One reason to watch this one is Floyd Patterson. The former heavyweight champ was not a great fighter, but he was very respectable one. His acting is the same way and is worth looking at here. Floyd was a gentleman who at the end of his career got over shadowed by Cassius Clay.
The plot is about homesteaders being terrorized by a sort of tank unit mocked up to look like a fire breathing dragon. The unit is something West comes in and has trouble trying to tame it. Brown organizes the homesteaders and they all look to West to help with the threat.
At first, there is failure facing it down. Then Artie comes up with something West plants into the dragons exhaust pipe to even up the odds. One thing not mentioned enough about this series is the diversity of the guest casts. Back in the 1960's, right after the hallmark civil rights bill, this series led the way along with Star Trek showing baby boomers that everyone has the same human face.
While this episode is a notch below the imagination the series showed the first 3 seasons, it is tough to follow your great stuff with great stuff all the time. There are signs here that CBS final season was starting to cut back the budget on effects here because the Politcally Correct people were belly aching about the violence in this series, even though it was tamer than quite a few 1950's series. After this was canceled on CBS, then they went after the Country Broadcast Systems great sitcoms like The Beverly Hillbillies. These protests were foolish and got rid of some great television shows.
The main thing is that even with lackluster material, the cast still makes it work.
The plot is about homesteaders being terrorized by a sort of tank unit mocked up to look like a fire breathing dragon. The unit is something West comes in and has trouble trying to tame it. Brown organizes the homesteaders and they all look to West to help with the threat.
At first, there is failure facing it down. Then Artie comes up with something West plants into the dragons exhaust pipe to even up the odds. One thing not mentioned enough about this series is the diversity of the guest casts. Back in the 1960's, right after the hallmark civil rights bill, this series led the way along with Star Trek showing baby boomers that everyone has the same human face.
While this episode is a notch below the imagination the series showed the first 3 seasons, it is tough to follow your great stuff with great stuff all the time. There are signs here that CBS final season was starting to cut back the budget on effects here because the Politcally Correct people were belly aching about the violence in this series, even though it was tamer than quite a few 1950's series. After this was canceled on CBS, then they went after the Country Broadcast Systems great sitcoms like The Beverly Hillbillies. These protests were foolish and got rid of some great television shows.
The main thing is that even with lackluster material, the cast still makes it work.
