The Rebel Full
Episode 30 Season 1 - When
Yuma comes to meet a unknown woman who has written him, he discovers her grave, and her embittered brother digging a grave for
Johnny Yuma, whom he blames for her death. But
Johnny never met the girl, so he joins the man incognito to find the impostor.
The series portrays the adventures of young
Confederate Army veteran Johnny Yuma, an aspiring writer, played by
Nick Adams.
Haunted by his memories of the
American Civil War, Yuma, in search of inner
peace, roams the
American West, specifically the
Texas Hill Country and the
South Texas Plains. He keeps a journal of his adventures and fights injustice where he finds it with a revolver and a sawed-off double-barreled shotgun.
Nick Adams was the star and only regular actor of this series. He was involved in the show's design, inception, and writing, along with the producer,
Andrew J. Fenady, who appeared twice in the series, once as
United States Army General Philip Sheridan in the episode "Johnny Yuma at
Appomattox", with
George Macready as
General Robert E. Lee.
John Carradine appeared in two episodes as Elmer Dodson, the newspaper editor in Johnny Yuma's hometown, fictitious
Mason City,
Texas, who encourages Yuma to keep a journal of his travels.
John M. Pickard, formerly of the syndicated
Boots and Saddles television series appeared three times on The Rebel, including the role of
Sheriff Pruett in "Run,
Killer, Run".
Hal Stalmaster played
Skinny in the
1959 episode "
Misfits," including
Malcolm Cassell as
Billy the Kid and
Hampton Fancher as "
Bull". The young "Misfits" enlist The Rebel's "help" to rob a bank and in their mind live thereafter a life of leisure.
Leonard Nimoy was cast as Jim Colburn in the
1960 episode "
The Hunted", the story of an innocent man on the run from a posse which does not know that Colburn was acquitted by a jury.
Olive Sturgess guest-starred twice on The Rebel, as
Jeannie in "
The Scavengers" (1959) and as
Charity Brunner, a woman in search of her missing miner husband, in "
The Pit" (
1961)
. In the second episode, Sturgess's real-life six-month-old nephew,
Leonard Sturgess, played the baby required in the script.
- published: 19 Oct 2015
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