After slipping from four
consecutive seasons at the top to #3 in 1961-62, concurrent with the expanding
of the show's format from 30 minutes to an hour, the producers of
Gunsmoke introduced more changes, in
particular the introduction of new characters, in Season 8 in an obvious
attempt to regain lost viewers. The series actually began teasing new
characters at the end of Season 7 with the episode "Cale" (May 5,
1962), which introduced the headstrong, tight-lipped title character played by
Carl Reindel, and the man who would go to work for, stableman Hank Miller
played by
Hank Patterson, who had played several other characters over the
previous years including a stableman named Carl Miller. The Cale character
would be brought back for the Season 8 opening episode, "The Search"
(September 15, 1962) in which Matt Dillon goes looking for the missing Cale and
encounters all sorts of trouble and unsavory characters rather than the help he
seeks while alone on the prairie. Despite Cale being found and returned to
safety in Dodge City, he never appeared in the series again, though Reindel
returned twice more to play other characters in later seasons. Patterson's
stable-hand Hank Miller would continue to be a semi-regular through the series'
19th season, essentially replacing the Moss Grimmick character as Dodge's
primary stableman.
Perhaps feeling that Dillon needed
a more rugged sidekick than Chester Goode,
Burt Reynolds was brought aboard in
the third episode of Season 8, playing the title character in "Quint Asper
Comes Home" (September 29, 1962) which tells his origin story. Asper is a
half-breed whose father is killed by criminal white "prospectors,"
and in his pursuit of revenge, Quint joins his mother's Comanche tribe so that
he can kill as many white people as possible. In one such raid he is wounded
and rescued by Dillon, and though he bristles at being taken to Dodge for
recuperation, where a group of unruly racists want to lynch him, Dillon goes to
great pains to ensure that he is treated with great care so that the next time
he goes to kill a white man he will have to think twice. Quint attempts to
return to the Comanches after convalescing, but he is assigned to kill a
harmless white prisoner as a test of his loyalty, and Dillon's plan to
introduce a seed of doubt pays off, making Quint realize that he can no longer
live amongst the Comanches. So he returns to Dodge and the man who rescued him,
and Dillon helps him become integrated into town life where he eventually sets
up his own shop as a blacksmith. Quint's skills in tracking and hand-to-hand
combat are a better match for Dillon than Chester would be on dangerous
assignments such as those depicted in "Jenny" (October 13, 1962),
"Phoebe Strunk" (November 10, 1962), and "Abe Blocker"
(November 24, 1962). Reynolds would appear in 50 episodes over three seasons as
Quint before moving on to star in his own series, the short-lived detective
series
Hawk in 1966.
Though Dennis Weaver wouldn't
leave his role as Chester Goode until the end of the 9th season, we are introduced
to his eventual replacement, Festus Haggen played by
Ken Curtis, in the Season
8 episode "Us Haggens" (December 8, 1962), though it is unlikely
Festus was being considered for such a role at the time. Like many guest
characters, he probably proved more popular than the producers expected, and
when the time came to replace Weaver, his name shot to the top of the list. In
this introductory episode, Festus is a slightly opaque character whose
motivations Dillon can't be sure of as they pursue his uncle, wanted killer
Black Jack Haggen. Festus faces the dilemma of deciding which side of the
family loyalty fence he is going to fall on--his uncle or his dead twin brother
Fergus, whose death he blames on his uncle. Though Festus has his share of
quirks, at this point he is not nearly as comical as his predecessor Chester. In
fact, it could be argued that sometimes the Chester character is made to be too
pathetic, such as when he tries a series of part-time jobs in "Uncle
Sunday" (December 15, 1962) to earn extra money for the purpose of buying
a stagecoach ticket to send the notorious title character away from Dodge. He
manages to set Quint's blacksmith shop on fire, offends a regular customer in
Jonas' general store, and allows a pair of drunken pool players to tear a large
hole in the cloth on one of Dan Binney's pool tables, all within the space of a
few minutes of screen time. Fortunately, the episode is rescued when Chester is
allowed to play a crucial role in foiling his uncle's initial bank-robbing
scheme, proving that his character is not a complete disaster.
As with the 1961 episodes, not
every installment is pure gold. "Catawomper" (February 15, 1962) is a
one-note riff on jealous young love. "Reprisal" (March 10, 1962) is a
worn-out story about a wife's misguided crusade to avenge her unfaithful
husband's death. And "Wagon Girls" (April 7, 1962) is another
recycled tale about young women being promised rich husbands at the end of a
wagon train adventure when they are really facing indentured servitude, only to
be rescued by Dillon in an ending that is too pat and convenient. But there are
also plenty of episodes that demonstrate why
Gunsmoke was several notches above all its other contemporary
western competitors. These exceptional episodes often paint grim portraits of
the hard life in the old west and do not come with feel-good happy endings like
those found in "Catawomper" and "Wagon Girls." The
aforementioned episode "The Search" is one such story that portrays a
bleak life in an unforgiving land. When Dillon finds the fallen and partially
paralyzed Cale out on the prairie after a fall from his horse, he has to try to
find help to bring Cale back to Dodge for medical treatment. But instead of
help he finds a depressing scene at a poor ranch where the wife seems to comically
flirt with Dillon until he learns from her husband that she has taken to
drinking and throwing herself at every man that passes by as a way to cope with
the grief of losing their three small children to small pox. When Dillon's
horse runs off, he is accosted by three saddle tramps who remember him locking
them up the last time they were in Dodge and want revenge, though they stop
short of killing him. When he does find his horse, the man who found it isn't
willing to give it back without a physical brawl. In other words, the good
people inhabiting the old west aren't always willing to lend a helping hand.
Another grim episode from 1962 is
"Half Straight" (February 17, 1962), a tale of young love involving
hired assassin Lute Willis and innocent farm girl Fanny Fields. When Willis
first meets Fanny, she has no inkling of his profession, but when she figures
it out, he realizes he will have to give it up if he wants to keep her. He is
in the midst of an assignment to kill Dillon for Grant Hatcher, whose brother
the marshal had been forced to kill a couple of years prior. But instead of
merely calling the deal off and handing the money back, Willis instead tries to
get fellow assassin Browder to complete the deal out of a twisted sense of
honoring his original commitment. However, Browder winds up bungling the
assignment, and then kills Fanny, figuring he can' trust her not to reveal his
role in the attempted hit. Through a few twists and turns, Dillon figures out
that Willis didn't try to kill him but knows who did, and Willis sees through
Browder's phony alibi and sets up Dillon to kill Browder. Even after Browder is
dead, Dillon does not arrest Willis but confronts him with the fact that he
will have to remember that he caused Fanny's death by only going half straight
rather than completely rejecting the assignment to kill Dillon. In the law-and-order
world of the TV western, order is restored by having Browder killed and Willis
sentenced to a life of regret, but it's a harsh world in which an innocent
Fanny pays the ultimate price for the restoration of that order.
