The Rifleman: Long Trek (1961)
Season 3, Episode 17
9/10
Chapman's Acting First Rate
14 January 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Lonny Chapman was so versatile that he can carry the episode as #3. He is really #1 in this episode. As others have told the story I'm just commenting on the superb acting of Connors, Fix and Chapman. As I watch this episode I think how realistic they all look after being without water and how it affects the brain. Even Lucas gets dizzy and one feels he'll go the way of Micah who is almost incapacitated.

It's Stanley at the end who does it for me with those antics of a madman as he loses it and starts thinking cool water is running his way. As time runs out for Stanley, horses return, a little digging brings the spring flowing and Lucas and Micah are saved.

Chapman was equally good in Devil Makes Five as a condemned man with wit but Long Trek really shows his abilities as an actor taunting and laughing then downright unhinged.

Poor Lucas had to probably bury Stanley good thing he had plenty of water and horses.
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