Festus and Newly get the stolen gold away from the train and Jack Sinclair, but he and his gang chase after them while Doc still refuses to operate on Marshall Dillon.Festus and Newly get the stolen gold away from the train and Jack Sinclair, but he and his gang chase after them while Doc still refuses to operate on Marshall Dillon.Festus and Newly get the stolen gold away from the train and Jack Sinclair, but he and his gang chase after them while Doc still refuses to operate on Marshall Dillon.
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- (as Warren Kemmerling)
- Roper
- (as Jonathan Lippe)
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- Writers
- Jim Byrnes
- Norman MacDonnell(uncredited)
- John Meston(uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis 3-parter has the last appearance of Sam Melville. He was also in seven other episodes, all as different characters.
- GoofsIn a scene towards the end, BURLINGTON NORTHERN R.R. can be seen written across the locomotive tender. The BNRR was created in 1970 after a merger of four railroad lines (Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Seattle Portland & Spokane, and the Chicago Burlington & Quincy.
- Quotes
Kitty: They'd kill him, don't you understand that? / Referring to Matt.
Beth Tilton: So what? / She gets slapped by Kitty.
Kitty: Don't you try bucking me, Honey. As tough as you think you are, I'm a lot tougher. You're right, he is my man. And I'll do anything to keep him alive. Even to killing the likes of you!
This unique reality is what gives the soliloquy such power. The audience can go along individually and recount the details of entire episodes brought back by brief references in the two minute soliloquy. The short rejoinder given by Arness at the end, in character, is priceless, and must be seen in the context of the scene to be enjoyed.
The scene brings a tear to one's eye simply because of how fresh it remains in the timeless nature of film, but uttered by two people who both passed away years ago, Amanda Blake before James Arness. The mortality of two people, brought together to form Hollywood history in an immortal TV series, is laid before us.
Seventeen years is a long time in anyone's life, and the words spoke in character might just as well been a symbol of their own lives in reality, especially given that this three-part series was the first return of Milburn Stone from his medical hiatus due to heart bypass surgery.
The story of Matt and Kitty is laid out plain to see in a short two-minute scene, and it isn't merely that it's the only TV series in history that could have laid down seventeen years of real life behind it, but that the story sums up how life's simple moments often form the basis for all other things so much more complicated and meaningful.
A man walks in, and eats his "eggs and biscuits," and the life of a woman is forever altered, so that life without the man seems impossible to ponder, for both her and the man, but also for the audience who grew up over the course of two decades watching the story unfold!
And what a beautiful story it was!
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