My vote for most outrageous TV episode

[maharba]

I should have bought up all the rights to the Rifleman in 1960, what would it have cost then maybe $50,000. And then syndicate them for countless millions later. The theme music was good. LOTS of killings (of the usually evil Southern hillbillies) in every episode. Though I haven't watched TV for awhile, I remember an episode where Mark McCain recites a poem about Sheridan miles away. Was that the same episode had the war-wounded (evil) Confederate in it? I think at the end of the episode, a Union doctor heals his wound. I haven't heard it in awhile but I can remember the themes to Johnny Yumaaaaaaah was a Rebel. And Yancey Derringer.
Compare those good gun-fighting 1/2 hour westerns to the boring 'horse opera' westerns like Bonanza, Wagon Train and other hour long ones.