S3.E12

The Catcher

Name: The Catcher
Genre: Western
Released: 1960-12-04
Duration: 30 min
Rating: 7.9
Cast: John Russell, Peter Brown, Peggie Castle

Episode aired Dec 4, 1960
30m

IMDb RATING

7.9/10

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Western

Catcher, who doesn't use his real name, is a sheep herder by trade and used to people funning him. When a man he knows turns up dead, he is blamed since that man was no longer laughing with ... Read allCatcher, who doesn't use his real name, is a sheep herder by trade and used to people funning him. When a man he knows turns up dead, he is blamed since that man was no longer laughing with him but at him and he had a score to settle.Catcher, who doesn't use his real name, is a sheep herder by trade and used to people funning him. When a man he knows turns up dead, he is blamed since that man was no longer laughing with him but at him and he had a score to settle.

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IMDb RATING

7.9/10

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4Kamandi73

Catcher Likes It Rough

James Coburn guests as the bad guy who gets killed for being a total sleaze. It is amazing to me all the variety of nasty characters that James Coburn played as a guest on several Westerns. He could really take a script and put his own vicious spin on it that made him pop as a villain.

In this case, not only is Coburn a bully to the ranch hands that work under him, but he is particularly mean to a mentally defective character called Catcher, played by Med Flory. He is also trying to seduce the ranch owner's wife, and he pretty much brags about it to his boss, the ranch owner.

Med Flory's role as Catcher disappointing, as his character was written strictly as just a dumb lunk. Catcher seems oblivious to everything. It would have been nice if Med Flory had made his character more sympathetic.

Robert Armstrong plays the ranch owner, and he delivers a good performance as an older man facing the destruction of his happy marriage; and later as someone who has to choose between losing it all anyway, or letting an innocent man die.

Goofs
When they found Lank in the morning one of them moved Lank's head from the chair to the floor. As they walked out Lank's head was back propped up on the chair.