As in Ricardo and Joanna (she being the mother of Tatum and Griffin).
Montalban as Jean Lebec sells a violin to pay for taking Moore cross country to an aunt she has never seen.
When Moore tries to buy the violin back from Bill Hammond (portrayed by Cinerella's Prince Charming from the Disney cartoon), he gets fresh with her, so Lebec has to intervene.
Bill Hammond is killed, so his father, Mark Hammond (scene-stealingly played by Grant Withers), a big man in town, wants Lebec to hang.
When the wagon train refuses to 'give up' Lebec, Hammond pulls his weight in town and no one is allowed supplies of any kind.
Finally, Lebec feels he can only give himself up, so the wagon train can continue on.
Now Hammond could run the town all he likes, but in the end, his 'town' would be avoided by nearly every wagon train or railroad that makes its way out west. Who would want to stop there? Oddly enough, the episode is granted a truly miraculous saving grace in Withers whose is drunk and reaches a final decision. All but hilarious when Ward Bond and Robert Horton show up to rescue Lebec.
I was about to decide this episode was pure hokum to place the show's characters as heroes to the big bad bullies, but Withers final bit was refreshing in many an episode of Bonanza or Gunsmoke.
Montalban as Jean Lebec sells a violin to pay for taking Moore cross country to an aunt she has never seen.
When Moore tries to buy the violin back from Bill Hammond (portrayed by Cinerella's Prince Charming from the Disney cartoon), he gets fresh with her, so Lebec has to intervene.
Bill Hammond is killed, so his father, Mark Hammond (scene-stealingly played by Grant Withers), a big man in town, wants Lebec to hang.
When the wagon train refuses to 'give up' Lebec, Hammond pulls his weight in town and no one is allowed supplies of any kind.
Finally, Lebec feels he can only give himself up, so the wagon train can continue on.
Now Hammond could run the town all he likes, but in the end, his 'town' would be avoided by nearly every wagon train or railroad that makes its way out west. Who would want to stop there? Oddly enough, the episode is granted a truly miraculous saving grace in Withers whose is drunk and reaches a final decision. All but hilarious when Ward Bond and Robert Horton show up to rescue Lebec.
I was about to decide this episode was pure hokum to place the show's characters as heroes to the big bad bullies, but Withers final bit was refreshing in many an episode of Bonanza or Gunsmoke.