There's trouble for Doc Adams, and perhaps for Dodge, when a new doctor and his wife arrive in town and the wife resorts to spreading a nasty rumor about Doc to get the new practice started.There's trouble for Doc Adams, and perhaps for Dodge, when a new doctor and his wife arrive in town and the wife resorts to spreading a nasty rumor about Doc to get the new practice started.There's trouble for Doc Adams, and perhaps for Dodge, when a new doctor and his wife arrive in town and the wife resorts to spreading a nasty rumor about Doc to get the new practice started.
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- George Eckstein
- Norman MacDonnell(uncredited)
- John Meston(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe crocheted shawl that Phyllis Love wore is identical to the one worn by Gigi Perreau in Chicken (1964).
- Quotes
Jennifer May: There's nothing wrong with making money.
Doc: No. No, certainly not. But if that's all you had in mind, you certainly came to the wrong place. Now I like Dodge, most of the time. I like the people in it - but not because I'm getting rich off of 'em.
Jennifer May: Before we came here you were the only doctor here. You must've been making plenty of money.
Doc: Hm. I better set you straight about that. Now I wouldn't expect you'd understand because you haven't been out o' Dodge. You haven't seen the shacks, the farmers breakin' their backs tryin' to make things grow out of this dust and rock. You have any idea what my usual fee is? A bunch of carrots, or a dozen eggs maybe, or If I'm lucky, a couple o' chickens. But most of the time it's a... a warm, friendly handshake and a "Sorry, Doc, but we'll pay you soon as we can."
[Jennifer stares at the floor]
Doc: I just thought o' somethin', I gotta make a couple of calls right near town. I'd like you to ride with me.
Jennifer May: But my husband...
Doc: It won't take very long. And I think it's kind of important that you see what I mean.
There are MANY unexpected but welcome elements to the story:
1.) Doc Adams APPRECIATES the competition from the new Doc.
2.) Doc does everything he can to help make the new doc feel welcome.
3.) The new doctor (James Broderick) genuinely likes Doc and appreciates his assistance.
4.) It's the doc's wife Jenny (Phyllis Love) who---sorry, ladies---is an ambitious, dishonest, shrewish and petulant woman who initiates the problems, the last of which BACKFIRES on her.
5.) Except for this last incident, the problems created by Jenny really never amount to much. But Doc Adams rises above it all, and disabuses Jenny of her hope that there's money to be made as a doctor in Dodge City...then actually invites her to accompany him on his local calls so she can see for herself the squalor and poverty in which most of his patients live.
6.) Doc's relationship to his patients in Dodge is very realistic..they are difficult to please, opinionated, and stubborn; it's not all the rosy sort of attitude you'd expect from a standard TV show.
7.) The entire sequence of events at the Boake home (and its aftermath in town) is gritty, intense, and entirely believable. Very dramatic and imaginative writing.
Milburn Stone shines in every one of his big scenes...of which there are many. The TOTAL ACTOR....truthful and convincing in every word, gesture, and expression.
Even the "comic relief" scenes with Festus are expertly integrated into the script...they are hilarious, but TRUTHFUL..like real people would speak to one another. Eg: during a Long Branch discussion on: Why the Haggens All Live So Long.... DOC: "It's because they're too DUMB to know they're dead, that's why."
I watched the episode twice in a row just to see Milburn Stone do his thing. He was the best. LR.
- lrrap
- Apr 13, 2021
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- Stage 3, CBS Studio Center - 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA(Dodge City Western Street)
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- Runtime1 hour
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3