“The Town That Wasn’t There”
“The Town That Wasn’t There”
Season: 4 episode 3
Series Episode: 82
Air Date: October 2, 1960
Maverick TV series starring Jack Kelly and Roger Moore
A Warner Bros. production
Teaser
Where, oh where, has the whole town gone?
Cast & Crew Lists
Cast
Character Role Actor Actor Age Status
Beauregard "Beau" Maverick II Gambler / Con artist Roger Moore 32 Credited
Maggie Bradford Sam Bradford's daughter Merry Anders 26 Credited
Sam Bradford Major land owner in Silver Hill / Maggie Bradford's father Jon Lorimar 54 Credited
Crane Sheriff of Silver Hill Lane Chandler 61 Credited
Horatio Cromwell
Wilber Shank's employer Alexander Campbell 71 Credited
Ralph Hobbs Richard Cutting 47 Credited
Joe Lambert
Sheep rancher
John Astin 30 Credited
McCoy Denver Marshal Steve Pendleton 51 Credited
Jake Moody Major land owner in Silver Hill / General Store proprietor Craig Duncan 41 Credited
Harry Pitkin Deputy in Hadley Bruce Wendell 46 Credited
Wilber Shanks Land agent for the railroad (a.k.a. Mining speculator) Richard Hale 67 Credited
"Old Timer" Townsman / Stage coach passenger / Guide Forrest Lewis 60 Credited
Announcer Ed Reimers 57 Uncredited
Lem Barker Major land owner in Silver Hill Uncredited
Benton Guest at Denver hotel
Uncredited
Jeb Ryan Major land owner in Silver Hill Uncredited
George Smith Major land owner in Silver Hill Uncredited
Mort Stubbins Former owner of the Silver Hill Mine Uncredited
Ernie Stagecoach driver Harry Strang 67 Uncredited
Bellhop at the Denver hotel Uncredited
Prisoner at Silver HIll Uncredited
Saloon owner Pat O'Malley 70 Uncredited
Stagecoach passenger 1 Uncredited
Stagecoach passenger 2 Uncredited
Townsman Marshall Bradford 65 Uncredited
Townsman Roydon Clark 32 Uncredited
Townsman Danny Sands 46 Uncredited
Wagon driver / Silver Hill clean-up man Hank Patterson 71 Uncredited
Mr. Benton Guest at the Denver hotel Mentioned
Three miserable cattlemen in the story told by Lambert Mentioned
Crew
Director Herbert L. Strock
Developed by
Roy Huggins
Teleplay Arthur Paynter
Story "Dick" (Richard) Lederer
Executive Producer
Wm. (William) T. Orr
Producer Coles Trapnell
Director of Photography
Willard Van der Veer
Art Director
William L. Campbell
Supervising Film Editor
Film Editor
Sound
Set Director
Makeup Supervisor Gordon Bau, S.M.A.
Supervising Hair Stylist Jean Burt Reilly, C.H.S.
Composer: Original Theme David Buttolph (uncredited)
Original Theme Lyrics Paul Francis Weber
Stock Music Composer Max Steiner (uncredtied)
Music Supervisor Paul Sawtell / Bert Shefter
Music Editor Charles Paley
Musician: Harmonica Tommy Morgan (uncredited)
Production Company
Warner Bros. Television
Distribution Company
American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
Dialogue/Figurative Language/Literary References/Quotes
Old Timer: You don’t know what heat is. Why I mind a time in Furnace Valley when a body didn’t need to build a fire to make coffee. You just set the coffee pot out on the sand.
Ernie: Great Jehoshaphat! The whole town..it’s plum disappeared.
Old Timer: Hot? Sure, young feller, I mind a time in Furnace Valley when it was so hot I had to build a fire to cool down my dinner.
Maggie Bradford: Mr. Shank’s you are whistling up the rain spout.
Meaning: “Whistling up” something is to falsely hope something will happen.
Notable Mentions
Geographic References
Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Furnace Valley
Lamberts Wells
Silver Hill
The Games People Play
Moody: You’re a talking to the right man, Maggie. That’s what Mr. Maverick does best, clean up. ‘Specially at the poker table, I mean.
Grub
Music
“Buffalo Gals” (instrumental)
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