Tod joins a modern day posse that's tracking down two escaped killers. Trouble is the posse's full of people with conflicting aims.
Oh my, there must be a good reason why this episode is such a mess. The main fault is with the screenplay that has more holes than grandma's sieve. My guess is the producers had to scramble now that Maharis had firmly left the series. (IMDB observes this was the last entry to give Maharis billing.) So I'm thinking they scrambled with a couple of re-writes that may have plugged Buzz's hole but added all kinds of crippling plot lapses. At the same time, I'm mindful that R66 was generally one of the best- written shows of the time.
Looks like the entry wants to say something existential about posses in general— catch Tod's histrionic denunciation that ends the hour, at least I think that's his point. Anyway, for a series that usually managed to avoid the unsubtle, this is like a car horn at a concert. Then too, for a series that tried to present real-type people,The General (Anderson) comes across more like a caricature than a real person. No need to go on. After all, every lengthy series has its missteps, and this is sure one of them.
(In passing—the credits list Apache Jct., AZ as the location, so those are the Superstition Mountains in the background. Too bad the story couldn't work in something about the Superstition's Lost Dutchman Mine, one of the West's more fascinating legends.)
Oh my, there must be a good reason why this episode is such a mess. The main fault is with the screenplay that has more holes than grandma's sieve. My guess is the producers had to scramble now that Maharis had firmly left the series. (IMDB observes this was the last entry to give Maharis billing.) So I'm thinking they scrambled with a couple of re-writes that may have plugged Buzz's hole but added all kinds of crippling plot lapses. At the same time, I'm mindful that R66 was generally one of the best- written shows of the time.
Looks like the entry wants to say something existential about posses in general— catch Tod's histrionic denunciation that ends the hour, at least I think that's his point. Anyway, for a series that usually managed to avoid the unsubtle, this is like a car horn at a concert. Then too, for a series that tried to present real-type people,The General (Anderson) comes across more like a caricature than a real person. No need to go on. After all, every lengthy series has its missteps, and this is sure one of them.
(In passing—the credits list Apache Jct., AZ as the location, so those are the Superstition Mountains in the background. Too bad the story couldn't work in something about the Superstition's Lost Dutchman Mine, one of the West's more fascinating legends.)