THE RIFLEMAN – The Illustrator – 1960
Chuck Connors headlines this 1958 to 1963 western series that ran for 168 episodes. Connors is a world class hand with a Winchester rifle. This of course ends up getting him in no end of trouble. This episode is number 88 of the run.
Chuck Connors is filling in for Sheriff Paul Fix while Fix is out of town on business. The stage arrives and un-loads, the last one off is drunk as a skunk, Richard Whorf. Whorf is a portrait painter from New York. He has been hired by wealthy rancher, Dayton Lummis. Lummis wants the man to do a portrait of his daughter, Midge Ware.
Lummis has one look at the drunken sot and fires him. Connors steers the drunk towards the jail to sleep it off. The next morning, Miss Ware comes to see Whorf for a talk. She would still like Whorf to paint her. Ware had meet Whorf three years before on a visit to New York. She had no idea he had become an enormous lush since.
While all this is happening ranch hand, Ed Nelson is getting upset. He has taken a shine to Ware and is annoyed his attentions are not returned. Nelson sees Whorf as a rival for the girl. Nelson decides to step up and deal with said imagined rival. He goes after Whorf and starts punching him around. Connors arrives and chases Nelson off with a warning.
Nelson refuses to let the matter drop. This leads to a murder and gun-play before Nelson is cured of his infatuation with Miss Ware.
Good episode! (b/w)
Chuck Connors headlines this 1958 to 1963 western series that ran for 168 episodes. Connors is a world class hand with a Winchester rifle. This of course ends up getting him in no end of trouble. This episode is number 88 of the run.
Chuck Connors is filling in for Sheriff Paul Fix while Fix is out of town on business. The stage arrives and un-loads, the last one off is drunk as a skunk, Richard Whorf. Whorf is a portrait painter from New York. He has been hired by wealthy rancher, Dayton Lummis. Lummis wants the man to do a portrait of his daughter, Midge Ware.
Lummis has one look at the drunken sot and fires him. Connors steers the drunk towards the jail to sleep it off. The next morning, Miss Ware comes to see Whorf for a talk. She would still like Whorf to paint her. Ware had meet Whorf three years before on a visit to New York. She had no idea he had become an enormous lush since.
While all this is happening ranch hand, Ed Nelson is getting upset. He has taken a shine to Ware and is annoyed his attentions are not returned. Nelson sees Whorf as a rival for the girl. Nelson decides to step up and deal with said imagined rival. He goes after Whorf and starts punching him around. Connors arrives and chases Nelson off with a warning.
Nelson refuses to let the matter drop. This leads to a murder and gun-play before Nelson is cured of his infatuation with Miss Ware.
Good episode! (b/w)