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*Ralph Bellamy was cast as the aging minister Daniel Quint in the 1962 episode "The Vintage Years." In the story line, a young woman whom Quint befriends on a stagecoach ride, Lorna Erickson (Merry Anders), sets him up to be robbed by her former paramour, Johnny Meadows (William Bryant whom he defeats in a fistfight but is then saved by David J. Cook from being shot. Soon Lorna and Quint marry despite a large age difference.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556893/?ref_=ttep_ep26|title=The Vintage Years on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 20, 2018}}</ref>

*Ralph Bellamy was cast as the aging minister Daniel Quint in the 1962 episode "The Vintage Years." In the story line, a young woman whom Quint befriends on a stagecoach ride, Lorna Erickson (Merry Anders), sets him up to be robbed by her former paramour, Johnny Meadows (William Bryant whom he defeats in a fistfight but is then saved by David J. Cook from being shot. Soon Lorna and Quint marry despite a large age difference.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556893/?ref_=ttep_ep26|title=The Vintage Years on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 20, 2018}}</ref>

* Mark Bennett, who had a limited acting career, was cast as the historical Abraham Curry, the "founding father" of [[Carson City]], Nevada, in the 1956 episode "The Man Who'd Bet on Anything." Helen Gilbert (1915–1995), a former Miss Missouri] was cast as Mrs. Curry, who questions her husband's [[gambling]] habit.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556844/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_3|title=The Man Who'd Bet on Anything on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Da Base|accessdate=December 29, 2018}}</ref>

* Mark Bennett, who had a limited acting career, was cast as the historical Abraham Curry, the "founding father" of [[Carson City]], Nevada, in the 1956 episode "The Man Who'd Bet on Anything." Helen Gilbert (1915–1995), a former Miss Missouri] was cast as Mrs. Curry, who questions her husband's [[gambling]] habit.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556844/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_3|title=The Man Who'd Bet on Anything on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Da Base|accessdate=December 29, 2018}}</ref>

* James Best, among four appearances on ''Death Valley Days,'' was cast as miner "Tiny" Stoker in the 1955 episode, "Million Dollar Wedding." In the story line, Stoker, in a bet with his cohorts, proposes marriage to a presumably plain woman in their community, Aggie Filene (played by Virginia Lee, an actress who lived from 1924 to 2008). Soon, though the couple falls madly in love and go on a worldwide honeymoon tour with proceeds from a gold strike that they had nearly forfeited. And Aggie returns to the mining camp as a beautiful woman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556674/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_58|title=Million Dollar Wedding on 'Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 28, 2018}}</ref>  As Reuel Colt Gridley, a southern Democrat Unionist in 1863 who raised $275,000 by repeatedly auctioning off "The $275,000 sack of flour" (1962) to benefit the forerunner of the Red Cross and is terrorized for it by the forerunner of the revenge bent terrorists Klu Klux Klan, the [[Knights of the Golden Circle | Golden Circle]].[319]

* James Best, among four appearances on ''Death Valley Days,'' was cast as miner "Tiny" Stoker in the 1955 episode, "Million Dollar Wedding." In the story line, Stoker, in a bet with his cohorts, proposes marriage to a presumably plain woman in their community, Aggie Filene (played by Virginia Lee, an actress who lived from 1924 to 2008). Soon, though the couple falls madly in love and go on a worldwide honeymoon tour with proceeds from a gold strike that they had nearly forfeited. And Aggie returns to the mining camp as a beautiful woman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556674/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_58|title=Million Dollar Wedding on 'Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 28, 2018}}</ref>  As Reuel Colt Gridley, a southern Democrat Unionist in 1863 who raised $275,000 by repeatedly auctioning off "The $275,000 sack of flour" (1962) to benefit the forerunner of the Red Cross and is terrorized for it by the forerunner of the revenge bent terrorists Klu Klux Klan, the Knights of the Golden Circle.[319]

* Paul Birch played transcontinental telegraph line layer Mike Walsh in the 1959 episode, "Hang 'Em High." In the story line, Walsh competes with a rival company to be the first to lay the telegraph. Then Confederate sympathizers attempt to sabotage the telegraph.[Arthur Space was cast as Ben Hudson.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556632/|title=Hang 'Em High on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base]accessdate=June 11, 2019}}</ref>

