This might have made an interesting TV series had some sponsor shown a bit of
interest. Wagon Train regulars take a back seat to the guest cast led by Michael
Ansara. He's a doctor practicing in the Southwest USA in frontier days and he
has two assistants both apprenticing to be doctors. You could forego medical
school back in those days. Anyway I doubt that Irish immigrant Peter Brown or
Navajo Jose DeVega could have afforded the tuition.
Kicked out of their mostly Mexican peasant town still enamored of their pagan religion, William Mims and wife Penny Santon soon come to believe that daughter Lois Roberts is a witch. Later when their son Danny Bravo is bitten by a feral cat they think the daughter can change into one at will and kick her out.
After that its Ansara against Mims as he stubbornly insists that modern medicine will have no power over a witch. Let's just say Sims is a very hard sell.
The episode was nicely acted. Might have made a good series.
Kicked out of their mostly Mexican peasant town still enamored of their pagan religion, William Mims and wife Penny Santon soon come to believe that daughter Lois Roberts is a witch. Later when their son Danny Bravo is bitten by a feral cat they think the daughter can change into one at will and kick her out.
After that its Ansara against Mims as he stubbornly insists that modern medicine will have no power over a witch. Let's just say Sims is a very hard sell.
The episode was nicely acted. Might have made a good series.
