Michael Burns was added to the cast of Wagon Train in the last episode of season
6 to get a youthful audience. This however was the first episode in which he
carried the action.
Young Barnaby starts acting a little too big for his britches and wagonmaster Chris Hale has to take him in hand. But when he accidentally witnesses a bank holdup in the town they were stopping for supplies, one of the robbers takes him as a hostage.
That would be Clu Gulager who is in the title role of this episode. He's a notorious outlaw who is partnered with the equally notorious Ed Begley who took him on as a protege back in the day. Now Gulager sees in Burns someone he can mentor. Especially since that first episode where we met Barnaby West he was kind of stuck on those penny dreadful novels.
He also is thinking possibly that the crew on the Wagon Train don't really care. But he's wrong there as John McIntire and Frank McGrath cover a lot of ground before finally catching up with Burns, Gulager, and Begley.
Michael Burns does a bit of growing up as he finds those penny dreadful tales notoriously exaggerated. Begley and Gulager do some fine work in this Wagon Train story.
Young Barnaby starts acting a little too big for his britches and wagonmaster Chris Hale has to take him in hand. But when he accidentally witnesses a bank holdup in the town they were stopping for supplies, one of the robbers takes him as a hostage.
That would be Clu Gulager who is in the title role of this episode. He's a notorious outlaw who is partnered with the equally notorious Ed Begley who took him on as a protege back in the day. Now Gulager sees in Burns someone he can mentor. Especially since that first episode where we met Barnaby West he was kind of stuck on those penny dreadful novels.
He also is thinking possibly that the crew on the Wagon Train don't really care. But he's wrong there as John McIntire and Frank McGrath cover a lot of ground before finally catching up with Burns, Gulager, and Begley.
Michael Burns does a bit of growing up as he finds those penny dreadful tales notoriously exaggerated. Begley and Gulager do some fine work in this Wagon Train story.