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Date Posted: 09:31:15 05/15/13 Wed
Author: Jarrod
Subject: About 'A Visit to Upright'

I went back and forth on liking then disliking then somewhat liking this episode. It has one of the lowest user scores of any episode on the IMDB. I felt like a lot of it was padded...like they started with a good premise, but it wasn't really enough for an hour-long episode. Loretta Swit, just months before starting on the long-running M*A*S*H, is superb, and Alan Oppenheimer who just recently appeared in another S13 episode is fine. It was fairly obvious that the painting was going to figure into the plot somehow. The close-ups in the beginning sort of give it away. Usually set decoration is not given such attention. It is certainly a funny episode in spots, and even Lorne Greene has a few wry asides. I think, however, that I liked the subplot better. I really liked the prim livestock heiress sticking it to Ben and forcing him to get his boys in line about not owning a saloon. I could have taken that as the main plot, with most of the action in Upright happening off-camera, relayed by Jamie going back and forth.

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[> Re: About 'A Visit to Upright' [ & THE Painting. . . -- Joe H., 09:54:02 05/19/13 Sun [1]

. . . of the naked lady, was who? __________

Re: http://ponderosascenery.homestead.com/lostepisodes.html

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The fifth entry is "A Visit to Upright." In the story, the Cartwrights buy a rundown saloon and the plot revolves around a picture of a naked lady. Once again, the episode was censored. Robertson didn't like the painting and in his mind, it was a negative factor that could be linked with sexual overtones and lustful desire, which is a sin. On the contrary, it isn't a sin for a Christian man to look at a naked woman. In this case, Robertson was too extreme in his mind. Family Channel gave no explanation for censoring and never publically revealed it.
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Something like this one? http://myfavoritenudes.com/images/b_biblis_big.jpg

Re: the curative waters from the Ponderosa Brook that turned the Lake Tahoe Mermaid into a Springtime Maiden? (;-)

Of did Howard Duff as Mark Twain really dump Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, or the Wildman of the Ponderosa into a crate to the bottom of the lake?

Adam sure had a http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/knack for finding women in the woods, of like The White Buffalo Woman and that Wild (Wo)"Man" of the Prairie that turned out to be Stephanie Powers (on assignment as The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.) (;-)

- - Joe


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