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Cheyenne (1962)
Sunday, July 6, 2014
Cheyenne (1960)
Cheyenne garnered
a number of firsts when it debuted in 1955. It was one of the first three TV
westerns geared for an adult audience, along with Gunsmoke and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. It was the first 60-minute TV drama of any kind. And
it was the first television show produced by the Warner Brothers studio. Like Gunsmoke, its star was an imposing
physical presence--6' 6" and heavily muscled Clint Walker. And though both
leading characters were unflinching defenders of justice, there the
similarities between their series ends. Cheyenne
was never a weekly series during its entire 7-year run. It began as one of
three rotating shows on Warner Brothers
Presents, along with Casablanca
and Kings Row. In 1956-57 it
alternated with Conflict. The next
year it split time with Sugarfoot,
which would remain in the rotation for the next four years. When Walker went on
strike against Warner Brothers during the 1958-59 season, the studio created a
carbon copy series Bronco starring Ty
Hardin to temporarily replace it. When Walker returned, the three shows rotated
with each other. Yet despite not airing every week, Cheyenne was a top 30 program from 1957-61.
Like its peripatetic broadcast schedule, the show's hero,
Cheyenne Bodie, was a drifter who held a variety of jobs in dozens of locations,
which differentiated the show from the single-town focus of Gunsmoke and provided the blueprint for
later shows like Have Gun--Will Travel,
Wanted: Dead or Alive, and The Texan. Unlike the town-centered
westerns such as Gunsmoke, Lawman, and The Deputy in which a moral law officer must defend his community
from evil that largely comes from outside, Cheyenne Bodie is the bringer of
justice to communities that are corrupt or evil at their centers. He operates
from an outsider's perspective, his parents having been killed by Cheyenne
Indians when he was a boy and then raised by them until he was rescued and
adopted by the Pierce family, whom we meet in the episode "The Long
Rope" (September 26, 1960). In this episode, Cheyenne just happens to pass
by the house where he was raised until an angry and misguided lynch mob accused
the Pierce patriarch of stealing a neighbor's horses and dragged him away while
his wife and children watched helplessly. Cheyenne coincidentally returns to
the town of High Point at exactly the same time 16 years later when the Pierce
son Randy also returns in disguise to avenge the murder of his father. When Randy
murders the lynch-mob leader Reed Moriarity, the town again accuses the wrong
man and tries to storm the jail to haul off rancher Johnny Kent. Cheyenne has
to keep the mob at bay, with the help of Indian Joe Maybe and, at the last
minute, Randy Pierce, who finally realizes that his actions have endangered his
one-time friend Cheyenne.
In "Riot at Arroyo Seco" (February 1, 1960),
Cheyenne is working as the sheriff of the titular town, which is being ruined
by the town patriarch's greedy sons, intent on driving out all the citizens due
to a lack of water so that the sons can seize their property. When water-well
worker Johnny Benson is murdered, the town correctly pins the rap on well
operator Chet Noler but want to lynch him immediately, egged on by the greedy
sons, who hope to cover up their complicity in the dry well scheme. When
Cheyenne guns down one of the sons to stop the lynch mob from storming the
jail, the father insists that he be charged with murder, and only when the
circuit judge Lloyd Pomeroy smells a rat is Cheyenne let go. He quickly takes
his gun belt and leaves town just as the judge uncovers the other brother's
crimes and tells the citizens to give Cheyenne back his sheriff's badge. When
he is told that Cheyenne has already left, he comments that the town doesn't
deserve a man as good as Cheyenne Bodie.
Other episodes follow a similar trajectory. In "Outcast
of Cripple Creek" (February 29, 1960), Cheyenne agrees to serve as marshal
of Cripple Creek after his friend, the former marshal, summoned him and then
died due to unexplained circumstances. Cheyenne allies himself with local
sheriff Bill Lockhart against greedy cattle baron Carl Banner and sanctimonious
yet corrupt town aldermen Mayor Myron Ackelroyd and Ab Murchison. By episode's
end, Lockhart rejects renewing his contract and calls out Ackelroyd and
Murchison for their hypocrisy, to which Cheyenne answers, "Amen,
brother." In "Alibi for the Scalped Man" (March 7, 1960),
Cheyenne investigates the disappearance of his friend Dan Murchison in
Emmetsville, which purports to be the cleanest town west of Missouri, and
discovers that mayor Angus Emmet is harboring his fugitive, murderous brother
Charley, who serves as the town sheriff under an alias. And in "Home Is
the Brave" (March 14, 1960) Cheyenne has been commissioned by the U.S.