* Paul Birch played transcontinental telegraph line layer Mike Walsh in the 1959 episode, "Hang 'Em High." In the story line, Walsh competes with a rival company to be the first to lay the telegraph. Then Confederate sympathizers attempt to sabotage the telegraph.[Arthur Space was cast as Ben Hudson.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556632/|title=Hang 'Em High on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base]accessdate=June 11, 2019}}</ref>

* Robert Blake, at thirty-three, played [[Billy the Kid]] in the 1966 episode, "The Kid from Hell's Kitchen." In the story line, The Kid sets out to avenge the death of his friend [[John Tunstall]] (John Anderson).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556817/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=The Kid from Hell's Kitchen on ''Death Valley Days''|date=October 20, 1966|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=May 31, 2015}}</ref>

* Robert Blake, at thirty-three, played [[Billy the Kid]] in the 1966 episode, "The Kid from Hell's Kitchen." In the story line, The Kid sets out to avenge the death of his friend [[John Tunstall]] (John Anderson).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556817/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=The Kid from Hell's Kitchen on ''Death Valley Days''|date=October 20, 1966|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=May 31, 2015}}</ref>

* John Bleifer, in the 1960 episode "One Man Tank," played a prospector, Dutch Charley Koehn, who failed at gold mining and instead bought a goat farm, on which he makes a gold strike. [[John Harmon (actor)|John Harmon]] was cast as Mike Shannon, who tries to evict Charley from the property. Charley's friend, Leo Harris (Dabbs Greer), tries to remedy the injustice Charley faces.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556691/?ref_=ttep_ep11|title=One Man Tank on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=September 2, 2018}}</ref> Best was cast as Ruel Gridley in the 1962 ''Death Valley Days'' episode "The $275,000 Sack of Flour." In the story line, Gridley pays off a bet by donating a bag of flour to a fund for those wounded in the [[American Civil War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556757/?ref_=ttep_ep17|title=The $275,000 Sack of Flour on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

* John Bleifer, in the 1960 episode "One Man Tank," played a prospector, Dutch Charley Koehn, who failed at gold mining and instead bought a goat farm, on which he makes a gold strike. [[John Harmon (actor)|John Harmon]] was cast as Mike Shannon, who tries to evict Charley from the property. Charley's friend, Leo Harris (Dabbs Greer), tries to remedy the injustice Charley faces.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556691/?ref_=ttep_ep11|title=One Man Tank on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=September 2, 2018}}</ref> Best was cast as Ruel Gridley in the 1962 ''Death Valley Days'' episode "The $275,000 Sack of Flour." In the story line, Gridley pays off a bet by donating a bag of flour to a fund for those wounded in the [[American Civil War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556757/?ref_=ttep_ep17|title=The $275,000 Sack of Flour on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

Joan Blondell as the widowed Lucy Tutaine in the 1963 episode "The Train and Lucy Tutaine"  harasses the railroad represented by Abel, [[Noah Beery Jr.]], for compensation for allegedly causing the death of her cow.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556886/?ref_=ttep_ep6|title=The Train and Lucy Tutaine on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=February 28, 2019}}</ref>

*Joan Blondell as the widowed Lucy Tutaine in the 1963 episode "The Train and Lucy Tutaine"  harasses the railroad represented by Abel, [[Noah Beery Jr.]], for compensation for allegedly causing the death of her cow.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556886/?ref_=ttep_ep6|title=The Train and Lucy Tutaine on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=February 28, 2019}}</ref>

* Lloyd Bochner played the author [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] in the 1966 episode "Jolly Roger and Wells Fargo," directed by [[Denver Pyle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556814/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=Jolly Roger and Wells Fargo on ''Death Valley Days''|date=December 23, 1966|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=June 1, 2015}}</ref> Don Reardon (died 2004) played Stevenson in an earlier 1958 episode, "The Great Amulet." In the story line, Stevenson falls in love with [[Fanny Stevenson|Fanny Osbourne]], played by Aline Towne, the mother of two children in a loveless marriage in San Francisco. The couple met in [[France]] where Stevenson recuperated from health issues and moved to San Francisco, where he worked tirelessly despite lingering health matters in the production of a large volume of literary works. The secret of the "Great Amulet" is revealed at the conclusion of the episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556793/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_9|title=The Great Amulet on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=August 31, 2018}}</ref>

