "The Captain Dan Brady Story":
Joseph Cotten (shown on the right, starred in
Citizen Kane,
The Magnificent Ambersons,
The Third Man,
Niagara, and
From the Earth
to the Moon and hosted
The Joseph
Cotten Show: On Trial) plays wild west showman Captain Dan Brady.
Paul Comi
(Deputy Johnny Evans on
Two Faces West,
Chuck Lambert on
Ripcord, and Yo Yo
on
Rawhide) plays his manager John
Gray Cloud.
Russell Thorson (see "The Eleanor Culhane Story" above)
plays an army major.
David Faulkner (see "The Don Alvarado Story"
above) plays naive traveler Murray.
Dawn Wells (Mary Ann Summers on
Gilligan's Island) plays his wife.
Michael McGreevey (see the biography section for the 1960 post on
Riverboat) plays a young fan of Brady's.
Glenn Strange (see "The Jim Bridger Story" above) plays rival wagon master's
henchman Brace.
Season 5, Episode 2, "The Kitty Allbright Story":
Polly
Bergen (singer and actress starred in
That's
My Boy,
Escape From Fort Bravo,
Cape Fear,
Move Over, Darling,
Kisses
for My President, and
Cry-Baby
and played Doris Campbell on
Baby Talk,
Kate Allen on
Commander in Chief, and
Stella Wingfield on
Desperate Housewives)
plays trail-blazing nurse Kitty Allbright.
Eleanor Audley (Mother Eunice
Douglas on
Green Acres and Mrs.
Vincent on
My Three Sons) plays her
mother.
Kathleen Freeman (Katie on
Topper,
Marilly on
Mayor of the Town, Bertha
Krause on
The Bob Cummings Show, Flo
Shafer on
The Beverly Hillbillies,
Kate Harwell on
Funny Face, and Iris
Belmont on
Lotas Luck) plays poor
traveler Lolly Johnson.
Morgan Woodward (see "The Patience Miller
Story" above) plays her husband Barney.
Season 5, Episode 3, "The Maud Frazer Story":
Barbara
Stanwyck (shown on the left, see the biography section for the 1960 post on
The Barbara Stanwyck Show) plays gold-digger Maud Frazer.
Russ
Conway (Fenton Hardy on
The Hardy Boys:
The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure, Gen. Devon on
Men Into Space, and Lt. Pete Kile on
Richard Diamond, Private Detective) plays her husband Isaac.
Nora
Marlowe (Martha Commager on
Law of the
Plainsman, Sara Andrews on
The
Governor and J.J., and Mrs. Flossie Brimmer on
The Waltons) plays massacre survivor Bessie Steen.
Kathleen
O'Malley (Mrs. Moss on
General Hospital)
plays massacre survivor Dolly.
Wesley Lau (see "The Christopher Hale
Story" above) plays a mortally wounded soldier.
Season 5, Episode 4, "The Selena Hartnell Story": Jan
Sterling (starred in Johnny Belinda, Ace in the Hole¸ The Mating Season, 1984, and High School Confidential! and played Mildred Foss on Guiding Light) plays female bounty
hunter Selena Hartnell. H.M. Wynant (see "The Nellie Jefferson Story"
above) plays her partner Jason Powers. Claude Akins (Sonny Pruett on Movin' On and Sheriff Elroy P. Lobo on B.J and the Bear and Lobo) plays reformed killer Will
Cottrell. Jack Smith (singer who hosted his own radio show, appeared in King Kong (1933), On Moonlight Bay, and The
Barefoot Executive, and hosted You
Asked For It and American West)
plays objecting traveler Ed Clark. Sheldon Allman (Norm Miller on Harris Against the World) plays gang
leader Gordon.
Season 5, Episode 5, "The Clementine Jones Story":
Ann Blyth (starred in
Mildred Pierce,
The Great Caruso,
Kismet, and
The Helen Morgan Story) plays ostracized saloon girl Clementine
Jones.
Dick York (shown on the right, played Tom Colwell on
Going My
Way and Darrin Stephens on
Bewitched)
plays failed bank robber Willie Maines.
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 his partner Frank.
Nestor Paiva (see "The Jim Bridger
Story" above) plays his partner Gip.
Roger Mobley (see "The Sam Elder
Story" above) plays orphan Homer Pettigrew.
Willard Waterman (see
"The Jed Polke Story" above) plays the Cinnabar mayor.
Frank Wilcox (see
the biography section for the 1961 post on
The Untouchables) plays Marshal Nolan.
Season 5, Episode 6, "The Jenna Douglas Story": Carolyn
Jones (shown on the left, appeared in House of Wax, The Big Heat, The Seven Year Itch, The
Tender Trap, The Man Who Knew Too
Much, and How the West Was Won
and played Morticia Addams on The Addams
Family, Marsha, Queen of Diamonds on Batman,
and Myrna Clegg on Capitol) plays escaped
mental patient Jenna Douglas. Hank Brandt (see "The Jim Bridger
Story" above) plays cripple Andy Green.