Army to return the body of war hero Cole Prescott to his hometown of White
River for burial, only to encounter a refusal by the town council. He learns
that the town had always rejected Prescott because he was a half-breed Sioux
and was hated by town council president John Thompson because Prescott was at
one time a rival suitor for the hand of Thompson's wife Ruth. Even when he
exposes all the lies and hypocrisy behind the rejection, Cheyenne is unable to
convince the citizens to allow Prescott's burial and is relieved by an army
detail who come to take the body back to the Arlington National Cemetery with
full honors.
The mistreatment and distrust of Indians is a recurring
theme in Cheyenne, which, like many TV
westerns in 1960, portrayed Native Americans in a more favorable light than
white immigrants. Cheyenne Bodie is depicted as particularly sympathetic to the
plight of the Indians, despite the fact that they killed his parents, because
he grew up amongst them and came to understand their culture. Whites, by
contrast, only see the number of their own race killed by the native
inhabitants as a reason for hatred. In "Apache Blood" (February 8,
1960) Cheyenne meets and helps acclimate a version of himself, a young man who
calls himself Mickey Free, who was also raised by Indians but is returned to
white society when Apache chief Chotah decides to abandon the young insurgent
braves of his tribe and take the remaining loyal tribe members to a
reservation. Mickey struggles to fit in because of the disapproval of
suspicious whites like busybody Elizabeth Quill and the greedy Karl brothers,
who jumped the claim on his parents' ranch after they were killed by Indians.
Cheyenne is there to rein Mickey in and intercede on his behalf with the
regional land office to return the ranch to its rightful heir. But no episode
is more of an indictment of the white man than "Savage Breed"
(December 19, 1960), which shows how a group of whites on a hunting party each
try to outfox the others to steal $70,000 from a fugitive embezzler while
fending off a party of Apaches who want their horses to make the journey off
the reservation back to the Black Hills. Cheyenne advocates surrendering the
horses and taking the Indians at their word that they will be left alone
thereafter, but the whites refuse to give up the horses and end up killing each
other over the money. The savage breed indicated in the episode title is
revealed to be the white men, not the Apaches.
While the producers did give Cheyenne Bodie a few details in
terms of a back-story, as mentioned above in the episode "The Long
Rope," the character is really more
of an archetype than a fully realized human being. This is most blatantly
illustrated in the two-part story arc "Gold, Glory and Custer"
(January 4 & 11, 1960) in which a narrator informs the viewer that there
were no credible white survivors of the Custer massacre at Little Big Horn,
though many spurious claims were made in its aftermath, but that one observer
did see what actually happened that day, an army scout that for the purposes of
this story shall be called Cheyenne Bodie. As the authors of the Museum of Broadcast Communications web site have noted, "Essentially, the producers
of Cheyenne changed the character's circumstances at will in order to insert
him into any imaginable conflict." They go on to say that several plots
for Cheyenne were reworked versions of Warner Brothers feature films. In the
Custer story, they drop Cheyenne into one of the most infamous events in U.S.
military history to illustrate the hubris and greed at the center of Custer's
demise, as well as duplicity and revenge at the heart of the Indian attack. Though
he exonerates Major Marcus Reno from charges of cowardice and betrayal,
Cheyenne does so, despite his disdain for Reno, only so that the truth can be
known. Amongst all the players involved in this iconic event in our country's
history, only Cheyenne remains pure and righteous.
Besides the recycled plots mentioned above (a sin of many
westerns of the era), the series was often sloppy in its execution. In
"The Long Rope" Cheyenne clearly calls the Pierce daughter
"Kay" when saying goodbye to her at the end of the episode when her
actual name throughout the story has been "Fay." In "Two Trails
to Santa Fe" (October 21, 1960), Max Baer, Jr. plays a prospector named
Willis who is shot dead when he leaves the mission where Cheyenne and the other
prospectors have set up their defenses against Indian attacks. Yet later in the
same episode there is Baer clearly visible amongst the still-living prospectors
after fending off an attack from a duplicitous army corporal. And like many
other westerns or TV shows of any stripe, Walker's stand-in stuntmen are
sometimes painfully obvious, though more stunt work would have been a blessing
in any scene where Walker is asked to throw a punch. For all his physical
prowess, Walker's boxing skills are less convincing than Adam West's in Batman. But then realism and verisimilitude
were not what Warner Brothers was after in Cheyenne.
