Seeing the kind of success that Warner Brothers was having with Sugarfoot with a young lawyer as a protagonist, Dick Powell's Four Star Production came up with the idea of a gunfighter giving up his weapons and studying for the bar and passing same.Peter Breck was the gunfighter/lawyer and he happens to settle in Marshal Russell Johnson's town.
I didn't know what to expect when I first started watching the early morning reruns of this series on Talking Pictures TV, but after seeing a number of episodes, I am thoroughly impressed. At only 25 minutes, episodes are short, but the amount of story and intrigue is remarkably high for such a brief running time.
This short-lived western series was a departure from the usual B-western fare that had dominated the big screen for so many years. Peter Breck (later to be Nick on Big Valley) and Russell Johnson (Later the Professor on Gilligans Island) starred in this tale of an ex-gunman who began using the law to subdue the owlhoots who circumvented prairie law.
