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DIRECTED BY RICHARD BENEDICT GUEST CAST JACK LORD as JAB HARLAN LOLA ALBRIGHT as LILAH EVANS JOHN KELLOGG as BRAD SCANLON MYRON HEALEY as FRANK GARRETT LARAINE STEPHENS as RUTH PHELPS HAL BAYLOR as MOTT JONATHAN HOLE as MILLFORD JENKINS ANTHONY HAYES as TOM PHELPS LAURIE MITCHELL as THE WAITRESS JACK GRINNAGE as SANDWICH VENDOR JOEL FLUELLEN as THE BARBER |
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This episode was clearly a pilot for a Jack Lord series. He plays Jab Harlan, a gun for hire with the clothes of — a gun for hire who doesn’t need to blend in. He’s hired by the wife of an innocent man destined to hang in Kansas as the partner of robber/murderer Brad Scanlon. Jab arranges for Scanlon to escape so he can follow him to his real partner and the $60,000 they stole. Scanlon thinks his partner, Frank Garrett, arranged for the key in the sandwich and the runaway wagon which allowed his escape when in fact Garrett had always planned to keep the whole $60,000 for himself. Scanlon, followed by Jab, pass near enough to Laredo for Reese to get in on the chase in a minor capacity. [Brown & Smith make only cameo appearances here.] Scanlon is killed by Garrett’s men but Jab gets to Garrett thru Scanlon’s girlfriend, returns the money and clears the innocent man. A watchable episode only for Jack Lord fans.
| Some Pilot Trivia: Turnabout is fair play. Back in 1963, an episode of Lord’s series “Stoney Burke” was used as a pilot for a proposed series to be called “Border Town” costarring William Smith as a sheriff on the American side of border interacting with his Mexican counterpart. (“Point of Entry” 3-4-63) Neither series got past the pilot. Smith later spent a year on Hawaii Five-0, Lord's most successful series. |
Jab & the condemned man's wife Ruth |
Scanlon extracting key from sandwich |
Garrett |
Lilah |
Reese |
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