Season 5, Episode 7, "The Artie Matthewson Story":
Jane Darvell (starred in
Tom Sawyer
(1930),
Hucklberry Finn (1931),
Gone With the Wind,
The Grapes of Wrath,
The
Ox-Bow Incident, and
Mary Poppins)
plays Flint's adoptive mother Angie Matthewson.
Rory Calhoun (shown on the right, see the biography
section for the 1960 post on
The Texan)
plays her natural-born son Artie.
William Mims (see "The Joe Muharich
Story" above) plays Artie's gunman Gurn Meeker.
Joyce Meadows (see
"The Jed Polke Story" above) plays Artie's girlfriend Melanie
Sanders.
House Peters, Jr. (Sheriff Jim Billings on
Lassie) plays her foreman Nick Fears.
William Fawcett (Clayton on
Duffy's Tavern, Marshal George Higgins
on
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, and
Pete Wilkey on
Fury) plays the stable
owner.
Season 5, Episode 8, "The Mark Miner Story": Brandon
De Wilde (starred in The Member of the
Wedding, Shane, All Fall Down, and Hud and played Jamison Francis McHummber on Jamie) plays vengeance-seeking orphan Mark Miner. Michael Burns (see
"The Odyssey of Flint McCullough" above) plays his brother Matt. Robert
Cornthwaite (Professor Windish on Get
Smart) plays a traveler minister. Barbara Parkins (starred in Valley of the Dolls, The Mephisto Waltz, and Puppet on a Chain and played Betty
Anderson Harrington on Peyton Place)
plays his daughter Molly. Walter Coy (see "The Sam Elder Story"
above) plays thief victim Abner Thorn.
Season 5, Episode 9, "The Bruce Saybrook Story": Brian
Aherne (shown on the left, starred in The Song of Songs,
Sylvia Scarlett, Juarez, My Sister Eileen,
Prince Valiant, and Sword of Lancelot) plays British
nobleman Lord Bruce Saybrook. Antoinette Bower (Fox Devlin on Neon Rider) plays his wife Diana. Liam
Sullivan (Major Mapoy on The Monroes,
Dr. Joseph Lerner on The Young and the
Restless, and Mr. Willis on Knots
Landing) plays his brother Tommy. Richard Ney (appeared in Mrs. Miniver, Joan of Arc, Ivy, and Midnight Lace) plays illustrator Bevan
Alston.
Season 5, Episode 10, "The Lizbeth Ann Calhoun Story":
Dana Wynter (appeared in
The Crimson
Pirate,
Invasion of the Body
Snatchers,
Sink the Bismarck!,
and
Airport and played Eva Wainwright
on
The Man Who Never Was and Jill
Daly on
Bracken) plays Confederate
agent Lizbeth Ann Calhoun.
Richard Crane (see "Weight of Command"
above) plays her stalker Lon Harper.
Raymond Bailey (Milburn Drysdale on
The Beverly Hillbillies, Dean Magruder
on
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis,
D.A. John Carvell on
The Untouchables,
and Mr. Beaumont on
My Sister Eileen)
plays U.S. Cavalry Maj. Hanley.
Peter Whitney (Sergeant Buck Sinclair on
The Rough Riders and Lafe Crick on
The Beverly Hillbillies) plays bandito
El Ladron.
Season 5, Episode 11, "The Traitor":
Nick Adams (shown on the right, see
the biography section for the 1960 post on
The Rebel) plays notorious bandit Sam Upton.
Jeanne Cooper (Grace Douglas on
Bracken's World and Katherine Chancellor
Murphy on
The Young and the Restless)
plays his sister Madge.
Myron Healey (Doc Holliday on
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays duplicitous U.S. Army Sgt.
Oakes.
Stacy Keach, Sr. (Carlson on
Get
Smart) plays his commanding officer Maj. Hansen.
Season 5, Episode 12, "The Bettina May Story":
Bette
Davis (shown on the left, 11-time Oscar nominee and 2-time winner, starred in
Of Human Bondage,
Dangerous,
Jezebel,
Dark Victory,
The Letter,
The Little Foxes,
Now, Voyager,
Mr. Skeffington,
All About
Eve,
The Star, and
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?) plays domineering
matriarch Bettina May.
Joby Baker (David Lewis on
Good Morning, World) plays her son Nathan.
Jud Taylor (see the
biography section for the 1961 post on
Dr. Kildare) plays her son Arthur.
Asa Maynor (Dixie on
Straightaway) plays Arthur's wife Rose.
Bennye Gatteys (Susan
Hunter on
Days of Our Lives) plays Bettina's
daughter Ginny.
Ron Hayes (see "The Jed Polke Story" above) plays
Ginny's husband Gene.
Season 5, Episode 13, "Clyde":
Frank De Kova (shown on the right, played Chief
Wild Eagle on
F Troop and Louis
Campagna on
The Untouchables) plays an
Arapahoe chief.
Nora Marlowe (see "The Maud Frazer Story" above) plays
complaining launderer Mrs. Seidel.
Harry Von Zell (see "The Will Santee
Story" above) plays cattle rancher John Sherman.
Michael McGreevey (see
"The Captain Dan Brady Story" above) plays his son Sonny.
