Shivaree

Season 1, Episode 19, Aired
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Aaron Pelser's wagon train came across a pair of young boys on a buck board heading west and invited them to join the train. When he found out that one of the boys was actually a girl and the two claimed to be headed to Yuma to get married, Pelser and his crowd force them to be married in North Fork. The wagon train folks want to throw a shivaree, which may have been innocent enough except for two reasons. The first reason being that the couple does not count it as their wedding because they want to be wed by the groom's father in Yuma. The second reason is that Chet Packard keeps pushing things too far, beyond the spirit of a friendly shivaree.moreless
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  • To say the least, the end was a bit of a stretch.

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    By dragonfly_pat, Aug 15, 2008 Report Abuse
    The only reason that I gave this episode a 5 is because of my love of "The Rifleman." A young couple is forced to marry by an old wagontrain master. His reason is a convoluted story about his own daughter. The young couple did not want to get married by just anyone. The boy's father is a minister, and they wanted to be married by the boy's father. The bad guy, Chet, kidnaps the young couple, and obviously wants to rape the very young bride. Lucas rescues the young bride. Meanwhile, the boy/groom grabs the marshall's rifle. He goes into the saloon after the guys who have taken the girl. He shoots Chet in the legs, probably crippling him for life. The kid threatens to kill the old wagontrain master and anyone else who comes into the saloon including Micah. Of course, Lucas saves the day. And with the sweet sound of the music playing, the boy leaves the saloon to get his girl from where she was safely waiting. He passes by the marshall who he knocked out and from whom he stole the rifle and who he threatened to shoot. Let's not forget Chet, the bad guy, who he has maimed. Olive Carey, an old friend of Paul Fix, is in the episode, and terribly overacts. There is no character development. This was probably one of the worst episodes in Season 1.moreless

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  • A young couple is forced to marry in North Fork.

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    By 68Special, Apr 03, 2008 Report Abuse
    Lucas rides up from rolling hills to a film set to see what's going on with a bunch of riders. Lucas learns that a young couple (pretending to be two young men) are being taken to North Fork to get married.

    Lucas befriends them after the marriage to take them to his ranch, and offers the young husband a job working on the ranch.

    Back in town, John Anderson (frequent '60s TV guest star), wants to see the young bride, and is told not to during a party in. The party moves out to the McCain ranch, where they wish to have a shivaree (big party).

    While Lucas and Micah speak with assembled group, several people grab the newlyweds, and take them back to town.

    Weird story, Lucas doesn't shoot his rifle, and the end is predictable.moreless

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    • The American Heritage Dictionary provides an extensive annotation on shiv-a-ree, pointing out that it's "the most common American regional form of charivari, a French word meaning 'a noisy mock serenade for newlyweds' and probably deriving in turn from a Late Latin word meaning 'headache'". They also offer an account of a New Orleans shivaree by John F. Watson (1805) : "The house is mobbed by thousands of the people of the town, vociferating and shouting with loud acclaim … (Many are) in disguises and masks; and all have some kind of discordant and noisy music, such as old kettles and shovels and tongs … All civil authority and rule seems laid aside." They go on to explain that the word, "most likely borrowed from French traders and settlers along the Mississippi", is "especially common along and west of the Mississippi River" - thus forming an unusual East-West dialect boundary (most are North-South). Regional equivalents include "belling" (Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan), "horning" (upstate New York, northern Pennsylvania and western New England) and "serenade" (used mainly in South Atlantic states). Edit

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