The Short, Happy Fatherhood of Reese Bennett

Episode aired Jan 27, 1967
Approved
1h

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

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Comedy Western

Parmalee sends Chad, Joe, and Erik after the AWOL Reese and the Gully gang who is terrorizing the Comanches and civilians. A Comanche boy orphaned by the Gullys, wounds Reese but Reese comes... Read allParmalee sends Chad, Joe, and Erik after the AWOL Reese and the Gully gang who is terrorizing the Comanches and civilians. A Comanche boy orphaned by the Gullys, wounds Reese but Reese comes to adore the boy only to run into Gully's gang.Parmalee sends Chad, Joe, and Erik after the AWOL Reese and the Gully gang who is terrorizing the Comanches and civilians. A Comanche boy orphaned by the Gullys, wounds Reese but Reese comes to adore the boy only to run into Gully's gang.

Director
- Ezra Stone
Writers
- Barbara Merlin
- Leonard Praskins
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.7/10

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Director
- Ezra Stone
Writers
- Barbara Merlin
- Leonard Praskins
Stars

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The Champ

If someone had it mind to remake those old MGM films that starred Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper back in the 60s they should have screened this Laredo story.

When you see Neville Brand and little Rick Natoli in their scenes together you will most definitely hearken back to seeing The Champ and Treasure Island. In fact this could have opened a whole new career for Brand doing those kind of films had they been in vogue. As it is The Champ would be remade with Jon Voight and Rick Schroder. And Treasure Island has had several incarnations.

Natoli is a young Indian kid whose family was wiped out by horse stealing outlaws and he and Brand kind of bond, but only after he's shot the cantankerous Ranger in the old gluteus maximimus with one of his kid size arrows.

Definitely one of the best Laredo shows for their second season.

Trivia
Guest actress Lyn Peters would go on to play Lady Prudence, the mischievous niece of main Batvillains Lord Marmaduke Ffogg and Lady Penelope Peasoup, (played respectively by Rudy Vallee and Glynis Johns), in the Londinium trilogy of the final season of Batman (1966) (The Londinium Larcenies (1967)/The Foggiest Notion (1967)/The Bloody Tower (1967)); also in the guest cast here is Aleta Rotell, who would play one of the trio of young girls assisting Lady Prudence in having deadly fun with Robin.