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4x14 "The Last Gunfighter" Leap Date: November 28, 1957 Episode
Adopted by: Carol <aka> C_Dean n C_Al
Synopsis: Welcome to the wild, wild west! Well, maybe not so wild as Sam leaps into an old gunfighter who is spending his retirement days acting out scenes from his youth when he supposedly cleaned up the town. But when his ex-partner returns to town claiming that he was the real hero, Sam has to find a way to keep from going to a showdown and keeping the respect of his grandson and daughter.
TV Guide Synopsis
Production # : 67318
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Guide Synopsis:
Promo - Behind the Scenes:
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As Sam leaps in he is holding a gun, standing in the middle of a dirt street. He looks up as he pulls the trigger and the guy on the roof falls off onto a wagon and the horses carry him away. He is left standing there with his mouth wide-open "OH BOY" Sam is there to keep the family together and to keep Stevie from running away and going to jail. Al pops in and shows Sam a few pointers on how to handle a gun. He says that standing any more than fifteen to twenty feet apart was normal for gunfighters. Anything further than that was just Hollywood! Pat Knight accuses Tyler Means of making up or stretching the truth about a gunfight that cleaned up the town. He plans to settle the dispute tomorrow, "at high noon", with one last gunfight. The town sheriff, Russ doesn’t seem to do too much sheriffing. He just seems to be waiting for something to happen. He says, "Centennial play … kinda curious to see where this is goin’." When Pat Knight shows up and pulls a gun on Sam. Lucy is the typical mother, trying to raise her son to be somebody. But times are hard and will get a lot harder if Sam doesn’t clinch the TV deal and help Stevie realize that the barrel of a gun doesn’t settle anything. Stevie tells Sam about himself. He calls him a coward and tries to fix the situation himself. Personal Review by Carol <aka> C_Dean n C_Al: I haven’t seen this episode too many times. But every time I watch it I like it better and better. I especially like the beginning where the crowd is standing and watching Sam shoot the guy on the roof. All the kids are dressed for the time period. Really cool, it brings back memories. I can remember going to some ghost town and watching a show something like this. Sam and Al are all decked out in their cowboy duds too.
"Shoot Out - The Last Gunfighter" a suite by Velton Ray Bunch appears as track #9 on the official soundtrack.
Project
Trivia: The handlink is the ‘Gummy Bear’. Multi-colored little squares that flash, beep and squawk. Ziggy is referred to as male in this episode.
Sam Trivia:
Al Trivia: Al is a self-taught gunslinger. He learned from a stripper named Fifi Boom-Boom LaRue.
Al’s
Outfits: 2) White shirt w/black cactus design, Red pants, Camel colored long coat, black scarf tie, cream hat w/black band, and a Black leather gun belt w/ one-pistol & black shoes or boots.
Al’s Women:
Miscellaneous
Trivia: Al smoked 3 cigars. When Lucy comes out of the saloon to see where Sam went, after Al called him outside, she calls him ‘Steve’.
Regular
Cast:
Guest Cast:
John Anderson as Pat Knight:
A tall, sinewy, austere-looking character actor with silver hair,
rugged features and a distinctive voice, John Robert Anderson appeared
in hundreds of films and television episodes. Immensely versatile, he
was at his best submerging himself in the role of historical figures
(he impersonated Abraham Lincoln three times and twice baseball
commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, men whom he strongly
resembled). He was a familiar presence in westerns and science-fiction
serials, usually as upstanding, dignified and generally benign citizens
(a rare exception was his Ebonite interrogator in The Outer Limits
(1963) episode "Nightmare"). He had a high opinion of Rod Serling and
was proud to be featured in four episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959),
most memorably as the tuxedo-clad angel Gabriel in "A Passage for
Trumpet" (doing for Jack Klugman what Henry Travers did for James
Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)). Known to other youths as
'J.R.', Anderson had a happy childhood, growing up first on a small
farm near Clayton, Illinois, and then in the mid-sized town of Quincy
where his mother operated a cigar stand. A rangy, outdoorsy type, he
excelled at various sports, was a drum major, a member of the track
team and the Boy Scouts. During World War II, he served in the Coast
Guard, mainly involved in helping protect convoys from U-boat attacks.
In 1946, he commenced studies at the University of Iowa, eventually
graduating with a Master's degree in Drama. His acting career began on
the riverboat 'Goldenrod' (now the oldest surviving Mississippi River
Basin showboat in America) and proceeded from there to the Cleveland
Playhouse for a year, then the New York stage and summer stock with
parts in prestigious plays like "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "Home of
the Brave". He also occasionally doubled up as a singer on Broadway
("Paint Your Wagon" (1951), "The Emperor's Clothes" (1953)). Anderson
began as a regular television actor during that medium's formative
years. In the course of the next four decades, his appearance barely
changing, he was consistently excellent wherever he popped up, be it as
western lawmen (including a recurring role as Virgil Earp in The Life
and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955)), as cops, governors, judges and army
officers; hard-nosed oil executive Herbert Styles in Dallas (1978), or
as kindly patriarch of the Hazard clan in North & South: Book 1,
North & South (1985). Though less traveled on the big screen,
Anderson was particularly impressive as the furtive second-hand car
dealer, 'California Charlie', in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), the
ruthless leader of the renegades, Addis, in Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
and, reprising his role as Lincoln, in The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977). John
played ‘Holbrook’ in I-Man
(1986) (TV) with Scott Bakula. One
of the best all-rounders in the business, Anderson died of a heart
attack at his home in Sherman Oaks in August 1992, aged 69.
