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A Father for TobyEpisode Number: 68 Season Num: 3 First Aired: November 4, 1964 Prod Code: n/a |
At the Medicine Bow orphanage Toby Shea (Kurt Russell) makes up stories about his great father which none of the other boys believe, so he befriends Trampas and tells the other boys Trampas is his father. His real father, Jim Shea (Rory Calhoun), who has been released from prison, tries to find his son but is trailed by two former partners in crime seeking some lost loot. Jim Shea becomes a hand at Shiloh Ranch and manages to keep his identity secret until his former partners and his past catch up with him.
| Writer: | True Boardman |
| Story: | Tom Seller |
| Director: | Alan Crosland Jr. |
| Star: | Doug McClure (Trampas), Randy Boone (Randy Benton [2-4]), James Drury (The Virginian), L.Q. Jones (Andy Belden [3-5]), Clu Gulager (Deputy Sheriff Emmett Ryker [3-6]), Diane Roter (Jennifer Sommers), Lee J. Cobb (Judge Henry Garth [1-4]), Roberta Shore (Betsy Garth [1-3]) |
| Recurring Role: | Hal Baylor (Belden), Frank Sully (Bartender) |
| Guest Star: | Joanna Moore (Ellen Lawrence), Rory Calhoun (Jim Shea/Hanson), Kurt Russell (Toby Shea), Walter Reed (Mr. Collins), Bing Russell (Earl Maddox), Harry Lauter (Wade), Michel Petit (Pudge), Jay Hector (Arnie Mayo), Michael Flatley (Mike), Charles Fredericks (Harry Boardman), John Zaremba (Warden), Terry Frost (Carl Thomas), Francis Morris (Landlady), Patti Chandler (Margaret) |
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Bing Russell, who played one of Jim Shea's former criminal cronies, was Kurt Russell's real father.
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All regulars appear in this episode but Emmett Ryker's appearance is no more than a cameo with no dialogue.
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