A similar narrative plays out in
"The Gallows" (March 3, 1962), the highest rated episode of the
entire
Gunsmoke series by viewers at
imdb.com. In this story, earnest cowboy Pruit Dover delivers a wagon-load of
goods to Dodge City freighter Ax Parsons after being told by Parsons' Santa
Fe-based partner that Parsons would pay him for the delivery. But Parsons
appears unaware of the coming merchandise and delays paying Dover what he is
due for several days before finally revealing that he doesn't have the money. Dover
makes the mistake of listening to alcoholic Louie Pheeters' advice that the way
to soften Parsons up is to share a drink or two with him, so that by the time
Parsons finally comes clean about being broke, both he and Dover are quite
inebriated. The two men fight and Parsons winds up dead, most likely by
accident, but when Dover awakens the next morning and sees Parsons' lifeless
body, Dover assumes that he must have killed him, though he doesn't really
remember. Panicked, he decides to flee the scene but is spotted leaving by
Pheeters, who tells Dillon. Dillon gets word that Dover was picked up in
Elkader and goes there to bring him back for trial. From there, much of the
story revolves around how trustworthy Dover is, making no attempt to escape
though he has many opportunities, and going out of his way to be helpful to
Dillon, even saving his life after he gets shot by a crazed hunter they run
into in the wild. Dillon hears Dover's account of what happened with Parsons
and vows to speak up for his character at the trial. However, Dover draws the
bad luck of getting Judge Henry, a renowned stickler for going by the book, and
despite there being no witnesses to Parson's death, he convicts Dover of murder
and sentences him to death by hanging, despite Dillon's attempt to get
leniency. Dillon then has the unenviable task of transporting Dover to Hays
City for hanging, and the journey again affords Dover many chances to escape
that he refuses to take. Dillon even orders him to ride away, but Dover comes
back a short time later, saying he couldn't stand damaging Dillon's career. Except
for initially running away, Dover never tries to take the easy way out, bravely
facing up to his destiny, even if it costs him his life, but there is no last
minute reprieve or pardon from the governor to save him, proving that the justice
system does not always get it right. Many valiant lawmen in TV westerns give
speeches about the importance of letting the justice system sort things out
rather than taking the law into one's own hands, but this episode demonstrates
that this system is not perfect. While Dover may not have been completely
innocent, it is clear that he was not guilty of premeditated murder, and yet that
is what he has to pay for.
Another brilliant episode from
1962 is "The Do-Badder" (January 6, 1962) in which longtime
prospector Harvey Easter finally strikes it rich and dedicates the rest of his
life to reforming others. He persuades cattle drovers Gene Bunch and Chris
Kelly that they can escape their cycle of poverty by becoming farmers, even
agreeing to stake them to the land and equipment they need to get started. But
they have no knowledge about farming, and the land they wind up with is barren,
meaning that they are soon starving and resort to trying to rob stagecoaches
just to survive, Likewise, Easter tries to reform Louie Pheeters by barricading
him in his own shack so that he cannot go out and get any more liquor, but when
Pheeters goes through withdrawal after having drunk constantly for 20 years, he
has a heart attack, and Doc Adams has to be summoned to save his life. Easter
also convinces saloon girl Mary Pickett to give up her life of sin and become
her own boss by taking in other people's laundry, but she becomes so frazzled
by having to work so hard on her own that when her boyfriend returns to town
from one of his usual trips as a stagecoach shotgun rider, he barely recognizes
her. Easter's last straw is when he sets a saloon on fire by throwing a
kerosene lamp after two drinkers resent his trying to drive them out. The next
day a group of those victimized by his reforming decide to teach him a lesson by
kidnapping him, tying him up in a burlap bag, and dunking him in a water tank
from a wooden yard-arm. Only the yard-arm breaks and Easter drowns trapped
inside the burlap bag before his assailants can get him out. Dillon tells all
those involved that they will have to appear before the circuit judge to face
charges even though they claim Easter's death was an accident. This episode
demonstrates a number of human foibles--first, that the wealthy frequently believe
that their exalted monetary status gives them superior knowledge about how
others should live their lives. Easter fails to recognize that his good fortune
was merely a lucky break, not a sign of superior intellect, and his advice to
others is misplaced because he fails to consider whether they are suited for or
have the ability to pursue the alternate careers he recommends to them.
Likewise, his victims are too willing to listen to him merely because he has
money. And rather than simply ignoring him, his kidnappers try his own tactics
on him in an attempt to reform him and get him to stop pestering them, with
tragic consequences, of course. Like the justice system in "The
Gallows," human intelligence receives a black eye in the way just about
everyone behaves in "The Do-Badder." Other TV westerns usually
portray an idealized world where good eventually triumphs and good people make
the world a safer place, but in Dodge City things don't always work out that
way, just as they don't in the real world outside of television.
As of this post, all 20 seasons have been released on DVD by
CBS/Paramount Home Video.
The Actors
For the biographies of James Arness, Amanda Blake, Dennis
Weaver, Milburn Stone, Dabbs Greer, and George Selk, see the 1960 post on Gunsmoke. For the biographies of Glenn
Strange, Gage Clarke, and James Nusser, see the 1961 post on Gunsmoke. For the biography of Burt
Reynolds, see the 1960 post on Riverboat.
Hank Patterson
Born
Elmer Calvin Patterson on October 9, 1888 in
Springville, Alabama, Patterson was one of seven children. His father was an
insurance agent. Sometime between 1894 and 1897 the family moved to Taylor,
Texas, where Patterson attended school through eighth grade. Initially planning
to be a serious pianist, Patterson wound up playing piano for traveling
vaudeville groups, which is where he met his wife
Daisy Marguerite Sheeler, a
dancer with the group he was performing with. In 1917, at age 29, he registered
for the draft for World War I while living in Lubbock, Texas, though there is
no record he was ever called up. In 1918 the Pattersons moved to California. As
of 1930 Patterson was working as a real estate salesman but finally broke into
movies at age 51 in an uncredited role in the 1939
Roy Rogers feature
Arizona Kid. He had three more
uncredited parts in 1939-40 before disappearing from movies for 6 years. When
he returned, he landed his first credited part in the 1946 western
Abilene Town starring
Randolph Scott,
Rhonda Fleming, and
Edgar Buchanan. Thereafter he found steady work in supporting
roles, particularly westerns, through the remainder of the 1940s. He made his
television debut in a 1949 episode of
The
Lone Ranger, and by the early 1950s was finding regular work guest starring
on series such as
The Adventures of Kit
Carson,
The Roy Rogers Show,
The Cisco Kid, and
Death Valley Days, on which he appeared 15 times over a span of 15
years. His first recurring role came playing the character Pete Duggan on the
Walt Disney serial
The Adventures of Spin
and Marty shown on
The Mickey Mouse
Club in 1957. But he was also a frequent guest on many of the westerns of
the period, including 10 times on
Have Gun -- Will Travel, 7 times on
Tales
of Wells Fargo, and multiple episodes of
Maverick,
Bat Masterson,
and
Cheyenne. He also made occasional
appearances on non-westerns such as
The
Untouchables,
Sea Hunt, and
The Twilight Zone. After appearing in
several episodes playing different characters on
Gunsmoke beginning in 1959, including the title character in the
1960 episode "Crowbait Bob," Patterson settled into the regular role
of stableman Hank Miller beginning in the Season 7 episode "Cale" in
1962. Patterson would continue in the role until the series' penultimate season
in 1973.
But in 1963 Patterson would land the role for which he is
best known, farmer and Hooterville resident Fred Ziffel first on
Petticoat Junction and later and more
prominently on
Green Acres with even
one cameo as Ziffel on
The Beverly Hillbillies. Even when Patterson
went almost completely deaf during his run on
Green Acres, he was retained because the producers loved his
portrayal of Ziffel, and to overcome his hearing deficiency the dialogue coach
would lie on the floor out of view from the camera and tap Patterson on the leg
with a yardstick when it was time to deliver his lines. Other producers must
have loved his work, too, because he continued to get guest spots through the
late 1960s on series such as
The Virginian,
Cimarron Strip,
Daniel Boone, and even
The Mod Squad. His last non-
Gunsmoke guest spot was on a 1972
episode of
Love, American Style. He
died from bronchial pneumonia at the age of 86 roughly two years after his last
Gunsmoke appearance in 1975. His wife
Daisy, four years his junior, died four years later at the same age. Patterson
was also the grand-uncle of actress Tea Leoni.
