“The Long Weekend”
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“The Long Weekend”
Season: 4 episode 29
Series Episode: 146
Air Date: April 8, 1961
Teaser
“It was change that finished them. They couldn’t keep up with the changing face of the world…You can’t fight the future, Shep. Nobody can. Either you go with it or you go under.”
Employment Verification
Personal request from the town fathers of Sunshine Creek
Fee
Undisclosed
Cast & Crew Lists
Cast
Character Role Actor Actor Age Status
Paladin An arbiter Richard Boone 43 Credited
Peggy Montrose (nee Collins) Valentine Collin's daughter Paige Adams Credited
Valentine Collins "Little man" drunk Ralph Moody 74 Credited
Guerney Owner of the Sunshine Creek hardware store Uncredited
Shep Montrose Mountain man / Silver miner Roy Barcroft 58 Credited
Clyde Tatum Sunshine Creek emissary Ned Glass 55 Credited
Otis Woodward Sunshine Creek emissary / Owner of Woodward's Emporium
Stephen Roberts 43 Credited
Samantha Paladin's inamorata Laura Shelton 24 Credited
Bartender Clegg Hoyt 50 Credited
Doctor Uncredited
Hotel guest Hans Moebus 58 Uncredited
Paladin's inamorata Uncredited
Pool player / Cowhand Dallas Mitchell 33 Credited
Pool player / Cowhand William Vaughn Credited
Sheriff Uncredited
Sheriff's wife Uncredited
Townsman Frank Ellis 64 Uncredited
Townsman Matthew McCue 65 Uncredited
Townsman William Meader 56 Uncredited
Townsman Joe PHillips 47 Uncredited
Townsman Lee Sands Uncredited
Townsman Ted Smile 39 Uncredited
Townsman Milan Smith 37 Uncredited
Townsman Rudy Sooter 55 Uncredited
Crew
Director Byron Paul
Assistant Director Gordon McLean
Creators Herb Meadow & Sam Rolfe
Writer Jack Laird
Story Editor Albert Ruben
Script Supervisor Richard Chaffee
Producer Frank R. Pierson
Associate Producer Howard Joslin
Director of Photography Frank (V.) Phillips
Art Director Walter E. Keller
Opening Theme Music Bernard Hermann (Herrmann)
Episode Music by Rene Garriguence
Conductor Lud Gluskin
"Ballad of Paladin" Singer Johnny Western
"Ballad of Paladin" written by Johnny Western, Richard Boone, Sam Rolfe
Music Editor Gene Feldman
Production Supervisor Dewey Starkey
Film Editor Everett Sutherland
Sound Mixer
Frederick (Fred) A. Kessler
Recording Company Westrex Recording System
Re-recording by Joel Moss
Sound Effects Gene Eliot, M.P.S.E.
Property Master Arthur Friedrich
Makeup Artist
Donald (W.) Roberson
Hair Stylist
Madine Danks, C.H.S.
Wardrobe Joseph Dimmitt
Set Decorator Herman N. Schoenbrun
Casting Stalmaster-Lister Company
Titles and Opticals Pacific Title
Richard Boone's Stunt Double
Hal Needham (Uncredited)
Stuntmen Jack Perkins for Roy Barcroft
Production Companies A CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) Television Network Production
Filming Locations
Sets
Paramount Studios 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Closing Credits background
Lone Pine, California, United States of America
Historical References
Mountain man
William Clarke Quantrill
Geographic References
Cherokee Strip, Kansas, United States of America
Grisley Hill. California
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Pecos River
San Francisco, California, United States of America
Sunshine Creek, California’
Sources
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