Although when you see a dirty and disheveled Dan Blocker and Michael Landon massacre an entire saloon full of drinkers you might be shocked and with a title like The Gunmen for an episode, you are actually seeing one of the few episodes that every season on Bonanza were reserved for comedy.
That was merely an introduction to tell you the kind of people that Hoss and Little Joe are mistaken for when they ride into a Texas town on their way back to Nevada and the Ponderosa. Folks think they're the notorious Slade Brothers and it turns out that even after sheriff Henry Hull arrests, someone who sent for the Slade Brothers on the Q.T. breaks them out of jail.
But are Hoss and Little Joe out of harm's way? Not hardly because Douglas Spencer the head of one of two feuding clans has hired these guys because they're professional killers and can take out all the men on the opposite side with dispatch. So Blocker and Landon still end up trying to convince people they're not the notorious Slade Brothers.
Funniest scene in the film is with King Donovan who knew the brothers way back when they only had one or two notches on their guns is brought in to identify them. Hoss and Little Joe think this might be their salvation, but he's blasted out of mind and seeing Donovan trying to identify them in his alcoholic stupor was pretty funny.
Ellen Corby is in the episode as well as head of the women in the town who are the ones who finally take matters in their own hands. As you can see this episode has one fine cast of some of the best players around. A really good episode on the comic side.
That was merely an introduction to tell you the kind of people that Hoss and Little Joe are mistaken for when they ride into a Texas town on their way back to Nevada and the Ponderosa. Folks think they're the notorious Slade Brothers and it turns out that even after sheriff Henry Hull arrests, someone who sent for the Slade Brothers on the Q.T. breaks them out of jail.
But are Hoss and Little Joe out of harm's way? Not hardly because Douglas Spencer the head of one of two feuding clans has hired these guys because they're professional killers and can take out all the men on the opposite side with dispatch. So Blocker and Landon still end up trying to convince people they're not the notorious Slade Brothers.
Funniest scene in the film is with King Donovan who knew the brothers way back when they only had one or two notches on their guns is brought in to identify them. Hoss and Little Joe think this might be their salvation, but he's blasted out of mind and seeing Donovan trying to identify them in his alcoholic stupor was pretty funny.
Ellen Corby is in the episode as well as head of the women in the town who are the ones who finally take matters in their own hands. As you can see this episode has one fine cast of some of the best players around. A really good episode on the comic side.
