LITB and The Rifleman

[Scrabjan1]

Can’t believe how many actors are in both shows.

Edgar Buchanan- Uncle Billy
Diane Brewster- Miss Canfield
Sue Randall - Miss Landers
Cheryl Holderidge - Julie Foster
William Schallert - Bloomgarten
Karen Sue Trent - Penny
Rusty Stevens- Larry
Danny Richards- Cookie Fund
Bartlett Robinson- Mr. Compton
Billy Hughes - Sheepdog
William Faucett- Beaver’s Crush
John Collier- David Manning
Norman Leavitt- veterinarian in Beaver’s Monkey
John Hoyt- 3 episodes
Lillian Bronson- Haunted House
Richard Deacon- Fred
Stephen Wootten- Clyde Applebee

All were in The Rifleman too. Any more?

[Bonniegirl]

Originally Posted by Scrabjan1

Can’t believe how many actors are in both shows.

Edgar Buchanan- Uncle Billy
Diane Brewster- Miss Canfield
Sue Randall - Miss Landers
Cheryl Holderidge - Julie Foster
William Schallert - Bloomgarten
Karen Sue Trent - Penny
Rusty Stevens- Larry
Danny Richards- Cookie Fund
Bartlett Robinson- Mr. Compton
Billy Hughes - Sheepdog
William Faucett- Beaver’s Crush
John Collier- David Manning
Norman Leavitt- veterinarian in Beaver’s Monkey
John Hoyt- 3 episodes
Lillian Bronson- Haunted House
Richard Deacon- Fred
Stephen Wootten- Clyde Applebee

All were in The Rifleman too. Any more?

Awesome ! That is really cool !! And although I am not really a Western show fan per se , The Rifleman is one of the better ones !!

[stevea]

I do enjoy me some Rifleman episodes sometimes, but that's the only Western.

The ones I like are the ones without the continual parade of bandits, like the one where they are stranded on the desert, or the one where Mark is gravely ill.

[Scrabjan1]

The Vision is my all time favorite and love Waste, Ordeal and Vaqueros, when they’re stuck in the desert or a ghost town.

Just found Frank Wilcox was in one episode and was in LITB 3 times. Frank Ferguson was Mr. Jeff and in Rifleman. Karl Swenson was in both. Kim Charney was Terry the football hero and in one episode of The Rifleman. Also Harlan Warde was Mr. Hamilton in Rifleman and Mr. Thompson in Beaver’s Autobiography.

[stevea]

There are very few sitcoms Wilcox wasn't in. But LITB, let's see--he was the dentist (Dr. Harrison?), he was one of the principals, who got gas at Mr. Thompson's station and Eddie let it overfill (Mr. Farmer?). But clue me in on the third time. Oh, maybe the judge when Beaver drove the go cart on the street (and he held the kleenex when Beaver blew his nose maybe?)

BTW I think Bartlett Robinson also plays Mr. Hill from Yardbirds. Yes, The Vision is the best of the best--I think MeTV edits out part of the vision.

[Scrabjan1]

I remember recording The Vision from Retro TV and while I was watching I thought it was brilliant especially the doctor.

Just saw the Stand-In with Richard Devon and Dabbs Greer, great acting. Too bad Mark had to grow up he almost became more self conscious as he got older and rather inept not like little Mark who was fearless. Love how the guy who plays Roger DeLacey and cons Beaver and Larry out of $3 does the same in Rifleman as Swifty but Mark is shrewder. He’s also a con artist in The Real McCoys.

[stevea]

I think Crawford and Mathers were both better actors when they were little.

[Scrabjan1]

Definitely. Of course it’s hard to grow up on TV and just like a lot of adolescents they become self conscious and no longer cute. It didn’t seem to happen to Paul Peterson on Donna Reed but I think Tony Dow had some moments that were cringeworthy like acting so perfect for a teenager. He was at least believable when he couldn’t go on the weekend at the lake and said he might as well be in jail.

[stevea]

Right. And Mathers had a good line in Nobody Loves Me--he spills a glass of water, and says, OK, send me to reform school for spillin' a glass o' water. Yes, it was good writing, but like the Dow line about going to Scott's/Bill's, it was well-delivered and believable. One of the few where Beaver is sassy.

[Scrabjan1]

Then you have that really cringeworthy scene at the dining room table where Ward tells a little joke about automation in the workplace where the punchline is ‘A recording says you’re fired’ Beaver does this really annoying fake laugh and Ward says it wasn’t that funny. Thought it was Silent Treatment or Beaver’s Book Report but it’s neither. I think it’s Wally’s Car accident.

[stevea]

I think it's the Book Report. After that Beaver says yeah, something funny like that happened to me today. Then June says What was that Beaver? And Beaver says, I wrote my book report from a TV movie. Then probably Ward says, What? and he hands the note from Mrs. Rayburn to him.

It had been Wally's idea to get dad laughing and telling stories, and later Beaver says something like, you and your bright ideas.

[Scrabjan1]

Beaver actually did laugh at Ward’s jokes in Book Report and Silent Treatment but in Wally’s Car Accident Beaver tries to get Ward in a good mood so Wally can borrow the car and does that moronic laugh.