Bat Masterson (TV Series)

Brunette Bombshell (1959)

Gene Barry: Bat Masterson

Quotes 

• [Bat knocks out Whit's assistant before entering the police commissioner's office] 

  Whit Morrison : How did you get in here?

  Bat Masterson : You ought to send your boys to my club to learn the manly art of self-defense.

• Bat Masterson : You know, I've never struck an honest-to-goodness police commissioner before, but you're not honest.

• Isabel Fowler : You know, you don't look like the kind of man that would... would pass up opportunity.

  Bat Masterson : I'm usually listening when it knocks. Sometimes I knock myself.

• Marty : But what makes you so sure the city won't close you up again?

  Bat Masterson : I'm a gambler, Marty. Calculated risk.

• Bat Masterson : I read someplace that a great man keeps one eye on the stars and the other in the holes in the road.

  Monroe Fowler : Well, I guess I'll go out and start filling in some of those holes.

  Bat Masterson : Mr. Mayor, if you'd appoint me police commissioner for a minute or two, I'd be very happy to herd your prisoners to jail - or shall we call them "holes in the road?"

  Monroe Fowler : Whichever you prefer, Mr. Commissioner.