Rambling, grab-bag story tosses everything from trendy hallucinatory imagery to ancient comic buffoonery into the kettle. Strange brew that results is reasonably palatable, thanks in no small measure to Doug McClure. The versatile star plumbs deeper than ever before inside his Trampas character and shows off his athleticism with some nimble trick riding. Talented Tim McIntire portrays a bullying baddie with great relish, particularly when he's got the drop on Clay Grainger, played by his real-life dad, John McIntire. Albert Salmi and Michael Constantine have fun as bickering Army mules who cordially detest each other. Director E. Darrell Hallenbeck got appropriate preparation for offbeat material like this from his years as assistant director on "The Twilight Zone."
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Facing your fears
bkoganbing23 October 2020
In this episode we find that Doug McClure has a phobia, an understandable one
considering his background. It's scarlet fever which as we see in flashbacks took
most of his family and ha put in an orphanage. Young Nicholas Beauvy plays
Trampas as a youth.
Tim McIntire plays an army prisoner scheduled to hang scheduled to hang. He shows symptoms of scarlet fever so he's being transported to an army hospital from the stockade. Crossing Shiloh property McIntire escapes.
John McIntire assigns Trampas to help the army which consists of two bottom feeders as the escort, Albert Salmi and Michael Constantine. These two would just as soon kill each other and would just as well shoot Tim McIntire down like a dog than capture him.
Doug McClure has to fend off these two as well as not get too close to McIntire for fear of getting the disease.
In this time of pandemic a curiously relevant episode.
Tim McIntire plays an army prisoner scheduled to hang scheduled to hang. He shows symptoms of scarlet fever so he's being transported to an army hospital from the stockade. Crossing Shiloh property McIntire escapes.
John McIntire assigns Trampas to help the army which consists of two bottom feeders as the escort, Albert Salmi and Michael Constantine. These two would just as soon kill each other and would just as well shoot Tim McIntire down like a dog than capture him.
Doug McClure has to fend off these two as well as not get too close to McIntire for fear of getting the disease.
In this time of pandemic a curiously relevant episode.
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