Season 1, Episode 19, "Murder by Proxy: Earl Klegg":
Charles McGraw (appeared in The Killers,
Blood on the Moon, The Narrow Margin, and Spartacus and played Mike Waring on The Adventures of Falcon) plays convicted
felon Earl Klegg. Leonard Nimoy (shown on the right, played Mr. Spock on Star Trek, Paris on Mission:
Impossible, and Dr. William Bell on Fringe)
plays his hit-man Ralph Tomek. Lee Farr (Lt. Jim Conway on The Detectives and was married to actor Felicia Farr) plays state
investigator Harvey Dakes. Noah Keen (Det. Lt. Carl Bone on Arrest and Trial) plays state prosecutor
John Bernard. Fay Spain (starred in Dragstrip
Girl, Al Capone, and The Gentle Rain) plays murder victim's
fiance Enid Laslo. Gerald Hiken (cousin of Nat Hiken, appeared in Uncle Vanya, The Goddess, Invitation to a
Gunfighter, and Reds, and played
Katz the Butcher on Car 54 Where Are You?)
plays trade association bookkeeper Vic Fell. Juanita Moore (starred in Ransom!, The Girl Can't Help It, Imitation
of Life, and The Singing Nun)
plays cleaning woman Beatrice George. 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 district Judge
Thomas Otto. John Zaremba (Special Agent Jerry Dressler on I Led 3 Lives, Dr. Harold Jensen on Ben Casey, Admiral Hardesy on McHale's
Navy, Dr. Raymond Swain on The Time
Tunnel, and Dr, Harlem Danvers on Dallas)
plays a prison warden.
Season 1, Episode 22, "The New Order: Peter Long":
Simon Oakland (shown on the right, starred in Psycho, West
Side Story, and Follow That Dream
and played Tony Vincenzo on Kolchak: The
Night Stalker, Brig. Gen. Thomas Moore on Black Sheep Squadron, and Sgt. Abrams on David Cassidy - Man Undercover) plays ex-con muscle man Walter
Hayes. Chris Robinson (Sgt. Sandy Komansky on 12 O'Clock High, Rick Webber on General
Hospital, and Jack Hamilton on The
Bold and the Beautiful) plays his son Jack. Jesse White (appeared in Harvey, Bedtime for Bonzo, The Bad
Seed, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad,Mad World,
and The Reluctant Astronaut and
played Mickey Calhoun on Private
Secretary, Jesse Leeds on Make Room
for Daddy, and Oscar Pudney on The
Ann Sothern Show) plays Walter's loan-shark partner Rudy. Lin McCarthy (starred
in Yellowneck, The D.I., and Face of a
Fugitive and played Bill Talbot on Modern
Romances) plays Walter's replacement Peter Long. Jack Ging (see the biography section for the 1961 post on
Tales of Wells Fargo)
plays federal agent Steve Strohm. Norman Grabowski (appeared in Girls Town, College Confidential, Sex
Kittens Go to College, Roustabout,
The Monkey's Uncle, and The Towering Inferno and played Padowski
on Hank) plays Jack's friend Milt
Gray. Harry Swoger (Harry the bartender on The
Big Valley) plays Walter's debtor Vulner. Anne Helm (Molly Pierce on Run for Your Life) plays his daughter
Rita. Stephen Pearlman (Murray Zuckerman on Husbands,
Wives & Lovers) plays bartender Eddy.
Season 1, Episode 26, "Inside Track": Kent Smith (starred
in Cat People, This Land Is Mine, Hitler's
Children, Curse of the Cat People,
Nora Prentiss, The Spiral Staircase, and The
Fountainhead and played Dr. Robert Morton on Peyton Place and Edgar Scoville on The Invaders) plays race horse breeder Charles Dennis. Lloyd
Bochner (Chief Inspector Neil Campbell on Hong
Kong and Cecil Colby on Dynasty)
plays his lobbyist William Hillier. Bernard Fein (Pvt Gomez on The Phil Silvers Show) plays rival race
track owner Ben Kilrea. David Janssen (shown on the right, starred in To Hell and Back, Hell to
Eternity, King of the Roaring '20's,
The Green Berets, and The Shoes of the Fisherman and played
Richard Diamond on Richard Diamond,
Private Detective, Dr. Richard Kimble on The Fugitive, Jim O'Hara on O'Hara,
U.S. Treasury, and Harry Orwell on Harry
O) plays Kilrea lobbyist Dan Mullin. Bethel Leslie (appeared in 15 episodes
of The Richard Boone Show and played
Claudia Conner on All My Children and
Ethel Crawford on One Life to Live)
plays state representative Frances Olney. Robert F. Simon (Dave Tabak on Saints and Sinners, Gen. Alfred Terry on
Custer, Frank Stephens on Bewitched, Uncle Everett McPherson on Nancy, Capt. Rudy Olsen on The Streets of San Francisco, and J.
Jonah Jameson on The Amazing Spiderman)
plays committee chairman Leonard Yates. George Kane (Link Morrison on Love of Life) plays committee member
George Crawford. S. John Launer (Marshall Houts on The Court of Last Resort and the judge 33 times on Perry Mason) plays speaker of the house
Goode.
