#Dry road to nowhere gunsmoke cast serial#
The episode I watched yesterday didn’t feature Bickford-but it had a very impressive roster of guest stars. Patty Duke (or Anna, or however she addresses herself these days) is the titular “Sue Ann,” a young woman whose wanderlust has led her to leave her father’s farm one night with a dream of going to San Francisco. She meets up with series regular Doug McClure (as Trampas) on a stagecoach (driven by the baddest serial villain of them all, Roy Barcroft) who helps her get established in Medicine Bow…but both her pop (Edward Binns) and the young gentleman (Paul Carr) who has designs on her follow her trail into town. McIntire, TDOY radio goddess Jeanette Nolan). During the last season of The Virginian (1970 to 1971) the ranch was owned Colonel Alan McKenzie, played by actor Stewart Granger. (That season, the series underwent a name change to The Men from Shiloh-and what I’ve always found curious is why NBC canceled the series in 1971 because the program was still ranked in the Nielsen Top Twenty. If I had to hazard a guess, I suppose it might have been too expensive to produce and the network suits couldn’t justify the cost.) Patty Duke Cobb, who starred on the series as Judge Henry Garth from 1962-66. Apparently, I’ve come in on the fifth season episodes, when Bickford’s John Grainger was running the Shiloh Ranch-he would later turn it over to brother Clay (John McIntire), who kept watch on the horses and ponies (with his wife Holly, played by the real-life Mrs. I started my initial viewing yesterday around 4:30pm, and was thrilled to hear Percy Faith’s oh-so-familiar theme music of The Virginian begin, along with an establishing shot of actor Charles Bickford-which is just about as “big-time” Western as you can get. (Hey, I caught a little bit of The Big Country on TCM the other night. I know what I’m talking about.) Now, I have to come clean a little and admit that the only thing I ever really remembered about the show was the rousing theme music and the establishing shot of Lee J. Honest to my grandma-the fact that I can record these classic television westerns completely uncut and without commercial breaks is “the greatest idea since the walking man!” to borrow a phrase from Champagne for Caesar (1950). I’ve only had this Encore Westerns channel for one day-and already I’ve found a new best friend.
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