The theme song for Cheyenne
was composed by William Lava and Stanley Davis Jones. Lava was born in
Minneapolis and grew up in the Chicago area, attending Northwestern University,
where he studied journalism. He studied conducting with Dr. Albert Coates in
Los Angeles and moved to Hollywood in 1936, where he found work arranging music
for radio programs. He also worked on dozens of feature films and shorts, most
of them uncredited, beginning in 1937. In the mid-1950s he was hired by Disney,
for whom he provided musical scores for The
Mickey Mouse Club and later Zorro
at the same time he was working on Cheyenne.
In the early 1960s he also scored individual episodes for The Twilight Zone, Have Gun--Will Travel, The Dakotas,
and 77 Sunset Strip. When Cheyenne ended in 1962, he was moved
over to Warner Brothers' cartoon production, replacing Milton Franklyn on
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons after Franklyn died. Later in the
1960s he provided the theme song and scores for F Troop and worked on The
Pink Panther Show. Lava passed away on February 20, 1971 at the age of 59
in Los Angeles.
Stanley Davis Jones was born in Arizona and moved to Los
Angeles with his mother after his father's death. He dropped out of UC Berkeley
in 1934 and joined the Navy, after which he held a number of jobs, eventually
becoming a forest ranger with the U.S. Forest Service. While stationed in Death
Valley, he was assigned as a liaison to director John Ford while filming The Walking Hills in 1948. During this
time, he would often sit around with the crew and entertain them with songs he
had written. They encouraged him to get some of them published, and, following
their advice, one of his songs became a huge hit--"Riders in the
Sky," later renamed "Ghost Riders in the Sky." Ford began using Jones'
songs in other films of his, and actor Harry Carey, Jr. got him a job with Disney
working on the music for the series The
Adventures of Spin and Marty, on which William Lava was also working. In
1956 he was hired to write music for the TV series The Sheriff of Cochise and played the role of Deputy Harry Olsen.
He also appeared in Ford's The Horse
Soldiers as well as Ten Who Dared
and two episodes of the Daniel Boone
series on Walt Disney's Wonderful World
of Color. Jones died December 13, 1963 at the age of 49.
Music supervision for individual episodes was handled by the
team of Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter, who were profiled in the1960 post for Lawman. No credit is given for the
scores for individual episodes.
All seven complete seasons have been released on DVD by
Warner Archive.
The Actors
Clint Walker
Norman Eugene Walker was born in Hartford, Illinois, dropped
out of high school at age 16, and joined the Merchant Marine at 17 during the
last months of World War II. After the war, Walker bounced around the country
working various jobs from Mississippi River boatman to golf caddy to the oil
fields of Brownwood, Texas. While working as a security officer at the Sands
Hotel in Las Vegas, Walker met many Hollywood celebrities who encouraged him to
give acting a try, so he moved to Los Angeles, where he met actor Henry
Wilcoxon. Wilcoxon, in turn, introduced him to Cecil B. DeMille, who cast Walker
in The Ten Commandments. But prior to
that film's release he was spotted by a Warner Brothers employee playing a
Tarzan-like character in Jungle Gents
and was tabbed to star in Warner's new western series Cheyenne. Walker, however, did not like the restrictive nature of
his contract with Warner, which gave the studio complete control of which
feature films he could appear in and even stipulated that any LPs he released
had to be on their label. These restrictions led Walker to insist on renegotiating
his contract in May 1958. When the studio at first refused, he left the show
temporarily. However, he did appear in a few feature films during the life of
the series, most notably Fort Dobbs
and Yellowstone Kelly.
