Wednesday, March 11, 2026

YouTube Theatre: The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return (1975)

 Three years had passed since "The Daughters of Joshua Cabe" had brought high ratings for ABC. In the interim, Buddy Ebsen had moved on to Barnaby Jones, so the leads, not just Joshua himself, had to be recast in "The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return".

Ronne Troup (ex-My Three Sons, Brooke Adams, & Christina Hart step in for Sandra Dee, Lesley Ann Warren, & Karen Valentine, with Dan Dailey (ex-The Governor & JJ, Faraday & Company) as Joshua. Jack Elam didn't return, either, with Western vet Dub Taylor as Cabe's new sidekick.

Fresh off paying off the mortgage on his home for the next year, Cabe runs into a new crisis when the father of one of the girls shows up, and abducts her for ransom. Carl Betz (ex-Judd For The Defense, The Donna Reed Show), Kathleen Freeman, and Randall Carver, three years before Taxi, co-star.

Mind the video quality.


Wild West Wednesdays returns in 2 weeks with Tim Conway as Rango.

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