Sarah Selby
Sarah Elizabeth Selby was born August 30, 1905 in Middleton,
Ohio. She grew up in St. Louis where she attended Washington University and
studied theater under renowned drama teacher
Maria Ouspenskaya. In 1933 she
moved to San Diego to join the company of the Old Globe Theatre. In the
mid-1930s she found work on radio programs such as
Amos and Andy,
Meet Corliss
Archer,
Suspense,
Escape,
Lux Radio Theater,
Junior Miss, and
The George
Burns and Gracie Allen Show. Her radio career led to her movie debut when
she was recruited by
Walt Disney to voice the elephant Prissy in the 1941
animated feature
Dumbo. She then
began getting regular supporting roles in films, often uncredited, making her
first credited appearance in the 1944 feature
San Diego I Love You. When
The
George Burns and Gracie Allen Show transitioned to television, Selby was
brought along, first playing Gracie's friend Mamie Kelly and then society
hostess Mrs. Lucille Vanderlip. Soon she was also getting regular work in guest
spots on other series such as
Sky King,
Pride of the Family, and
Dragnet while also getting more credited
work in feature films such as
Battle
Circus,
The System, and
Battle Cry. In 1954 she landed the
recurring role as schoolteacher Miss Thomas on
Father Knows Best in which she would appear 18 times during the
series' six seasons. Disney hired her again to play Aunt Gertrude Hardy in the
Hardy Boys serial
The Mystery of the
Applegate Treasure in 1956 and in its sequel
The Mystery of the Ghost Farm in 1957. By the late 1950s, most of
her work was coming in television on series such as
Wagon Train,
The Rifleman,
Bronco, and
Wanted: Dead or Alive. She made the first of 13 appearances as
boarding house proprietor Ma Smalley in the 1961
Gunsmoke episode "Chesterland."
Though she made an occasional appearance in feature films
such as
Moon Pilot,
Tower of London, and
Don't Make Waves in the 1960s, most of
her work continued in television, with multiple appearances on
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,
My Three Sons,
Petticoat Junction,
Perry
Mason, and
Family Affair. She was
much less active in the 1970s, appearing on
The
Smith Family,
Adam-12, and
Rhoda as well as a few TV movies, the
last being
Friendships, Secrets and Lies
in 1979. During her career she was an instructor at the Pasadena Playhouse, was
a founding member of the Canyon Theatre Guild, and was the local chairwoman for
the American Red Cross and Planned Parenthood. After a long battle with cancer,
she died on January 7, 1980 at the age of 74.
Howard Culver
Howard Brasfield Culver, Jr. was born in rural Larimer
County, Colorado where his father was a scientific farmer, but the family moved
to Pasadena, California when Howard was 1½ and then settled in Los Angeles,
where Howard attended high school and was active in the school theater
productions. He landed his first professional job as a radio actor while still
a high school student after participating in the school's annual "Boys'
Day" which paired students with a day working for a company in their
chosen field, in this case KHJ of CBS Radio Hollywood. The producer was
impressed with Culver's performance and invited him back to play a supporting
part on the program
Annals of the Ages
the following Sunday. From there, Culver was given roles on a variety of CBS
programs, and when he graduated high school decided to continue working as a
radio actor rather than going to college to study medicine because he already
had an established career and his family needed the money with his father
having fallen ill and his sister intending to attend college herself. During
his early years in radio Culver also held a number of other part-time jobs,
such as being night watchman in a mattress factory and a launderer at Yosemite
National Park, where he met his first wife
Maxine Born. He got his first
full-time radio job with KMTR in Hollywood in 1938 where he had his own show,
Happy Dalton's Ranch, and began also
working for the news department as an on-site reporter and newsreel editor. Over
the next few years, his work expanded to other stations in Los Angeles and San
Francisco, where he relocated in 1941. By 1944 he was one of the co-stars on
Lady of the Press, the same year he
joined the Navy after being drafted. After being sent to radio technician
school, he was assigned to the Philippines, where he served for the duration of
World War II and won several medals for his service. Upon his discharge in
1946, he returned to his radio career on programs such as
Strange Wills,
All Star
Western Theatre, and
Mystery in the
Air. In 1948 he was hired as the announcer for
Chandu the Magician and was the last actor to play the title role
on
Ellery Queen before it was
canceled. But that same year he was also chosen to play the title character in
a new western adventure series sponsored by Nabisco titled
Straight Arrow, in which he played a Comanche who had been raised
by whites and like Superman had an alternate identity as an everyday rancher,
only to switch back to his Comanche warrior roots as Straight Arrow whenever
trouble arose. The series ran for three years and was quite popular,
spawning
a spin-off comic book and comic
strip and requiring Culver to appear as Straight Arrow at promotional events. During
its run, Culver and Maxine were divorced in 1949, the same year that Culver
also auditioned for the part of Marshal Matt Dillon on a new radio western
Gunsmoke. Culver lost out to
William
Conrad because his contract for
Straight
Arrow stipulated that he could not appear on any other westerns. In 1950
Culver remarried to
Lois Hayes who had also worked at KFI in Los Angeles. After
Straight Arrow went off the air,
Culver was hired to play opposite
Mercedes McCambridge in
Defense Attorney, and it was McCambridge who helped Culver make the
transition to television in the mid-1950s on series such as
Gang Busters,
Space Patrol, and
Treasury
Men in Action. In 1954 he made the first of five appearances on
Dragnet and thereafter became a
semi-regular guest on
Jack Webb productions, such as the reboot of
Dragnet in the late 1960s and
Adam-12. When the television version of
Gunsmoke launched in 1955, Culver appeared
in the very first episode as a hotel clerk, the first of 49 appearances on the
series over its 20-year run, most often as hotel clerk Howie Uzzell, though
also occasionally as other characters including Dodge House proprietor Mr.
Dobie.
Since his stint on
Gunsmoke
was sporadic, Culver found work guest starring on many other programs such as
Perry Mason,
The Untouchables,
Zane Grey
Theatre, and
The Brady Bunch in
the 1950s and 60s and
Project U.F.O.,
Barnaby Jones, and
The Virginian in the 1970s. He also had
a number of uncredited small movie parts, often playing announcers or
newscasters in films such as
The Computer
Wore Tennis Shoes,
Shampoo,
The Bad News Bears,
The Million Dollar Duck, and
The
Swarm. In 1963 he was a member of the news staff at Los Angeles radio
station KLAC, and in 1969 was news editor at KGIL in the San Fernando Valley.
He also kept busy with many hobbies and community activities such as being the
local chairperson for the American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity. He was
the celebrity spokesperson for Papermate writing products. He largely retired
from TV and movies in 1980, though he made a few more appearances over the next
few years in TV movies, series such as
CHiPs,
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and
Code Red, and feature films such as
Halloween II. He also acted in community
theater in the San Gabriel Valley, recorded audio books for Reading for the
Blind in Hollywood, and attended fan conventions to sign autographs. After he
and his wife finished a 3-week vacation in China, he contracted meningitis and
died in Hong Kong on August 4, 1984 at age 66.
Notable Guest Stars
Season 7, Episode 15, "The Do-Badder":
Abraham
Sofaer (shown on the left, starred in
Christopher Columbus,
Quo Vadis, and
Elephant Walk) plays suddenly rich prospector Harvey Easter.
Roy
Engel (Doc Martin on
Bonanza, the
police chief on
My Favorite Martian,
and President Ulysses S. Grant on
The
Wild, Wild West) plays station master Ed Greeley.
H.M. Wynant (Lt. Bauer on
The Young Marrieds, Frosty on
Batman,
and Ed Chapman on
Dallas)
plays bandit Sam Smith.
Strother Martin (appeared in
Kiss Me Deadly,
The Shaggy
Dog,
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,
Cool Hand Luke,
True Grit,
The Wild Bunch,
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid,
and
Slap Shot and played Aaron
Donager on
Hotel de Paree and R.J.
Hawkins on
Hawkins) plays cattle
drover Gene Bunch.
Warren Oates (see the biography section for the 1962 post on
Stoney Burke) plays his partner Chris
Kelly.
Mercedes Shirley (Nurse Delmore on
The
Clinic) plays saloon girl Mary Pickett.
Shug Fisher (see the biography
section for the 1961 post on
Ripcord)
plays saloon owner Harry Obie.
