Hoss suffers a life-threatening injury. Only surgery by a doctor in jail for murder can save him.Hoss suffers a life-threatening injury. Only surgery by a doctor in jail for murder can save him.Hoss suffers a life-threatening injury. Only surgery by a doctor in jail for murder can save him.
DeForest Kelley
- Dr. Michael Jons
- (as De Forest Kelley)
Bill Clark
- Stephens
- (uncredited)
Michael Jeffers
- Hanging Spectator
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe actors who played both of the starship Enterprise's doctors in the original series, Star Trek (1966), guest star together in this episode; John Hoyt played Dr. Phillip Boyce in the series' one hour pilot episode and was later replaced by DeForest Kelley who played the more familiar Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy throughout the remainder of the series and in subsequent movies.
- Quotes
Dr. Michael Jons: Why tell me this?
Ben Cartwright: You're a doctor.
Dr. Michael Jons: Not a doctor - a condemned murderer!
[prescient of Kelley's oft-repeated line in Star Trek episodes]
Featured review
Justice, truth and mercy
Dan Blocker gets seriously injured while he and Lorne Greene are away on a trip.
But when Greene seeks the town doctor he finds DeForest Kelley in jail awaiting
a date on the scaffold.
Kelley is charged with the murder of the local city editor of the paper. The two have history from way back in Pennsylvania where the deceased also had some history with Kelley's wife Lizabeth Hush.
Very much standing in the way of justice, truth, and mercy is the judge who really has it in for Kelley is Judge John Hoyt.
We learn all in the end, but Ben Cartwright's real concern is saving his son.
Fine performances from the guest cast in this episode.
Kelley is charged with the murder of the local city editor of the paper. The two have history from way back in Pennsylvania where the deceased also had some history with Kelley's wife Lizabeth Hush.
Very much standing in the way of justice, truth, and mercy is the judge who really has it in for Kelley is Judge John Hoyt.
We learn all in the end, but Ben Cartwright's real concern is saving his son.
Fine performances from the guest cast in this episode.
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