"Bonanza" A Ride in the Sun (TV Episode 1969) Poster

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(1969)

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8/10
Desert Pursuit
bkoganbing7 November 2019
The Cartwright family is taken in good and proper by a trio of con artists who make like they are involved in a big deal, but just want to use Ben Cartwright to get the bank open after hours to rob it. Lorne Greene is shot for his troubles and the bank president killed.

The trio consist of brother and sister Robert Hogan and Marj Dusay a pair of formerly rich people who want to gain back money enough to live as they used to. The third is outlaw Anthony Zerbe who's a real mean piece of work with designs on Dusay.

The last half of the story is Michael Landon pursuing them across the desert. It's a battle for survival for all four.

One of the better of the later Bonanza stories.
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9/10
A near brilliant ep-- helped by Robert Hogan and beauty Marge Dusay
belanger754 January 2020
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About the same time she played Kara in 'Spock's Brain' on Star Trek, Dusay did this fine ep of Bonanza. She plays a charming but very deadly lady crook who even shoots Ben right in the back. Hogan plays her brother and partner in murderous crime.The two are assisted by Anthony Zerbe as an even more hardened criminal-type. An intriguing scene has Zerbe's character cutting into a telegraph wire to put up a fake but still legitimate-looking telegram message as part of scheme to lure Ben to the bank. Back to Dusay. Her hair does not look right on the beginning but she soon gets a more rugged look appropriate to her very great beauty.
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