Let’s take a look at a single episode from this NBC
series that ran its first season in 1957 and its second in 1959.
The first season followed Dion Patrick [Adam Kennedy] an
Irishman news reporter in Gold Rush era San Francisco.
The second season switched protagonists and followed Sherriff
Matthew Wayne [Richard Coogan] in the same setting.
Our episode choice is from the 1959 Coogan season.
The story is brisk, the narrative a bit simplistic,
and Coogan is a bit, well, bland. Serviceable but bland.
The interest here is in the pre-fame guest star, James
Coburn playing Coogan’s country cousin.
Coburn is exuberant and of interest, to me at least
due to my day job, of using the unusual fighting technique of “Ramming.”
It is portrayed for laughs but t ’was indeed a real specialty
of some fighting men.
Coburn and brevity made the time pass, but not much to
really prod further viewing based on this single episode.
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