After Cheyenne
ended in 1962, he spent more time on films than television, including the Doris
Day/Rock Hudson comedy Send Me No Flowers,
Frank Sinatra's lone directorial effort None
But the Brave, the Jay North Indian jungle adventure Maya, and The Dirty Dozen. In
1971 he suffered a freak skiing accident when the tip of a ski pole pierced his
heart. But he was able to make a full recovery and was back filming in Spain a
mere two months later. In 1974 he made a brief return to TV as the star of the
short-lived series Kodiak, the same
year in which he appeared in the cult TV movie Killdozer. His filmwork and television appearances were sparse
thereafter, averaging less than one credit per year into the mid-1990s, the
last playing Cheyenne Bodie in an episode of King Fu: The Legend Continues in 1995. He provided the voice of
Nick Nitro in the animated feature Small
Soldiers in 1998 and since then has made many appearances at events such as
the Western Legends Film Festival. He lives with his third wife Susan in Grass
Valley, California. His official web site can be found at clintwalker.com.Notable Guest Stars
Season 4, Episode 7, "Gold, Glory and Custer--Prelude":
Julie Adams (starred in The Creature From
the Black Lagoon and played Martha Howard on The Jimmy Stewart Show, Ann Rorchek on Code Red, and Eve Simpson on Murder,
She Wrote) plays mineralogist's daughter Irene Travers. Liam Sullivan (Major
Mapoy on The Monroes, Dr. Joseph
Lerner on The Young and the Restless,
and Mr. Willis on Knots Landing)
plays her fiancé Major Marcus Reno. Ed Kemmer (Commander Buzz Corry on Space Patrol, Paul Britton on The Secret Storm, and Dick Martin on As the World Turns) plays Reno's
colleague Capt. Fred Benteen. Stacy Keach, Sr. (Carlson on Get Smart) plays prospector Brad Caldwell. Tyler McVey (Gen. Maj.
Norgath on Men Into Space) plays
railroad tycoon Henry Toland. Tim Graham (Homer Ede on National Velvet) plays trapper California Joe. Lorne Green (see the
biography section of the 1960 post on Bonanza)
plays army prosecutor Col. Jonathan Bell. Trevor Bardette (see the biography
section for the 1960 post on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays a protestor calling for Reno's trial. Ralph
Moody (Doc Burrage on The Rifleman)
plays medicine man Slow Bull.
Season 4, Episode 8, " Gold, Glory and Custer--Requiem":
Lorne Green (shown on the left, see "Gold, Glory and Custer--Prelude" above) returns as
Col. Jonathan Bell. Julie Adams (see "Gold, Glory and
Custer--Prelude" above) returns as Irene Travers. Liam Sullivan (see
"Gold, Glory and Custer--Prelude" above) returns as Maj. Marcus Reno.
Ed Kemmer (see "Gold, Glory and Custer--Prelude" above) returns as
Cat. Fred Benteen. Lawrence Dobkin (Dutch Schultz on The Untouchables, the narrator on Naked City, Judge Saul Edelstein on L.A. Law, and Judge Stanely Pittman on Melrose Place) plays the presiding judge, Gen. Philip Sheridan. Carlos
Romero (played Rico Rodriguez on Wichita
Town, Romero Serrano on Zorro,
and Carlo Agretti on Falcon Crest)
plays Indian scout Moccasin Charlie. Frank De Kova (Chief Wild Eagle on F Troop and Louis Campagna on The Untouchables) plays Indian chief
Dull Knife.
Season 4, Episode 9, "Riot at Arroyo Seco": Willis
Bouchey (Mayor Terwilliger on The Great
Gildersleeve, Springer on Pete and
Gladys, and the judge 23 times on Perry Mason) plays Arroyo Seco patriarch Ralph Tobin. Harry Lauter (Ranger Clay
Morgan on Tales of the Texas Rangers,
Atlasande on Rocky Jones, Space Ranger,
and Jim Herrick on Waterfront) plays
his son Harry. Whitney Blake (shown on the right, played Dorothy Baxter on Hazel) plays Tobin's daughter-in-law Beth. 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 well-digger Chet Noler. Gary Vinson (Chris Higbee on The Roaring '20's, George Christopher on
McHale's Navy, and Sheriff Harold
Skiles on Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
plays Noler's employee Johnny Benson. Robert Hyatt (Junior Morrison on The Pride of the Family) plays Cheyenne's
assistant Joel Weeks. Phil Tully (Charlie the bartender on The Deputy) plays saloon keeper Paddy Moore. Frank Ferguson (Gus
Broeberg on My Friend Flicka, Eli
Carson on Peyton Place, and Dr.
Barton Stuart on Petticoat Junction)
plays circuit judge Lloyd Pomeroy.