Richard Reeves (Mr. Murphy on
Date With the Angels) plays barfly Red.
Craig Duncan (Sgt. Stanfield/Banfield on
Mackenzie's
Raiders) plays barfly Pete.
Season 7, Episode 16, "Lacey":
Sherry Jackson (shown on the right, played Terry
Williams on
Make Room for Daddy)
plays farmer's daughter Lacey Parcher.
Jeremy Slate (starred in
The Sons of Katie Elder,
The Devil's Brigade, and
True Grit and played Larry Lahr on
The Aquanauts and Chuck Wilson on
One Life to Live) plays her boyfriend
Jess Haley.
Oliver McGowan (Harvey Welk on
Empire)
plays her father Cyrus.
Dorothy Green (appeared in
The Big Heat,
Face of a
Fugitive,
It Happened at the World's
Fair, and
Tammy and the Millionaire
and played Lavinia Tate on
Tammy and
Jennifer Brooks on
The Young and the
Restless) plays her mother Ellen.
Season 7, Episode 17, "Cody's Code":
Anthony
Caruso (appeared in
Sunday Punch,
Pride of the Marines,
Anna Lucasta,
The Asphalt Jungle, and
Where
Love Has Gone) plays carpenter Cody Durham.
Gloria Talbott (starred in
The Cyclops,
Daughter of Dr. Jekyll,
and
I Married a Monster From Outer Space and
played Moneta on
Zorro) plays saloon
girl Rose.
Robert Knapp (Ben Olson on
Days
of Our Lives and SAC Noel McDonald on
The
F.B.I.) plays masher Sam Dukes.
Wayne Rogers (shown on the left, played Luke Perry on
Stagecoach West, Capt. John McIntyre on
M*A*S*H*, Jake Axminster on
City of Angels, Dr. Charley Michaels on
House Calls, and Charlie Garrett on
Murder, She Wrote) plays drifter Brack
Tracy.
Ollie O'Toole (Mr. Meeker on
Circus
Boy) plays the postmaster.
Season 7, Episode 18, "Old Dan":
Edgar Buchanan (shown on the right, played Uncle
Joe Carson on
The Beverly Hillbillies,
Green Acres, and
Petticoat Junction, Red Connors on
Hopalong Cassidy, Judge Roy Bean on
Judge Roy Bean, Doc Burrage on
The Rifleman, and J.J. Jackson on
Cade's
County) plays alcoholic Dan Witter.
Dorothy Neumann (Rita Campbell on
The Andy Griffith Show and Miss
Mittleman on
Hank) plays store
customer Mrs. Bales.
Philip Coolidge (appeared in
I Want to Live!,
North by
Northwest,
The Tingler,
Because They're Young, and
Inherit the Wind and played Chester
Cooper on
The Farmer's Daughter)
plays farmer Les.
William Campbell (appeared in
The High and the Mighty,
Love
Me Tender,
Dementia 13, and
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte and played
Jerry Austin on
Cannonball) plays his
profligate son Luke.
Hugh Sanders (appeared in
That's My Boy,
The Pride of
St. Louis,
The Winning Team, and
The Wild One) plays rancher Thede
Carson.
Season 7, Episode 19, "Catawomper":
Sue Ane
Langdon (shown on the left, played Kitty Marsh on
Bachelor Father,
Marge Pulaski on
General Hospital,
Lillian Nuvo on
Arnie, Rosie Kelley
on
Grandpa Goes to Washington, and
Darlene Ridgeway on
When the Whistle
Blows) plays impatient girlfriend Kate Tassel.
Dick Sargent (starred in
Bernardine,
Operation
Petticoat, and
The Ghost and Mr.
Chicken and played Dick Cooper on
One
Happy Family, Lt. Maxwell Trotter on
Broadside,
Terrance Ward on
The Tammy Grimes Show,
the second Darrin Stephens on
Bewitched,
and Richard Preston on
Down to Earth)
plays her boyfriend Bud Bones.
Roy Wright (Shipwreck Callahan on
The Islanders) plays her father Bert.
Quentin
Sondergaard (see the biography section for the 1960 post on
Tombstone Territory) plays her dance
partner Hank Summers.
Frank Sutton (appeared in
Marty,
Town Without Pity,
and
The Satan Bug and played Eric
Raddison on
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
and Sgt. Vince Carter on
Gomer Pyle,
U.S.M.C.) plays Bud's best friend Ollie.
Hal Needham (Hollywood's
highest-paid stuntman who invented numerous stunt devices, was a double for
Richard Boone and Burt Reynolds, and directed
Smokey and the Bandit,
Hooper,
and
Cannonball Run) plays suitor
Billy Joe Carter.
Harold Innocent (Big Willie Holmes on
The River Flows East and Mr. Bumble on
The Further Adventures of Oliver Twist) plays banker George
Wannamaker.
Season 7, Episode 20, "Half Straight":
John Kerr (starred
in
The Cobweb,
Tea and Sympathy,
South
Pacific, and
The Pit and the Pendulum
and played Barry Pine on
Arrest and Trial,
D.A. John Fowler on
Peyton Place, and
Gerald O'Brien on
The Streets of San
Francisco) plays gunman-for-hire Lute Willis.
J. Edward McKinley (appeared
in
The Angry Red Planet,
Advise & Consent,
The Interns,
The Party, and
Where Does It
Hurt?) plays his employer Grant Hatcher.
Elizabeth MacRae (shown on the right, played Lou-Ann Poovie
on
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Meg Bentley
on
General Hospital, Phyllis Anderson
and Barbara Randolph on
Days of Our Lives,
and Jozie on
Search for Tomorrow)
plays farmer's daughter Fanny Fields.
Season 7, Episode 21, "He
Learned About Women":
Claude Akins (Sonny Pruett on
Movin' On and Sheriff Elroy P. Lobo on
B.J and the Bear and on
Lobo)
plays comanchero leader Solis.
Robert J. Wilke (appeared in
Best of the Badmen,
High Noon,
The Far Country,
Night Passage, and
Stripes and played Capt. Mendoza on
Zorro) plays his partner Ab Rankin.
Ted de Corsia (Police Chief
Hagedorn on
Steve Canyon) plays their
leader Garvy.
BarBara Luna (shown on the left, played Theresa Modesto on
Zorro, Maria Roberts on
One
Life to Live, Anna Ryder on
Search
for Tomorrow, and Sydney Jacobs on
Sunset
Beach) plays their captive Chavela.
Miriam Colon (Dr. Santos on
The Edge of Night, Maria Delgado on
One Life to Live, Lydia Flores on
All My Children, and Cam's Grandma on
How to Make It in America) plays Garvy's
"wife" Kisla.
Andy Romano (appeared in
Beach Party,
Bikini Beach,
Pajama Party,
Beach Blanket Bingo,
How to
Stuff a Wild Bikini, and
The Ghost in
the Invisible Bikini and played Lt. Joe Caruso on
Get Christie Love!, Frank Richards on
Friends (1979), Warren Briscoe on
Hill Street Blues, and Inspector Aiello on
NYPD Blue) plays comanchero Jose.
Mike de Anda (Ciego on
The Big Valley) plays comanchero Pepe.
Season 7, Episode 22, "The Gallows":
Jeremy Slate
(shown on the right, see "Lacey" above) plays cowboy Pruit Dover. Robert Stevenson (Big
Ed on
Richard Drum and Marshal Hugh
Strickland on
Stagecoach West) plays freighter
Ax Parsons.
Orville Sherman (Mr. Feeney on
Buckskin,
Wib Smith later on
Gunsmoke, and
Tupper on
Daniel Boone) plays the
Elkader sheriff.
Richard Shannon (appeared in
Pony Express,
Arrowhead,
Cattle Empire, and
The Space Children) plays Hays City deputy Jud Gamer.
Joseph Ruskin
(Hans on
Days of Our Lives) plays
Circuit Judge Henry.
Ollie O'Toole (see "Cody's Code" above) plays
telegrapher Milt.
