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Noon Wine

Episode Number: 10 Season Num: 1 First Aired: November 23, 1966 Prod Code: n/a

Royal Earle Thompson's small dairy farm in West Texas isn't a thriving enterprise until he takes on Olaf Helton, a moody, hard-working Swede. Because business starts booming, Thompson makes a point of never prying into the personal life of his silent hired hand. But one day Thompson learns that Helton's stoicism masks a terrible secret.

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Writer:	Katherine Anne Porter, Sam Peckinpah

Director:	Sam Peckinpah

Guest Star:	Jill Andre (Mrs. McClellan), L.Q. Jones (Mr. McClellan), Peter Robbins (Herbert), Steve Sanders (Arthur), Ben Johnson (I) (Sheriff Barbee), Robert Emhardt (Burleigh), Per Oscarsson (Olaf Helton), Theodore Bikel (Homer T. Hatch), Olivia de Havilland (Ellie Thompson), Jason Robards (Royal Earle Thompson), Joan Tompkins (Mrs. Bertha Nord)

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Remade for American Playhouse on PBS in 1985. (edit)

Peckinpah received nominations from both the Director's and Writer's Guild for his work. (edit)

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This episode was very well received by it's author Katherine Anne Porter, who was very pleasantly surprised. "After what they did to my poor Ship of Fools I was just crushed. I didn't expect anything like Noon Wine." (edit)