Season 4, Episode 10, "Apache Blood": Scott
Marlowe (Nick Koslo on Executive Suite,
Eric Brady on Days of Our Lives, and
Michael Burke on Valley of the Dolls)
plays Indian-raised Mickey Free. Robert Warwick (starred in Alias Jimmy Valentine, The Supreme Sacrifice, The Heart of a Hero, and Against All Flags) plays Indian chief
Chotah. Walter Coy (Zoravac on Rocky
Jones, Space Ranger and the narrator on Frontier)
plays Free's white guardian Reverend Collins. Adrienne Marden (Mary
Breckenridge on The Waltons) plays
his wife Martha. 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 stagecoach operator Burton. Bud Osborne (played stagecoach drivers in
dozens of westerns and in episodes of The
Cisco Kid, Annie Oakley, The Range Rider, Hopalong Cassidy, The Lone
Ranger, The Adventures of Wild Bill
Hickok, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin,
Rescue 8, Zorro, Bronco, Law of the Plainsman, Johnny Ringo, The Texan, Maverick, and Rawhide) plays stage driver Ed. Stuart
Randall (Sheriff Art Sampson on Cimarron
City, Al Livermore on Lassie, and
Sheriff Mort Corey on Laramie) plays
San Simon Sheriff James Purdy. Kenneth MacDonald (played the judge 32 times on Perry Mason, played Col. Parker on Colt
.45, and appeared in several Three Stooges shorts) plays Indian agent Mr.
Clum. Hank Patterson (Fred Ziffel on Green
Acres and Petticoat Junction and
Hank on Gunsmoke) plays gunsmith
Luther.
Season 4, Episode 11, "Outcast of Cripple Creek": Robert
J. Wilke (appeared in Best of the Badmen,
High Noon, The Far Country, and Night Passage and played Capt. Mendoza
on Zorro) cattle baron Carl Banner. Whit
Bissell (shown on the left, starred in He Walked by Night,
Creature From the Black Lagoon, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, and Hud and played Bert Loomis on Bachelor Father, Calvin Hanley on Peyton Place, and Lt. Gen. Heywood Kirk
on The Time Tunnel) plays Cripple
Creek Mayor Myron Ackelroyd. Rhodes Reason (John A. Hunter on White Hunter and Sheriff Will Mayberry
on Bus Stop) plays Cripple Creek
Sheriff Bill Lockhart. Lisa Gaye (Gwen Kirby on How to Marry a Millionaire) plays Lockhart's fiancé Jenny Beaumont.
Clyde Howdy (Hank Whitfield on Lassie)
plays deputy Hy King. Emory Parnell (Hawkins on The Life of Riley and Hank the bartender on Lawman) plays saloon keeper Luther Gannon. Donnelly Rhodes (Dutch
Leitner on Soap, Charlie on Report to Murphy, Art Foster on Double Trouble, Dr. Grant Roberts on Danger Bay, Harry Abramotiz on The Heights, R.J. Williams on Street Legal, Dr. Leo Shannon on Da Vinci's Inquest, and Dr. Sherman
Cottle on Battlestar Galactica) plays
cattle drover Carl Whoopie.
Season 4, Episode 12, "Alibi for the Scalped Man":
R.G. Armstrong (Police Capt. McAllister on T.H.E.
Cat and Lewis Vendredi on Friday the
13th) plays Emmetsville Mayor Angus Emmet. Richard Coogan (Marshal Matthew
Wayne on The Californians) plays his
brother Charley. Mala Powers (starred in Cyrano
de Bergerac, Rose of Cimarron,
and Tammy and the Bachelor and played
Rebecca Boone on Walt Disney's Daniel
Boone and Mona on Hazel) plays their
niece Celia Marley. Ross Elliott (Freddie the director on The Jack Benny Show and Sheriff Abbott on The Virginian) plays newspaper publisher Reed Kingsley.
Season 4, Episode 13, "Home Is the Brave": Regis
Toomey (shown on the right, 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, Det. Les Hart on Burke's
Law, and Dr. Barton Stuart on Petticoat
Junction and Green Acres) plays White
River physician Dr. Henry Malcomb. Carolyn Komant (Dixie on The Roaring '20's) plays his daughter
Nancy. Brad Johnson (Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig on Annie Oakley) plays White River Sheriff Dan Blaisdell. John Howard
(Dr. Wayne Hudson on Dr. Hudson's Secret
Journal, Commander John "Pliny" Hawk on Adventures of the Sea Hawk, and Dave Welch on My Three Sons) plays bank president John Thompson. Mickey Simpson (Boley
on Captain David Grief) plays his
henchman Pete Windsor. Clyde Howdy (see "Outcast of Cripple Creek"
above) plays a wagon owner.
