"Bobby's Hero" Questions (This is a classic episode!)

[Jack1000]

Guys,

"Bobby's Hero" (a.k.a The Jessie James episode) is one of my favorite episodes of The Brady Bunch for the realism of the topic material and the quality of the writing and acting. A couple of questions:

1. Do you think that the book that was written by Mr. Collin's dad (The old guy played by Bert Mustin) was a real book or just a prop used for the show? It looked like an actual book and you might recall its title...."The Real Jessie James" It would be very cool to see if such a book with such a title exists at that time or still exists and if it really WAS written by a guy who's father was killed by Jessie James.

2. Is there a movie called "Jessie James on the Vengence Trail" in real life? If there isn't, I thought that the clips that showed the "movie" were very realistic. (I wonder where the film footage was taken from?)

3. Does anybody have this episode uncut? Any major lines or scenes that we are misssing? This episode is a classic among classics and I have always said that this is one episode of The Brady Bunch that critics should see, and if they did, they would never bash the show again. Look at how ahead of its time this episode is concerning how kids are influenced by TV Today. Robert Reed's line in here, "Today's criminals will probably be tomorrow's folk-heros" is almost haunting

4. Mike Lookingland was absolutely superb in this episode In fact the only quibble that I had was that the "Dream sequence" could have used the actual sound of a gun going off instead of the Jessie James charactor shouting 'BANG!" But it doesn't diminish from the fine quality of this great episode. It is very moving and very powerful.

Jack