* Lloyd Bochner played the author [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] in the 1966 episode "Jolly Roger and Wells Fargo," directed by [[Denver Pyle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556814/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=Jolly Roger and Wells Fargo on ''Death Valley Days''|date=December 23, 1966|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=June 1, 2015}}</ref> Don Reardon (died 2004) played Stevenson in an earlier 1958 episode, "The Great Amulet." In the story line, Stevenson falls in love with Fanny Osbourne, played by Aline Towne, the mother of two children in a loveless marriage in San Francisco. The couple met in [[France]] where Stevenson recuperated from health issues and moved to San Francisco, where he worked tirelessly despite lingering health matters in the production of a large volume of literary works. The secret of the "Great Amulet" is revealed at the conclusion of the episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556793/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_9|title=The Great Amulet on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=August 31, 2018}}</ref>

* Eric Bond played Philip Adams in the 1957 episode "The Washington Elm." A Bostonian, Adams yearns to live in the Pacific Northwest and establishes a law office in [[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]], but his romantic interest, Janice Peabody (Havis Davenport) refuses to relocate. He takes with him a portion of the elm tree on the [[Harvard University]] campus and replants it at the [[University of Washington]]. Thirty years later, he returns to the Harvard campus to plant part of the Washington elm on the campus because the original tree was destroyed in a storm. A chance encounters with Janice, by then a widow, leads to a second chance at romance for the pair.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556895/?ref_=ttep_ep4|title=The Washington Elm on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=August 25, 2018}}</ref>

* Eric Bond played Philip Adams in the 1957 episode "The Washington Elm." A Bostonian, Adams yearns to live in the Pacific Northwest and establishes a law office in [[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]], but his romantic interest, Janice Peabody (Havis Davenport) refuses to relocate. He takes with him a portion of the elm tree on the [[Harvard University]] campus and replants it at the [[University of Washington]]. Thirty years later, he returns to the Harvard campus to plant part of the Washington elm on the campus because the original tree was destroyed in a storm. A chance encounters with Janice, by then a widow, leads to a second chance at romance for the pair.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556895/?ref_=ttep_ep4|title=The Washington Elm on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 25, 2018}}</ref>

* Carol Booth (born 1941), in the 1969 episode "Lucia Darling and the Ostrich," played a teacher trying to establish a school in 1863 in the since [[ghost town]] of [[Bannack, Montana|Bannack]], [[Montana]]. In the story line, a masked sheriff ([[William Bryant (actor)|William Bryant]]) and his deputy ([[Jeff Morris (actor)|Jeff Morris]]) rob the [[stagecoach]] bringing Lucia to Montana and steal both gold and her textbooks. She sets out to prove the officers' guilt despite the reservations of both the town itself – hence the reference to "The Ostrich" in the sand in the title of the episode – and her uncle, Judge [[Sidney Edgerton]] (Tol Avery), who shortly thereafter became the first [[governor of Montana|governor]] of the [[Montana Territory]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959701/?ref_=ttep_ep13|title=Lucia Darling and the Ostrich|publisher=Internet Movie Database|date=May 11, 1969|accessdate=July 17, 2015}}</ref>

* Carol Booth (born 1941), in the 1969 episode "Lucia Darling and the Ostrich," played a teacher trying to establish a school in 1863 in the since [[ghost town]] of [[Bannack, Montana|Bannack]], [[Montana]]. In the story line, a masked sheriff (William Bryant]]) and his deputy ([[Jeff Morris (actor)|Jeff Morris]]) rob the [[stagecoach]] bringing Lucia to Montana and steal both gold and her textbooks. She sets out to prove the officers' guilt despite the reservations of both the town itself – hence the reference to "The Ostrich" in the sand in the title of the episode – and her uncle, Judge [[Sidney Edgerton]] (Tol Avery), who shortly thereafter became the first [[governor of Montana|governor]] of the [[Montana Territory]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959701/?ref_=ttep_ep13|title=Lucia Darling and the Ostrich|publisher=Internet Movie Database|date=May 11, 1969|accessdate=July 17, 2015}}</ref>

