Episode Summary:
Not Viewed. From TV Guide, reported on Classic TV Archive:

"Cap'n John tries to help a disillusioned college boy (Harry Carey Jr.) who just learned that his father is a notorious criminal."

Teleplay by Douglas Morrow
Directed by Ted Post.

Sources: Brooks & Marsh; Classic TV Archive

Episode Summary:

Episode Summary:
Iris Millar is in love with and engaged to Dr. Mike Wells (Kelley), but her longing for wealth and society lead her to consider another marriage proposal from Modena (who is used to getting what he wants, and notes that most of them belonged to somebody else first). Iris quarrels with her younger sister Midge, who is infatuated with Mike and shocked by Iris's disloyalty. While Iris is off with Modena, Mike waits with Midge to share his big news, an assistantship which means enough of a pay raise for them to get married. Iris is underwhelmed at the prospect of years of struggle. Next day, Michael Anthony shows up with the million-dollar check and ecstatic Iris rushes to accept Mike's proposal, get a new apartment complete with a lab for Mike, and plan for Mike to become a successful doctor to all the "right" patients. Mike responds [can you guess?] "I'm a doctor, not a politician!" The night of their high-society engagement party, Mike has just completed surgery on a patient; when the hospital calls him at the party, Iris says he's not there. The hospital calls Midge, who knows he is at the party, and storms in. When Iris tells a bewildered Mike that she lied to the hospital, Mike calls off the engagement, stating, "You'll always think my patients call at the wrong time." As she wails that it's all for nothing without him, he stalks off with, "Frankly, I don't care." [When was Gone With the Wind?]

For Trekkers:
Mike tells Iris, "Im a doctor, not a politician."

Sources:viewing; Brooks & Marsh; Guyer 1993

Plot Summary: Not viewed. From NYT review, 11/5/55
"...a rather extensive story of a New York lawyer’s return to the southern town where he was reared [...] the movie version of it [...] is concerned with only the two main complications met by the gentleman in his old home town. The first is the curious resistance he encounters when he tries to investigate a mystery involving the diversion of funds from the royalties of an aging author who lives in the town. And the second is his affecting reunion with an old girl friend who is now richly wed to the community’s most successful upstart but is still carrying the torch for him. [...] It is rather a relief when Miss Wynter decides that she would rather continue to live in her old family mansion with her crude husband than have Mr. Egan. Her decision is logical. Others participating in this fable of southern subterfuge are Cameron Mitchell as the whisky-drinking upstart, Sidney Blackmer as the author (made to look like Ernest Hemingway, not William Faulkner) and Dorothy Patrick Davis as Mr. Egan’s dull wife. There are some good genuine southern scenes, however, in color and CinemaScope, most of them made at Brunswick, Ga.”

Sources: Internet Movie Database; NYT Review 11/5/55; Jensen

Episode Summary:
Ike Clanton confers with his buddies on the streets of Tombstone; he's carrying a winchester and a six-shooter despite the law against arms in town. Ike tells the reporter that, yes, indeed, he intends to force the Earps into a fight because they've been blaming all kinds of trouble on him and his men, and trying to take over the territory. Wyatt Earp, annoyed at missing his morning bath when he learns that Clanton is running around town with firearms, tells the reporter that it's really his political opponent Sheriff Behan's job to disarm the cowboys, but that if Behan won't do it, he will. Meanwhile, over at the Oriental Saloon, citizens come to blows over whether Earp is trigger-happy, and whether he double-crossed Ike in a plan to capture a friend of Clanton's. Wyatt sends for his brothers and Holliday. Virgil accosts Ike in the street and beats him up, saying Ike came at him with the Winchester. The Earps and Holliday take Ike to the courthouse where he's fined $25 for possession of firearms. Ike continues to demand a fair fight, ranting that all he wants is "just four feet o' ground" to fight on. The Clanton bunch gather at the gun shop and head down the street. The Earps commence their march, four abreast, and catch up. Behan, who has been talking with the Clantons, comes to argue with Wyatt, then stomps off as the Earps confront the Clanton gang. Suddenly, everybody fires [from about 10 feet apart; hard to believe how many they missed at that range!]. Ike runs out of ammunition and runs off to hide in a saloon; most of the rest of his group are killed. Behan arrests the Earps. In the wrap, Cronkite reports that the Earps were acquitted and the deaths ruled justifiable homicide, though Behan, Ike and Billy Claybourn testified that Behan tried to get Earp to back off and that the Earps refused -- and that they fired first.