Season 7, Episode 23, "Reprisal":
Dianne Foster (shown on the left, starred
in
Night Passage,
The Last Hurrah, and
The Deep Six) plays widow Cornelia
Conrad.
Jason Evers (starred in
The Brain
That Wouldn't Die,
House of Women,
The Green Berets, and
Escape From the Planet of the Apes and
played Pitcairn on
Wrangler, Prof.
Joseph Howe on
Channing, and Jim
Sonnett on
The Guns of Will Sonnett)
plays drifter Ben Harden.
Grace Lee Whitney (Janice Rand on
Star Trek, the
Star Trek feature films,
Star
Trek: Voyager, and
Star Trek New
Voyages) plays saloon girl Pearl.
Harry Antrim (appeared in
Miracle on 34th Street,
Words and Music,
Ma and Pa Kettle, and
Teacher's
Pet and played Judge Hooker on
The
Great Gildersleeve) plays banker Mr. Botkin.
Brad Trumbull (Det. Brad Brody
on
The Lawless Years) plays Long
Branch patron Hank Ives.
Tom Reese (starred in
Taggart,
The Money Trap,
and
Murderers' Row and played Sgt.
Thomas Velie on
Ellery Queen) plays
gunman-for-hire Pete Wellman.
Joe di Reda (appeared in
Gaby,
The Black Orchid,
The Andromeda Strain, and
The Parallax View and played Angel Moran
on
General Hospital) plays
gunman-for-hire Jim Blake.
Harold Innocent (see "Catawomper" above)
plays a bank teller.
Joe Devlin (Sam Catchem on
Dick Tracy) plays pool hall proprietor Dan Binny.
Season 7, Episode 24, "Coventry":
Joe Maross (shown on the right, played Fred
Russell on
Peyton Place, Capt. Mike
Benton on
Code Red, and Dr. Blakely
on
Dallas) plays land speculator Dan
Beard.
Paul Birch (Erle Stanley Gardner on
The
Court of Last Resort, Mike Malone on
Cannonball,
and Capt. Carpenter on
The Fugitive)
plays rancher Jessie Ott.
Mary Field (appeared in
The Prince and the Pauper,
Convicted
Woman,
The Great Gildersleeve,
and
Life With Father and played
Thelma Gibney on
Topper and Sister
Agnes on
Going My Way) plays Ott's
wife Clara.
Helen Wallace (Nurse Lucy Webber on
Dr. Kildare) plays the Otts' friend Hadda Stokes.
Don Keefer
(starred in
Death of a Salesman,
Hellcats of the Navy, and
Sleeper and played George on
Angel) plays farmer Pete Rankin.
Harold
Innocent (see "Catawomper" above) plays banker Mr. Botkin.
John
Harmon (Eddie Halstead on
The Rifleman)
plays the circuit judge.
Buck Young (Deputy Buck Johnson on
U.S. Marshal and Sgt. Whipple on
Gomer Pyle: U.S.M.C.) plays horseman
Carl.
William Boyett (Sgt. Ken Williams on
Highway
Patrol and Sgt. MacDonald on
Adam-12)
plays his partner Harry.
Season 7, Episode 25, "The Widow":
Joan Hackett (shown on the left, see
the biography section for the 1961 post on
The Defenders) plays Army widow Mrs. Mady Arthur.
Alexander Lockwood (Judge
Owen Baker on
Sam Benedict) plays Fort
Dodge commander Col. J.L. Ebert.
Alan Reed, Jr. (son of actor Alan Reed) plays young
Army officer Cpl. Johnny Jennings.
J. Edward McKinley (see "Half
Straight" above) plays fur trapper Emil Peck.
Rodd Redwing (appeared in
Rancho Notorious,
Son of Geronimo: Apache Avenger,
The Pathfinder, and
The Mole
People and played Mr. Brother on
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays Kiowa chief Little Bear.
Season 7, Episode 26, "Durham Bull":
Andy Clyde (shown on the right, see
the biography section for the 1960 post on
The Real McCoys) plays grandfather rancher George Squires.
Ricky Kelman (Randy
Towne on
The Dennis O'Keefe Show and
Tommy MacRoberts on
Our Man Higgins)
plays his grandson Little Bit.
John Kellogg (Jack Chandler on
Peyton Place) plays gang leader Lou
Silva.
Will Corry (appeared in
Wild in
the Country and
Strategy of Terror
and co-wrote the screenplay for
Two-Lane
Blacktop) plays gang member Wade.
Ted Jordan (later played Nathan Burke on
Gunsmoke) plays gang member Kearny.
Roger
Torrey (Nils Torvald on
Iron Horse
and Mark Templeton on
The Beverly Hillbillies) plays gang member Downey.
Season 7, Episode 27, "Wagon Girls":
Arch Johnson
(starred in
Somebody Up There Likes Me,
G.I. Blues, and
The Cheyenne Social Club and played Gus Honochek on
The Asphalt Jungle and Cmdr. Wivenhoe on
Camp Runamuck) plays wagon master
Carl Feester.
Kevin Hagen (John Colton on
Yancy
Derringer, Inspector Dobbs Kobick on
Land
of the Giants, and Dr. Hiram Baker on
Little
House on the Prairie) plays his partner Kelly Bowman.
Ellen Burstyn (shown on the left, starred
in
For Those Who Think Young,
The Last Picture Show,
The Exorcist,
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, and
Same Time, Next Year and played Dr. Kate Bartok on
The Doctors, Julie Parsons on
Iron Horse, Ellen Brewer on
The Ellen Burstyn Show, Dolly DeLucca on
That's Life, Bishop Beatrice Congreve
on
The Book of Daniel, Nancy Davis
Dutton on
Big Love, Evanka on
Louie, and Bernadette Stabler on
Law and Order: Organized Crime) plays one
of their passengers Polly Mims.
Joan Marshall (Sailor Duval on
Bold Venture) plays her friend Emma.
Constance
Ford (starred in
A Summer Place,
Home From the Hill,
All Fall Down, and
The
Caretakers and played Ada Lucas Davis Downs McGowan Hobson on
Another World) plays women's leader
Florida Jenkins.
William Schallert (see the biography section for the 1960 post
on
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis)
plays Fort Wallace commander Capt. Grant.
Ben Wright (voice of Roger Radcliff
in
One Hundred and One Dalmations,
Wolf in
The Jungle Book, and Grimsby
in
The Little Mermaid, was the
narrator in
Cleopatra, and appeared
in
Judgment at Nuremberg,
The Sound of Music, and
Munster, Go Home!) plays his
direct-report Sgt. Pickens.
William Wellman, Jr. (son of director William A.
Wellman, appeared in
Darby's Rangers,
A Swingin' Affair,
A Swingin' Summer,
Winter A-Go-Go, and
The
Happiest Millionaire and played Dr. Denason on
Days of Our Lives) plays Fort Wallace soldier Pvt. King.
Buck Young
(see "Coventry" above) plays Fort Wallace soldier Cpl. Stone.
Season 7, Episode 28, "The Dealer":
Roy Roberts (Capt.
Simon P. Huxley on
The Gale Storm Show,
Admiral Rogers on
McHale's Navy, John
Cushing on
The Beverly Hillbillies,
Mr. Cheever on
The Lucy Show, Frank
Stephens on
Bewitched, Norman Curtis
on
Petticoat Junction, and later
played Mr. Botkin/Bodkin on
Gunsmoke)
plays crooked faro dealer Billy Baskin.
Judi Meredith (shown on the right, played Bonnie Sue McAfee on
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
and
The George Burns Show, Monique
Devereaux on
Hotel de Paree, and
Betty Cramer on
Ben Casey) plays his
daughter Lily.
Gary Clarke (see the biography section for the 1962 post on
The Virginian) plays gunslinger Johnny
Cole.
