S1.E5

The Girl in Boxcar #3

Name: The Girl in Boxcar #3
Genre: Western
Released: 1971-02-11
Duration: 50 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Pete Duel, Ben Murphy, John Larch

Episode aired Feb 11, 1971
50m

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

117

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Western

Decoys, misdirections and deceptions are the order of the day as Hannibal and the Kid get a taste of the other side of the robbery business when they are hired to transport $50,000. To add t... Read allDecoys, misdirections and deceptions are the order of the day as Hannibal and the Kid get a taste of the other side of the robbery business when they are hired to transport $50,000. To add to the confusion, throw in a very naive, idealistic young woman as a love interest and poss... Read allDecoys, misdirections and deceptions are the order of the day as Hannibal and the Kid get a taste of the other side of the robbery business when they are hired to transport $50,000. To add to the confusion, throw in a very naive, idealistic young woman as a love interest and possible thief.

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IMDb RATING

7.6/10

117

YOUR RATING

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6steffros

deja vu - Alias The Virginian

This episode is a a thinly reworked copy an episode of The Virginian called Run Away Home from 1963 staring Jeanine Riley and James Drury. Some of the dialogue is a direct duplicate. Both episodes have the same writers Howard Browne (teleplay) and Gene Roddenberry (story). Even the names of the secondary characters (the older couple) are only slightly changed John and Minerva Lewis to John and Minerva Lambert.

Jeanine and James do it better. Both have more charm and better chemistry than Ben Murphy and Heather Menzies.

8fjalexiii

More Twists & Turns than the Mississippi River ~

To begin with - neither my wife nor I have seen any episode of this show since it originally aired over 40 years ago when we were teenagers. We both loved it, and bought the complete series last week on DVD.

I just finished watching this episode, and for viewers who also enjoy Perry Mason - this one's not hard to figure out by the 36-minute mark. The fun is in getting there. Our heroes are hired to bring some - well...a LOT of - money from one town to another, for the only consideration of furthering their cause with the territorial governor about their amnesty. They're pursued by a determined gang of disgruntled creditors who lost their monies (the monies the boys agreed to transport) when the local bank failed. Take it from there.

Throw in a 17-year-old girl riding the rails who can tell a yarn as well as Hannibal Heyes, and a minor appearance from Alan Hale (Gilligan's Island's "Skipper") and this makes for an entertaining hour.

As Jim Hutton's Ellery Queen would say - "Think you got it figured out, yet? - let's find out!"

Trivia
Gene Roddenberry's story credit probably comes from his writing the episode of The Virginian (1962) that this show is adapted from. Roy Huggins produced both shows and (especially during the first season of "ASJ" when the scripts were written in a frantic midseason rush) grabbed stories from his earlier series and handed them off to teleplay writers (he almost always heavily revised the draft scripts).