We're doing Wild West Wednesdays on back-to-back weeks this month, but only because we're subbing in Weird Wednesdays in 2 weeks for the final 2 weeks of October, for obvious reasons.
Anyway, comic Allan Sherman, the creator of I've Got a Secret, guests on The Loner in "The Sheriff of Fetterman's Crossing" as the titular lawman, who recruits William Colton (Lloyd Bridges) to help him out. Hank Patterson (Green Acres), a veteran of Westerns himself, also appears as a bartender.
Series creator Rod Serling would continue to experiment with other genres with The New People 4 years later before Night Gallery brought him back to science fiction/horror/mystery. Bridges wouldn't land another series until San Francisco International Airport in 1970, and Joe Forrester in 1975, and both, like Loner, lasted one season.
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