"Laredo" was basically "The Three Musketeers" set in Texas. If you watch the NBC-TV pilot episode that appeared during on season of "The Virginian," you will notice that Trampas (Doug McClure) got himself embroiled with our troubleshooting heroes and wound up facing all of them in competing duels with the Rangers. Reese Bennett(Neville Brand), Joe Riley (William Smith), and Chad (Peter Brown) are the happy-go-lucky Texas Rangers who served under stern Captain Edward Parmalee (Philip Carey)out of the border town of Laredo. Essentially, Joe and Chad are always playing pranks on Reese. This comedy shoot'em up was frequently hilarious. Reportedly, Neville Brand wanted to leave the show after the initial season and the producers sought to replace him with Claude Atkins. Nevertheless, "Laredo" was a tongue-in-cheek oater without lots of laughs, girls, and gunfights.
