Hi everyone,


MORE goodies for your viewing pleasure, as part of our on-going "Culp Collection" right here at the FORUM - thanks to the wonders of "embedding."


Today's feature is from the classic 60s TV western THE RIFLEMAN starring Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford. Our man Culp guest-starred in 2 episodes and also authored a third, a 2-part episode called "Waste."





This episode, The Man from Salinas, is one of my very favorites. Bob plays Foley - a manipulating and unscrupulous bounty hunter, looking to make a fast buck with a clever deception. Yep, Bob's the bad guy again, but a very cool bad guy, played with great finesse.










And this episode is the one where Culp shows off some great gun-handling talent.
(Sammy Davis Jr. shows off his gun-twirling tricks in an episode called "Two Ounces of Tin.")

THE RIFLEMAN
"The Man from Salinas" (1962)

... the direct link is below and since this one is from "HULU,"
you'll have to put up with a short commercial first ...





http://www.hulu.com/watch/94350/the-rifleman-the-man-from-salinas



Enjoy!!


As always,

Tatia






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Wow. Thanks so much for this episode. I just viewed it. Culp worked with everyone twice dept: the outlaw Rudy Gray is none other than Kirby from Combat. In "Hill 256" Kirby is brought to court martial on charges of desertion of duty by Culp's character.
Again, great find. I hadn't seen this Rifleman episode in a long time.

Hi Herbie (and everyone),

Glad you enjoyed "Man from Salinas" ... me, too!

And in the "he's worked with everyone out there twice" category, our Mr. Culp has occasionally worked MORE than twice with some actors.



And one of them is Jack Hogan.



Jack played Rudy Gray in the "Man from Salinas" RIFLEMAN episode (1962) ...







and as you mentioned, Herbie, he was Kirby in the COMBAT series.
Bob guest-starred in an episode called "Hill 256" (1963) where he
tries to get Kirby's character court-martialed.













Jack also appeared in an unaired pilot that starred Bob (which never made it to the airways, but bops up to the surface on eBay and ioffer here and there). It's titled Now Is Tomorrow (1958).

It was part of an anthology series with Charles Bickford as host. The story with Bob and Jack was about a military base, where men were trained to push - or not push - THE button in the event of war. Jack plays Bob's roommate. Definitely done during the height of Cold War paranoia, but it also had some futuristic, science-fiction twists. Let's just say the guys don't do so well under all that pressure, especially our Bob. It is so bizarre, it is truly wonderful!!!


AND the two also appeared in Houston We've Got A Problem (1974) a pretty well-done made for TV movie about the people at Mission Control people during the Apollo 13 adventures. Bob plays Steve Bell, head of re-entry crew who has severe cardiac problems. Sheila Sullivan (Mrs. Culp No. 4) plays Mrs. Bell, and Jack Hogan has a smaller role as Cap. Com. Joseph Kerwin.








And I have to thank Mona for mentioning ioffer the other day.



I hadn't been over there in years, and they have quite a treasure trove of Bob and Bill items. ioffer is what eBay used to be with lots of Mom and Pop sellers often putting up their own copies of things (videos/photos/etc.) vs. the more commercial-like sellers on eBay these days.

I saw some really rare videos over there, that I had never seen for sale anywhere before. There also seems to be far more security and safeguards up on ioffer than there were years ago.

Definitely worth checking out ...


Here's Culp's pages

http://www.ioffer.com/search/items/%22Robert%20Culp%22/text_pics/ioffer/

and Cosby's pages

http://www.ioffer.com/search/items/%22Bill%20Cosby%22/text_pics/ioffer/

Thanks Mona!


All my best,

Tatia


P.S. If you are interested in seeing Now Is Tomorrow, keep checking ioffer and eBay, but it is also available on the Turner Classic Movies store sporting a $19.99 price tag.


http://turnerclassic.moviesunlimited.com/Product.asp?sku=821028



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