Season 5, Episode 1, "The Long Rope": Peter
Whitney (Sergeant Buck Sinclair on The
Rough Riders and Lafe Crick on The
Beverly Hillbillies) plays High Point Sheriff Hugo Parma. Donald May (Charles
C. Thompson on West Point, Pat
Garrison on The Roaring '20's, Grant
Wheeler on Texas, Adam Drake, Sr. on The Edge of Night, Raymond Speer on As the World Turns, and Earl Foster on All My Children) plays revenge-seeker Randy
Pierce. Merry Anders (Joyce Erwin on The
Stu Erwin Show, Val Marlowe on It's
Always Jan, Mike McCall on How to
Marry a Millionaire, and Policewoman Dorothy Miller on Dragnet 1967) plays his sister Fay. Dehl Berti (Vittorio on Buck James and John Taylor on Guns of Paradise) plays Indian Joe Maybe.
Richard Bellis (Emmy-winning composer for many TV movies) plays Cheyenne as a
boy. Frank Albertson (starred in Alice
Adams, Man Made Monster, and It's a Wonderful Life and played Mr.
Cooper on Bringing Up Buddy) plays
rancher Johnny Kent. 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 the town
parson.
Season 5, Episode 2, "Counterfeit Gun": 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 both train robber Giff Murdock and embezzler Richard
Scott. Lisa Gaye (see "Outcast of Cripple Creek" above) plays Scott's
daughter Francie. Ray Teal (Jim Teal on Lassie
and Sheriff Roy Coffee on Bonanza)
plays the Crestline sheriff. Ron Howard (shown on the left, played Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show, Bob Smith on The Smith Family, Richie Cunningham on Happy Days and Laverne &
Shirley, and the narrator on Arrested
Development) plays train passenger Timmy. William Mims (see the biography
section for the 1960 post on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays train robber Tully. Vito Scotti (played Jose on
The Deputy, Capt. Gaspar Fomento on The Flying Nun, Gino on To Rome With Love, and Mr. Velasquez on Barefoot in the Park) plays undercover
Mexican army officer Julio.
Season 5, Episode 3, "Road to Three Graves": Alan
Hale, Jr. (shown on the right, played Biff Baker on Biff Baker
U.S.A., Casey Jones on Casey Jones,
and The Skipper on Gilligan's Island)
plays boys' camp builder Tuk. James Seay (see the biography section for the
1960 post on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays Manuel Loza henchman Parks. Carlos Romero (see "Gold
Glory, and Custer--Requiem" above) plays Loza henchman Luiz Perez. Jean
Byron (Minnie on Mayor of the Town,
Dr. Imogene Burkhart on The Many Loves of
Dobie Gillis, and Natalie Lane on The
Patty Duke Show) plays Civil War widow Mrs. Norris. Gregory Irvin (Johnny
Brady on Dennis the Menace) plays her
son Ted.
Season 5, Episode 4, "Two Trails to Santa Fe": Robert
Colbert (Dr. Doug Phillips on The Time
Tunnel) plays renegade army Cpl. Howie Burch. Randy Stuart (see the
biography section of the 1960 post on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays his former wife Amy Brandon. Richard
Webb (starred in A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur's Court, This Woman Is
Dangerous, and Git! and played
Captain Midnight on Captain Midnight
and Deputy Chief Don Jagger on Border
Patrol) plays her current husband Jed. Robert Anderson (Park Street, Jr. on
The Court of Last Resort and Aeneas
MacLinahan on Wichita Town) plays prospector
Jones. John Harmon (Eddie Halstead on The Rifleman and the fingerprint expert on Perry Mason) plays prospector Harris. Max Baer, Jr. (shown on the left, played Jethro and Jethrine Bodine
on The Beverly Hillbillies) plays
prospector Willis. Tony Young (Cord on Gunslinger)
plays Apache leader Yellow Knife. Robert Carricart (Pepe Cordoza on T.H.E. Cat) plays an army fort doctor.
Season 5, Episode 5, "Savage Breed": Ray Danton (starred
in Chief Crazy Horse, Onionhead, The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, The George Raft Story, and Portrait
of a Mobster and played Nifty Cronin on The
Alaskans) plays Dodge City Marshal Al Lestrade. Robert Clarke (appeared in The Man From Planet X and The Astounding She-Monster, starred in
and directed The Hideous Sun Demon,
and was married to Alyce King of the King Singers) plays card shark Phil Kenton.
Patricia Huston (Addy Olson on Days of Our
Lives and Hilda Brunschwager on L.A.
Law) plays his wife Nora. Walter Coy (see "Apache Blood" above)
plays embezzler George Naylor. Clyde Howdy (see "Outcast of Cripple
Creek" above) plays Deputy Pete Saba.
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