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Pt. 2 of the spotlight:
Sandra Smith is best known as Dr. Janice Lester in the last episode of Trek. Difficult job to have to act just like William Shatner trapped in your body!
Can't help but note the resemblance here to another Trek woman, Madlyn Rhue.
The week of wedded bliss is about to come to a tragic end. You knew that was going to happen, but probably not this early in the episode.
A bullet from another Trek alumni, Michael Strong ("What Are Little Girls Made Of?") who seeks revenge on Jarrod for sending him to jail, instead hits Beth.
Jarrod spends much of the rest episode filled with vengeance, tracking Strong down, resorting to some nasty methods that make him lose his bearings on justice completely. Indeed, the genius of the episode is that we are left with indecision on whether Strong is guilty until the climax.
For the final scene, as Jarrod ponders with shame the things he did and almost did, Victoria offers some words of motherly advice that forgetting the evil he did and almost did, doesn't mean he must forget Beth.
The final scene shows Jarrod seeing Beth's image in the fire, and a pullback showing Jarrod in the room still staring into the fire (this last cap, is not usually the kind we would do in a Yum thread, but it's just for you, Neo!) 
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May 4, 2008 - 12:23 PM
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And here now that next spotlight featuring one of the biggest names of 60s TV Yum, Barbara Luna! (who is now a perfect five-for-five in all of the TV series Yum threads on this board).
As the title character of the episode, Miranda, Barbara is a Mexican anarchist, who aggressively volunteers to try and steal a valuable necklace that a Mexcian aristocrat has left in the care of the Barkleys.
Miranda works this scheme with her mercenary gringo boyfriend, hoping this will enable the anarchist movement to get needed funds for their activities.
Miranda infiltrates the Barkley ranch by posing as the aristocrat's niece.
Nick is immediately captivated by her! (In a smart move, Jarrod does not appear in the episode. Though unspoken, one can presume he is off somewhere mourning Beth).
But soon, old anarchist habits like preferring to sleep on the floor start to give her away.
Nick then goes out and observes her conferring with her gringo boyfriend, which Miranda can not explain.
Miranda tries to flee but is thrown from her horse and knocked unconscious.
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May 15, 2008 - 11:18 PM
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If Fox would just release the second half of S2, the episodes would include "The Lady From Mesa."
In this episode, longtime Barkley ranch hand Sam Williams is critically wounded while on night guard with Nick, keeping an eye out for rustlers. In a delirium, he calls out for his daughter Rosemary who lives 400 miles away in Mesa, and Nick takes it upon himself to go out there, where according to Sam, Rosemary has been working as a school teacher.
But when Nick arrives and finds a matronly school teacher instead, he realizes that Rosemary has in fact, been earning her pay as a saloon girl (the common TV euphemism for hooker in those days).
Arriving there, he first realizes Rosemary is not 1967 Playmate Reagan Wilson (it looks as if TV producers were often anxious to find bit parts for whoever had appeared in a recent issue. Casting couch perhaps?)
Nick then finds Rosemary, played by Lee Grant, who at this time was still doing more TV than film work.
Lee was 40 at the time but still looked young enough to pass for 30, as the character is described as being.
Rosemary refuses to go with Nick at first, because she'll lose a lot of income from making the trip to Stockton. Only when Nick gives her $200 does she agree.
But even after making the trip, as her father still lies unconscious, she refuses to honor Nick's demand that she dress like a lady. And it's clear that she's more anxious to just tell her father off.
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May 15, 2008 - 11:29 PM
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Rosemary then tells Nick how her father abandoned her at age 10 after her mother's death and it basically forced her to fend for herself, eventually driving her into the saloon girl lifestyle by age 15.
Rosemary, fed up with Nick's prodding, tries to flee the Barkley ranch but when Nick falls from his horse while going after her, she stops and helps him out.
The final segment takes a new twist. Rosemary is won over by Nick's appeal to the fact that maybe Sam is ready to be forgiven. But then Jarrod arrives and it turns out Sam has been deeply involved in the rustling and was out trying to warn his fellow rustlers that night, who have now showed up at the mansion trying to kill Sam!
Nick saves Sam, who tells Rosemary that he was in the rustling scheme because he already knew she was a saloon girl and wanted to raise money to get her out of that life.
All is forgiven at episode's end as Rosemary, now dressed like a lady, is headed back to Mesa for a new line of work, and her father won't be prosecuted.
And we end this spotlight on the episode with a quick acknowledgment of lovely Miss Audra.
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Aug 9, 2008 - 10:17 PM
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Eric Paddon
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A long overdue update for this thread! Leslie Parrish in S3's "A Bounty For A Barkley" gives us yet another variation on the unlucky-in-love theme for the Barkley brothers, and this time it's Nick again. Captivated immediately by the sight of Leslie buying shingles at the general store.
Alas for Nick, his impulsiveness is a recipe for trouble just like in "Ladykiller"! Leslie it turns out is unhappily married to a bounty hunter Nick had crossed paths with before, and as the relationship blossoms, Leslie decides not to tell Nick of her marital state.
So naturally, when hubby (Peter Haskell, in his second appearance on the show) shows up, vowing to his neglected wife that he wants to give up his bounty hunter lifestyle and spend more time with her....but then unwittingly discovers that Nick has been seeing her, this nearly leads to tragedy when he decides he'll make Nick an accidental victim of a gunshot during a bear hunt.
But thankfully, tragedy is averted and Nick is willing to let Leslie decide between him and hubby. Leslie still has too much love insider her for her husband and is willing to give him a chance to prove that he means to settle down. Nick stoically accepts this and rides off. The last image of the episode is the camera zooming in on Leslie and blurring, as if to symbolically demonstrate that she (like all the other Barkley romances) must become a faded memory in due course.
Ordinarily, I've found myself not too impressed by Leslie's acting ability (her Trek episode I think is embarrassing) but she did fine in this one.
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present!