George Mathews (appeared in
Pat and
Mike,
The Man With the Golden Arm,
and
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and
played Chick Rogers on
Glynis) plays former
prizefighter Champ Larkin.
Ted Jordan (see "Durham Bull" above) plays
a card cheat.
Season 7, Episode 29, "The Summons":
John Crawford
(shown on the left, appeared in
Zombies of the Stratosphere,
John Paul Jones,
Exodus, and
The
Americanization of Emily and played Chief Parks on
Police Woman and Sheriff Ep Bridges on
The Waltons) plays gang leader Loy Bishop.
Bethel Leslie (appeared
in 15 episodes of
The Richard Boone Show
and played Dr. Maggie Powers on
The
Doctors, Claudia Conner on
All My
Children, and Ethel Crawford on
One
Life to Live) plays his girlfriend Rose Ellen.
Myron Healey (Doc Holliday
on
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp)
plays gang member Jake Moseley.
Robert Stevenson (see "The Gallows"
above) plays gang member Cape.
Shug Fisher (see "The Do-Badder"
above) plays the Ashland telegrapher.
Michael Hinn (George Haig on
Johnny Ringo) plays the Ashland deputy.
Cyril Delevanti (Lucious Coin on
Jefferson
Drum) plays an old checker player.
Percy Helton (Homer Cratchit on
The Beverly Hillbillies) plays his
partner.
Season 7, Episode 30, "The Dreamers":
Liam Redmond
(shown on the right, appeared in
High Treason,
Safari,
Kid Galahad,
The Ghost and
Mr. Chicken, and
Barry Lyndon and
played Grubbitt on
Swizzlewick and
Henry Armitage on
You're Only Young Twice)
plays miner Henry Cairn.
J. Pat O'Malley (see the biography section for the
1961 post on
Frontier Circus) plays his
partner Jake Fogle.
Valerie Allen (appeared in
The Joker Is Wild,
The Five Pennies,
Bells Are Ringing,
and
Pillow
Talk, and played Verna Mason on
The
George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and Anne Banner on
The Texan) plays saloon girl Annie.
Cece Whitney (wife of actor
Bernie Kopell) plays saloon girl Julia.
Shug Fisher (see "The
Do-Badder" above) plays saloon owner Obie.
Season 7, Episode 31, "Cale":
Carl Reindel (shown on the left, appeared
in
Bullitt,
The Cheyenne Social Club, and
The
Andromeda Strain) plays headstrong drifter Cale.
Robert Karnes (see the
biography section for the 1961 post on
The Lawless Years) plays horse thief Sterret.
Season 7, Episode 32, "Chester's Indian":
Karl
Swenson (Lars Hanson on
Little House on
the Prairie) plays Kalvesta, Kansas farmer Adam Hill.
Jena Engstrom (daughter
of actress Jean Engstrom) plays his daughter Callie.
Garry Walberg (Police Sgt.
Sullivan on
Johnny Staccato, Sgt.
Edward Goddard on
Peyton Place, Speed
on
The Odd Couple, and Lt. Frank
Monahan on
Quincy M.E.) plays Indian
agent Simeon.
Eddie Little Sky (shown on the right, appeared in
Tomahawk
Trail,
Hell Bent for Leather,
7 Faces of Dr. Lao, and
A Man Called Horse) plays his unnamed
Cheyenne prisoner.
Lew Brown (SAC Allen Bennett on
The F.B.I. and Shawn Brady on
Days
of Our Lives) plays Callie's brother Frank. Shug Fisher (see "The
Do-Badder" above) returns as saloon owner Obie.
Season 7, Episode 33, "The Prisoner":
Andrew Prine
(shown on the left, starred in
The Miracle Worker,
The Devil's Brigade,
Bandolero!, and
Chisum and played Andy Guthrie on
The Wide Country, Dr. Roger Helvick on
Dr. Kildare, Timothy Pride on
The
Road West, Dan Costello on
W.E.B.,
and Wayne/Wyatt Donnelly on
Weird Science)
plays escaped Army prisoner Billy Joe Arlen.
Charles Fredericks (Pete Albright
on
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp)
plays fellow prisoner Hunk.
Rayford Barnes (see "Wagon Girls" above)
plays their work supervisor Sgt. Jellicoe.
Conrad Nagel (starred in
Little Women (1918),
What Every Woman Knows,
Lawful Larceny, and
Tess of the D'urbervilles) plays wealthy rancher Major Owens.
Ed
Nelson (Michael Rossi on
Peyton Place,
Ward Fuller on
The Silent Force, and
Sen. Mark Denning on
Capitol) plays
his son Seth.
William Phipps (see the biography section for the 1960 post on
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays
his other son Ham.
Nancy Gates (starred in
The
Great Gildersleeve,
The Atomic City,
The Member of the Wedding, and
Some Came Running) plays Ham's wife
Sarah.
Will Corry (see "Durham Bull" above) plays a waiter.
Dorothy
Neumann (see "Old Dan" above) plays widow Mrs. Pierson.
Ollie O'Toole
(see "Cody's Code" above) plays the postmaster.
Season 7, Episode 34, "The Boys":
Malcolm
Atterbury (starred in
I Was a Teenage
Werewolf,
The Birds, and
The Learning Tree and played John Bixby
on
Wagon Train and Grandfather Aldon
on
Apple's Way) plays elixir salesman
Dr. Eliot.
George Kennedy (shown on the right, starred in
Charade,
The Sons of Katie Elder,
The Dirty Dozen,
Cool Hand Luke, and
The Naked
Gun and played MP Sgt. Kennedy on
The
Phil Silvers Show, Father Samuel Cavanaugh on
Sarge, Bumper Morgan on
The
Blue Knight, and Carter McKay on
Dallas)
plays his son Hug.
Harry Dean Stanton (appeared in
Kelly's Heroes,
Dillinger,
Cool Hand Luke,
Repo Man,
Pretty in Pink,
Alien, and
Paris, Texas and played Jake Walters on
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Roman Grant on
Big Love, and Carl Rodd on
Twin
Peaks) plays his son Nate.
Michael Parks (starred in
Bus Riley's Back in Town,
The
Bible: In the Beginning,
The Return
of Josey Wales,
From Dusk Till Dawn,
Kill Bill, and
Argo, and played Jim Bronson on
Then
Came Bronson, Phillip Colby on
The
Colbys, and Jean Renault on
Twin
Peaks) plays his son Park.
Arthur Malet (appeared in
Mary Poppins,
In the Heat of
the Night, and
Heaven Can Wait
and played Carl on
Casablanca, Bobby
on
Easy Street, Nigel Peabody on
Days of Our Lives, and Ryan on
Dallas) plays stagecoach passenger
Farnum.
May Heatherly (Heather McNabb on
The
Man From U.N.C.L.E.) plays his daughter Molly.
Hal Needham (see
"Catawomper" above) plays the stagecoach driver.
Harry Swoger (Harry
the bartender on
The Big Valley)
plays prominent Dodge City citizen Hank Green.
Harp McGuire (appeared in
Captain Thunderbolt,
On the Beach,
Inherit the Wind, and
Cage of
Evil) plays a train baggage guard.
Joe Devlin (see "Reprisal"
above) plays a drummer/train passenger.
Season 8, Episode 1, "The Search":
Carl Reindel (see
"Cale" above) plays returns as stable boy Cale.
Ford Rainey (shown on the left, see the
biography section for the 1961 post on
Window
on Main Street) plays grieving ranch owner Tate Gifford.
Virginia Gregg (starred
in
Dragnet,
Crime in the Streets,
Operation
Petticoat and was the voice of Norma Bates in
Psycho, Maggie Belle Klaxon on
Calvin
and the Colonel, and Tara on
Space
Stars) plays flirty ranch wife Ess Cutler.
Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock on
Star Trek, Paris on
Mission: Impossible, and Dr. William Bell on
Fringe) plays saddle tramp Arnie.
