Wagon Train

Every time.

Uh, she continued her career into adulthood, appearing in Boris Karloff's Thriller, Wagon Train, and in Star Trek playing Arlene Galloway, the crew member who succumbs to the aging virus in The Deadly Years.

She's the one that unfortunately dies-

Yes

Wa- There, there were more TV Westerns in American television, Tracy, than you can possibly imagine possible.

And there were many of them, including shows like Wagon Train, that would have an episode where characters were stuck in a cave, and it would turn into, like, a blueprint for The Descent, only not as believable, right? You can tell it's a sound stage through the whole thing.

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And there's one episode of Wagon Train where, uh, they end up in a village where no one comes out at night because there are vampire bats in the local caves that have decimated the village.

And, uh, there's a Polish actor, Frank de Kova, playing the old sage Indian, because that was typical at that time on Westerns, and he leads them into the cave of vampire bats.

So in a way, Eric, I agree with you.

By the early 1960s, the Hollywood movie offers had completely dried up.

Linda found herself working in dinner theater, doing guest spots on television shows like Wagon Train and 77 Sunset Strip, and traveling to Europe to make low-budget Italian films.

Yet those who worked with her during these difficult years remembered her extraordinary kindness.

Linda never acted like a washed-up diva.

So long, in fact, that he is in an old TV show that is very, very fun for him to be in, having been in Star Trek.

Now, famously, when Gene Roddenberry was pitching Star Trek, he pitched it as Wagon Train to the Stars, which was an incredibly popular Western TV show.

This fucker was in Wagon Train!

Wow.

it's like one of his earliest credits he was in wagon train he's in the show that inspired star trek in the in the first place

speaking of murder she wrote um i as i always do went on the wikipedia page for this episode after i saw it and it contained what i think might be the funniest line on all of wikipedia um which is the and it says uh I think it was the director was describing it and said yeah it's basically the Manchurian candidate but we've got Geordi is the this character and the other person is the this character and then it says and a Klingon in the Angela Lansbury role and I think a Klingon in the Angela Lansbury role it's so evocative

Oh, yeah.

And I did watch some of the black and white reruns.

So I'm familiar with shows like Wagon Train and, you know, of course, you know, the Borax Hour.

So that's not totally unfamiliar.

But, you know, I never saw myself as a wagon master.

You see, your seniority demands it.

Also...

Was there a better metaphor for America than wagon train? What a magnificent sponsorship that was for how America was remaking itself.

The push west, the many concerns of the different families following along.

He starred in cult status TV series called Then Came Bronson.

He had guest roles on The Real McCoys, Wagon Train.

He also acted for Quentin Tarantino in the Kill Bill films, and he was also in Grindhouse, From Dusk Till Dawn 2, and The Savage Bees.

His blasphemy movie, Red State, a dark thriller following a fanatical homophobic extremist church led by a charismatic preacher whose compound faces, whose compound faces a violent, uh, siege by federal agents.

This was directed by Allan H.

Miner, who had tried a small handful of feature directing jobs before going to television for the majority of his career in series such as this one and future classics like Dr. Kildare, Perry Mason, The Twilight Zone, and Wagon Train.

It was co-written by John T. Kelly, who also mainly stuck to writing for television, with a couple of exceptions being the screenplay for the feature film A Rage to Live and some additional work on Planet of the Apes.

So Scott, what are some of your impressions of-