My vote for most outrageous TV episode

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A story I've heard about Chuck Connors when he was out in California playing baseball. He hit a homerun and starts around the bases, then he charges into second base and makes a grandstand slide into a cloud of dust, gets up and finishes running around the bases to home plate. Of course, that sort of thing is never done, but it struck Chuck's mood to do it, and it is legal. Supposedly, a movie executive saw it and realized that Connors had some showmanship, and was a big likeable guy. Even at 6 foot seven, today Chuck Connors or Abraham Lincoln would be too short to make a good bigleague pitcher. They like em left-handed and very tall. I especially liked the theme songs to the TV westerns. HAVE GUN had a great opening, but it was usually too 'edgy' or nontraditional in the show, to suit my taste. I wanted gunfights like RIFLEMAN. I liked MAVERICK themesong, but it had no action at all, the gimmick to that western to avoid gunfights and use Jim Garner's oddball wry sense of humor.