Season 8, Episode 2, "Call Me Dodie":
Kathleen
Nolan (shown on the right, see the biography section for the 1960 post on
The Real McCoys) plays escaped 17-year-old orphan Dodie.
Diane
Mountford (see the biography section for the 1960 post on
Assignment: Underwater) plays fellow orphan Lady.
Carol Anne
Seflinger (Susan Talbot on
Wonderbug)
plays fellow orphan Marth.
Jackie Searl (began as a child actor, appearing in
Tom Sawyer (1930),
Huckleberry Finn (1931),
Alice
in Wonderland (1933),
Great
Expectations(1934), and
Little Lord
Fauntleroy) plays orphanage caretaker Floyd Baggs.
Mary Patton (Mrs. Nowlin
on
Days of Our Lives) plays his sister
Addie.
Joby Baker (David Lewis on
Good
Morning, World and Col. Harvey Mann on
The
Six O'Clock Follies) plays unfaithful husband Ky Blessing.
Bob Hastings
(Lt. Elroy Carpenter on
McHale's Navy,
Tommy Kelsey on
All in the Family, and Capt. Burt Ramsey on
General Hospital) plays his pool-playing partner Whip Puckett.
Dennis Cross (see the biography section for the 1960 post on
The Blue Angels) plays barfly Norm.
Buck
Young (see "Coventry" above) plays his drinking partner John.
Wallace
Rooney (Andrew Winters on
The Doctors
and Tim Butterfield on
Lou Grant)
plays pool hall proprietor Dan Binney.
Dal McKennon (see the biography section
for the 1961 post on
87th Precinct)
plays rancher Jake.
Guy Wilkerson (played Panhandle Perkins in 22 westerns)
plays the Delmonico's waiter.
Season 8, Episode 3, "Quint Asper":
Bill Zuckert (Arthur
Bradwell on
Mr. Novak and Chief Segal
on
Captain Nice) plays homesteader
Asper.
Angela Clarke (appeared in
The
Great Caruso,
The Harlem
Globetrotters,
House of Wax, and
The Interns) plays his Comanche wife
Topsanah.
James Doohan (appeared in
Bus
Riley's Back in Town,
One of Our
Spies Is Missing, and all the Star Trek feature films from
Star Trek: The Motion Picture through
Star Trek: Generations and played Phil
Mitchell on
Space Command, Thomas on
Peyton Place, Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery Scott
on
Star Trek: The Original Series,
Cmdr. Canarvin on
Jason of Star Command,
and Damon Warwick on
The Bold and the
Beautiful) plays prospector Davit.
Ed Peck (Officer Clark on
The Super, Coach Cooper on
Semi-Tough, Police Capt. Dennis
McDermott on
Benson, and Police
Officer Kirk on
Happy Days) plays his
partner Semple.
Myron Healy (see "The Summons" above) plays Indian
hater Mike.
Earle Hodgins (starred in
The
Texas Rambler,
Paradise Canyon,
Heroes of the Alamo, and
Pride of the West and played Lonesome on
Guestward Ho!) plays his sympathizer
Dobie.
Henry Beckman (Commander Paul Richards on
Flash Gordon, Mulligan on
I'm
Dickens, He's Fenster, George Anderson on
Peyton Place, Colonel Harrigan on
McHale's Navy, Capt. Roland Frances Clancey on
Here Come the Brides, Pat Harwell on
Funny Face, Harry Mark on
Bronk,
and Alf Scully on
Check It Out) plays
fellow sympathizer Duff.
Foster Brooks (shown on the near left, legendary "drunk" comedian)
plays guard Ed Kelly.
Harry Carey, Jr. (starred in
Red River,
She Wore a Yellow
Ribbon,
Mister Roberts, and
The Searchers and played Bill Burnett on
The Adventures of Spin and Marty)
plays Comanche prisoner Grant.
Season 8, Episode 4, "Root Down":
John Dehner (shown on the right, played Duke
Williams on
The Roaring '20's,
Commodore Cecil Wyntoon on
The Baileys of
Balboa, Morgan Starr on
The Virginian,
Cyril Bennett on
The Doris Day Show,
Dr. Charles Cleveland Claver on
The New
Temperatures Rising Show, Barrett Fears on
Big Hawaii, Marshal Edge Troy on
Young Maverick, Lt. Joseph Broggi on
Enos, Hadden Marshall on
Bare
Essence, and Billy Joe Erskine on
The
Colbys) plays itinerant patriarch Luke Dutton.
Sherry Jackson (see
"Lacey" above) plays his daughter Aggie.
Robert Doyle (Lt. Osgood on
Lanigan's Rabbi) plays her brother
Grudie.
Howard McNear (see the biography section for the 1961 post on
The Andy Griffith Show) plays store
clerk Howard Rudd.
Michael Carr (appeared in
Train to Alcatraz,
Flame of
Youth,
Flying Disc Man From Mars,
and
Faces of Death and played
Daffadar Noor Ali on
Tales of the 77th
Bengal Lancers) plays a brawling cowboy.
Season 8, Episode 5, "Jenny":
Ron Hayes (see the
biography section for the 1960 post on
Bat Masterson) plays outlaw Zel Myers.
Ruta Lee (shown on the left, appeared in
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,
Funny Face, and
Witness for the Prosecution and played Rona on
1st and Ten: The Championship and Pauline Spencer on
Coming of Age) plays his girlfriend
Jenny Glover.
Barry Russo (Roy Gilroy on
The
Young Marrieds) plays fellow outlaw Al Flack.
Barry Cahill (Capt. Curt
Douglas on
12 O'Clock High and Buck
Vernon on
The Waltons) plays poker
player Chuck Eaton.
Season 8, Episode 6, "Collie's Free":
Jason Evers
(shown on the right, see "Reprisal" above) plays ex-convict Collie Patten.
Jacqueline
Scott (starred in
House of Women,
Empire of the Ants, and
Telefon and played Donna Kimble Taft on
The Fugitive) plays his wife Francie.
Richard
Bull (played the Seaview doctor on
Voyage
to the Bottom of the Sea, Thatcher on
Nichols,
and Nels Oleson on
Little House on the
Prairie) plays lazy ranch-hand Nort Safford.
Mary Castle (Frankie Adams on
Stories of the Century) plays a saloon
girl.
Orville Sherman (see "The Gallows" above) plays the territorial
prison warden.
Dennis Cross (see "Call Me Dodie" above) plays
prisoner Dutton.
Pat McCaffrie (Chuck Forrest on
Bachelor Father and Dr. Edgar Harris on
Outlaws) plays a bartender.
Season 8, Episode 7, "The Ditch":
Joanne Linville
(shown on the left, played Amy Sinclair on
The Guiding Light)
plays sprawling ranch heir Susan Bart.
Ted Jordan (see "Durham Bull"
above) plays her foreman Hank Davis.
Mike de Anda (see "He Learned About
Women" above) plays their Mexican foreman Gonzalez.
Jay Lanin (Lt. Roper
on
Follow the Sun) plays small-time
rancher Trent Hawkins.
Gail Bonney (Goodwife Martin on
Space Patrol and Madeline Schweitzer on
December Bride) plays his mother.
Hardie Albright (appeared in
This Sporting Age,
The Song of Songs,
White Heat,
The Scarlet Letter,
The Pride of the Yankees, and
Angel on My Shoulder) plays fellow
rancher Peckett.
Christopher Dark (played Sgt. Art Zavala on
Code 3) plays hired gunman Lafe Crider.
Dehl Berti (Standing Elk on
The Edge of
Night) plays his assistant Waco.
Season 8, Episode 8, "The Trappers":
Strother
Martin (shown on the right, see "The Do-Badder" above) plays fur trapper Billy Logan.
Richard
Shannon (see "The Gallows" above) plays his partner Tug Marsh.
Doris
Singleton (Caroline Appleby on
I Love
Lucy, Susie on
Angel, and
Margaret Williams on
My Three Sons)
plays scheming dressmaker Irma Watkins.
