Young James MacArthur is injured when he's caught in a blasting area on the
Ponderosa at the Cartwright logging camp. He's carrying $500.00 for a horse
auction to buy a black stallion who apparently has horse charisma. He's a
natural leader among horses and that's valuable on a horse ranch.
Michael Landon and David Canary go to a neighboring town to complete MacArthur's errand. They buy the horse, but in turn the horse and the bill of sale from the auction are stolen.
Behind all this is MacArthur's uncle Ford Rainey who runs that area's local Ponderosa. I found it quite ironic that MacArthur is playing the same kind of part he did in the film that got him his big break. 10 years earlier he starred in Walt Disney's Light In The Forest where he played a nephew claiming his birthright from a cruel uncle. And later on for Disney he starred in a version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped where again he's a nephew fighting a dishonest uncle.
Anyway it was a good episode. James MacArthur really thought he was being typecast I'm sure.
Michael Landon and David Canary go to a neighboring town to complete MacArthur's errand. They buy the horse, but in turn the horse and the bill of sale from the auction are stolen.
Behind all this is MacArthur's uncle Ford Rainey who runs that area's local Ponderosa. I found it quite ironic that MacArthur is playing the same kind of part he did in the film that got him his big break. 10 years earlier he starred in Walt Disney's Light In The Forest where he played a nephew claiming his birthright from a cruel uncle. And later on for Disney he starred in a version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped where again he's a nephew fighting a dishonest uncle.
Anyway it was a good episode. James MacArthur really thought he was being typecast I'm sure.