I've been searching for a specific episode of Wagon Train about a man hunting a saber toothed tiger, at least that's the memory of it from probably 50 years ago; but when I hit the info button on my remote, this looked different, and it was. I'm not sure if they were running out of plots or if the writer Jean Holloway found a bunch of stuff lying around from an old Tarzan movie and was inspired, or just had to get this out of her system. I found the story silly and the dialogue worse (You have given me happiness so deep, it is almost pain), (death is but a momentary shadow between sunlight and sunlight).
I was a freshman in high school when this episode aired and I'm pretty sure I didn't see it. I really don't recall it, but in retrospect the ideas aren't any more silly than Gene Roddenberry's continued return to computers replacing gods and men following their commands just as blindly. This is an interesting artifact of an episode; but I bet the entire cast had some raised eyebrows when they read the script. Raymond Massey sort of channels his John Cabal in from Things to Come ;but Robert Horton must have thought, why me. Plot: in searching for a missing man, Flint and party find the remnants of Aztec community surviving in a hidden mountain valley led by Montezuma IX and his beautiful daughter Lia, who is about to be sacrificed to appease the gods. Flint convinces Montezuma IX to question his beliefs which begins a potential revolution beginning with Montezuma IX being killed for questioning the gods. Flint leads his party back to "civilization" but his princess chooses to remain behind; and Flint will never see Lia again in the full bloom of her 18 summers. Ouch
I was a freshman in high school when this episode aired and I'm pretty sure I didn't see it. I really don't recall it, but in retrospect the ideas aren't any more silly than Gene Roddenberry's continued return to computers replacing gods and men following their commands just as blindly. This is an interesting artifact of an episode; but I bet the entire cast had some raised eyebrows when they read the script. Raymond Massey sort of channels his John Cabal in from Things to Come ;but Robert Horton must have thought, why me. Plot: in searching for a missing man, Flint and party find the remnants of Aztec community surviving in a hidden mountain valley led by Montezuma IX and his beautiful daughter Lia, who is about to be sacrificed to appease the gods. Flint convinces Montezuma IX to question his beliefs which begins a potential revolution beginning with Montezuma IX being killed for questioning the gods. Flint leads his party back to "civilization" but his princess chooses to remain behind; and Flint will never see Lia again in the full bloom of her 18 summers. Ouch