* William Boyett played respected settler Jim Hardwicke in the 1954 episode "11,000 Miners Can't Be Wrong." In the story line, [[Columbia, California|Columbia]] is in competition with [[Sacrame]], California,  to be the site of the California state capital. When he informs the sheriff (Glenn Strange) that he had killed a man in self-defense, Hardwicke is forced to stand trial. Because of political influence placed on the jury by a corrupt district attorney, Hardwicke was found guilty. His fiancee and his lawyer, Ed Barrett (Gordon Barnes), develop a bizarre scheme to free Hardwicke from the hangman's noose; Barrett steals from a safe in the local bank a petition fomented by the same DA with 11,000 signatures of persons who want Columbia to be the capital, rewrites the first page to call for a [[pardon]] for Hardwicke, and appeals to the governor, who is impressed that so many signed. The governor orders Hardwicke's release; but Columbia justly loses out to Sacramento.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556603/?ref_=ttep_ep2|title=11,000 Miners Can't Be Wrong on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 20, 2018}}</ref> In another role, Boyett played Dr. Edward Wilson in the 1957 episode, "The Luck of the Irish." In the story line, while fighting an [[epidemic]] among the [[Paiute]], Dr. Wilson encounters a young white woman, Kay Casey (Rosemarie Ace), who was taken by the Indians years earlier. When the doctor unites Kay with her large family, she leaves the Paiute and in time became Mrs. Wilson. John Sorrentino played the sympathetic Chief Red Cloud.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556836/?ref_=ttep_ep6|title=The Luck of the Irish on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=August 25, 2018}}</ref> In the 1955 episode, "The Mormon's Grindstone," Boyett played John Corwin, the friend of the new assayer in town, Murphy (Clark Howat), whom some of the miners believe is understating the value of the assays. Thn Murphy reports that the sandstone in "The Mormon's Grindstone" assays much richer than any other ore around. With [[Harry Lauter]] as Cy Meeker and [[Hank Patterson]] as "Dad the blacksmith."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556848/|title=The Mormon's Grindstone on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=June 8, 2019}}</ref>

* William Boyett played respected settler Jim Hardwicke in the 1954 episode "11,000 Miners Can't Be Wrong." In the story line, [[Columbia, California|Columbia]] is in competition with [[Sacrame]], California,  to be the site of the California state capital. When he informs the sheriff (Glenn Strange) that he had killed a man in self-defense, Hardwicke is forced to stand trial. Because of political influence placed on the jury by a corrupt district attorney, Hardwicke was found guilty. His fiancee and his lawyer, Ed Barrett (Gordon Barnes), develop a bizarre scheme to free Hardwicke from the hangman's noose; Barrett steals from a safe in the local bank a petition fomented by the same DA with 11,000 signatures of persons who want Columbia to be the capital, rewrites the first page to call for a [[pardon]] for Hardwicke, and appeals to the governor, who is impressed that so many signed. The governor orders Hardwicke's release; but Columbia justly loses out to Sacramento.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556603/?ref_=ttep_ep2|title=11,000 Miners Can't Be Wrong on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 20, 2018}}</ref> In another role, Boyett played Dr. Edward Wilson in the 1957 episode, "The Luck of the Irish." In the story line, while fighting an [[epidemic]] among the [[Paiute]], Dr. Wilson encounters a young white woman, Kay Casey (Rosemarie Ace), who was taken by the Indians years earlier. When the doctor unites Kay with her large family, she leaves the Paiute and in time became Mrs. Wilson. John Sorrentino played the sympathetic Chief Red Cloud.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556836/?ref_=ttep_ep6|title=The Luck of the Irish on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=August 25, 2018}}</ref> In the 1955 episode, "The Mormon's Grindstone," Boyett played John Corwin, the friend of the new assayer in town, Murphy (Clark Howat), whom some of the miners believe is understating the value of the assays. Thn Murphy reports that the sandstone in "The Mormon's Grindstone" assays much richer than any other ore around. With [[Harry Lauter]] as Cy Meeker and [[Hank Patterson]] as "Dad the blacksmith."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556848/|title=The Mormon's Grindstone on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=June 8, 2019}}</ref>

* Ray Boyle guest starred as Bruce Matthews, a young miner with [[claustrophobia]], in the 1954 episode "Yaller."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556933/?|title=Yaller on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=October 10, 2018}}</ref>

* Ray Boyle guest starred as Bruce Matthews, a young miner with [[claustrophobia]], in the 1954 episode "Yaller."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556933/?|title=Yaller on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=October 10, 2018}}</ref>