Gunsmoke the scavengers
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The Sprague’s come out of the marshal’s office and joins the buggy of young Edda (actress Annette O’Toole) and leaves town while Osgood Pickett (actor Harry Morgan) talks to the old Beecher at the livery stable and later swears to get rid of the witnesses in order to avoid the trial of his son Ira. At the train station of Dodge, two Pickett riders stop near Nathan Burke who informs them that their relative Ira is in jail. A young man named Jared Sprague (actor Barry Brown) beats Pickett with his lunch box and threatens him with a handgun and declares he makes a citizen arrest and will bring him to Dodge City while his father Arnie (actor Tim O’Connor) confiscates Pickett’s gun. Stanford Jolley) accuses him of murder and receives a slap. The mature man grabs Pickett who fires his handgun and makes a statement when an old man named Beecher (actor I. Three other passengers seem concerned by this unexpected event. Stanford Jolley, Ray Young, Herb Vigran, Robert SwanĪboard a train, a mature Texan (actor Robert Swan) accuses laid-back passenger Ira Pickett (actor Dack Rambo) of his brother’s killing. Guests: Harry Morgan, Tim O’Connor, Barry Brown, June Dayton, Annette O’Toole, Dack Rambo, I. Rawhide actor Steve Raines returns from the season 15 “Celia” but his part is extremely brief.Īctor Slim Pickens returns from the season 11 “Sweet Billy, Singer of Songs”.Īctors James Almanzar (“Coreyville”), Roy Jenson (“The Badge”), Eddie Little Sky (“The Innocent”) and Link Wyler (“The War Priest”) return from season 15.Īctor Victor Izay returns from this season 16 “Luke”. The cast (Slim Pickens, Roy Jenson, Link Wyler) of trapper characters is good and reminds the wild cowboys from the season 14 “The Good Samaritans”. Writer Jim Byrnes compares the social situation of two minorities: the Indians and the black people. It’s a modest Film Noir and a miserabilist family drama about a poor and guilty man acting as a renegade Indian hence the episode title “The Scavengers” which leads to aftermaths. At four o’clock, the trappers release Biggs who fires at them when Newly steps into … Later on, Biggs goes fetch Doc to examine his pregnant wife when the three trappers force him to drink at the cheap Bull’s Head saloon in order to confess the truth and reminds him the hanging hour of the renegades. Biggs is prepared to leave town but the trappers pays him $100 to identify the renegades and get the bounty. Meanwhile Dillon and Festus and the posse go searching the murderous Indians. The next morning, they brings them back at Dodge City. That night, three trappers catch the Indian renegades and finds the dead man’s watch. Biggs goes home and finds out his wife Rachel (actress Cicely Tyson) and his little kid. Sam gives him a pair of boots filled with money and Dillon questions him about the massacre. A freight wagon brings Biggs at Dodge City where Doc takes care of him.
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Biggs decides to play dead and inserts an arrow into his belly. One desperate man named Piney Biggs (actor Yaphet Kotto) appears in the middle of a convoy of settlers slaughtered by Indians to find some food and water and even steals a gold watch from a dead man when a new group of Indians pops up to the place to rob the people. Guests: Yaphet Kotto, Cicely Tyson, Slim Pickens, Roy Jenson, Link Wyler, Victor Holchak, James Almanzar, Eddie Little Sky, Victor Izay, Jerelyn Fields, Hank Wise, Steve Raines