The Brady Bunch (TV Series)

Bobby's Hero (1973)

Burt Mustin: Jethroe Collins

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• Jethroe Collins : I'm glad someone read my book, I thought I was the only one who bought a copy.

  Mike Brady : No, it was a very interesting book, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. No I think you're gonna be able to help us with our son, Bob.

  Jethroe Collins : I've been thinking over what you told me on the telephone. I feel sure I can straighten out that boy of yours.

• Mike Brady : I think you're going to find this gentleman very interesting, did you know that his father actually knew Jesse James?

  Bobby Brady : He did? Wow am I glad to meet you!

  Jethroe Collins : I hear Jesse's a hero of yours.

  Bobby Brady : I wrote a whole composition about him for school.

  Jethroe Collins : I wrote a whole book about Jesse James, only he wasn't a hero to me.

  Bobby Brady : He wasn't?

  Jethroe Collins : Nope, Jesse James killed my father.

• Jethroe Collins : Jesse James killed my father.

  Bobby Brady : He did?

  Jethroe Collins : Shot him in the back, that's how he usually shot them, too cowardly to face them I guess.

  Bobby Brady : I can't believe that, Mr. Collins.

  Carol Brady : He's telling the truth, Bobby.

• Jethroe Collins : Son, you know the legends, I know the facts.

  Mike Brady : Mr. Collins, why don't you tell Bob about how it was with your father?

  Jethroe Collins : Well, I was just a little boy at the time. My father was riding a train to California, Jesse James held it up.

  Bobby Brady : Did they have a shootout?

  Jethroe Collins : Well, wasn't much of a shootout, my father had his face to the wall, his hands in the air, and not wearing a gun.

  Bobby Brady : Then why'd Jesse James shoot him?

  Jethroe Collins : Because that's the kind of man that Jesse James was, a mean dirty killer. My mother used to cry about it in her sleep. When I was old enough to understand, I used to have nightmares about it myself. Awful nightmares, about that train robbery.