During the first wedding scene when Hale gives Harnish the dollar coin that the father gave him, the father says "Well, you're sure from a different clan. you act like a McIntire." Which is Hales acting name, and the look that Hale gives is priceless. Then Hale says "McIntires have been doing that for hundreds of years. I love how they wrote that into the script, lol.
Oh, and also Micheal Parks went on to star in the short lived Then Came Bronson.
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An interesting courtship
actionsub11 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This was one of the more unusual episodes of this fine series. The plot concerns a father's efforts to arrange a marriage for his daughter. However, Heather McIntosh is far more interested in talking to animals than to other people.
The groom? Hamish Browne would just as soon attend to his livestock. At any rate, he is convinced to sign the marriage contract and collect a dowry...before even meeting Heather!
What makes this particular episode unusual is that you'll see these two again in the following season's finale "The Last Circle-up", though the next time they will be played by Tom Skerritt and Karen Greene. Other than the regular crew of the wagon train, I think that was the only time any of the passengers carried over from one season to the next!
The groom? Hamish Browne would just as soon attend to his livestock. At any rate, he is convinced to sign the marriage contract and collect a dowry...before even meeting Heather!
What makes this particular episode unusual is that you'll see these two again in the following season's finale "The Last Circle-up", though the next time they will be played by Tom Skerritt and Karen Greene. Other than the regular crew of the wagon train, I think that was the only time any of the passengers carried over from one season to the next!
A farmer's wife she'll be
bkoganbing29 December 2013
I doubt two people who knew less of the facts of life ever got married on television than Anne Helm and Michael Parks playing the title roles in this episode of Wagon Train. But Helm's Scottish parents Liam Redmond and Meg Wyllie have to get her married and soon because she's coming of age. Plus the fact that she has bonded with the creatures both domestic and wild the way Elly May Clampett did on the Beverly Hillbillies.
With a little encouragement from Denny Miller they look toward farmer Michael Parks who while he's got the mechanics of reproduction right has not exactly been taught the social graces. In the middle of the wedding he bolts to attend his sick cow Lulu.
Getting these two on the path to marital bliss won't be easy, but Parks realizes that a woman who bonds with animals so well as Helm might be a real asset as a farm wife.
This is one of the sillier episodes in the history of Wagon Train, but there's a laugh or two be mined from it.
With a little encouragement from Denny Miller they look toward farmer Michael Parks who while he's got the mechanics of reproduction right has not exactly been taught the social graces. In the middle of the wedding he bolts to attend his sick cow Lulu.
Getting these two on the path to marital bliss won't be easy, but Parks realizes that a woman who bonds with animals so well as Helm might be a real asset as a farm wife.
This is one of the sillier episodes in the history of Wagon Train, but there's a laugh or two be mined from it.
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