Man from Kansas

Gentleman bandit and high liver Jock Mahoney arrives in Laramie by way of a stagecoach robbery which makes it the business of Slim Sherman. But Mahoney and Jess Harper have some history and Robert Fuller is caught in the middle.

Mahoney is known as a Robin Hood who states he never robs working people, but he lifts a money belt from a banker and spreads some of it around. That makes him most popular and not easy to pick a jury that isn't sympathetic to him.

Robert Fuller tells John Smith that Mahoney is one fast draw and he proves it to him. It's his taste for high living that brings him down.

Note performances by Adam West as a deputy who Mahoney kills and George Mitchell and Jocelyn Brando as a farm couple who Mahoney aids then betrays.

I guess the moral is Robin Hood types are too good to be true.

Daniel B. Ullman, a scriptwriter, used this story for three different shows. This was the last version. He is credited with "story" this time. On The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp in 1958, he was credited as the scriptwriter of the episode The Imitation Jesse James. The first version on TV was in 1956, on Gunsmoke. The episode was Robin Hood, Ullman wrote the script from a story by John Meston, and the good-bad guy was played by William Hopper, better known as Paul Drake!

Jock mahoney guest stars in this episode as the robin hood .... bartlett robinson is still the ineffective sheriff and kelly thordsen plays the part he always does as the fat loud mouthed bystander that riles the crowd except this time he gets caught with his hands in the wrong pocket ... adam west puts in his two cents and loses ... as does mahoney ... pretty sorry episode