User Reviews

First of all, I found the beginning of this episode very interesting. Deputy Lordan declares that Sam Buckhart is in North Fork and won't be back for another week. (North Fork is, of course, the name of the town in "The Rifleman.") Then when Sam comes in the office, he states he just delivered three prisoners. That leads me to believe that these prisoners were the three he arrested in "The Indian" episode on "The Rifleman." I think that's neat, but I wonder what the chances were of people picking that up back in 1959? Maybe they did...

Second, I found the "Pregnancy poison" interesting. Often I wonder what they did back then for this condition. I figured that's why they had such a high mortality rate in women giving birth - they developed eclampsia and died. So when Buckhart referred to it I started wondering...were they aware of this condition back then? Did they know how to treat it? I honestly don't know the answer.

I loved the ending on this. I loved Buckhart's final quote: "Truth can sometimes be stranger than storybooks."

Outlaw Charlie Slade and his gang are regarded as dangerous. He also has fancy tastes which Deputy Marshal Sam Buckhart regards his achilles heel.

Slade likes the better things in life. A package delivered to him, goods from Sheffield, England leads to Buckhart to follow a trail.

It leads to Buckhart straight to Slade's camp. However he finds that Slade's heavily pregnant wife Rosa is seriously ill. She could lose her life and her baby.

Only Slade finds Buckhart in his wife's tent and tortures him before he discovers that Buckhart is the law.

Buckhart has to use his medical knowledge gained at Harvard to save Rosa. As well as deliver Slade to justice.

The episode gives some insights on Buckhart. How he became so educated. He is also a man of science as well as someone not interested in money. Slade offers to make Buckhart a rich man.

As to the story I did not find it too enthralling.