The Deadliest Kid in the West

Reese (Neville Brand), Chad (Peter Brown), and Joe (William Smith) are to bring in wounded bank robber Jack Kelly (as Lance Mabry), but find it difficult after meeting his perky pigtailed daughter, Gina Gillespie (as Kim "Missy" Mabry). This is the obligatory "outlaw with a cute kid" episode (and, it was Easter time, after all). Unfortunately, it is a noticeably sloppy production. Kids do help with characterization, and the Rangers react accordingly. The script experiments with an out of the blue "point-of-view" flashback, with Capt. Parmalee (Philip Carey) speculating about how events unfolded. At least, each member of the "Laredo" cast is utilized.

*** The Deadliest Kid in the West (3/31/66) Leon Benson ~ Neville Brand, Peter Brown, William Smith

Other than the four regulars, only guest cast members Jack Kelly playing an outlaw on the run and his daughter Gina Gillespie are the only members of the cast in this episode. Most of the action takes place within Kelly's home where he's wounded.

The Rangers are after him, but so is the gang he ran with because he absconded with the loot after overhearing they were going to do him out of his share presuming he died. He wanted it to go to Gina Gillespie.

Gillespie is one spitfire juvenile who can take care of herself. The three cast members with Kelly and Gillespie are besieged in the house the Morgan gang trying to take them any way they can.

Even in a life or death situation the same clowning these Rangers always do is present here. Wouldn't know a Laredo episode without it.