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* 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]

* 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 Data Base|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 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 Data Base|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 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>