Notes:
A landmark role for Kelley, and he does a convincing job of it though he's clearly having a good time at it. Kelley recounted the impact this job had on his life at a UK Trek convention in 1986:
        "I'd been playing psycho-neurotics and the young drunk, the ne'er-do-wells and that sort of thing, and floating along through pictures. And I had an opportunity to work in a series that was being filmed in California called You Are There. [...] It was a documentary type of thing and they decided to do Gunfight at OK Corral. And I had been very close to this director as a young man, we grew up together, and he said, "De, I'm going to put you in something entirely different. I'm going to give you a real mean heavy.” And he gave me the part of Ike Clanton in this thing and I put a handlebar moustache on and chewed tobacco and spit and just became a... as a lady called me, a bad-ass dude, not thinking anything about it. But when that played and studios began to see it, they began to call me for other heavies. And, as a result, I fell into that heavy category and I was in it... oh, for at least nine years I played nothing but bad guys."

For Trekkers:
Barry Atwater (Doc Holliday) played Surak in "The Savage Curtain."
The first of Kelley's three trips to the OK Corral - the third, of course, was in the Star Trek episode, "Spectre of the Gun." Kelley liked to say that he was now "anxiously waiting to do it as a musical."

 

Sources: viewing; Gianakos; Brooks & Marsh

Cast: Cara Williams; DeForest Kelley; Melinda Plowman

Episode Summary: ?

Sources: Gianakos; e-p Partners TV website; Jensen

Episode Summary:
The U.S. economy is floundering, with land idle due to lack of markets for the crops that can be grown and low manufacturing. The cotton crop is unacceptable because of seeds. The slave trade is falling off. On Widow Greene's Mulberry Grove plantation in Savannah, tutor Phineas Miller has invested in his friend Eli Whitney's cotton-seeding engine, which can seed a hundred pounds of cotton a day, where a slave can produce one pound a day. Whitney has applied for a patent, and a number of bigwigs show up to inquire about it - including Major Bremen (Kelley). The reporter is granted a demo by former nail-manufacturer Whitney, then we switch to interview Thomas Jefferson about the patent process. Back at Mulberry Grove, someone has broken in to Whitney's workshop, worked the machine, and stolen the plans. Soon, cotton-seeding engines are popping up all over, with new improvements. In the wrap, Cronkite relates that Phineas and Whitney spent years embroiled in legal battles over the patent, Phineas dying in debt in his 30's and Whitney going into arms manufacture. A year after invention of the gin, exports had jumped a million-fold, making slavery once more profitable.

Notes
Kelley has very little to do in this one but look decorative in uniform and show off Southern manners.

Sources: viewing, Gianakos; Brooks & Marsh

Episode Summary:
Patillo Higgins has run out of money and lost his share of the oil exploration company he formed to Captain Lucas, who has obtained Eastern backers. Higgins is adamant, however, that oil will be found at Spindletop, under a salt dome, about 1,000 feet down -- despite the firm denials of the state geologist, who actively discouraged investment in the scheme on the grounds that there couldn't be an oil under the plains for lack of rock. The reporter interviews the Hammill brothers, who have contracted the drilling, at their work, when farmer Charlie Ingalls arrives to complain that the noise is keeping his chickens from laying. At the drill, everything starts shaking and rumbling, and oil comes gushing up as the drillers run frantically looking for Lucas, because they don't know how to cap a well. There is general rejoicing in the town, now flooded with sightseers, exept for Farmer Ingalls, who is happy to take $3,000 for his farm, now ruined by the oil flooding out at 100,000 barrels a day. In the wrap, Cronkite notes that this was a turning point for the U.S. economy, as it took over the lead in oil production from Russia.

Notes:
Kelley has a couple of scenes and several lines, but not a lot of acting to do but turn the drill and then jump around spattered with oil celebrating the strike.

Sources: viewing; Gianakos; Brooks & Marsh

Episode Summary:
Not Viewed. From TV Guide, reported on Classic TV Archive:

"Cap'n John and his son Jim try to crack a waterfront racket involving phony cargoes."

[Episode title is uncertain; was not shown in the TV Guide, but this is an educated guess from Classic TV Archive]

Sources: Brooks & Marsh; Classic TV Archive