“Last Stop Oblivion”

“Last Stop Oblivion”

 

Season: 4 episode 22

Series Episode: 101

Air Date: February 12, 1961

Maverick TV series starring Jack Kelly and Roger Moore

A Warner Bros. production

 

 

Teaser

Oblivion is a transfer station, with a lot of people going up or down instead of north, south, east, or west.

 

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Bart Maverick	Gambler / Con artist	Jack Kelly	33	Credited
Woody Durst (a.k.a. Smith	Outlaw	Donald "Don Red" Barry	49	Credited
Dave Lyme	Nero & Verna Lyme's son	Robert (C.) Ross	32	Uncredited
Dirk Lyme	Nero & Verna Lyme's son	Rayford Barnes	40	Credited
Nero Lyme	Oblivion Stage Stop Owner / Verna Lyme's husband / Dave & Dirk Lyme's father	Buddy Ebsen	52	Credited
Verna Lyme	Nero Lyme's wife / Mother to Dirk & Dave Lyme	Virginia Christine	40	Credited
Tate McKenna	Stagecoach passenger	Hampton Francher	22	Credited
Miller	Sheriff from Medicine Forks	Paul Birch	49	Credited
Laura Nelson	Frank Gorman's fiancee	Suzanne Lloyd	26	Credited
Sam Overman	Stagecoach driver	Bud Osbourne	76	Credited
Bascombe Sunday	Former mortician / Widower	Maurice Manson	48	Credited
	Announcer	Ed Reimers	58	Uncredited
	Dave Lyme's horse	Sickle		Uncredited
	Bar patron	Kansas Moehring	63	Uncredited
	Medicine Forks poker player			Uncredited
	Medicine Forks poker player			Uncredited
	Denver stagecoach driver			Uncredited
	Reverend's daughter on the Denver stagecoach			Uncredited
	Reverend on the Denver stagecoach			Uncredited
Frank Gorman	Laura Nelson's fiance			Mentioned
Gunther	Former sheriff of Medicine Forks (deceased)			Mentioned
McCloud	Stagecoach passenger			Mentioned
Mrs. Sunday	Wife of Bascombe Sunday (deceased)			Mentioned

 

Crew

Director	John Ainsworth
Assistant Director	Richard M. Mayberry
Developed by	Roy Huggins (uncredited)
Writer	Howard Browne
Executive Producer	Wm. (William) T. Orr
Producer	Coles Trapnell
Director of Photography	Carl Berger, A.S.C.
Art Director	William L. Campbell
Supervising Film Editor
Film Editor	Cliff Bell, Sr., A.S.E.
Production Manager
Sound	Tom R. Ashton
Set Decorator	Glenn P. Thompson
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	Robert Phillips
Musician: Harmonica	Tommy Morgan (uncredited)
Production Company	Warner Bros. Television
Distribution Company	American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

 

 

Dialogue/Figurative Language/Literary References/Quotes

Miller: That’s why he’s up on boot hill, waiting for Gabriel’s trumpet.

 

 

 

Notable Mentions

A similar situation occurred in Montgomery County, Kansas in the 1870s  

 

 

Geographic References

Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Medicine Forks, Wyoming Territory, United States of America
Oblivion
San Francisco, California, United States of America

 

 

The Games People Play

5-Card Draw Poker 

 

 

 

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