I never liked Manuel Padilla, Jr. In the 1966 Tarzan TV series. He was too cute for a jungle boy, and he always rhymed when he talked. Several years later, he becomes Marshal Dillon's best buddy by sheer accident. On the road to Dodge, Dillon finds little Sancho stealing his stuff. Instead of shooting the little pack rat and rolling him under a rock, 1970s Marshal Dillon takes him under his wing.
Meanwhile as Dillon goofs off trying to help orphans, his prisoner Danton, and his wife (Loretta Swit) are planning to kill Dillon on the road to Fort Union.
I never understood why Dodge did not have its own courthouse and gallows. It seemed like there was enough crime and murder in Dodge to justify a courthouse. Loretta Swit plans to put a derringer into Marshal Dillon and blow him away. A pregnant woman sneaks into the wagon Dillon is taking to Fort Union. The stowaway & Loretta Swit, Dillon's would-be assassin are on the trip strictly due to Dillon seriously goofing off. He is taking a deadly criminal to court, and he should be doing it with Festus or Newly, and without any spontaneious guests.
Eventually the pregnant woman has to give birth, and ten minutes are spent on that. Meanwhile little Sancho finds a picture of Swit and her criminal husband (played by William Watson), and realizes that Loretta Swit is the wife of the killer, so he sets out to warn Dillon. Festus joins him, but Sancho and Festus never get to Dillon on time, so it is just a pointless subplot.
Overall, this is a very choppy story that looks like the writers were looking through old unused 30 minute scripts and put two of them together into one big mess. The only redeeming point is that there is gun-play and bloodshed by the end, and some of the bad people end up under ground.
Meanwhile as Dillon goofs off trying to help orphans, his prisoner Danton, and his wife (Loretta Swit) are planning to kill Dillon on the road to Fort Union.
I never understood why Dodge did not have its own courthouse and gallows. It seemed like there was enough crime and murder in Dodge to justify a courthouse. Loretta Swit plans to put a derringer into Marshal Dillon and blow him away. A pregnant woman sneaks into the wagon Dillon is taking to Fort Union. The stowaway & Loretta Swit, Dillon's would-be assassin are on the trip strictly due to Dillon seriously goofing off. He is taking a deadly criminal to court, and he should be doing it with Festus or Newly, and without any spontaneious guests.
Eventually the pregnant woman has to give birth, and ten minutes are spent on that. Meanwhile little Sancho finds a picture of Swit and her criminal husband (played by William Watson), and realizes that Loretta Swit is the wife of the killer, so he sets out to warn Dillon. Festus joins him, but Sancho and Festus never get to Dillon on time, so it is just a pointless subplot.
Overall, this is a very choppy story that looks like the writers were looking through old unused 30 minute scripts and put two of them together into one big mess. The only redeeming point is that there is gun-play and bloodshed by the end, and some of the bad people end up under ground.