Television
The Gene Autry Show
Outlaw Stage
Flying A Pictures
Season 3, Episode 2 (3-02)
Production #54
Network: CBS
Running Time: 30 minutes
Black and White
Original Air Date:
Tuesday, July 21, 1953
Sponsor: Wrigley's Doublemint Chewing Gum
Brief Synopsis:
Gene attempts to clear a young stage driver in the fatal holdup of a jewelry salesman carrying a fortune in precious stones.
Detailed Synopsis:
Three masked outlaws hold up a stagecoach, kill a guard, and rob a jewelry salesman of a fortune in valuable stones. The young stage driver, Johnny Peters, is suspected of being in league with the killers. Gene Autry believes Johnny is innocent, but needs tangible evidence to appease the angry mob, which is bent on lynching the young driver. Gene's deputy Pat Buttram is a hypochondriac whose penchant for pills inadvertently finds him the unsuspecting holder of the stolen jewels. Complications arrive when Pat overhears a conversation that leads him to believe he is about to die. After a wild chase, Gene and Pat race back to town in time to save Johnny from the lynch-happy mob. Pat, thinking he is about to die anyway, tackles the heavies single-handedly and, through his comical bravado, overcomes them. Gene explains the misunderstood conversation to Pat, who, realizing that he might really have been killed, promptly faints.
Cast:
| Character: | Performer: |
| Gene Autry | Gene Autry |
| Pat Buttram | Pat Buttram |
| Arnold Beeker | Don Harvey |
| Jim | Steve Conte |
| Red | Pierce Lyden |
| Hank | Edmund Cobb |
| Dr. Richard Moore | Frank Jaquet |
| Crook | Kermit Maynard |
| Spence | Julian Upton |
| Johnny Peters | Harry Mackin |
| Champion | Champion, World's Wonder Horse |
Songs:
| There's a Rainbow on the Rio Colorado |
Gene Autry |
Crew:
| Executive in charge of Production |
Armand Schaefer |
| Directed by | Wallace Fox |
| Producer | Louis Gray |
| Screenplay | Robert Schaefer & Eric Freiwald |
| Director of Photography | William Bradford, A.S.C. |
| Film Editor | Jack Wheeler |
| Musical Director | Carl Cotner |
| Music Supervisor | Irving Friedman |
| Musical Score | Walter Greene |
| Assistant Director | Stanley Neufeld |
| Recorded by | Glen Glenn Sound Company |
