westpoint64
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I won't go back and repeat the plot or storyline of this episode. What I want to mention is something I found off-putting.
Firstly, let me say that in most cases, actress Monica Lewis did an above average job of being whatever she needed to be in a TV show on shows like Emergency!, Shotgun Slade, The Virginian, and Peter Gunn.
I had the chance to communicate with her on the computer, myself, and she came across as a humble, nice lady. I was on a Monica Lewis fan site on Facebook and I mentioned a couple of her roles and she stated that she worked so often that she couldn't remember a lot of roles she had but appreciated what I had to say.
So I say this without malice and not wanting to put her work down but I wish she had done a better job of researching her character's Southern United States accent. I think the "accent" (or "ack-sayant" as her character Clovis would have pronounced it) comes across as artificial and not at all like Southerners (or Westerners who migrated from the Old South) might talk. I wish she had left it off altogether and used the same type of voice she used as Monica on Shotgun Slade.
Firstly, let me say that in most cases, actress Monica Lewis did an above average job of being whatever she needed to be in a TV show on shows like Emergency!, Shotgun Slade, The Virginian, and Peter Gunn.
I had the chance to communicate with her on the computer, myself, and she came across as a humble, nice lady. I was on a Monica Lewis fan site on Facebook and I mentioned a couple of her roles and she stated that she worked so often that she couldn't remember a lot of roles she had but appreciated what I had to say.
So I say this without malice and not wanting to put her work down but I wish she had done a better job of researching her character's Southern United States accent. I think the "accent" (or "ack-sayant" as her character Clovis would have pronounced it) comes across as artificial and not at all like Southerners (or Westerners who migrated from the Old South) might talk. I wish she had left it off altogether and used the same type of voice she used as Monica on Shotgun Slade.
The shows I remember seeing were actually decent entertainment but it always seemed to me like the storylines were a bit rushed...like they were trying to pack too much in an episode.
And forgive my saying so but with those looks, Dan Shay came across a little like a male Pepper Anderson (Police Woman) It did look like Cassidy made an effort to turn in a believable performance. I read an interview he did at the time the show came out on TV Mirror where he said that he respected the Dan Shay character he was playing because he was "saving people's (rear ends)".
I think the main problem I had was in forgetting the Keith Partridge character and imagining David as a policeman. Let's face it: it's hard to be gritty when you're pretty, and David looked more natural holding a Fender Stratocaster guitar than a Smith and Wesson Model 10 revolver.
And forgive my saying so but with those looks, Dan Shay came across a little like a male Pepper Anderson (Police Woman) It did look like Cassidy made an effort to turn in a believable performance. I read an interview he did at the time the show came out on TV Mirror where he said that he respected the Dan Shay character he was playing because he was "saving people's (rear ends)".
I think the main problem I had was in forgetting the Keith Partridge character and imagining David as a policeman. Let's face it: it's hard to be gritty when you're pretty, and David looked more natural holding a Fender Stratocaster guitar than a Smith and Wesson Model 10 revolver.
Maybe it's me, but I always found Season Five to be about the weakest season of The Rifleman. Shows like Incident at Line Shack Six bear this out.
There's just no real tension in this one. How many times has the innocent Man being put on trial thing gone on in a Western?
Ok. John Anderson never turned in a bad performance in any show I've ever seen him in all the way to Matlock in the 1980s. He really carries this episode but he's carrying it on his own. What a bore...does anyone doubt how this is going to turn out?
The "cowboy who becomes counsel for the defense" has been done before in Westerns. Connors fans who have seen him in Arrest and Trial as lawyer John Egan will probably see something familiar in McCain here.
Let's face it, the whole episode looks like bored actors going through the motions. Patricia Blair, Johnny Crawford, and Paul Fix are on hand but that's about it, and Johnny's lines fit a little boy more than an older teenager.
It's shows like this that make me glad that Chuck Connors wouldn't agree to a Season Six in color. The Rifleman was finished before it ever finished. Incident at Line Shack Six proves why.
There's just no real tension in this one. How many times has the innocent Man being put on trial thing gone on in a Western?
Ok. John Anderson never turned in a bad performance in any show I've ever seen him in all the way to Matlock in the 1980s. He really carries this episode but he's carrying it on his own. What a bore...does anyone doubt how this is going to turn out?
The "cowboy who becomes counsel for the defense" has been done before in Westerns. Connors fans who have seen him in Arrest and Trial as lawyer John Egan will probably see something familiar in McCain here.
Let's face it, the whole episode looks like bored actors going through the motions. Patricia Blair, Johnny Crawford, and Paul Fix are on hand but that's about it, and Johnny's lines fit a little boy more than an older teenager.
It's shows like this that make me glad that Chuck Connors wouldn't agree to a Season Six in color. The Rifleman was finished before it ever finished. Incident at Line Shack Six proves why.