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06/01/65 Movie: Black Spurs - *Sheriff Nemo 07/19/65 Movie: Town Tamer - **Guy Tavenner 09/24/65 Movie: Marriage on the Rocks - *Mr. Turner 10/19/65 The Fugitive: "Three Cheers for Little Boy Blue" - *Charley 12/16/65 The Donna Reed Show: "Uncle Jeff Needs You" - **Mr. Williams 12/23/65 Death Valley Days: "Devil's Gate" - ***Martin
Role: ***Major
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Plot Summary: Texas, 1885. Quick-drawin' cowboy Santee gets engaged to milliner Anna and over her objections runs off for 10 months to track down and kill baddie "El Pescador" for the bounty. He returns, wearing the outlaw's black spurs, to claim the money and his bride, but finds she has gone off and married Ralph Elkins, sheriff of Lark. Santee turns bitter and becomes a famous bounty-hunter. The law-abiding citizens of Lark are looking forward to having the railroad come through town and make them rich. Santee makes a deal with Kile, who owns the neighboring rowdy town of Kile, to bring whores, gamblers and other necessaries to turn Lark into a "helltown" so that the railroad will choose Kile instead. Sheriff Nemo (Kelley) eavesdrops, and offers to do the job at a bargain rate; he offers his two condemned criminals a chance for escape if they can kill Santee in a staged jailbreak. Santee gets both of them, plus Nemo. Various townspeople with dark pasts start cleaning up their acts, or leaving town, thinking Santee has been paid to come and get them. Santee brings in his saloon girls and gambling pros, and diverts rowdy drovers from Kile to Lark, and they obligingly tear up the town despite efforts of the Sheriff, the preacher, and Anna to get Santee to leave them alone. Against orders, Santee's unsavory colleagues tar and feather Sheriff Elkins; when he goes to visit, he learns that Anna's three-year-old is his own son - he had left her pregnant, townspeople were unwilling to do business with her as a scarlet woman, and Ralph had married her. She doesn't want the child ever to know. Santee calls off his deal, but his business partners Kile and Henderson continue the helltown campaign. Santee calls Henderson out, Henderson sets up an ambush, and with the help of Ralph and the preacher, Santee kills all the nasties. The saloon girls leave, and the town tidies itself up as Santee goes off speculating about becoming a sheriff somewhere. Notes: As Maltin says, "Standard horse opera." This one is
only for the diehards among us, folks! Kelley's character is dead less
than 20 minutes into the show. A pity; he looked quite dashing in his
badge and black shirt... for his few seconds of screen time.
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Plot Summary: Meanwhile, it's railroad payday; one of the partying
workers quarrels with Guy, who shoots him in a fit of pique. Angry railroad
workers storm the saloon and Condor and his men shoot several. The townsmen
form a vigilante committee. Condor puts badges on all his men so they
can shoot the vigilantes at will. Guy has too much to drink and demands
his pay; Condor slaps him around and throws him into the street, where
he spots Susan with Fell and makes unpleasant insinuations about them.
Fell slaps him around and throws him down, whereupon Guy shoots him.
Guy sobers up in jail to find that a mob of railroad men has gathered
in hopes of lynching him. Instead, however, they join forces with the
vigilantes and converge on Condor’s saloon. Condor has cleverly placed
snipers all over town. Rosser holds the mob back and goes in, telling
Condor that though he may only get one shot, it will be enough. Condor
plays his ace, telling Rosser that Parker is Lee Ring, who shot his
wife. Johnny draws on Rosser and wings him, but Rosser shoots down (in
order) Ring, Johnny, and Condor. Johnny comes back up to get a better
shot at Rosser, but Ring, who had started to aim at Rosser, kills Johnny
instead before dropping dead himself. Rosser drags himself outside to
announce that Condor’s dead, and all his snipers give up. Doc fixes
Rosser up and tells him that Akins killed Guy Tavenner in his cell,
and then was shot himself trying to run away. This leaves Susan conveniently
free to help Rosser set up his dream ranch.
Other cast: Jeanne Cagney (Mary), Frank Gruber (Hotel
Clerk)
Notes: A fun one for Kelley
fans - he gets a fair amount of screen time, does a nice job as the
sleazy coward wanting to be more than he is, and has a number of nice
surly lines.
At a 1990 Star
Trek convention, A.C. Lyles told a story about Michael Landon asking
to be Kelley's stunt double for a fight with Dana Andrews, and going
to the trouble of getting permission to do so. That is presumably from
this movie, so that's Michael Landon being thrown around the bar, rather
than Kelley. Kelley told the audience that that was the first time Lyles
had ever had him doubled in a fight. On another movie shortly thereafter
(probably Apache Uprising), the director asked Kelley who was doubling
for him lately and Kelley told him, "Michael Landon."
Dead Again: Shot down (off-screen) in his cell.
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Plot Summary: On their 19th anniversary, Val Edwards decides she wants a divorce from her hard-working, responsible and dull advertising-executive husband Dan on grounds of boredom. Her lawyer recommends a second honeymoon instead of a divorce. They spend the evening with family friend and co-worker Ernie, and Val wonders how things would have been if she'd married him instead of Dan when she had the chance. There are standing family quarrels going on, with their son David lobbying for a Honda, daughter Tracy lobbying to move out and live with her friend Lisa, and Val's mother Jeanie demanding a new tv on pain of bagpipe concerts and insisting that they are living in sin, the Vegas marriage doesn't count. Val and Dan try the second honeymoon trip to Mexico; when Dan gets sick and wants to go home, they quarrel and hotel keeper Miguel Santos sells them an instant divorce. A few minutes later they make up and start planning for their new wedding, which he also sells them. Dan has to go back to meet with Mr. Turner (Kelley) to clinch a business deal and Turner and Ernie insist that Dan go to Detroit to make the presentation. Dan insists that if he goes to Detroit, Ernie will have to go to Mexico and explain to Val why he isn't at his wedding. Ernie goes and ends up married to Val. He buys a divorce package, but Val decides not to sign. Ernie and Dan trade lives, Dan enjoying Ernie's bachelor pad while Ernie takes on Dan's family responsibilities and workload, and Ernie and Val find ways to avoid consummating the marriage. Finally when Dan feels his family has learned to appreciate him, he comes back to Val bearing yellow roses and they go off to get officially remarried. Notes:
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| Series Notes: ABC; 60m; b/w; 1963-67; 120 episodes Dr. Richard Kimble, wrongly convicted of killing his wife, travels the country keeping one step ahead of the police and searching for the real killer (the one-armed man). Regulars:
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| Series Notes: ABC; 30m; b/w; 1958-1966; 275 episodes Sit-com around the family of Donna Stone, her pediatrician husband Alex and their teenage children. Regulars:
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| Series Notes: Syndicated; 30m; b/w & color; 1952-75;
558 episodes Western anthology based on fact and lore of the Death Valley area and largely filmed on location. Ran as a radio show 1930-1945. Hosts: Stanley Andrews (1952-65); Ronald Reagan (1965-66) Cast:
Episode Summary: Notes: Very nice vehicle for Kelley as the good-hearted bad guy.
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