S1.E15

The Legacy of Charlie O'Rourke

Name: The Legacy of Charlie O'Rourke
Genre: Western
Released: 1971-04-22
Duration: 51 min
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Pete Duel, Ben Murphy, Joan Hackett

Episode aired Apr 22, 1971
51m

IMDb RATING

7.8/10

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Joan Hackett in Alias Smith and Jones (1971)

Western

A $100,000 in stolen gold is buried somewhere in the desert and everyone wants to recover it. A saloon singer knows where it is and gets the boys to help her. Harry Briscoe is also around an... Read allA $100,000 in stolen gold is buried somewhere in the desert and everyone wants to recover it. A saloon singer knows where it is and gets the boys to help her. Harry Briscoe is also around and seems to have a scheme of his own.A $100,000 in stolen gold is buried somewhere in the desert and everyone wants to recover it. A saloon singer knows where it is and gets the boys to help her. Harry Briscoe is also around and seems to have a scheme of his own.

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IMDb RATING

7.8/10

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Pete Duel

Hannibal Heyes (alias Joshua Smith)

Ben Murphy

Jed 'Kid' Curry (alias Thaddeus Jones)

Joan Hackett

Alice Banion

J.D. Cannon

Harry Briscoe

Guy Raymond

Sheriff Carver

Billy Green Bush

Charlie O'Rourke
(as Billy 'Green' Bush)

Erik Holland

Kurt Schmitt

Hank Underwood

Steve Gravers

Parson

Gary Van Ormand

Clyde
(as Gary Van Orman)

Al Bain

Townsman
(uncredited)

Roger Davis

Narrator
(uncredited)

Ben Frommer

Townsman
(uncredited)

Joe Phillips

Townsman
(uncredited)

Bill Walker

Townsman
(uncredited)

Director
- Jeffrey Hayden
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Trivia
While it's never stated how many gold bars were stolen the number can be calculated. With the price of gold at the stated price of $21.00 a (troy) ounce, and a standard gold bar is 400 troy ounces, this would make a bar worth $84,000 a piece. Twelve such bars would equal right at the stated value of $100,000, and when they find the buried gold, it looks like they found twelve bars, six in each bag. One mistake they made was not realizing how much they weighed, as six bars would weigh just under 165 lb. (avoirdupois) or 74.5 kg. It would have been hard to carry one bag, let alone two.

Goofs
Alice Banion sings the famous cowboy ballad "The Streets of Laredo". This song was apparently written early in the twentieth century (actual authorship is disputed) and was therefore after the show's time period.