User Reviews

Surely, I must be one of the world's greatest fans of this wonderful show...and I have Peter Breck's e-mail framed on my wall to prove it!...but seriously, I am a devoted fan to this upright and "morally correct" themed show: it's a Western Soap, granted - with perhaps more talk than action at times - but this ain't one of those times!

In this installment, the performer who steals the show is the handsome, hirsute Sean Garrison, who plays the tortured outlaw Lloyd: with his looks, voice and talent, he should have soared in showbiz.

The plot is not going to be mentioned a'la spoilers: (a rather wild group of hoods terrify Stockton)....but the scene with the wild horses bolting towards Audra and she being "saved" by Sean is great.

The acting of Virginia Christine (Mrs. Olsen of Folger's Coffee fame) is excellent as the unfortunate widowed neighbor of the Barkley clan.

There is a little romance for Audra and a little action for the Barkley brothers: a good - not great - episode.

The feisty kitten with a whip and a big heart is Linda Evans, a good decade and a half before she got the big shoulder pads and even bigger hair for "Dynasty". Fascinated by a beautiful black stallion (and by that I mean horse!), Audra is nearly stampede over by the wild group that the horse she is interested in is among. she is rescued by the handsome Shawn Garrison whom unbeknownst to her is involved in a protection racket, promising farmers safety in exchange for cash, and going after the big and wealthy Barkely's. But the brothers aren't having any of that and even after Garrison is made to feel welcome in their home (greeted by the gracious Barbara Stanwyck), he still goes along with his plans to extort from them, even becoming involved with Audra simply to figure out the best way to get to them.

When their stables are caught on fire and a threatening note is left, fingers begin to point to Garrison being involved, and the family gathers together to stop the other farmers from being bullied, especially when neighbor Kevin Hagen (of "Little House on the Prairie") pays dearly for standing up to them at Victoria's advice, leaving behind a very embittered widow (Virginia Christine). A good episode that shows a very different Linda Evans that most audiences are used to from her fragile character on "Dynasty" with Garrison also good as a very complex bad guy.