Having written a story about Old west characters being transported to the 1960s myself, I really liked this concept. Albert Salmi was great as the amoral and violent murderer, who is thrown for a loop by the racket, lights and bustle of modern downtown New York. Him thinking the TV cowboy aiming a gun at him was quite realistic, considering audiences at the 1903 movie, "The Great Train Robbery" also were alarmed at the actor pointing a gun at the camera, thinking they would be shot.
The plot contrivance of Russell Johnson's scientist telling Salmi's brutal character - with whom he was alone and defenseless - he would send him back to the hangman's rope was not credible, but necessary to have Salmi attack the scientist.
The ending, where we see a scrawy little crook overcome the hulking Salmi and strangle him in mere seconds with a blind cord ruined this ep for me. It was not just unlikely, but nonsensical. Personally I would have preferred to see Salmi maybe fall out the window and accidentally hang himself to show you can't escape your fate, but of course that would have meant excluding the last scene.
The ending, where we see a scrawy little crook overcome the hulking Salmi and strangle him in mere seconds with a blind cord ruined this ep for me. It was not just unlikely, but nonsensical. Personally I would have preferred to see Salmi maybe fall out the window and accidentally hang himself to show you can't escape your fate, but of course that would have meant excluding the last scene.