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Date Posted: 01:09:11 06/19/12 Tue
Author: Rick
Subject: 
Bonanza episodes with poisoned water holes
There were only two:
"The Mission" from season 2 and "A Ride in the Sun" from season 10.
R :)
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Re: Bonanza episodes with poisoned water holes -- B.B., 09:54:00 06/19/12 Tue [1]
I always enjoy watching "The Mission." What a great performance by Henry Hull and wonderful chemistry he shared with Dan Blocker in this episode.
When Hull as Charlie Trent spits out the coffee Hoss hands to him (he's used to drinking whiskey), Hull cracks up Dan Blocker, and they have to cut to a shot of Dan's back. You can see Dan Blocker chuckling from the back. Additionally, the episode was loaded with a great cast.
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Re: Bonanza episodes with poisoned water holes -- B.B., 10:12:48 06/19/12 Tue [1]
Actually, they were shooting Dan's back during the scene when Hull spits out the coffee and had to switch to Dan's front because of his chuckling. Great performance by both Hull and Blocker.
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Re: Bonanza episodes with poisoned water holes -- Rick, 05:12:58 06/20/12 Wed [1]
One of my early favs. Great cast. By the time they get to the second water hole, Monk is worried and questions Cutter: "Are you going to poison this one, too? They're liable to get suspicious!" Lane Bradford and Peter Whitney always did a great job in character.
Rick
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Re: Bonanza episodes with poisoned water holes -- B.B., 05:48:56 06/20/12 Wed [1]
Yes, Lane Bradford and Peter Whitney. What a pair to team up. A stellar performance by Peter Whitney. It is one of my favorite early episodes too, Rick. John Dehner, Harry Carey, Jr., Don Collier...What a cast.
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Re: Bonanza episodes with poisoned water holes -- B.B., 09:18:06 06/20/12 Wed [1]
Another reason I like this particular episode is that I feel it is a great representation of Hoss's personal attributes. A man willing to cross a desert and risk his life to help a friend in need.
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Re: Bonanza episodes with poisoned water holes -- Joe H., 10:20:51 06/19/12 Tue [1]
Thanks Rick, re:
1.) #34 at: http://ponderosascenery.homestead.com/files/episode/season2.html for "The Mission" of old Charlie leading the Army through the desert with the currency shipment trying to redeem himself from a prior massacre, and: "Cutter and his men have already poisoned two water holes that the soldiers and horses needed, and Hoss and Charlie come up with a plan, to stop Cutter and his cutthroats once and for all. "
September 17, 1960
Written by: Robert E. Thompson *
Directed by: James Neilson **
Plus:
2.) #333 at: http://ponderosascenery2.homestead.com/files/episode/season10page2.html for: "A Ride in the Sun" =
"May 11, 1969
Written by: John Hawkins, *** Peter Germano ****
Directed by: Leon Benson *****
Lost Episode
Tobias and April Horn are both brother and sister, who pose as wealthy business people. They say that they are interested in buying cattle from Ben. The Horns turn out to be clever and insideous con artists, with the help of a sly and crafty former army scout, Mr. Spain. He has water and food caches planted across the whole Nevada desert, and has poisoned all the waterholes."
BTW Marj Dusay (from the "Ride") was in Robert Conrad's "The Wild Wild West" over the weekend, Sat., June 16th @ 4-5:00 p.m. on METV as Dolores (Mrs. Admiral Charles) Hammon in "The Night of the Kraken" Episode #4.6 of 1Noc.1968 @ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0748556/ For Rainey was the Admiral, with Jason Evers as Commander Beech.
The Writers (and Directors - later )
----* Rbt. E. Thompson (1924-2004)[79] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860651/ wrote for 34 titles, including 4 episodes of "Bonanza", and three for "Wagon Train";
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--*** John Hawkins (1910-78)[68] was also a Producer of three titles, two of which were: 85 episodes of "Bonanza" and 72 episodes of "Little House" see: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370152/ with writing credits of: 40 from 1944 - 81 ending with LHOTP, some others being: The Waltons, Cannon, Bonanza (28 episodes), The Virginian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Ron Ely's Tarzan, Burke's Law, Rawhide, Daniel Boone, The Fugitive, The Lloyd Bridges Show [what? no "Sea Hunt!? (;-) ] , The Barbara Stanwyck Show in 1961 [what? no "Big Valley!?], Bourbon Street Beat , Steve Canyon, 77 Sunset Strip [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77_Sunset_Strip and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051247/ plus: "77 Sunset Strip (1958)" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqvFmAm9C5w of 1:04 minute seen 339,845 times "I dig it", and "Another cool cat bit the dust" (;-); & "opening titles to 77 Sunset Strip " at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weAIhNDn034 of 0:33 seconds, seen 147,240 x ] and more back to his first project of: Secret Command (1944) = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037253/ "This is a great spy picture" and according to the next Reviewer of six: Arne Andersen (aandersen at landmarkcollege dot org) from Putney, VT "The film is based on a story THE SABOTEURS taken from the Saturday Evening Post [ * ] by John and Ward Hawkins. The story is an absorbing one but it has been given mediocre treatment in this Grade B wartime melodrama, set in a shipyard. . . The hoot is that it got nominated for an Oscar for Special Effects, despite the fact that there are none in the film. This was during the early forties when every studio could name what it considered its best in the categories of Sound, Song, Original Score, Adapted Score and Special Effects and be guaranteed a nomination." Two other Reviewers wrote: "(was shown on Turner Classic Movies in June 2007)" and: "I concluded that the underwater shots, and the (apparent) location shots on the crane were considered "special" effects in the 1940s. (Today we assume special effects relates to only fabricated shots or images.) "
-**** Peter B. Germano (1913-83) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_B._Germano "Germano was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the eldest of six children. His parents, Italian immigrants from the town of Cigliano, gave him the name Pietro Baptisto Germano, which became Peter B. early in his life. As a young man, he worked several jobs, including as a clerk for the local railroad. It was during his employment at the local train station that he met his wife, Muriel Garant. She was an actress and model, who worked in theater in Cape Cod, but took a job at the railroad station in New Bedford, Massachusetts during World War II. The couple married in February 1943, just before Germano left to serve in the Pacific Theater in World War II. . . As a war correspondent for the United States Marine Corps, Germano wrote numerous articles that appeared in various newspapers. . .He wrote western novels under several pseudonyms [ ** ] , and in the 1950s and 1960s wrote television scripts for several western and science fiction programs
[ * ] It looks to be a 7-part story in "The Saturday Evening Post" of: April 10 , 17 + 24, and May 1, 8, 15 + 22, 1943 = Vol. 215, No. 41-47 to be "on the lookout" for such at the flea markets.
[ ** ] The Peter B. Germano pseudonyms or pen names being: _______ + ________ etc. (?) of what named westerns? ______; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Western_fiction_authors for: Jackson Cole, Barry Cord, Jim Kane, Jack Slade, and Clay Turner. To check out these names as authors of WHAT titled books later; ____ In the meantime here's his photo: http://www.pgermano.com/
- - Joe
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