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    Not *Rawhide Years.* The lynching: He was standing on a wagon, noose around his neck but the rope not tossed over the limb. The team were spooked and started running, the rope trailing behind. Several times the rope snagged on a barrier, and applied pressure on his neck. Thus the noose burns.

     

     

  2. Not Kolchak, but the others are correct, stick.

     

    Mr. Morse, one of those Brits who could melt into an American character, with ease, earned the title "most hated man in America" during the run of *The Fugitive* (1963-67).

     

    Jack Colvin, in the role of Jack McGee, did get his "heavy McGee" episode, wherein he wandered around in camera-front space, doing his 'fearless investigator' shtick, and ever so often Lou Ferrigano would come busting through the landscape in a distance shot. The point being he never got closer than that.

     

    Both Mr. Morse and Mr. Colvin had busy careers apart from their respective series. Mr. Colvin spent most of his career in live theater.

     

    stick's thread.

     

     

  3. Adjacent decades. TV. Two incidents with similar features and different "whodats?" :

     

    1960s: Series with only two regulars all the way through. Couple of other names with asterisks as "occasional". Theme: Pursuit of an escaped convict. One regular on the run, and the other tracking him. While the series lasted, the actor in the support role was often accosted in public by irate fans who thought he should leave the star alone. Little old ladies with their umbrellas, etc. Whodat?

     

    1970s: Similar plot of pursuit, in a series with only three regulars. An investigative reporter tracking leads that seemed to refer to the others. This actor lobbied for and got one episode of the series focused on his character, and his detective work, and the focus of the search seen several times -- but only at a distance. Whodat?

     

     

  4. School-age kids defeat a monster, but it turns out to be temporary. It comes back when they are adults, and they must confront it again. Only one has stayed in their home town. The others must gather from other parts of the world. One of them, learning of the call to return, commits suicide.

  5. *The Apple Dumpling Gang* (1975), a comedy Western with kids and cute sloshing all over the screen. Don Knots and Tim Conway need a ladder in order to break into a bank. They try to steal one from the firehouse. Wordless scene, makes a good tribute to Stan & Ollie. It's a volunteer fire dept, and the only fireman on the site is dead asleep. The ladder they select is too long to get through the path outside, so there a few false starts getting set up to get it right. They have an audience, an adorable little mutt, on the foot of the fireman's bunk, tail awaggin', and watching every move. i saw it only after it got to TV, and I was howling with laughter. Good scene. handled by two guys who had mastered their comedy-timing chops years earlier.

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