Sean
Baca as Stevie Means: Sean
Baca is known for Radio Flyer (1992), My Life and Times (1991) and
Quantum Leap (1989). Sean was in Radio Flyer (1992) as: ‘Fisher’ / *Gas
Station Attendant. Sean seems to have started his career in 10 eps of
The Wonder Years as ‘Craig Hobson’ from Oct 31,'89 to May 16, '90.
Among other sit-coms were Matlock / Sibs / Murphy Brown / Home
Improvement.
Jerry
Potter as Sheriff: Jerry Potter is known for Wild Wild West (1999), Misery (1990) and The Greatest American Hero (1981).
Guests who appeared in
other Quantum Leap episodes:
Say What? Sam says he is 50 years younger than Pat. Based on his actual birthdate, Sam would have been only 40 years younger than Pat.
Quotable
Quotes: AL: "You sure you’re not a walking ad for a fringe company?" AL: "Ahhh … in the meantime … Hi Ho Silver … Oy Vey!" AL: "Hey weren’t you in Bonanza? Sam I just saw that guy in Bonanza! He was driving that pair of … pair … pair … now that’s a pair!" [Looking at a woman walking across the street with a low cut dress. Sam has to whistle to get his attention] AL: "This guy’s killed more men than Clint Eastwood." [Talking about Pat Knight] Stevie: Ben Steiner: SAM: SAM:
The morning after Sam has been drinking with Pat Knight and he’s got a hangover. AL: "Are we in the head pounding stage … or in the spinning rising waves of nausea? … Hummm?" SAM: "What do you think?" AL: "That’s impressive." SAM: "Yah … I just … hope that Pat Knight feels … worse than I do. Oh my gosh! Don’t tell me you were a gunslinger in the Navy?" AL: "Well… back in the old days they were called gunfighters or pistolarlos or ah… shootists and I… had the best quick draw artist in America teach me." SAM: "Really?" AL: "Yes Really! Her name was…" SAM: "HER …name." AL: "FeFe Boom-Boom La Rue…" SAM: "Al!" AL: "She was a stripper in New Orleans. She had the finest matched pair of …" SAM: "AL! … Oh!" AL: "Matched pair of 44 pistols! She had ah … little secret holsters. Real cute! It was part of her act. But she could draw. Let me tell ya … I know … Cause I studied her …" SAM: "Yah … I bet." AL: "Very closely." SAM: "I’ll bet you did!" [Sam’s mouth drops open when Al shows him how it’s done]
Another Great Scene: AL: "Nice hat!" [Looking him up and down] "Nice … really stylish … awesome … fantastic outfit too." [Scott is grinning from ear to ear] "What happened? Did Tonto and Bill Hickcock have a collision?" [Scott gives Dean the squinty eye look] SAM: "Very Funny! I happen to be a local hero or something like that!" AL: "You sure you’re not a walking ad for a fringe company? It’s … ahhh … November 28th nineteen fifty seven and your name … is …" SAM: "Tyler Means." AL: "Yah … Tyler … Tyler means … you’re eighty-two years old. You live in … Coffin … Arizona. Isn’t that a nice name. Coffin … this place started out as a robber’s hangout and then it took off …" SAM: "After they discovered silver in the mid eighteen seventies." [Reading the story from the Readers Digest] AL: "HEY! You want me to tell you this stuff? Or you wanna read it! All right back then this place was wide open. It was controlled by four vicious gunslingers … by the name of the Cl … Cl … Clagget brothers … anyway … apparently … you … rode in to town with an old gunfighter partner of yours … and the next thing you know …" SAM: "Got into a shoot out with the Clagget boys." AL: "Yah! And you saved the town! Then you settled down. You were the BMOC … and all the towns folks … they very amused by your wild stories and your boasting and your bragging and your gambling and your drinking BUT … after a couple of decades of sponging the towns folk kinda get sick of it and your tails get wilder and you become … a local joke … the town drunk … your weaving your tails and mooching drinks. SAM: "Until I met this … magazine writer." AL: "Uh-huh" [Puffing on his cigar] … "and Ziggy doesn’t have anything more than that … ‘cause these little towns didn’t keep records … but when something comes up … you’ll be the first to know. Ahhh … in the meantime … Hi Ho Silver … Oy Vey!" [Punching keys on the hand link and steps into the IC door and closes it]
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