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 con man Idaho Slate.
Lane Chandler (Tom Pike on
Lawman) plays prospective mark Luke
Owlsby.
Season 8, Episode 9, "Phoebe Strunk":
Virginia
Gregg (shown on the left, see "The Search" above) plays renegade matriarch Phoebe Strunk.
Don Megowan (Captain Huckabee on
The
Beachcomber) plays her son Oliver.
Dick Peabody (see the biography section
for the 1962 post on
Combat!) plays her
son Simsie.
Gregg Palmer (see the biography section for the 1961 post on
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays
her son Hulett.
Joan Freeman (appeared in
Come
September,
Panic in Year Zero!,
Roustabout,
The Reluctant Astronaut, and
Friday
the 13th: The Final Chapter and played Elma Gahrigner/Emma Gahringer in
Bus Stop, Dr. Sue Lambert on
Lassie, and Barbara Robinson on
Code R) plays recent orphan Annie
Shields.
Phil Chambers (Sgt. Myles Magruder on
The Gray Ghost and Jason the hotel clerk on
The Andy Griffith Show) her father Ned.
John McLiam (appeared in
Cool Hand Luke,
In Cold Blood,
Sleeper,
The Missouri Breaks, and
First Blood) plays homesteader Sam
Kinney.
Phyllis Coates (played Alice McDokes in 18 shorts, starred in
Outlaws of Texas,
Man From Sonora,
Superman and
the Mole-Men,
Jungle Drums of Africa,
and
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, and
played Lois Lane on
Adventures of
Superman, Gloria on
The Duke,
Madge Allen on
Professional Father,
and Clarissa Holliday on
This Is Alice)
plays his wife Rose.
Season 8, Episode 10, "The Hunger":
Robert
Middleton (Barney Wales on
The Monroes)
plays abusive husband and father Claude Dorf.
Linda Watkins (Robin Crosley on
One Life to Live) plays his wife.
Hampton
Fancher (Deputy Lon Gillis on
Black
Saddle and co-wrote the screenplay and was executive producer on
Blade Runner) plays their son Clem.
Joe
Flynn (shown on the right, see the biography section for the 1961 post on
The Joey Bishop Show) plays liquor drummer Jack.
Byron Foulger (Mr.
Nash on
Captain Nice and Wendell Gibbs
on
Petticoat Junction) plays saloon
customer Dooley.
Kelton Garwood (Beauregard O'Hanlon on
Bourbon Street Beat and later played Percy Crump on
Gunsmoke) plays just-married groom Fred.
Henrietta Moore (Peggy Gordon on
First
Love) plays his bride Dolly.
Season 8, Episode 11, "Abe Blocker":
Chill Wills (shown on the left, see
the biography section for the 1961 post on
Frontier Circus) plays aging mountain man Abe Blocker.
Wright King (see the
biography section for the 1960 post on
Wanted: Dead or Alive) plays homesteader Bud Groves.
Harry Carey, Jr. (see
"Quint Asper Comes Home" above) plays rancher Jake.
Marshall Reed
(Inspector Fred Asher on
The Lineup)
plays posse member Sam Vestral.
Wallace Rooney (see "Call Me Dodie"
above) returns as pool hall proprietor Dan Binney.
Season 8, Episode 12, "The Way It Is":
Claude
Akins (shown on the right, see "He Learned About Women" above) plays Kitty's suitor Ad
Bellum.
Garry Walberg (see "Chester's Indian" above) plays Kitty's
friend Bent Dillard.
Virginia Lee (Dorothy Danson on
My Three Sons) plays his wife Annie.
Season 8, Episode 13, "Us Haggens":
Denver Pyle (Ben
Thompson on
The Life and Legend of WyattEarp, Grandpa Tarleton on
Tammy,
Briscoe Darling on
The Andy Griffith Show,
Buck Webb on
The Doris Day Show, Mad
Jack on
The Life and Times of Grizzly
Adams, and Uncle Jesse Duke on
The
Dukes of Hazzard) plays wanted murderer Black Jack Haggen.
Ken Curtis (shown on the left, see
the biography section for the 1961 post on
Ripcord)
plays his nephew Festus.
Elizabeth MacRae (see "Half Straight" above)
plays Back Jack's girlfriend April Conley.
Season 8, Episode 14, "Uncle Sunday":
Henry
Beckman (see "Quint Asper Comes Home" above) plays Chester's thieving
Uncle Sunday Meacham.
Joyce Bulifant (shown on the right, played Mary Gentry on
Tom, Dick and Mary, Mrs. Marsha Patterson on
The Bill Cosby Show, Peggy Wilson on
Love Thy Neighbor, Marjorie Martin on
Big John, Little John, Marie Slaughter on
The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Miriam Willoughby on
Flo, and Emily Wallace on
Weird Science) plays his
"niece" Ellie.
Ed Nelson (see "The Prisoner" above) plays thief
Burt Curry.
Nora Marlowe (Martha Commager on
Law of the Plainsman, Sara Andrews on
The Governor and J.J., and Mrs. Flossie Brimmer on
The Waltons) plays store customer Mrs.
Perkins.
Wallace Rooney (see "Call Me Dodie" above) returns as pool
hall proprietor Dan Binney.
Season 8, Episode 15, "False Front":
William
Windom (shown on the left, appeared in
To Kill a Mockingbird,
The Americanization of Emily, and
Escape From the Planet of the Apes and played
Congressman Glen Morley on
The Farmer's
Daughter, John Monroe on
My World and
Welcome to It, Larry Krandall on
Brothers
and Sisters, Frank Buckman on
Parenthood,
and Dr. Seth Hazlitt on
Murder, She Wrote)
plays journalist Paul Hill.
Andrew Prine (see "The Prisoner" above)
plays grocery delivery boy Clay Tatum.
Art Lund (popular singer with Benny
Goodman's orchestra, starred in
Black
Caesar,
The Last American Hero,
and
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive)
plays professional gambler Nick Heber.
Charles Fredericks (see "The
Prisoner" above) plays Kansas Senator McGovern.
Shary Marshall (Linda on
Wendy and Me) plays saloon girl Rita.
William Bryant (McCall on
Combat!,
President Ulysses S. Grant on
Branded,
Col. Crook on
Hondo, Lt. Shilton on
Switch, and the Director on
The Fall Guy) plays pool player Joe.
Roy
Thinnes (Dr. Phil Brewer on
General
Hospital, Ben Quick on
The Long, Hot
Summer, David Vincent on
The Invaders,
Dr. James Whitman on
The Psychiatrist,
Major Dana Holmes on
From Here to
Eternity, Nick Hogan on
Falcon Crest,
Teddy on
1st & Ten, and Roger
Collins/Rev. Trask on
Dark Shadows
(1991)) plays his partner Harry.
Michael T. Mikler (Walter Reynolds on
The Young Marrieds) plays poker player
Bill Farrell.
Robert Fortier (Maj. Jergens on
The Gallant Men) plays gunman Ray Costa.
Wallace Rooney (see
"Call Me Dodie" above) returns as pool hall proprietor Dan Binney.
Season 8, Episode 16, "Old Comrade":
Ralph Moody
(see the biography section for the 1961 post on
The Rifleman) plays dying retired Gen. Kip Marsden.
J. Pat O'Malley
(see "The Dreamers" above) plays his old friend Col. Gabe Wilson.
Frank Sutton (shown on the right, see "Catawomper" above) plays Marsden's estranged
"son" Billy Tuker.
Wayne Heffley (Officer Dennis on
Highway Patrol and Vern Scofield on
Days of Our Lives) plays heckler Lem.
Roy
Roberts (see "The Dealer" above) plays Dodge House owner Mr. Dobie.
Ted Jordan (see "Durham Bull" above) plays a party guest.
Dick
Whittinghill (original member of the Pied Pipers singing group and long-time
radio DJ on Los Angeles station KMPC) plays telegrapher Jason.