THE RIFLEMAN – The Silent Knife – 1960
Chuck Connors headlines this 1958 to 1963 western series that ran for 168 episodes. Connors is a world class hand with a Winchester rifle. This of course ends up getting him in no end of trouble. This episode is number 88 of the run.
Chuck Connors is filling in for Sheriff Paul Fix while Fix is out of town on business. A young man, Mark Weston, fresh off the trail, is given a hard time because he never speaks. Especially rough on the lad is town bully, Richard Devon. Weston however is no pushover and drops the older man with a hip toss.
Of course Devon is not amused with being made to look like an idiot. He goes after the boy again and gets the same treatment, eating some dirt. Weston and Chuck Connors' boy, Johnny Crawford, strike up a friendship. It turns out Weston has a knife wound in the neck. He and his family had been captured by an Indian raiding party. Weston had been stabbed in the neck and lost his ability to speak.
While Weston is camping outside of North Fork, the very annoyed Devon pays him a third visit which again ends poorly for Devon. Now a series of events unfold that could end in the death of the boy. Connors steps up and calmer heads soon prevail.
Not exactly a barn-burner of an episode.
Chuck Connors headlines this 1958 to 1963 western series that ran for 168 episodes. Connors is a world class hand with a Winchester rifle. This of course ends up getting him in no end of trouble. This episode is number 88 of the run.
Chuck Connors is filling in for Sheriff Paul Fix while Fix is out of town on business. A young man, Mark Weston, fresh off the trail, is given a hard time because he never speaks. Especially rough on the lad is town bully, Richard Devon. Weston however is no pushover and drops the older man with a hip toss.
Of course Devon is not amused with being made to look like an idiot. He goes after the boy again and gets the same treatment, eating some dirt. Weston and Chuck Connors' boy, Johnny Crawford, strike up a friendship. It turns out Weston has a knife wound in the neck. He and his family had been captured by an Indian raiding party. Weston had been stabbed in the neck and lost his ability to speak.
While Weston is camping outside of North Fork, the very annoyed Devon pays him a third visit which again ends poorly for Devon. Now a series of events unfold that could end in the death of the boy. Connors steps up and calmer heads soon prevail.
Not exactly a barn-burner of an episode.