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Date Posted: 07:51:46 03/09/13 Sat
Author: SWC
Subject: Re: Favorite episodes of "Gunsmoke", "The Virginian & "Maverick"
In reply to: Rick 's message, "Favorite episodes of "Gunsmoke", "The Virginian & "Maverick"" on 18:16:59 03/01/13 Fri

Gunsmoke: "The Gallows" 3/3/62

Jeremy Slate, (Gunnar Borgstorm in Bonanza's "Inger, My Love"), plays a basically good guy who kills a man in a drunken argument and is sentenced to hang. Matt has to deliver him to the hangman and befriends him through several misadventures, including one where he saves Matt's life. It tests his devotion to the law, especially when he meets the hangman and his crew, who seem more like criminals than Slate does. U-Tube has a brief clip fo the ending:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-C_mHcAnYQ
(And doesn't the town they are in look kind of familiar?)

The Virginian "West" 11/28/62

One of the greatest episodes I’ve ever seen of any TV show is the 10th episode of “The Virginian”, entitled simply “West”. Young Trampas isn’t sure he likes working under the hard discipline of The Virginian and when some old pals show up, (Claude Akins, Steve Cochran and James Brown-not the football player but the lieutenant from “Rin Tin Tin”), they convince him to live the wild and free life of the Old West. They get involved in various comical scrapes but the feeling grows in Trampas that you can’t really live like this any more, ignoring laws, trampling through people’s lives and not taking responsibility for your actions. Eventually, the web of reality closes on Trampas and his friends and the episodes ends tragically with their deaths. Trampas escapes and is satisfied to return to the Shiloh ranch, a sadder but more mature young man, willing to put something into life to get something out of it. U-Tube has a brief clip of this episode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSYveXI7cCA
It reminded me of the relationship between Prince Hall and Falstaff and his companions in Shakespeare: a young man who enjoys his friends but realizes he must progress beyond them.

Maverick: "Greenbacks Unlimited" 3/13/60

Gage Clark plays an old friend of Bret's who has come upon a gold mine: he lives right next to a bank vault. He's go a hidden door to it and just takes out what he needs. Bret knows his friend will get in trouble and they have to put any missing money back. Then he hears the bank is about to be robbed. He and his friend do the bank a favor by emptying the vault and keeping it's contents in Clark's room while Dehner and his friends crack an empty vault. Dehner then hatches a scheme to blackmail the bank president: he wants money or he'll tell everyone the vault is empty. The bank president shows him the vault, which is now full again, (because Bret and his pal put everything back. So Dehner decides to rob the bank again. And.... The facial reactions in this one are priceless!
Sorry, I couldn't find a clip for this one. This was the last episode of the least season James Garner was on the show but they had one episode of Garner's they showed the next year, "The Maverick Line, (11/20/60), so this wasn't quite Garner's last appearance in the show that made him famous.

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